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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1894. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With Portrait and Twenty-Six Illustrations." Blue cloth with gilt vignette on front cover and gilt titles on spine. Cloth and gilt clean and bright. Frontispiece portrait with tissue-guard. xiv, 480 pp. plus (2) ads. Very mild foxing to endpapers. A tightly bound, beautiful copy of an important work on Uganda becoming an English Protectorate.

London: John Murray, 1881. Second Edition . Leather and Cloth. Very Good -/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Volume I only of a two volume set. Biography of Lord Campbell, High Chancellor of Great Britain. Edited, with a preface, by his daughter, Mrs. Hardcastle. 528 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Lord Campbell. A beautifully bound book with five hubbed spines, gilt titles and designs, with marbled endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name and date of Dec. 1881 on title page. Wear to head of spine as well as board edges and corners. There is also wear on the front and rear board. Despite the flaws, the book remains a very handsome, firmly bound, addition to one's library shelf.

London: The Folio Society, 2005. Cloth. Fine/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Autobiography/memoirs of the Admiral Lord Cochrane (1775-1860), naval hero of the United Kingdom. Introduction by Brian Vale. 311 pages with more than 30 illustrations, many in color. 5 pages of maps. Color frontispiece of the Admiral. No names or marks. A beautiful book housed in a fine, pictorial slipcase.

Barry, South Glamorgan, Wales: Stewart Williams, Publishers, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A wonderful collection of historical photographs of Bridgend, Wales with a foreword and commentaries by D. Glyn Williams. Williams has SIGNED a warm inscription to a daughter and her husband from their mother who knew the author. The woman has written a brief gift inscription on the inside front cover, and laid in is a letter from the mother to the couple on the anniversary. Light fading to rubbed dust jacket spine. Unpaginated, but about 120 pages. A nice signed copy with original UK price on the dust jacket flap.