1. Britton, John.

The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain Represented and Illustrated in a Series of Views, Elevations, Plans, Sections and Details, of [Various] Ancient English Edifices: With historical and descriptive accounts of Each. [Including the rare Volume V: “Chronological History and Graphic Illustrations of Christian Architecture in England – Embracing “A Critical Inquiry into the Rise, Progress and Perfection of this Species of Architecture; Also Eighty-six Plates of Plans, Sections, Elevations and Views with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of each Edifice and Subject; an Alphabetical List of Architects of the Middle Ages and Chronological Lists of Ancient Churches, Sepulchral Monuments, Pulpits, Fonts, Stone Crosses, etc. – A Dictionary of Architectural Terms and copious Indexes].

First Edition. Five Volumes [complete set]. London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; J.Taylor, Architectural Library and the Author, 1807 – 1835. Quarto (24 cm x 30 cm). Complete with 278 plates. Original Hardcover (Volume I professionally rebound, Volumes 2, 3, 4 and 5, professionally repaired. All Volumes in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Only very few plates with faded dampstain to outer margins. An extraordinary set of architectural scenery in high-quality engravings.

2. Callery, Sean.

Harrods Knightbridge: The Story Of Society’s Favourite Store.

London, Ebury Press, 1991. 21.5 cm x 29 cm. 176 pages. With black and white and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. As new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine of dustjacket is slightly faded.

3. Dean, David.

English Shop Fronts from Contemporary Source Books 1792-1840.

London, Alec Tiranti Ltd., 1970. 21.8 cm x 27.8 cm. Black and white fronispiece. Unpaginated. With 77 full page illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to page edges. Pages very lightly tanned. Otherwise interior pages clean and unmarked.

4. Emery, Jack.

The Putney Debates.

Cambridge, The Rampant Lions Press, 1983. 18.8cm x 27.8 cm. Colour Lino Frontispiece. 94 pages. With 6 colour lino-print illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with plain card slipcase. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Moderate foxing and discolouration to slip case. Book in as new condition. Front pastedown contains ‘Erik Haugaard’ Exlibris dated 1974. With navy colour decorated top edges. ‘This book was designed and five hundred copies were printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge. This type is 12 point Times New Roman set by the Stellar Press, with displayed matter in Hunt Roman; the paper is Zerkall Silurian; the lino-cuts were printed from the original blocks. The binding, in specially designed patterned paper boards, was by Woolnough of Wellingborough. This is number 174.’

5. [English History Collection] – Aaronovitch, Ben.

Whispers Under Ground.

London, Gollancz, 2012. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 418 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition, like new. Fine out of print book.

6. [English History Collection] – Anonymous [Frederick Corbin Lukis] [Naturalist / Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge].

Rambles among the Channel Islands. By a Naturalist.

[First Edition]. London, Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no year [c. 1855]. 18 cm. Frontispiece – engraving of the Rocks at Moulin Huet (Guernsey), VIII, 386 pages with many illustrations (wood engravings) of Harbour at St.Peter Port, Guernsey / St.Sampson’s Harbour / St.Helier Harbour, Jersey / Rocks at Greve de Lecq, Jersey, St.Brelade’s Bay etc. etc. Hardcover / Original decorative cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed wiith a private giftinscription on endpaper: “To my Darling Agnes on her Birthday from her loving Father [?], 5th August 1869”.

7. [English History Collection] – Aspinall, A. [Ed].

Mrs. Jordan and her Family: Being the Unpublished Letters of Mrs. Jordan and the Duke of Clarence, later William IV.

First edition. London, Arthur Barker Ltd., 1951. 16 x 25cm. (27), 295 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to dustjacket and mild foxing to edges. Pre-owner’s name inscribed on front endpaper.

8. [English History Collection] – Barclays Bank Ltd.

The Story of a Site.

England, Charles Barker and Sons Limited, 1959. 20.5 cm x 26 cm. 24 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout publication. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and discolouration on endpapers only. Original calling card of bank manager inside cover.

9. [English History Collection] – Boswell, James.

Boswell’s London Journal 1762 – 1763. As first published in 1950 from the original MSS. Prepared for the press, with introduction and notes, by Frederick A. Pottle, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University.

London, The Reprint Society London, 1952. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. XII, 360 pages, including maps. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Slight browning of the pages. Clean inside. Solid binding.

10. [English History Collection] – [Boswell, James]. Pottle, Frederick A. [ed.].

Boswell’s London Journal – 1762-63.

London, The Folio Society, 1985. 16 cm x 24.5 cm. VIII, 365 pages. With 20 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Quarter cloth-bound with slip case missing !! Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

11. [English History Collection] – Bradley, A.G./ Palmer, Sutton.

The Wye. Painted by Sutton Palmer. Described by A.R.Hope Moncrieff.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1910. 8°. VIII, 189 pages with folded map of the river Wye in the rear. 24 full-page illustrations in colour with original, titled tissue-guards. Illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition of the extremely beautiful binding with only minor signs of wear. Some traces of foxing.

12. [English History Collection] – Bragg, Melvyn.

Speak For England. An essay on England : 1900-1975 based on interviews with inhabitants of Wigton, Cumberland.

First Edition. London, Book Club Associates, 1976. 16 x 24 cm. 504 pages including local historical photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. [English History Collection] – Brigden, Susan.

New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603.

First American Edition. New York, Viking, 2001. Octavo. XIII, 433 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

14. [English History Collection] – Brooke-Hunt, Violet.

The Story of Westminster Abbey. [Prize – Binding / Stunning Victorian Leather Binding by Relfe Brothers Ltd. London for the Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wimborne Minster with exceptional gilted emblemata to frontcover: “Gubernato Libere Scole Grammatice in Winborne MinsterSigillum Commune – Elizabeth Regine Anno 1563”].

Twelfth Thousand. London, James Nisbet & Co, No date (1902). 13.5 cm x 18.5 cm. IX, 356 pages, including photographs and illustrations. Original Hardcover full morocco in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation inscription by Rev. J.M.J.Hetcher to J. Cutler [Small stamp: “Tilley’s Library Wimbourne” to endpaper].

15. [English History Collection] – Burke, Thomas.

The Book of the Inn. Being Two Hundred Pictures of the English Inn from the earliest Times to the Coming of the Railway Hotel.

First Edition. London, Constable & Co Ltd., 1927. 18.8cm x 12.5cm. XV, 401 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. ExLibris of Hugh Mc Causland on pastedown.

16. [English History Collection] – Cave, C. J. P.

Medieval Carvings in the Exeter Cathedral.

London, King Penguin Books, 1953. 8°. 64 Pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

17. [English History Collection] – Central Council for the Care of Churches (Church of England).

The Problem of England’s Historic Churches. Eleventh report of the Central Council for the Care of Churches. With a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

London, A.R. Mowbray, 1951. 22 cm. XV, 131 pages. 8 leaves of plates. 16 black and white illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

18. [English History Collection] – Church, Richard.

Portrait of Canterbury. With Illustrations by John Sergeant.

Revised and illustrated edition. London, Hutchinson, 1968. Octavo. 224 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

19. [English History Collection] – [Churchill, Winston] Soames, Mary.

Family Album: A Personal Selection from Four Generations of Churchills.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. 22 cm x 27 cm. 216 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Worn edges on dustjacket.

20. [English History Collection] – Cooper, Roger.

Death Plus Ten Years.

London, Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. 16 cm x 24 cm. 330 Pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

21. [English History Collection] – Cottrell, Leonard.

The Roman Invasion of Britain.

New York, Barnes & Noble, 1992. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 219 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

22. [English History Collection] – Cottrell, P.L.

British Overseas Investment in the Nineteenth Century.

London and Basingstoke, The Macmillan Press, 1975. 13 cm x 21 cm. 79 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Studies in Economic and Social History]

23. [English History Collection] – Dames, Michael.

The Avebury Cycle.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1977. Octavo. 240 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

24. [English History Collection] – Douglas, David C.

William The Conqueror-The Norman Impact Upon England.

London, Methuen London, 1989. 16cm x 24cm. XII, 476 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

25. [English History Collection] – Dunning, John H. / Morgan, E. Victor.

An Economic Study of The City of London. By the Economists Advisory Group. Directors and Editors of Study John H. Dunning / E. Victor Morgan.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1971. 8°. 460 pages. Original Hardcover. Library copy – Stamps and library sign. Inside very clean. No underlinings.

26. [English History Collection] – Fiddes, Angela / Frankl, Ernest.

The City of London: The Historic Square Mile.

Cambridge, Ernest Frankl and The Pevensey Press, 1984. 19 cm x 25 cm. 96 pages with photographs. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

27. [English History Collection] – Fraser, Antonia.

The Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996. Octavo. XXXV, 347 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

28. [English History Collection] – Fraser, Antonia.

The Wives of Henry VIII.

Reprinted Edition. New York, Knopf, 1993. Octavo. IX, 479 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

29. [English History Collection] – Fulford, Roger.

Glyn’s 1753-1953: Six Generations in Lombard Street.

London / New York, Macmillan & Co Ltd / St Martin’s Press, 1953. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. XVI, 267. Original Hardcover with dustjacket covered in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some browning of page edges. Slightly worn corners on cover. Inscription by preowner. Clean inside with solid binding.

30. [English History Collection] – Grant, James.

British Heroes in Foreign Wars or The Cavaliers of Fortune.

Facsimile of 1858 edition. Uckfield / London, The Naval & Military Press / National Army Museum. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. VI, 404 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

31. [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.

32. [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.

33. [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.

34. [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.

35. [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.

36. [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.

37. [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.

38. [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.

39. [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.

40. [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.

41. [English History Collection] – [Isabella, Queen consort. Edward II of England]. Weir, Alison.

Queen Isabella – Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England.

First Edition. New York, Ballantine Books, 2005. 17 cm x 24 cm. XXI, 487 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition, like new.

42. [English History Collection] – Jasper, A.S. / Boswell, James (drawings)

A Hoxton Childhood.

London, Centerprise Publications, 1969. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 128 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

43. [English History Collection] – Jenkins, Simon.

England’s Thousand Best Churches.

London etc., Allen Lane, 1999. 16 cm x 24 cm. XLIX, 822 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

44. [English History Collection] – Jessup, Ronald F.

Kent – The Little Guides.

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1950. 16 x 10 cm. xii, 307 pages with fold-out map and over 50 illustrations. Original Hardcover with gilt crest on front and gilt text on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

45. [English History Collection] – Johnson, Malcolm K.

The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1857 – 1968.

Stroud, Tempus Publishing, 2000. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 128 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

46. [English History Collection] – Johnston, Thomas / Gilmour, J.S.L (editor).

Botanical Journeys in Kent & Hampstead. A facsimile reprint with Introduction and Translation of his Iter Plantarum (1629), Descriptio Itineris Plantarum (1632).

Pittsburgh, The Hunt Botanical Library, 1972. 20 cm x 27 cm. IX, 167 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. White cover slightly dirty/discoloured.

47. [English History Collection] – Jones, Anthea / Jones, Glyn (photographer).

A Thousand Years of the English Parish: Medieval Patterns and Modern Interpretations.

Gloucestershire, The Windrush Press, 2000. 17.5 cm x 24 cm. 336 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

48. [English History Collection] – Jones, J.R.

Country and Court: England 1658-1714.

London, Edward Arnold, 1983. 23.3cm x 15.5cm. VI, 378 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [The New History of England, 5].

49. [English History Collection] – Lipscombe, Nick.

The Peninsula War Atlas.

First Edition. Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2010. 30 cm x 25 cm. 384 pages. Original Hardcover with slip case. Quarter cloth-bound. Excellent condition.

50. [English History Collection] – Macauley, Lord.

History of England. From the Accession of James II. A New Edition in Two Volumes.

Two Complete Volumes. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1886. 12 cm x 18.5 cm. Vol. I: XXIV, 776 pages / Vol. II: XI, 820 pages. Original hardcover / Price-Bindings with emblemata / coat of arms of Wellington College with their motto: “Heroum Filii”. Fair condition but with stronger signs of external wear. Both volumes’ spines have become worn and detached (Vol II’s more so than Vol I). The beautiful and large Exlibris / Bookplate of Wellington College to the pastedown of Volume I with manuscript award-inscription to J.C.V.Durrell at Christmas 1887. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown of Volume II and endpaper of Volume I. The set needs attention from a bookbinder.