Maynard, D.C.: The Old Inns of Kent. London: Philip Allan & Co., 1925. First edition. pp. [vii], 250, with illustrated frontispiece and photographic plates. Slight browning, but still very good. Blue cloth, rebacked, spine gilt, edges a bit rubbed. Wye College library stamp to front free endpaper. Ref: 53508
McGrigor, Mary: The Sister Queens: Isabella & Catherine de Valois. Stroud, Glos.: The History Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. 288 + colour plates. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy. Ref: 53860
Meyrick, Samuel Rush & Smith, Charles Hamilton: The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands. London: printed by Howlett and Brimmer for T. M'Lean, 1821. 2nd edition. Folio, pp.59 + 25 engraved coloured plates. Toning from some plates offset onto facing pages, including title-page. Handsome modern red half morocco, gilt ruled spine with title and raised bands, marbled boards, cream endpapers. Very good indeed. Second edition, the first having appeared in 1815, of the first work of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, (1783-1848), English collector and scholar of arms and armour, and innovator systematic principles for the study of his subject. Meyrick worked in collaboration with the antiquary Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859). Ref: 54910show full image..
Midgley, L. Margaret (ed.): The Victoria History of the Couny of Stafford. Volume IV: Staffordshire Domesday and West Cuttlestone Hundred. Folkestone, Kent: Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1986. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Spine-gilt lightly faded, a touch of shelf-wear, still very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title. Reprinted photographically from the 1958 first edition published by Oxford University Press. Ref: 54009
Midgley, L. Margaret (ed.): The Victoria History of the Couny of Stafford. Volume V: East Cuttlestone Hundred. Folkestone, Kent: Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1986. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Spine-gilt lightly faded, a touch of shelf-wear, still very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title. Reprinted photographically from the 1959 first edition published by Oxford University Press. Ref: 54010
Newcourt, Richard: Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London: Containing an Account of the Bishops of that Sea, from the first Foundation thereof: also, of the deans, archdeacons, dignitaries and prebendaries, from the Conquest: and lastly, of the se London: printed by Benj. Motte, and are to be sold by Chr. Bateman, Benj. Tooke, Ric. Parker, 1708; 1710. 2 vols., folio, pp.[iv], vii, [I], 761, 764-5, 768-9, 772-3, 776-928, [ii] (i.e. usual mispagination) + 4 plates; [viii], 692, [lii] + 2 plates. Vol. I with portrait frontispiece and errata leaf, vol. II with half-title and list of subscribers, as called for. Sporadic toning, vol. II heavily toned from p.609 onwards and with a small worm trail near gutter for approx. first hundred pages. MS to ffep vol. I (a description in heraldic terminology of the arms of Richard Newport depicted on the frontispiece). Contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, raised bands and reddish title labels to spines, edges sprinkled red. A bit worn with some scrapes, but very good. Each volume with armorial bookplates of John Hoadly, LLD to front paste-down and Henry Carrington Bowles to rear paste-down (the latter being the Bowles arms with those of H.C.B.'s wife Ann Garnault inset). Historian and notary Richard Newport (d.1716) complied this history of the Diocese of London from sources including the London Registers (begun in 1306), registers kept by individual bishops and a return of 1636 from which he took information about the income of the parishes. His father (also Richard Newcourt, d. 1679) was a cartographer and draughtsman who, in addition to contributing drawings to Dugdale's Monasticon, was also responsible for the most important map made of London before the Great Fire, his Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs Thereof (1658). John Hoadly (1711-1776) was a poet and dramatist, and a friend and correspondent of David Garrick. The appearance of 'LLD' on his bookplate dates it from sometime after 1747. Henry Carrington Bowles (1763-1830) was a successful publisher and seller of maps, prints and geographical games. His bookplate dates from sometime after his marriage in 1799. The ephemera found between the pages of vol. I appears to relate to his ownership of the book. Loosely inserted: two letterpress-printed sheets reproducing letters sent in January 1824 and February 1827 to The Gentleman's Magazine, concerning London churches destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 (both from 'H.C.B.'); small hand-drawn and coloured arms of Sir John Philpot, Lord Mayor of London 1378, on a scrap of paper; a piece of tracing paper with a coat of arms and an inscription referring to Sarah Bolles; 4 scraps of paper with MS notes, one seemingly part of a letter addressed to H.C. Bowles Esq. and dated 1827; a long MS list of churches on a folded piece of paper watermarked 1821. ESTC T5439; Upcott 690; Lowndes 1665; Graesse IV 662. Ref: 54146show full image..
Newport, Kenneth G. C. Apocalypse & Millennium: Studies in Biblical Exegesis. Cambridge University Press, 2000. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 252. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused and, with just a hint of shelf-wear, almost as new. Ref: 53752
Ogawa, Hiroshi: Language and Style in Old English Composite Homilies Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 8vo., pp. 207. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53403
Orton, Peter: Writing in a Speaking World: The Pragmatics of Literacy in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions and Old English Poetry. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 8vo., pp. 266. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 445 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53714
Ottaway, Patrick: Julia Velva: A Roman lady from York. Her Life and Times Revealed. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021. First edition. 8vo., pp. xvi?, 382? + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54507
