Greenslade, M. W. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume XVII. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1976. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, jacket price-clipped, creased to edges with a couple of little nicks, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "September 1999" ink-inscribed to the right. Ref: 54015
Greenslade, M. W. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume XX: Seisdon Hundred (Part). Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1984. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, jacket price-clipped, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "January 2003" ink-inscribed above. Ref: 54016
Greenwood, James: Odd People in Odd Places; or, The Great Residuum. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1883]. 8vo., pp.xii, 244. Very mildly toned. Half dark blue sheep, blue cloth boards, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Title page with previous owner's address label stuck to its centre, partially obscuring the subtitle, and a patch of toning from the newspaper clipping pasted in opposite. Endpapers etc with multiple newspaper clippings attached. Scuffed, joints and head-cap a bit worn, corners frayed, still a good sound copy. Recent ownership label of Mrs S. M. Plumridge of Portobello Road to title-page. A collection of 'pen pictures', first published in the Daily Telegraph, of 'the lower grade of the great community' of London. James Greenwood (1832?1927) was an English social explorer, journalist and writer whose focus was the plight of London's working poor. He was one of the first journalists to research his stories by going undercover, and is regarded as a pioneer of investigative journalism. In this copy of his penultimate book the front and rear endpapers, the final page, and several blanks (15 'pages' in total) are covered in pasted-in newspaper clippings of interesting or amusing stories, mostly related to crime and court proceedings. Four are dated: 1898, 1909, 30th December 1897 and July 30th 1904, but most are dateless. Ref: 55087show full image..
[Gregorius (Gregory) XIII] Corpus iuris canonici emendatum et notis illustratum. Gregorii XIII. pont. max. jussu editum indicibus variis et novis, et appendice Pauli Lancellotti, Perusini adauctum [...] His postrema hac editione accesserunt constitutiones nou? PP. SS. qu? VII. Decretalium loco iure merit? esse possint: illustrati Lugduni [Leiden]: [s.n.], 1622. 6 vols. bound as 1. 4to., pp.[lxiv], cols.1272, pp.[xx], cols.754, pp.[xiii], cols.406, pp.[ix], cols. 158, pp.[lxxxiii], cols.278, pp.[xiii]. Title-page in red and black with large woodcut printer's device. Woodcut initials, ornamental head- and tail-pieces. A little toned, small spots and smudges, occasional paper flaws to bottom edge. A very small amount of marginalia in an old hand. Somewhat later vellum, neatly rebacked with old spine retained, very lightly blind embossed centrepiece, edges red, endpapers renewed. A few spine splits repaired, upper joint just starting at head but holding firm, a few smudgy marks but very good indeed. Contents: Vol.I. Decretum Gratiani; Vol.II. Decretales D. Gregorij Pap? IX; Vol.III. Liber sextus Decretalium D. Bonifacij Pap? IIX vn? cum Clementinis & extrauagantibus; Vol. IV. Index generalis pr?cedentium librorum; Vol.V. Institutiones iuris canonici, ? Paulo Lancellotto, Perusino conscript?; Vol.VI. Liber septimus Decretalium, cum indice. See Camus 2686, which lists the first edition as having been published in Rome (1582). Ref: 54923show full image..
Gregson, Matthew: Portfolio of Fragments relative to the History and Antiquities, Topography and Genealogies of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Liverpool: [s.n.] 1824. Second edition. Folio, pp. (preliminaries), 302, cviii + portrait frontispiece, 10 further portrait plates, 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 4 genealogies, 11 other plates. Preliminaries erratically paginated, but consisting of half-title, title to 1817 edition, title to 1824 second edition, Dedication, Preface, List of Subscribers and Contents, as called for. Occasional smudgy marks but internally very good. Contemporary dark brown morocco, raised bands, gilt borders to spine compartments and boards, blind-tooled boards, gilt title to centre of upper board, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Very light rubbing to joints, a few dusty marks, endpapers foxed but still very good indeed. To ffep verso, ownership inscription of J. Feilden, Mollington Hall. The Feildens were a family of Cheshire cotton merchants who occupied Mollington Hall, from 1796 to 1906. Twycross's Mansions of England and Wales (1850) depicts a grand country house with lakes, described as 'the seat of John Feilsen Esq.' Mollington Hall was demolished in 1938, though its lodges and ice house remain. Printed by C.A. Worrall of Slater Court, Liverpool. Lowndes IV, 942 Ref: 54141show full image..
Gregson, Matthew: Portfolio of Fragments relative to the History and Antiquities, Topography and Genealogies of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Liverpool: [s.n.] 1824. Second edition. Folio, pp. (preliminaries), 302, cviii + portrait frontispiece, 10 further portrait plates, 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 4 genealogies over 2 leaves, 11 other plates. Preliminaries erratically paginated, but consisting of half-title, title to 1817 edition, title to 1824 second edition, Dedication, Preface, List of Subscribers and Contents, as called for. Illustrations in the text, a few coloured. Some sporadic foxing. Contemporary brown morocco neatly rebacked with title, date and plain rules to spine, gilt borders and frames with cornerpieces, gilt dentelles, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Boards a little scuffed with a scrape at rear, a few light stains, edges a bit rubbed. To front pastedown, monogram bookplate of Samuel Rigby and small bookbinders or -sellers label of Holden, 46 Church St, Liverpool. To ffep, modern bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst. To ffep verso in pencil, Mr Hayhurst's rather withering opinions on the book. Further bookseller's notes to facing endpaper. A collection of genealogical and topographical information for Lancashire, originally published in parts and now published as a single volume. Lowndes IV, 942 Ref: 55056show full image..
Gristwood, Sarah: The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty. London: Oneworld Publications 2021. First edition. 8vo., pp. 392 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54891
Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus: Observatorum in Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, [...], Monobiblos. (with) Observationum Liber Nonus, [...] Notis ad T. Livium [...]. Daventriae [Deventer]: typis Johannis Columbii, 1651; 1652. Two works in one vol. 8vo., pp. [xxvi], 292, [xxviii]; [xxiv], 431, [lxiii]. Printer's device to both title-pages, woodcut initials and decorative headpieces. A few leaves unopened at fore-edge. Occasional small spots (wax?) and smudges, very good. Contemporary vellum, titles inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, all edges blue. Pencilled booksellers' notes to front pastedown. A few marks to boards, endpapers toned, an approx. 3cm piece cut out of ffep possibly to remove a name, still very good. Two ownership inscriptions to ffep: D. Wyttenbach, dated August 1765, and J.A. Jeremie(?) dated 1863. The former is quite likely to be the classical scholar Daniel Wyttenbach (1746-1820), student of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer and Ruhnken who, along with them, laid the foundations for modern Greek scholarship. In 1765 he was just ending his studies at the university in Marburg. Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (1611-1671) was in 1643 appointed professor of rhetoric and history at Deventer, before moving in 1658 to the Greek chair at Leiden, where he spent the rest of his life. Gronovius was the 6th Librarian of the University of Leiden (1665?1671) and, in a nice link, Wyttenbach became the 13th Librarian in 1799 following the death of David Ruhken. Wyttenbach also wrote a highly-regarded Life of his predecessor, which was published in Leiden in the same year. Ref: 54418show full image..
Grotius, Hugo (trans., ed.): Excerpta ex tragoediis et comoediis Gr?cis tum qu? exstant, tum quae perierunt emendata et Latinis versibus reddita ab Hugone Grotio. Cum notis & indice auctorum ac rerum. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Nicolaum Buon, in via Iacob?a, sub signis S. Claudij & Hominis Siluestris, 1626. 4to., pp.[xii], 1006, [xxxviii]. Greek and Latin texts on facing pages, 3 page errata and colophn at rear. Title-page in red and black, woodcut initials and endpieces. Light dampstaining at gutter and to title-page and first few gatherings, ink spot to very edge of fore-edge margin towards rear, some lower margins a little short with deckle edges, A2 and A3 a bit crumpled with short tear to fore-edge margin, 6P4 with quite large loss to fore-edge margin but not affecting text. Plain contemporary vellum, some worn ms and remains of a label to spine. Vellum a little rumpled, some grey smudgy marks, endcaps worn, a few chips and stains, a good sound copy. 4 initials (?) in an old hand to title-page. A compilation of excerpts of Greek plays translated into Latin verse, which was written, like most of Grotius' (1583-1645) major works, during his exile in Paris. He had been imprisoned in Loevestein Castle because of his involvement in several controversies over the religious policy of the Dutch Republic but escaped in 1621, aided by his wife and maidservant who concealed him inside a book chest. He fled first to Gorinchem and then to Paris, where he received a royal pension and stayed almost continuously until 1644. This volume appeared the year after his most famous work, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625), widely regarded as a foundational text in the development of international law. BM STC French,1601-1700, T766; Ter Meulen/Diermanse 468. Ref: 55232show full image..
Ha?ek, Jaroslav: (Lada, Josef, illus.:) The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War. London: William Heinemann in association with Penguin Books, 1974. First UK edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.xxii, [x], 752. Maps and illustrations in the text. Bright yellow cloth, red title to spine and small illustration to upper board. Endpapers very slightly toned, top edge a little dusty, near fine. Dust jacket a little yellowed with a few tiny marks, price-clipped, very good. Illegible ownership inscription to ffep. Unabridged translation by Cecil Parrott. Ha?ek had originally envisioned a total of six volumes of ?vejk. By the time of his death in 1923 he had completed the first three and was partway through the fourth, which was later finished at the request of the publisher by the journalist Karel Vanek. The volumes are as follows: Behind the Lines (V z?zem?, 1921); At the Front (Na fronte, 1922); The Glorious Licking (Slavn? v?prask, Ref: 54675
