Titles starting with P from David Spenceley Books

London: The National Trust, 1976 Booklet in full colour pictorial card cover, wire stitched. Size: 215x140mm. 18 pages plus 8 pages of b/w pictures. With a plan of the house Very Good, stitches are still bright.... more information

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London: The National Trust, 1985 Booklet in full colour pictorial card cover, wire stitched. Size: 215x140mm. 32 pages illustrated throughout in b/w. With a plan of the house and bibliography. Very Good, stitches are still bright.... more information

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London: New Holland, reprint 1996 (1994) Hardback with full-colour print laminated to boards with matching jacket, Size: quarto (square format) (287x224mm). 96 pages illustrated throughout in colour. With useful addresses, glossary, books for further reading and index. Very Good near Fine. Heavy book but NO extra postage. ISBN: 1-85368-294-2. Starts with most basic advise and leads you with step by step instructions supported by stunning photographs. ... more information

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London: The Book Society, 1960 Hardback in brown, gilt to spine and front plus black and white to front, top edge tinted, with printed endpapers, issued without jacket. Size: 234x170mm. 144 pages illustrated throughout in b/w but including forty-eight pages of colour. With short bibliography and biographical index. Very Good. Covers periods and individual artists in short but telling comment ably supported by the picture selection. ... more information

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London: Pimlico, first thus 2004 (1973) Trade Paperback in pictorial card cover. Size: octavo (234x154mm). viii,198 pages illustrated throughout in black and white. With notes and index. Not previously read but one corner bumped and edges rubbed in storage. ISBN:1-8441-3083-5. Pioneering study of Victorian art draws parallels with Walter Scott and a widespread taste for historical subject matter.... more information

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Bideford, Devon: The Author, 1976 Trade Paperback in pictorial card cover. Size: quarto (293x220mm). 112 pages illustrated throughout.Perfect Bound. Illustrated from works in private collections. New Book not previously read though with some light bumping from long storage, outer pages yellowing at edges. ISBN: 0855310103. ASSOCIATION COPY: the half-title has a drawing and dedication signed and dated by Lloyd, 13th September 1982. Dedication is to Diane, the drawing is similar to the composition for the 19... more information

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London: Book Club Associates (BCA), 1976 Quarto hardback in mid-Blue with gilt to spine, blue endpapers. There is no jacket. 31 pages of text, 130 plates (31 coloured 99 monochrome) each a full page with notes on the facing page. With a portrait frontispiece a chronology and a short bibliography. Subtitled: oils and watercolours. Very Good but lacks the jacket.... more information

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London: Burton Skira, 1987 Hardback in dark green, gilt to front and spine in full colour jacket. Size: quarto (275x235mm). 432 pages, profusely illustrated in colour and monotone. With notes, bibliography and index. Near Fine in like jacket (probably a new book) ISBN:0333459237. History of the designing and building of the 'New Palace' after the fire of 1834. Very strong on Pugin and Barry, and the political controversy that surrounded their work.... more information

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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995, series Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought, fourth series. Hardback in black, gilt to spine, in two-colour jacket. Octavo. Size: 220x140mm. xxvi,289 pages with bibliography and index. Analyses the practical effect of theories of papal sovereignty and the nature of political opposition, from both crown and parliament. Offers a new interpretation of various statutory measures taken to control alleged abuses of papal power. Handles like a new Book, ce... more information

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Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint), 1997 (1979) An 'Oxford Historical Monographs'. Hardbound in Black with Gold to spine in typographic jacket. xxv,398 pages. With bibliography and index. New Book in Very Good jacket. ISBN 0-19-821836-2. Subtitled: a study in Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Administration. Examines the courts set up by the papacy to hear cases on its behalf. Provides for the first time concrete evidence of the working of these courts.... more information

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London, Spink, 1998 Pamphlet with card cover. size: large octavo (A4) (297x210mm). 24 pages including cover, illustrated throughout in colour. Wire stitched. Subtitled: Calligraphy and the Arts of Islam from the 8th to the 19th century. Sale catalogue of eighteen artefacts some being manuscript books whilst others are ornamental but used as a vehicle for calligraphy and of religious nature. Fine. Unused. ... more information

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New York: Abrams, 1994 Hardback in red cloth, gilt to spine, brown cartridge endpapers, in coloured jacket. Size: 307x228mm. 256 pages illustrated throughout in colour including 195 full page plates. With glossary, bibliography, three lists of names and addresses and index. Handles like a new book in Fine condition in a Very Good jacket. ISBN:0-8109-3730-1. Fourteen essays by world authorities on paper wall hangings their history and development... more information

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Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton for the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1996 Hardback in green, gilt to spine in full colour pictorial jacket. Size: 243x164mm. xxxiii,102 pages with index. Sir Richard Grosvenor, of Eaton Hall, Cheshire was a prominent figure in Cheshire and London society during the Early Stuart period. This is the Societies volume 134. Book as New jacket has a three inch tear on the upper hinge but is now in a clear protective sleeve. ISBN:0-902593-33-1... more information

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London: The Historical Association, reprint 1971 General Series #78 Pamphlet with portrait card cover. Size: octavo (215x140mm). 38 pages plus 4 pages of b/w pictures. With chronology and bibliography. Wire stitched. Good. Contents clean but covers toned and creased.... more information

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London: A & C Black, 1962 Hardback in maroon, white to front, in pictorial jacket. Size: 253x190mm. 48 pages illustrated with drawings and photographs covering the development of parish church. With illustrated glossary. Neat and Tidy copy. As with most copes of this book which retain the jacket the first and last pages are heavily tanned over half their width.... more information

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Malvern, Worcestershire: Folly Publications, revised edition 2001(1990) Booklet with pictorial card cover. Size: 210x150mm. 40 pages illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and plans, stitched two wires. Includes a survey of church history in the area, a gazetteer of churches. With glossary of terms and books for further reading. New Book not previously read. Copies posted next day to customers all over the world. ISBN:1871731534. There are currently available from stock companion titles coveri... more information

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London: SPCK, 1964 Hardback in grey, gilt to spine in pictorial jacket. Size 220x145mm. xvi,240 pages plus 24 pages of photographs and numerous drawings in the text. With bibliography and index. Very Good in Good jacket.... more information

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Oxford: The Past and Present Society, issue 39, April, 1968 A periodical in card cover. Eight papers including 'Diffusion of Cultural patterns in Feudal Society' by George Duby and 'Redistribution of Incomes in Fifteenth-Cemtury England' by Christopher Dyer. Edges of the book block soiled else a nice clean copy.... more information

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Oxford: The Past and Present Society, issue 35, December, 1966 A periodical in card cover. Six papers including 'The Roman Mob' by P A Brunt and 'Chinese Social History from the Seventh to the Tenth Centuries' by Dennis Twitchett. Edges of the book block soiled else a nice clean copy.... more information

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Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1982 Hardback in black, gilt to front and spine, there is NO jacket. Size: 222x144mm. x,322 pages annotated bibliography with subject index. Subtitled: a bibliography of English and American literature based on Greco-Roman mythology. Very Good near Fine. ISBN: 0810815494. The annotations cover 1100 works whilst a further 1200 are cited without comment in the appendix.... more information

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