Church, Stephen: King John and the Road to Magna Carta. New York: Basic Books, 2015. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 300. Maps, genealogy and illustration. Hardback: buff cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54471
Clarendon, Edward (Hyde), Earl of: The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford: printed at the Theater 1702; 1703; 1704. First edition. 3 vols. Folio, pp.[ii], XXIII, [i], 557, [iii]; [xvi], 581, [i]; xxii, 603, [xxiii] + portrait frontispiece to each vol. Bound without half-titles. Engraved vignette to title, engraved initials and head- and tail-pieces. Lightly foxed, a few smudgy marks, occasional small pencil notes, vol.III portrait stuck a little to ffep at gutter causing separation from textblock and a short closed tear, vol.III A4 with closed tear of approx. 5.5cm to tail edge affecting lower and gutter margins. Uniform library bindings, quarter mottled grey-brown calf, spine gilt ruled with red labels, volume number and date tooled directly, orange buckram boards, endpapers renewed, cloth joints, a little rubbed, corners slightly bumped, very good. Small embossed stamp of Leicester Free Library to frontispieces, title-pages, and final few leaves. Clarendon's major work, not published until many years after his death. 'The remainder of Clarendon's manuscripts remained unpublished for more than twenty-five years, although his sons allowed certain politically sympathetic individuals - among them Archbishop Sancroft - to see them. The first volume of the History of the Rebellion, the text put together in 1671?2 out of the History and the Life, was not published until 1702, after the accession to the throne of Clarendon's granddaughter, Anne. Laurence Hyde, earl of Rochester, contributed a carefully nuanced defence of his father to the first volume; by the time the second and third volumes were published in 1704, Rochester's dismissal from government made him give a more partisan, tory edge to their dedications to the queen.' (ODNB) ESTC T53939, T147813 and T147812. Ref: 55043show full image..
Cline, Ruth Harwood: The Congregation of Tiron: Monastic Contributions to Trade and Communication in Twelfth Century France and Britain. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 211. Maps and Tables. Hardback: laminated pictorial boards. Unused: as new. In the series: Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West. Ref: 54466
Coffey, John: Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 8vo., pp. xii, 304. Hardback: brown cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. endpapers discoloured along hinges (for no discernable reason), edges lightly bumped. Dust-jacket, mildly shelf-worn with creasing to edges. Still, a very good copy. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History series. Ref: 53746
Collinson, Patrick: The Elizabethan Puritan Movement. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition. 8vo, pp. 528. Maps as endpapers. Hardback: quarter green cloth with cream buckram boards, gilt-lettered to spine, a slight bow to upper board and a hint of dust to edges, still very good. Dust-jacket, rather shelf-worn and a little grubby, with creasing to top edge and tears to corners and head of spine, good only. Ref: 53753
Condren, Conal & Cousins, A. D. (eds.): The Political Identity of Andrew Marvell. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 221. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered, fine. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear only, very good. Includes an essay by William Lamont, and from his library although with no evidence of ownership. Ref: 53736
[Coxe, William:] Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; containing Armorial Bearings, Fac Similes, Maps and Military Plans. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Slim 4to., contains all 22 items listed on the 'Order of Arrangement for the Plates and References' leaf, but lacks the leaf itself (a copy is loosely inserted for reference). Items include coats of arms, facsimile letters and many folding maps, some hand coloured or with paper overlays to show the positions and movements of troops. Two of the folding maps have a very short tear near the stub attachment (ie. 'Plan of the Battle of Malplaquet' and 'Plan of the Operations of the Confederate and French Forces on the Moselle and Saar'). Small loss to bottom edge of title-page not affecting text, a little sporadic foxing, some faint smudgy marks toward fore-edge. Recent half calf binding, spine gilt, marbled boards, title in gilt to leather panel in centre of front board. Spine a little sunned, very good. Discreet binder's label of Canterbury Bookbinders to front pastedown. Originally issued as an accompaniment to the octavo second edition of William Coxe's Marlborough's Memoirs (1820). The same material was also reproduced as the final volume of the quarto edition of the Memoirs (1817-1820). The selection of materials is designed to illustrate Marlborough's (1650-1722) reputation as one of the finest commanders in British military history. Ref: 54714show full image..
Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Wiltshire. Volume X. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1975. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Light shelf-wear, a touch of creasing to top edge of jacket, very good. Ref: 54091
Crowley, D. A. (ed.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Wiltshire. Volume XI: Downton Hundred, Elstub and Everleigh Hundred. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1980. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. A touch of shelf-wear only, fine. Ref: 54092
Crowley, D. A. (ed.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Wiltshire. Volume XIII: South-West Wiltshire: Chalke and Dunworth Hundreds. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1987. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, a section of half-title lightly toned, outer edges and corners bumped, still a good copy. Ref: 54094
