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STATE BARGES ON THE THAMES
Written by Anne Petrides. Illustrated by Brian Allderidge.
Stock no. 1830888
Published by Hugh Evelyn. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Very large oblong format. Unlike the architecture and furniture of the period, most of the ships and boats built between 1650 abnd 1850 have disappeared. Only two of the barges illustrated in this book have been preserved, both of them Royal barges and both small enough to be kept out of the water and under cover when not in use. The others - all examples of the great civic barges - are known to us only through models, drawings and descriptions. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour plates. 45 pages. Rubbing to vertical edge of front board. Boards clean. Endpapers browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few closed tears, a few small chips to edges, 2" closed tear to rear panel (no loss), price-label to front flap with price crossed out and pencil price added.

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THE WILLIAM MORRIS KELMSCOTT CHAUCER
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones.
Stock no. 1830887
Published by Omega Books. 1st thus 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Facsimile of the first edition. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and initials. 554 pages plus glossary. ISBN: 1850070822. Boards clean. Text block is foxed and a little stained. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed and edge-rubbed.

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THE BIRDS OF WALES: ADAR CYMRU
Written by Rhion Pritchard; Julian Hughes; Ian M. Spence; Bob Haycock; Anne Brenchley.
Stock no. 1830886
Published by Liverpool University Press. 1st 2021. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. A heavy tome. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour photos. xii and 584 pages inlcuding index. ISBN: 9781800859722. A lovely copy.

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THE CAMBRIDGE URBAN HISTORY OF BRITAIN (3 VOLUMES)
Written by D.M. Palliser; Peter Clark; Martin Daunton.
Stock no. 1830885
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The complex and diverse evolution of British towns from the earliest Anglo-Saxon settlements to the mid-twentieth century. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spines. Volume I: 600 - 1540; Volume II: 1540-1840; Volume III:P 1840 - 1950. A heavy set. A lovely set. Dustwrappers are lightly scuffed.

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MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE AND ITS INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT: STUDIES IN HONOUR OF PETER KIDSON
Written by Peter Kidson; Eric Fernie; Paul Crossley.
Stock no. 1830884
Published by The Hambledon Press. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Presented by ex-pupils and friends to Peter Kidson, Professor of Medieval Architecture at the Courtauld Institute, as a mark of respect and affection for arguably the most influential historian of medieval architecture of his generation in the English-speaking world. The essays in this volume reflect the range of Peter Kidson's own interests and are united in following his approach to medieval architecture and art: a determination to see buildings and objects in the intellectual terms of the time in which they were created. Edited by Eric Fernie and Paul Crossley. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. xxvii and 304 pages including list of subscribers to rear. ISBN: 1852850345. Neat name in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed. Includes letter from and signed by Peter Kidson.

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THE MEDIAEVAL ARCHITECT
Written by John Harvey.
Stock no. 1830883
Published by Wayland (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the mediaeval architect is here told to a great extent in the words of contemporaries, translated into modern English in the case of documents in Latin or foreign languages. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. 296 pages including index. ISBN: 0853400229. Light shelf wear to top & tail of spine. Boards clean. Text block browned with some minor foxing. Minor surface papper loss/damage to frontis and facing title page. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed and scuffed, small closed tear (no loss) to lower edge of rear panel.

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SYLLOGE OF COINS OF THE BRITISH ISLES FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM CAMBRIDGE PART I: ANCIENT BRITISH AND ANGLO-SAXON COINS
Written by Philip Grierson.
Stock no. 1830882
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1958. Very good condition.

The first fascicule of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles contains the Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, numbering 216-777 respectively. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w plates. xix and 70 pages inlcuding index. Boards lightly scuffed, very light fading to spine. Text block and endpapers browned. Contents clean.

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LORDSHIP AND ARCHITECTURE IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SCOTLAND
Written by Richard D. Oram; Geofrrey P. Stell.
Stock no. 1830881
Published by John Donald. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

A series of essays on the role of acrchitecure as an expression of lordship and status among Scottish secular and ecclesiastical elites in the period c.1124-c.1650. These studies of the acrchitectural patronage of particular families or groups explore how the nobility operated socially and economically as well as politically, in the organisation and structure of lordship throughout the medieval and renaissance periods. Edited by Richard Oram and Geoffrey Snell. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. xxii and 346 pages including index. ISBN: 9780859766289. Light scuffing to covers and rubbing to edges. Contents clean.

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THE CORNISH BEAM ENGINE
Written by D.B. Barton.
Stock no. 1830880
Published by D. Bradford Barton. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A survey of its history and development in the mines of Cornwall and Devon from before 1800 to the present day, with something of its use elsewhere in Britain and abroad. Blue mottled boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and plans. 285 pages including index. Light bumping to board corners. Boadrs clean. Text block a little browned with a couple of minor foxspots. Small name in coloured pencil to front endpaper. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby.

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BRITAIN'S IMPERIAL AIR ROOTS 1918 TO 1939: THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S OVERSEAS AIRLINES
Written by Robin Higham.
Stock no. 1830879
Published by G.T. Foulis. 1st 1960. Good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A general picture of the growth of British civil air transport from the slender experimental beginnings such as the Hendon-Windsor mail of 1910 through to the formation of Imperial Airways in 1934. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 407 pages including index. Light discolouration to boards. Lower boards have a few whitem arks at edges. Text block browned and stained. Small name and date in ink to front endpaper. Damp staining to margins of plates and also a little to contents margins. Dustwrapper is also dampstained nad is rubbed to top edge, lightly browned to rear panel.

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THE CATHEDRAL BUILDERS
Written by Jean Gimpel.
Stock no. 1830878
Published by Michael Russell. 1st thus 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Medieval Europe was distinguished by the spectacular development of religious architecture from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries - eighty cathedrals, five hundred great churches, and more than ten thousand parish churches. In France alone, more stone was quarried in this span of three centuries than during the entire history of ancient Egypt. Translated from the French by Teresa Waugh. Large format. Dark blue boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and photos and a few colour. 127 pages including index. ISBN: 0859550931. Boards clean, lower edge of boars lightly rubbed. Some minor foxing to text block. Endpapers lightly browned else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel and is lightly edge-creased.

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MEDIEVAL SOUTHAMPTON: THE PORT AND TRADING COMMUNITY, A.D. 1000-1600
Written by Colin Platt.
Stock no. 1830877
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A look at the urban community of Southampton through its early and formative years, using both historical and archaeological evidence to establish the characteristics of an emergent burgess class: its trading interests, social pre-occupations and tastes. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xvi and 309 pages including index. ISBN: 0710076533. Boards clean, text block browned and lightly foxed. Else contents clean. Red dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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