Pennant, Thomas: The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell. [London:] printed for B. and J. White, 1796. 4to., pp. [viii], 172, [ii], 185-328 + 22 plates, as called for. Engraved title-page with vignette of a house titled 'Bychon'. Separate title-page for Holywell, with vignette. First leaf and title foxed, some further light foxing, occasional toning generally to leaves near plates. Recently rebound, speckled tan half calf, red morocco gilt label, brown cloth boards, endpapers renewed. A few marks to cloth, very good. 'Two of the three publications written towards the end of Pennant's life exemplify both his energy and the range of his writings. The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell (1796) offers a detailed local history and genealogical information on the Pennant family. [?] The title of the third, The Literary Life of the Late Thomas Pennant Esq., by himself (1793), hints at Pennant's sense of humour. It is signed only by dotted lines to indicate the death of the author: it is for that reason that his History of the Parishes is signed 'RESURGAM', with its implication of literary resurrection.' (Withers, ODNB) ESTC T113878 Ref: 54603show full image..
Picard, Liza: Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rights. London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1997. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 330+ plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Plates bound in lightly crinkled, light signs of use, otherwise very good. Ref: 54238
Pilling, David: Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians 1265-1274. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 209 + plates. Hardback: red cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54450
Pitts, Brent A. (trans.): The Anglo-Norman Gospel Harmony: A Translation of the Estoire de l'Evangile (Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral C6.1.1, Liber niger). Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 8vo., pp. 156. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 453 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and Volume 7 in The French of England Translation ACMRS series. Ref: 53710
Powicke, F. M: Stephen Langton. Being The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford [...] Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Special edition for Sandpiper Books. 8vo. Black cloth, spine cocked, otherwise very good. 1997 reprint of first edition of 1928. Ref: 54930
[Redding, Cyrus:] The Pictorial History of the County of Lancaster: with one hundred and seventy illustrations and a map. London: George Routledge, 1844. 4to., pp. [vi], 238 [i.e.338], xlii, (pp. [ii], 11, [i] + 5 lithographed plates), xliii-xlviii. Map of Lancashire at rear. Some plates a bit foxed, occasional neat pencil notes and marks. 20th-century half green morocco, gilt spine, raised bands, green cloth boards, green marbled endpapers. Pencilled notes to preliminary blank. Bands a little rubbed, some light wear to lower board edges, very good indeed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown. Exuberantly extra illustrated with 35 bound-in plates (one of which appears to be a small painting), including frontispiece, in addition to the in-text engravings listed at the front. One further plate pasted onto the final page. Additional images include portraits, views, grand houses etc, plus a separate work, 'Profiles of Warrington Worthies' by James Kendrick, 1853, found just before the index. Cyrus Redding (1785-1870) was a journalist who had, in 1842, published the same text with How & Parsons as part of a large series, which included a similar work on Cornwall also written by Redding. Remaining sheets and/or blocks were presumably bought by Routledge, who published this volume two years later. Ref: 55055show full image..
Reynolds, Jack: The Great Paternalist. Titus Salt and the Growth of Nineteenth-Century Bradford. London: Maurice Temple Smith in association with The University of Bradford, 1983. 8vo., pp. 382. Black cloth, silver lettering. Dustwrapper slightly creased. Very good. Ref: 51389
Robinson, A. H. W.: Marine Cartography in Britain: A History of the Sea Chart to 1855. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1962. First edition. Large format (285mm x 227mm), pp. 222 + plates. Charts. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dusting to top edge, otherwise very good. Dust-jacket, 12mm stain to spine, a few small tears to edges with a little loss, some staining, still good. With a foreword by Vice-Admiral Sir John Edgell, F.R.S. Ref: 54819
Rounding, Virginia: The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xvi, 459. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint of shelf-wear only: still a fine, clean and unread copy. Ref: 53610
Rowlands, Henry: [Owen, Henry, ed.:] Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Anglesey, the Antient Seat of the British Druids. In two essays. With an appendix, containing a Comparative Table of Primitive Words, and the Derivatives of them in several of the Tongues of Europe; with Remarks upon them.Together with some Letters, and three Catalogues, added thereunto. I. Of the M London: printed for J.[ohn] Knox, near Southampton-Street in the Strand, 1766. Second edition, corrected and improved. 4to., pp. xi, [v], 357, [iii] + 12 plates + 1 map frontispiece. With errata leaf and publisher's catalogue at rear. The plate of a king is here numbered XI, as found in some copies. Occasional annotations to margins in an old hand, corrections neatly inserted by hand. Occasional light foxing, some very slight transfer from plates to facing pages. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original gilt spine and label retained, corners and fore-edge neatly repaired, marbled endpapers, very good. Recent bookplate of David W. Phillipson to front paste-down. To initial blank, inscription of C.H. Cooper F.S.A. (1808-1866), Town Clark of Cambridge from 1849 until his death. The second edition of Rowland's (1655-1723) work, in which he hypothesises that Anglesey was an ancient Druidic centre and that Britain was initially established by the Phoenicians. The first edition was published in Dublin in 1723. Rowland had died in the year of first publication, and so it was left to Henry Owen (1716-1795) to correct and revise this second edition (London, 1766). An edition of supplementary topographical details overseen by Nicholas Owen (1752-1811) appeared in 1775. ESTC T139796 Ref: 54388show full image..
