De Gretham, Robert: (Blumreich, Kathleen Marie, ed.:) The Middle English "Mirror": An Edition Based on Bodleian Library, MS Holkham misc. 40. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2002. 8vo., pp. xlv, 558. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. A little shelf-wear to corners and edges but clean and unread: very good. With an Introduction and Glossary by the editor. Ref: 53390
De la Bedoyere, Guy: The Golden Age of Roman Britain. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 1999. First edition. 8vo., pp. 194 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: Black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket with light creasing only to top edge, otherwise very good. Ref: 54223
Dearn, T. D. W.: An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent. Cranbrook: S. Reader, 1814. First edition. 4to. pp. [4], (vii), [1], (lvi), 277, [1], (vi). With 9 steel-engraved plates. Edges untrimmed and somewhat dust-soiled, offsetting from plates, slight foxing to first few leaves, occasionally elsewhere. Modern half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label. Couple of small stains to rear cover. Bookplate of Ernest Bryan Gipps to front pastedown. Superbly-illustrated work on the history and topography of Kent. Each chapter is devoted to a locality, including Ashurst, Cranbrook, Leigh, High Halden, Tunbridge and the Ilse of Oxney. The section of Penshurst, immortalised by Ben Jonson, includes an account focusing on the 16th century, with mentions of Sir Philip Sidney. In addition to an engraved map of the Weald of Kent, 8 further steel-engraved plates - designed by the author and cut by M. Dubourg - illustrate city and country views of Cranbrook, Hemsted Benenden (its mansion and church), Bonnington Church and the remains of Trinity Chapel, Angley House, Elfords (Hawkhurst), Moor House and Fowlers (Hawkhurst). Ref: 53179show full image..
Deering, Charles: Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova or an Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham. Gather's from the Remains of Antiquity and Collected from Authentic Manuscripts and Ancient as well as Modern Historians [?]. Nottingham: printed by and for George Ayscough, & Thomas Willington, 1751. 4to., pp.vi, [ii], 13, [i], 370 + 25 plates, 7 of which are folding including the frontispiece. Woodcut initials. Occasional scattered spotting, pp.225-241 foxed, 2 small tears to the margins of pp.101-102, some folding plates trimmed a little close. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with red morocco title label. Slight vertical crackling to spine but sound, joints repaired, a few stains and some wear around the edges, endpaper edges toned, still very good. Armorial bookplate of 'Finborough Library' to front pastedown. Posthumously-published work assembled by the botanist Charles Deering (1695??1749) from the materials collected by John Plumptre for a proposed history of Nottingham. ESTC T145699; Upcott 1057. Ref: 54175show full image..
Dicuil; (Letronne, A[ntoine-Jean], ed.:) Recherches G?ographiques et Critiques sur le Livre de Mensura Orbis Terr Compos? en Irelande, au Commencement du Neuvi?me Si?cle, par Dicuil; Suivies du Texte Restitu? par A. Letronne. Paris: Chez Germain Mathiot, 1814. 8vo., pp. [ii], 249, [i], 94. Text in French and Latin. Toned, light stain radiating from top fore-edge corner through most of text-block but not obscuring text. Later olive green paper, brown cloth gilt label to spine, endpapers replaced, edges sprinkled. Spine a little darkened, end-caps slightly creased, corners bumped with top two starting to fray, top edge dusted. Liber de Mensura Orbis Terrae was originally published by Walckenaer in 1807. This edition is based on two mss. in the Biblioth?que Nationale, Paris, with additional readings obtained from the collation of the Venice and Florence mss. Ref: 47047
Ditchfield, P. H. & Page, William (eds.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Berkshire. Volume One. Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Resea 1972. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Corners lightly bumped, a little shelf-wear, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to ffep. Reprinted from the 1906 first edition published by Archibald Constable and Company. Ref: 54080
Ditchfield, P. H. & Page, William (eds.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Berkshire. Volume Two. Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Resea 1972. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Corners bumped, a little shelf-wear, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to ffep. Reprinted from the 1907 first edition published by Archibald Constable and Company. Ref: 54081
Doane, A. N. & Stoneman, William P.: Purloined Letters: The Twelfth-Century Reception of the Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Hexateuch (British Library, Cotton Claudius B. IV). Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. 8vo., pp. 396. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53406
Doane, A.N. & Wolf, Kirsten (eds.): Beatus Vir: Studies in Early English and Norse Manuscripts in Memory of Phillip Pulsiano. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 8vo., pp. 545. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53395
[Domesday Book] [Farley, Abraham (ed.)]: [Domesday Book, Seu liber censualis Willelmi Primi regis Angli?, inter archivos regni in domo capitulari Westmonasterii asservatus. [London]: [Record Commisioners], [1783.] EDITIO PRINCEPS. 2 vols. Folio. ff. 382; pp. 450. Without titles, as issued. Vol. I, first 4 leaves a little creased, light toning, very faint foxing to some leaves, occasional light smudgy marks; vol. II, occasional tiny spots and smudges but generally brighter inside than vol. I. Contemporary reddish-brown diced russia, neatly rebacked with original spines retained. Spines gilt with green morocco title and volume labels, gilt borders, marbled endpapers. Vol. I spine a bit crackled, ruined, a few small marks, corners worn and repaired; vol. II, head cap split horiztonally with both it and the endband coming loose, a little rubbed, corners repaired but bumped, still very good overall. Recent bookplate of Josceline Grove to ffep verso, each volume. Three booksellers' catalogue descriptions tipped onto ffep verso, vol. I. The significance of Domesday Book was perceived at an early stage by scholars such as Selden, who printed extracts at the end of his edition of Eadmer in 1623. Domesday Book itself was held under lock and key and could only be consulted for a fee, with an additional charge of fourpence for each line transcribed. Without a complete printed edition scholar's regard for Domesday was combined with an ignorance of its general contents, until 1783 when this edition was printed at the behest of a Royal Comission. It was printed in record type, designed for the occasion by J. Nicholls and cut by J. Jackson (former apprentice of William Caslon the elder), and later destroyed in the Westminster fire of 1834. Douglas, in his work English Scholars 1660-1730, expresses the view that Farley's achievement has been 'shamefully neglected', and that 'he produced one of the most accurate and reliable transcripts in the history of English scholarship'. Title-pages to theses volumes were supplied by the Record Commission in 1816, and two subsequent volumes (comprising additions and index) were provided in 1811 and 1816. ESTC 097297; Upcott p.xiii Ref: 54574show full image..
