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THE WEAKER VESSEL: WOMAN'S LOT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
Written by Antonia Fraser.
Stock no. 1831526
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
1st
1984.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
This book describes a woman's lot in 17th-century England in an age when women had no rights or independence, when effective contraception was unknown and when marriage and childbirth dominated their lives. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w plates. xvi and 544 pages including index. ISBN: 0297783815. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Text block lightly browned with some minor foxing. Foxing to verso of free front endpapers else contents clean. Brown pictorial dustwrapper is sunned/faded to spine and narrow band of discolouration to horizontal edges.
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- HISTORY (BRITISH)
THE VOICES OF MOREBATH: REFORMATION AND REBELLION IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE
Written by Eamon Duffy.
Stock no. 1831523
Published by Yale University Press.
Circa
2001.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
This book chronicles the coming of the English Reformation to a small village in sixteenth-century Devonshire. Duffy tells the story of Morebath through the eyes of its boisterous vicar, Sir Christopher Trychay, who kept exceptionally detailed records during his fifty-four year career in the village. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Colour photos. xv and 232 pages including index. ISBN: 0300091850. Second printing. A clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper has a narrow band of fading to vertical front edge of spine, lightly scuffed to rear panel.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- DEVON
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- REFORMATION
- CHURCHES
EDWARD V: THE PRINCE IN THE TOWER
Written by Michael Hicks.
Stock no. 1831522
Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd.
1st
2003.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Memorable not for his life but his death, Edward V is probably better known as one of the Princes in the Tower, the supposed victim of his Uncle, Richard III. A biography of the king whose fate remains one of the greatest mysteries in English history. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w iillustrations. 224 pages. ISBN: 075241996X. Boards clean. Text block a little browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ROYALTY
- BIOGRAPHY
THE GROWTH OF POLITICAL STABILITY IN ENGLAND 1675-1725
Written by J.H. Plumb.
Stock no. 1831517
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd..
1st
1967.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
In this series of lectures Professor J.H. Plumb examines the question of how almost abruptly England achieved political peace in the early eighteenth century. Terracotta cloth boards, gilt title on black title label to spine. xviii and 206 pages including index. Board edges lightly rubbed. Text block browned with some foxing. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned and worn at corners, grubby. Musty odour present.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- POLITICS
STUDIES IN NORTHERN PREHISTORY
Written by P.J. Cherry.
Stock no. 1831497
Published by Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society.
1st
2007.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Essays in Memory of Clare Fell. Edited by P.J. Cherry. Extra Series: Vol: XXXIII. Beige cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations, a few colour photos. viii and 288 pages including index. ISBN: 1873124449. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. A nice clean copy in pictorial dustwrapper which has a few marks and small 'bubble' of air between laminate and paper center front panel.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- PREHISTORIC
- ESSAYS
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- NORTH EAST UK
- NORTH WEST UK
- LAKE DISTRICT
ESTATE ACCOUNTS OF HENRY DE LACY, EARL OF LINCOLN FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1277 TO 1278
Written by Eric Foster.
Stock no. 1831491
Published by Ranulf Higden Society.
1st
2016.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Transcribed and translated from the original document as held by Nottinghamshire Archives as part of the Foljambe collection. The accounts published in this volume are for a large part of the estates of Henry de Lacy (1249-1311), earl of Lincoln. He was one of the wealthiest landowners in late thirteenth century England, a soldier and diplomat and a close friend and associate of King Edward I. Edited by Eric Foster. Plum pictorial cardwraps. xv and 238 pages including index. ISBN: 9780957073739. Light creasing to top corner of front cover. Initials and date in ink to top corner of title page. Contents clean.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- HISTORY (MEDIEVAL)
- BUSINESS
A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE: THE HUNDRED OF NEWPORT
Written by Joseph Bradney; Madeleine Gray.
Stock no. 1831487
Published by South Wales Record Society.
1st
1993.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
From the Coming of the Normans into Wales Down to the Present Time, volume 5. Edited from Bradney's MSS by Madeleine Gray. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiii and 270 pages including index. ISBN: 0950867675. Boards and contents clean. Pale green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, lightly scuffed, and is lightly sunned/faded to spine. Overall, a very nice copy.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE THE HUNDRED OF USK (PART 2)
Written by Joseph Bradney.
Stock no. 1831486
Published by Merton Priory Press.
1st thus
1993.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Volume 3 Part 2 of A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales Down to the Present Time. Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Facsimile of the 1923 edition. 113-320 pages. ISBN: 0952000938. Light bump to tail of spine. Boards and contents clean. Pale blue pictorial dustwrapper is lighly scuffed and creased to tail of spine and lower edge of rear panel. Overall a very nice copy.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- FACSIMILE
A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE: THE HUNDRED OF CALDICOT (PART 1)
Written by Joseph Bradney.
Stock no. 1831485
Published by Merton Priory Press.
1st thus
1994.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Volume 4 Part 1 of A History of Monmouthshire. From the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time. Facsimile of the 1933 edition. Large format. Blue boards, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 148 pages. ISBN: 0952000946. Previous bookseller's small address label to rear pastedown else contents clean. Pale blue dustwrapper is lightly scuffed/grubby and lightly edge-creased. Overall a very nice copy.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- FACSIMILE
THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF ANCIENT AND ROMAN BRITAIN
Written by Harold Priestley.
Stock no. 1331360
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd..
1st
1976.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Observer Book No. 56. 74 b/w photos, 10 pages of maps and 4 line drawings. Small format. Brown boards. ISBN: 0723215448. Minimal bumping and rubbing to spine and corners. Inscription in ink (and date) to front free-endpaper. A few foxspots to page margins. Dustwrapper is price-cut, slightly edge creased with a small brown mark to top edge of rear panel.
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- OBSERVERS
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ROMAN
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- GREEK AND ROMAN CIVILISATION
KING AND COUNTRY: ENGLAND AND WALES IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
Written by Ralph A. Griffiths.
Stock no. 1831479
Published by The Hambledon Press.
1st
1991.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
A selection of essays and papers from Ralph A. Griffiths, published variously in Wales, England, France and North America between 1964 and 1990. It explores themes in the history of England and Wales in the Fifteenth Centuryand the dominions of the English crown beyond. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 408 pages including index. ISBN: 1852850183. Boards and contents clean. Browning to pastedowns and page edges. Green dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- WALES
- MIDDLE AGES
BRYCHEINIOG VOLUME XI: THE HOUSES OF BRECONSHIRE PART III. THE BRECON DISTRICT
Written by S.R. Jones; J.T. Smith.
Stock no. 1831472
Published by The Brecknock Society.
1st
1965.
Almost very good condition.
Based on field-work undertaken in connection with a course for teachers, the aim of which was to provide material for the study of local history and to do this by arousing an interest in the buildings of the countryside and a visual awareness of them. Blue cardwraps. B/w photos & drawings. 148 pages. Covers marked, spine faded, neat name in ink across top edge of front cover. Some creasing to rear cover and corner tips of contents. Some pencil annotation and a few minor marks to contents.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- BRECONSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ARCHITECTURE
- HOMES AND HOUSING