1. [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.

2. [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.

3. [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.

4. [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.

5. [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].

6. [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.

7. [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.

8. [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.

9. [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.

10. [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.

11. [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.

12. [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.

13. [English History Collection] – Macdonald, Nesta.

The History of the Pheasantry Chelsea 1766 – 1977.

First Edition. London, Phonapress Limited, 1977. 15cm x 21cm. 23, (4) pages. Original paperback (softcover). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed by the author.

14. [English History Collection] – Madame Tussaud’s Ltd.

Madame Tussaud’s.

London, Baker Street, 1979. 23 cm x 13 cm. 40 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

15. [English History Collection] – Marsden, Peter.

Roman London.

London, Thames and Hudsen LTD., 1980. 8°. 224 Pages including Index. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

16. [English History Collection] – McCarthy, Mick.

London Years.

Dublin, Kildanore, 1990. 13.7 cm x 21.5 cm. 240 pages. Original Softcover. Page edges stained and some signs of wear and tear. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by the author.

17. [English History Collection] – Melling, John Kennedy.

Discovering London’s Guilds and Liveries.

Aylesbury, Shire Publications, 1973. 11.5 cm x 17.8 cm. 88 pages. Original Softcover. Cover is worn with age and starting to come loose from rest of book. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

18. [English History Collection] – Mitchell, R.J. and Leys, M.D.R.

A History of London Life.

Harmondsworth, Pelican, 1963. 11.2 cm x 18 cm. 348 pages. Original Softcover. Back cover is creased and page edges have yellowed with age. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

19. [English History Collection] – Norrie, Ian.

Hamstead – London Hill Town. Photographs by Dorothy Bohm.

London, Wildwood House and High Hill Press, 1981. 18 cm x 29 cm. 204 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

20. [English History Collection] – Pendrill, Charles.

Old Parish Life in London.

First Edition. London a. o, Oxford University Press, 1937. 19cm x 26cm. VIII, 295 pages with 17 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Internally in very bright and clean condition.

21. [English History Collection] – Picard, Liza.

Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, From Medicine to Magic, From Slang to Sex, From Wallpaper to Women’s Rights.

First US Edition. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXI, 330 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

22. [English History Collection] – [The 23rd London Regiment] [Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby (Foreword)] The Times Publishing Company.

The 23rd London Regiment 1798-1919. Compiled from contributions by former officers of the regiment with a foreword by Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby.

London, The Times Publishing Company Limited, 1936. 16 cm x 24.5 cm. Frontispiece (Volunteers in the Uniforms of 1798), XVI, 188 pages. Several black and white maps throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Good condition with obvious signs of external wear. Some puncture marks on the cover carrying through to subsequent pages. Discoloration of pages, a dog ear on page 139 and some foxing to endpapers. Previous owner’s names in inkpen on endpaper dated 1936. Regiment’s insignia in gold on cover.

23. [English History Collection] – Weiss, David A. / Papin, Joseph (drawings).

The Great Fire of London.

New York, Cumberland Enterprises, 1968. 15 cm x 23 cm. 159 pages including multiple illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

24. [English History Collection] – West, Rebecca.

Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy.

London, Hutchinson & Co., No year (1929). 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 288 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear. Browning of page edges. Some spotting of inside pages. Otherswise clean inside with solid binding.

25. Johnson, Steven.

The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.

New York, Riverhead Books, 2006. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 299 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar covering. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

26. [London Collection] – Graham, Willam Hussey / Adams, R.R.D. / Banfield, Frank. (Compiled by).

The Book Of The Cheese. Being Traits and Stories of “Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese”.

London, “Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese”, 1937. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. XII, 96 pages with illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. A Small ink stain at bottom edge and some textmarkings in ballpen.

27. [London Collection] – [Komarova, Natalie / Lemarchand, Louis / Fischer, Clifford C.] Stone, E.A. / Poulsen, M. / Bell, Major C.H. / Ramsden, Jas. H. / de Wynter, Ivon.

The London Casino Restaurant – Brochure. [Plaisirs de Paris / Montmartre a Minnit]

London, London Casino Restaurant, no year (c.1930). Quarto (21,5 cm x 28 cm). 32 pages with numerous advertising and revue pictures. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.