2081. [English History Collection] – Grigson, Geoffrey.

Britain Observed. The Landscape through Artists’ Eyes.

First Edition. London, Phaidon, 1975. 22cm x 25.5cm. 208 pages. With 149 Illustrations, 31 in colour. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

2082. [English History Collection] – Gross, Alexander.

The Ideal Guide to London for Visitors and Londoners with Maps of Cinemaland, Theatreland, Central London & Underground Railway.

London, Geographers’ Map Co., c.1946. 7.4 cm x 11.9 cm. 80 pages. Original Softcover. Some pencil markings to the cover. Back cover is creased. Otherwise good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2083. [English History Collection] – Haggard, Lilias Rider (Editor).

I Walked by Night. Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers. Illustrated by Edward Seago.

London, Nicholson & Watson, 1946. 23,5 cm x 17,5 cm. 188 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2084. [English History Collection] – Hardman, Sir William.

A Mid-Victorian Pepys – The Letters and Memoirs of Sir William Hardman. Annotated and Edited by S.M. Ellis.

First Edition. London, Cecil Palmer, 1923. 22.7cm x 14.5cm. XI, 316 pages. With 13 historic illustrations. Hardcover. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Good condition with external signs of wear.

2085. [English History Collection] – [Hardy, Thomas] Fowles, John/ Draper, Jo.

Thomas Hardy’s England.

London, Jonothan Cape, 1984. 22cm x 23cm. 192 pages. With extensive photograph illustrations. Original Hardcover with original illustrated (price-clipped) dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the jacket. Name of preowner on endpaper.

2086. [English History Collection] – Heath, Baron [John Benjamin] / [Carritt, R. Graham].

Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London.

Third Edition. London, Privately Printed, 1869. Large Octavo. Frontispiece (Saint Anthony, tutelar Saint of the Company of Grocers), XVI, 601 pages with many illustrations (steel-engravings) and one facsimile. Hardcover / Original publishers quarter morocco with gilt lettering on spine and Emblemata on cover. Top edge gilt. Only some faint signs of dampstain to the outer margins of the illustrations. Otherwise in splendid condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation copy from Master Ernest Woodhame to R. Graham Carritt on the occasion of his admission to the Livery of the Company in June 1927. With a bookplate of Grocer’s Hall to the front pastedown.

2087. [English History Collection] – Hollingsworth, Mary.

The Cardinal’s Hat – Money, Ambition and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court.

First Edition. London, Profile Books, 2004. 15,6 x 23,8 cm. XI, 308 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition. As new.

2088. [English History Collection] – Hussey, Christopher.

The Fairy Land Of England.

First Edition. London, Country Life, 1924. 19 x 26 cm. VI, 80 pages with decorative marbled endpapers and 78 plates. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2089. [English History Collection] – Impey, Edward / Parnell, Geoffrey.

The Tower of London – The Official Illustrated History.

London / New York, Merrell / Historic Royal Palaces. 2006. 23 cm x 28.5 cm. Frontispieces (Traitors Gate / Detail of painting of a Fire of the Tower of London / Den Tower Van London), 128 pages. Several hundred colour as well as black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Full colour gatefold plan of the tower inside front cover and painting of tower to rear cover gatefold.

2090. [English History Collection] – Ireson, Tony.

Old Kettering – A View from the 1930s.

Book 1. Irthlingborough, Tony Ireson / Nene Litho, 1988. 16 cm x 24 cm. IX, 137 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some staining on page-edges. Slight fading of text on spine. Inside pages clean. Solid binding.