GLOUCESTERSHIRE I: THE COTSWOLDS (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; David Verey; Alan Brooks.
Stock no. 1831609
Published by Yale University Press. 2020. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Extensively revised and expanded. The celebrated architecture of the Cotswold villages - stone-built manor houses, cottages, and medieval churches - is covered in full. Longer entries describe market towns such as Cirencester, Fairford and Chipping Camptden, with their great wool churches, almshouses, and charming civic buildings. Black vinyl covers, gilt title to spine. B/w photos, diagrams and illustrations. 826 pages including index. ISBN: 9780300096040. Reprint. Text block slightly dusty. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel. A lovely copy.

OXFORDSHIRE (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Jennifer Sherwood.
Stock no. 1831607
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Oxford's unique collection of university and college buildings both old and new form a major part of this book. The city itself with its medieval walls and castle and ancient churches is also fully described. Black vinyl covers, gilt titles. B/w photos. 948 pages including index. ISBN: 0300096399. Headbands have become unglued from outer spine. Top edge of text block grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-pworn and is scuffed to rear panel.

A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS 1600-1840
Written by Howard Colvin.
Stock no. 1831582
Published by Yale University Press. 3rd 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Third edition with 150 new entries and fully revised. This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practiced from the time of Inigo Jones (1573-1650) to that of William Burn (1789-1870) and Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860). Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 1264 pages including index. ISBN: 0300060912. SIGNED by the author to title page (no dedication). Presented to Dr Ronald Brunskill (an architect and historian) September 1995 and signed by members of English Heritage. Text block a little grubby else contents clean. Front joint between front endpaper and half-title page is pulled but binding is tight. Grey dustwrapper is a little marked.

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY INTERIOR DECORATION IN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND HOLLAND
Written by Peter Thornton.
Stock no. 1831566
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is the first book to survey and analyze the development of European interior decoration in France, England, and Holland following the stimulus of the Italian Renaissance while relating it to the changes in the political structure and social habits of the landed classes at the end of the sixteenth century. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour illustrations. xii and 427 pages including index. ISBN: 0300021933. Boards clean. Very light browning to endpapers. Text block browned and foxed. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned to flaps, scuffed to rear panel.

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.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE SCOTTISH MEDIEVAL CHURCH 1100-1560
Written by Richard Fawcett.
Stock no. 1831498
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The first in-depth survey of Scotland's medieval church architecture covers buildings constructed between the early 12th century and the Reformation in 1560. From majestic cathedrals and abbeys to modest parish churches and chapels, Richard Fawcett places the architecture in context by considering the varied sources of ideas that underlay church designs. Large format. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w pictorial endpapers. Colour & b/w photos. xiii and 456 pages including index. ISBN: 9780300170498. Top & tail of spine lightly rubbed. Top corners of boards bumped giving rise to a light corner cease to contents (minor). Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

HERBERT BUTTERFIELD: HISTORIAN AS DISSENTER
Written by C.T. McIntire.
Stock no. 1331314
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Describing the career trajectory of a man who intellectual achievements propelled him from a worker's cottage in an industrial village in West Yorkshire to the Regius Professorship of Modern History at Cambridge University and to a knighthood from the Queen. Grey boards, silver title to spine. 499 pages (including index). Some b/w photos. ISBN: 0300098073. There is a stain to textblock vertical edge (and a little on the lower edge). Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge rubbed.

THE DISCOVERY OF MANKIND: ATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS IN THE AGE OF COLUMBUS
Written by David Abulafia.
Stock no. 1831326
Published by Yale University Press. 2008. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book Club Edition. Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eyewitness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable, and scrupulously researched, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest across the world. Dark grey paper boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w plates. xxvi and 379 pages including index. ISBN: 9780300125825. Light concave reading crease to spine. Slight lean to spine. Text block grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustswrapper is lightly edge-worn and scuffed.

ANDREW MARVELL THE CHAMELEON
Written by Nigel Smith.
Stock no. 1331086
Published by Yale University Press. 1st PB 2012. Very good condition.

An acclaimed biography that portrays the 17th-century poet and politician as an elusive, multifaceted figure who adapted his political and religious views to survive turbulent times. Paperback edition with cardwraps. 400 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 9780300181968. Slight wear to corners of covers. Light crease to centre of spine where book has been held open to read. Contents clean.

BRUNO WALTER: A WORLD ELSEWHERE
Written by Erik Ryding; Rebecca Pechefsky.
Stock no. 1831259
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Bruno Walter, one of the greatest conductors in the twentieth century, lived a fascinating life in difficult times. This engrossing book is the first full-lengthbiography of Walter to appear in English. Grey cloth spine with silver title, black paper boards. B/w photos. xvii and 487 pages including index. ISBN: 0300087136. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel. A lovely copy.

CITIES & PEOPLE: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Written by Mark Girouard.
Stock no. 1831225
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In an inimitable feat of social history, Girouard analyzes how the development of fashionable society, the increase in trade, the growth of population, and the widening of power of the nation state influenced seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cities, and how the Industrial Revolution affected cities of the nineteenth century. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour double-spread title page and colour & b/w illustrations throughout. vii and 397 pages including index. ISBN: 0300035020. Lower edge of boards lightly knocked (very minor). Corner bumped. Boards a little stained (faint). Top edge of text block a little grubby. A few minor foxspots to prelims else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a 2" split to lower front corners and a few marks. Musty odour present.

BAYREUTH: A HISTORY OF THE WAGNER FESTIVAL
Written by Frederic Spotts.
Stock no. 1831076
Published by Yale University Press. 1994. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book is the first to provide a frank and comprehensive account of the institutions's history and functioning. The core of the study is a critical analysis of the performances and productions, brought alive with illustrations of stage settings, conductors and singers in costume. Around this artistic history is woven the remarkable story of why Wagner established the Festival and how his controversial descendants have managed it after him. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. x and 334 pages including index. ISBN: 0300057776. Reprint. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.