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OUR VILLAGE
Written by Mary Russell Mitford. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson; Alfred Rawlings.
Stock no. 2119098
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1910. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth, gilt titles and gilt shepherd vignette to front cover. 16 tipped-in colour plates by Rawlings. Numerous b/w illustrations by Thomson. Top edge gilt. Covers are unevenly browned. A few chips and nicks at cloth; with a little fraying in places. Plate to opposite page 27 is MISSING (mounting card and tissue-guard are still present, but plate no longer there). Some foxing and page browning.

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RICHMOND AND ITS INHABITANTS FROM THE OLDEN TIME
Written by Richard Crisp.
Stock no. 2118593
Published by Sampson Low, Son & Marston. 1866. Almost very good condition.

Leather spine and corners; raised bands to spine; gilt title. With Memoirs and Notes. 7 b/w plates, including frontis. Scuffing and wear to leather on spine and corner edges. A few marks to covers. Grubby marks to a few pages; mostly to prelims. Some pencil annotation to a few pages.

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OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN
Written by Agnes Castle; Egerton Castle. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1404229
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1914. Slightly better than good condition.

Green cloth covers, gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Endpapers are illustrated. 8 beautiful guarded colour plates and many b/w text illustrations throughout. 304 pages. Spine bumped and rubbed. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Couple of marks to rear board. Front and rear joint starting to crack. A few hinges pulled. Heavy foxing to prelims and last few pages. Foxing throughout book including verso of plates. One plate has a small nick to one edge.

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BEAUTIFUL NORFOLK BUILDINGS
Written by Stanley J. Wearing.
Stock no. 1606793
Published by The Soman-Wherry Press Ltd.. 1944. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Small format, b/w drawings. Reprint. Damp stains to boards, some wrinkling of rear board. Inscription in to front endpaper. Contents generally clean but some page wrinkled. Scattered foxing. Wrapper is damp stained and edge worn.

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SWANBROOKE DOWN A CENTURY OF CHANGE IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE
Written by Rosamond Richardson. Illustrated by Peter Firmin.
Stock no. 1810335
Published by Scribners. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An intriguing and poignant study of village life and the way it has changed through the twentieth century. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0356190706. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed.

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METHODISM IN MAIDENHEAD 1829-1979
Written by Peter Hardiment.
Stock no. 1711780
Published by Barracuda Books. 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. B/w photos. Includes a list of ministers. ISBN: 0860231119. Wrapper unevenly faded.

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MORE MEMORIES OF PORTSMOUTH
No author listed.
Stock no. 1711316
Published by True North. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 1903204518. Bump to bottom edge of front cover.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE VOLUME XV 1841
Written by Sylvanus Urban.
Stock no. 1710404
Published by William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols And Son. 1841. Very good condition.

Library Binding. January to June 1841. iv 698 pages, b/w illustrations. Includes: Repairs of the Temple Church , London; New schoolhouse at Garsington, Oxfordshire; The appointment of Regimental Schoolmistresses; Repair of Whitby Abbey; Roman find at Risingham, Northumberland; Three churches in Dundee destroyed by fire; Serious flooding on the Thames; Conway Castle; trial of the Earl of Cardigan for shooting someone in a duel; St. Paul's Cray church, Kent; proposed school at Eversholt; Prices of Hay, Straw, Coal, Candles, Corn, Hops etc; numerous other historical events,obituaries, births, marriages and deaths; Index to names at rear. Ex-library (reference) with minimal stamps and new endpapers.

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THE PARISH OF BEDDINGTON IN THE YEAR 1837
Written by Ronald Michell.
Stock no. 1605575
Published by Beddington, Carshalton & Wallington Archaeological Society. 1991. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Revised edition. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0950148156. SIGNED by author (with dedication) on title page.

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THE MAGDALEN COLLEGE REGISTER 1979
No author listed.
Stock no. 2110378
Published by Magdalen College. 1979. Very good condition.

Red card wraps. Spine is creased. Small inscription in ink to inside front cover. Some marks to outer page edges.

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THE FENS & WEST NORFOLK SELECTED PLACES OF INTEREST
Written by Trevor A. Bevis.
Stock no. 1807168
Published by Trevor A. Bevis. 1st 1969. Slightly better than very good condition.

Incorporating a History of Wisbech Castles. Pink cardwraps. 32 pages. Staple binding. Slight fading to edges of covers. Contents fine.

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COLCHESTER
Written by Martin Andrew.
Stock no. 1807152
Published by Frith Publishing. 1st 1999. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Pictorial Memories from the Francis Frith Collection. Around 910 b/w photos of Colchester from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Glazed pictorial boards. 77 pages. ISBN: 184125083X.

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