Titles starting with Q from David Spenceley Books

London Fauconberg Press, 1966 Hardback in maroon, black (label) and gilt to spine, with printed endpapers, in two colour jacket. Size: 217x135mm. 120 pages illustrated in black line. Being volume 1 of Lupton's continuing work: a history of the Geneva Bible. Deals with the English Protestant exiles in Europe and at Glastonbury. With notes a on many other vernacular Bibles produced at this time. Book is clean and bright but for a cup-ring on the front board. Jacket is whole but bumped with many small tea... more information

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Truro, Cornwall: Dyllansow Truran, first thus 1986 Paperback in pictorial card cover. Size: 195x125mm. 132 pages with line drawings of the four cats. New Book. Not previously read. ISBN: 1-85022-134-0. World class historian on the cats at his home in Cornwall. ... more information

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London: Robert Hale, 1985 Hardback in brown, silver to spine, in pictorial jacket. Size octavo (222x140mm). 206 pages. Name and address on front endpaper else Very Good jacket is price cliped else also Very Good. ISBN: 0-7090-2119-4. A tale of Edward the Third and his consort Philippa of Hainault... more information

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London: Folio Society, 1978 Hardback in brown, decorative gilt to front & spine, top edge tinted, with printed endpapers, in amber slipcase. Size: octavo (230x150mm). 362 pages plus frontispiece and 11pages of b/w pictures, mainly portraits. Fine in Very Good slipcase. Nightingale writing in the first quarte of thenineteenth-century reflects the then feelings of the country towards the German Queen wife of King George iv.... more information

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London: Robert Hale, first, 1979 Hardback in maroon with gilt to spine in full colour pictorial jacket. Sixth volume in the Plantagenet Saga. Very Good in Good jacket sunned to spine. ISBN:0-7091-6605-2.... more information

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London: Collins and Harvil Press, 1980 Hardback in blue, gilt to front and spine, with printed endpapers, in full colour pictorial jacket. Size: 245x175mm. 190 pages plus 8 pages of colour and 48 pages of b/w pictures. Subtitled: the Story of an African Leopard. Good ISBN: 0002626403.... more information

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London: Robert Hale, first 1984 Hardback in maroon with gilt to spine in full colour pictorial jacket. Second volume in the Queens of England series. The Story of Elizabeth I. Becoming rare in the first edition. The jacket is price clipped and there is a book plate inside the front cover. Else the book is near Fine in a Very Good jacket. ISBN:0-7090-1736-7. ... more information

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London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1973 Pride of Britain series Booklet with pictorial card cover. Wire stitched. Size: small quarto (228x177mm). 24 pages plus cover, text illustrated throughout much of it in colour. Very Good apart from heavy scratching of back cover. She suffered overwhelming shyness yet created a pattern for royal dignity.... more information

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London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1974 Pride of Britain series Booklet with pictorial card cover. Wire stitched. Size: small quarto (228x177mm). 24 pages plus cover, text illustrated throughout much of it in colour. Very Good. ISBN: 0-85372-172-6. She suffered overwhelming shyness yet created a pattern for royal dignity.... more information

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London: Harper Collins, 2001 Hardback in maroon, gilt to spine, with printed endpapers, in full colour portrait jacket. xviii,394 pages with 16 b/w and 8 col plates plus thirteen illustrations in the text. With a map and chronology, notes on the sources, bibliography and index. Dr John Dee was the pre-eminent scientist of the Elizabethan era and a precursor of Newton. Very Good near Fine in a Very Good jacket. Probably a new book but with some slight bumping from storage. ISBN:0002571390... more information

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London: Weidendfeld & Nicolson / British Broadcasting Corporation, 1977 Hardback in red, gilt to front and spine, with printed endpapers in pictorial jacket. Size: Very Large octavo (295x225mm). 240 pages illustrated throughout including colour. With notes and index. Very Good in Very Good jacket. ISBN: 0-297-77267-8. The royal picture collection, since the Tudors.... more information

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London: Chancellor Press, reprint 1984 (1977) Hardback in brown, gilt to front and spine, with printed endpapers in pictorial jacket. Size: very large octavo (295x225mm). 240 pages illustrated throughout including colour. With notes and index. Very Good in Good jacket. Jacket and edges of boards unevenly sunned. ISBN:0-907486-48-7. The royal picture collection, since the Tudors.... more information

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Jonathan Cape, London, 1994 Hardback in purple ochre, gilt to spine with dark green endpapers, in three colour portrait jacket. Page size: 232x155 mm. [xii],276 pages illustrated. With five genealogies, notes on sources, bibliography and index. Byrom was at one time in London Society where he had a monopoly for the teaching of shorthand, during this phase he had an affair with Queen Caroline. In later life he retired to live in Salford, now part of Greater Manchester, he was at all times a secret Jacobite. ... more information

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books / Pelican A365, first 1956 Mass Market Paperback in pictorial card cover. Size: 180x110mm. 290 pages. Very Good Copy... more information

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Michael Joseph, London, first 1996 Hardback in purple, gilt to spine in full colour pictorial jacket. The first medieval who-dunitSee by the author of "When Christ and His Saints slept" Very Good in Very Good jacket. ISBN: 071813981X.... more information

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London: Orion Books 2003 (2002) Mass Market Paperback in pictorial card cover. 403 pages. Previously read so Used but acceptable. ISBN: 0-75284-952-2. A splendid read with a stunning feel-good ending.... more information

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Book Club Associates, London, 1985 reprint (1972) a co production with Weidenfeld & Nicolson Hardback in purple with gilt to front and spine, printed pictorial endpapers, in full colour pictorial jacket. Large octavo 224 pages illustrated throughout including colour, with short bibliography. Very Good, near Fine, in bumped but Very Good jacket. This series is particularly to be welcomed for its illustrations, the larger than average page size shows these to advantage.... more information

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London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1967, Pride of Britain series Booklet with pictorial card cover. Wire stitched. Size: 228x178mm. 24 pages plus cover, illustrated throughout. Very Good.... more information

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Cape, London, reprint 1958 (1938) in the 'Bedford Historical' series Hardback in mid-brown gilt to front and spine, top edge tinted, there is NO jacket. 402 pages illustrated and with index. In its day the standard life. A Very Good reading copy. Internally clean and bright.... more information

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Cape, London, reprint 1958 (1938) in the 'Bedford Historical' series, Hardback in mid-brown gilt to front and spine, top edge tinted, in three colour typographic jacket. Size: 224x150mm. 402 pages illustrated and with index. In its day the standard life and even now a sound basis for further study by the non professional. A Very Good copy. Some corner bumped but clean and bright internally and the jacket is Very Good.... more information

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