BEDFORDSHIRE AND THE COUNTY OF HUNTINGDON AND PETERBOROUGH (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Stock no. 1828689
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2002. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black vinyl boards, gilt titles. B/w photos. 416 pages. ISBN: 0300095813. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to top and bottom of inside flaps and is lightly scuffed.

SHROPSHIRE (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Stock no. 1828688
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2002. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black vinyl covers, gilt titles. B/w photos. ISBN: 0300096429. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper has light browning to top and bottom of inside flaps and is lightly scuffed.

THE ROAD: A STORY OF ROMANS AND WAYS TO THE PAST
Written by Christopher Hadley.
Stock no. 1828615
Published by William Collins. 1st 2023. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost everyone in Britain lives close to a Roman road, if only we knew where to look. A mesmerising journey into two thousand years of history only now giving up its secrets. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 353 pages including index. ISBN: 9780008356699. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn with a few tiny closed tears, a little scuffed.

MATILDA: HER LIFE AND LEGACY
Written by Joyce Stevens Smith; Joyce Savidge.
Stock no. 1828611
Published by Matilda And War Memorial Hospital. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of Matilda L. Sharp and the hospital she founded in Hong Kong. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. 166 pages. SIGNED by the author (with personal dedication) to title page. Top edge of text block slightly dusty. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges, slightly faded to spine, stained to rear panel. There is a second dustwrapper beneath the outer which is clean.

LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST: THE EXCEPTIONAL LIFE OF A FEMALE INDUSTRIALIST
Written by Victoria Owens.
Stock no. 1828606
Published by Pen & Sword. 1st 2020. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When impoverished artistocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Charlotte championed Welsh culture and translated the Mabinogion into English. She also taught herself John's business from the inside. When John died in 1852, she replaced him as head of the ironworks. This book traces the ardent, creative years of her first marriage, explores her determination - widowed - to preserve John's legacy, and observes her growing devotion to the scholarly Charles Schreiber, her sons' tutor. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. x and 214 pages including index. ISBN: 9781526768810. Lower corners of boards bumped else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at bumped corners.

VICTORIAN QUAKERS
Written by Elizabeth Isichei.
Stock no. 1328449
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth with gilt title to spine. Oxford Historical Monographs Series. ISBN: 0198218338. Spine slightly bumped. Spine and corners lightly rubbed. Some foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed, faded and slightly grubby to spine with a small mark to edge of rear panel.

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS OF THE TENNANT COMPANIES 1797-1937
No author listed.
Stock no. 1328445
Circa 1937. Very good condition.

Beige cloth spine, brown boards with green title label to front (gilt title). B/w photos of various people. Spine and corners bumped, some wear to covers. TENNANTS written in ink to centre of spine. Some neat ink writing to front free-endpaper. One plate is loose but still present.

RUGBY FOOTBALL
Written by D.R. Gent.
Stock no. 1328421
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Limited. 1st 1932. Very good condition.

The Aldin Series. Foreword by Walter T. Pearce. Illustrated with b/w photographs specially taken for this work. 224 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to spine and cover edges. Foxing to textblock.

PONTORMO: PORTRAIT OF A HALBERDIER
Written by Elizabeth Cropper. Illustrated by Jacopo Carucci Pontormo.
Stock no. 1828569
Published by Getty Museum. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Getty Museum Studies on Art series. Monograph. A masterpiece of Italian Mannerism, Pontormo's painting of the Halberdier is a poignant image of a heroic youth. But is this proud and beautiful youth the Florentine duke Cosimo I de' Medici, or is he Frencesco Guardi, unknown to history except for Vasari's mention that he was painted by Pontormo during the harrowing seige of Florence in 1529-302? The author examines the many problems surrounding this mysterious portrait, discovering new possibilities of meaning within the volatile politics of the period. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour illustrations. 132 pages. ISBN: 0892363665. A very nice copy.

A HOUSE IN TOWN: 22 ARLINGTON STREET, ITS OWNERS AND BUILDERS
Written by David Watkin; Antony Ratcliff; Nicholas Thompson; John Mills.
Stock no. 1828562
Published by B.T. Batsford; Eagle Star. 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of 22 Arlington Street, the great town house designed for Henry Pelham by William Kent in the 1740s. Large format. Green cloth boards with red title labels. Colour and b/w illustrations. 201 pages including index. ISBN: 0713445637. Reprint. Minor marks to lower edge of boards. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, slightly faded to spine, a little scuffed, a tiny closed tear (no loss) to top front edge repaired to verso with clear tape.

GLAMORGAN HISTORIAN VOLUME FIVE
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1328343
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Contributions by well-known historians and experts in various fields. Red cloth with gilt titles. B/w photos. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Some light damp(?) spotting to top edge of front cover. Endpapers lightly browned. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, small tear to lower edge of rear panel.

THE SPANISH INQUISITION: A HISTORICAL REVISION
Written by Henry Kamen.
Stock no. 1828553
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Very good condition.

A Historical Revision. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, dramatic gilt and red decoration to front. Brown endpapers show districts of the Spanish Inquisition. Colour plates. Contents are bound UPSIDE-DOWN and back to front. Else a lovely copy contained in VG publisher's slipcase which has some surface paper loss to lower spine and is a little scuffed.