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52. NOBLE, Percy PARK PLACE BERKSHIRE A Short History of the Place and an Account of the Owners and their Guests. Privately print- ed for the author by F. Calder Turner, 1905. First edition. 8vo. Original white buckram with gilt lettering to spine and up- per cover and top edge gilt. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed on the front blank, “To the Rector of Remenham with all good wishes from his churchwarden - the au- thor Xmas 1912” Forty-three
54. BRADLEY, A.G. RIVERS AND STREAMS OF ENGLAND Painted by Sutton Palmer A & C Black, 1909. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial blue cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in gilt, green and white. Top edge gilt. Seventy-five colour illustrations by Sutton Palmer, each under cap- tioned tissue guards, plus a fold-out map at the rear. A very good copy indeed, light mark to lower spine. Previous owner’s contemporary inscription on the front pastedown. [46521] £125 One of 3000 copies, originally pub- lished at 20/-.
As a keen angler the author is well acquainted with the areas described in the book. Chapters cover the rivers Severn, Wye, Devon rivers, Chalk Streams (including the Thames), Border rivers, Rivers of the South East, the Yorkshire Dales and an East Anglian River (The Ouse). Inman 23. 55. CAREY, Edith F. THE CHANNEL ISLANDS Painted by H. B. Wimbush A & C Black, 1904. First (sole) edition. 8vo. Dark blue pictorial cloth with gilt letter- ing to both upper cover and spine. Red and gilt heraldic device
black and white plates of portraits, engravings and photographs. A very good copy, with some dents and marks to the boards, minor foxing within and an ownership ex libris plate to the front pastedown. [45948] £950 ONE OF 100 COPIES, NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR 53. POPE, E.B. HISTORY OF WARGRAVE Printed for Subscribers only by Wm. Carling & Co., 1929.
First (sole) edition. 4to. White buck- ram lettered in gilt. Numbered and signed by the author, this being number 61 of 100. Illustrated with photographs of local houses and public buildings, as well as coats of arms printed in colour. A very good
on the upper cover. Top edge gilt. Catalogue of adverts dated 1904. In original printed dust- wrapper. Seventy five colour illustrations under captioned tis- sue guards and a fold out map to the rear. A near fine book, in a good, but chipped, dustwrap- per. [45129] £175 One of 3000 copies, originally pub- lished at a price of 20/-. Inman 13.
copy indeed, the cloth a little dusty and a few small, scattered marks to the boards. [46518] £350
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