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Published by Hutchinson, London, 1985, 1st edition. Grey cloth boards, silver lettering to spine under wraparound pictorial dustwrapper. Square format, 9.75ins x 9ins, 160pp with colour illustrations on nearly every page. The illustrations are by Bruce Pearson. VG / VG.

Published by Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1965, 1st edition. Olive green cloth boards, gilt lettering on black patch to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 8.75ins x 5.75ins, viii, 304pp plus 24pp illustrations. Appendices include a list of members, list of chairmen and a select bibliography.Covers the history and activities of the London County Council from 1939 to 1964. VG / VG.

Published by Paragon, Bath, 2010, reprint. Pictorial boards under identically illustrated dustwrapper. 11ins x 8.75ins, illustrated endpapers, 96pp. Many illustrations. VG / VG

Published by Wrens Park, 1998, reprint of the 2nd edition. Pictorial laminated boards under identically illustrated dustwrapper. 9.5ins x 6.25ins, x, 325pp. VG / VG.

Published by Fourth Estate, London, 1997, 1st edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 9.5ins x 6.25ins, endpapers as maps, xvii, (i), 494pp plus 16pp plates. VG / VG.

Published by The Connoisseur, London, 1911, 1st edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering and 3 black silhouettes to front cover, no dustwrapper. 11.25ins x 8.75ins, marbled endpapers, [viii], 121pp, 4pp index, 1pp advert plus frontis and 8pp plates within text, 72pp of illustrations between the text and the index. Text includes a list of silhouttists and a bibliography. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown. Front free endpaper and rear free endpaper both browned. Cloth of spine stained. Small indentation to top of rear board. Contents VG but boards only G.

Privately published, 1976, 1st edition. Thin red card covers, stapled and bound to the edge with black tape. Silver lettering to front cover. 11.5ins x 8ins, 119pp. Illustrations of the silver within the text. Title page foxed otherwise VG.

Published by Methuen & Co, London, 1938, 1st edition. Red cloth boards, black lettering to spine, black silhouette within oval frame to front cover, under illustrated dustwrapper. 11.25ins x 9ins, xix, (i), 154pp plus 10pp colour illustrations mounted on black paper and 93pp monotone plates. Text includes a comprehensive dictionary of artists. The colour plates are protected by tissue guards - some of which are creased. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown. The dw (now protected) is chipped to top & bottom of spine, has several short tears and an area of loss to the bottom of the front cover. VG / P.

Published by Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1989, 1st edition. Black cloth boards, silver lettering to spine under illustrated, priceclipped dustwrapper. 10.25ins x 7.25ins, xiv, 304pp. 160 illustrations within the text. Dw rubbed to top of spine else VG / VG.

Published by H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd, London, 1975. One of only 45 specially bound copies signed by the author. The binding is by Sancorski & Sutcliffe. Quarter blue leather with brown cloth boards.Two raised bands to spine, gilt lettering to spine. Teg. 10ins x 7.75ins, marbled endpapers,133pp plus 14 colour plates.Artists featured include Edward Lear, John Gould, Joseph Smit, Frederick Frohawk, Archibald Thorburn, George Lodge, etc. Internally VG. Externally, spine just fractionally lighter than leather to sides but still a lovely copy of a scarce book.

Published by Methuen & Co, London, 1926, 1st edition. Brown cloth boards, white lettering to spine under plain cream dustwrapper with black lettering. 8.75ins x 5.75ins, xxiv, 232pp plus frontis portrait, a folding map and a folding pedigree. Preface by General Sir Reginald Wingate. ""Chief among the Dervish leaders whom Kitchener routed at the Battle of Omdurman, was Osman Digna, who, at the head of his famous Fuzzy-Wuzzies, defied for fifteen years some of the finest troops from Great Britain, India and Australia."" Foxing to page edges. Dw chipped with loss to top & base of spine. Tears to edge of spine. VG / P to G.

Published by Phoenix Illustrated, London(in association with the National Trust), 1998, reprint. Paperback. Illustrated, laminated card covers with fold over flaps. 10ins x 10.25ins, 240pp. Illustrated in colour throughout. Examines various approaches to the architecture of the country house, with chapters on The Approach, Halls, Staircases, Great Chambers and Saloons, Long Galleries, Dining Rooms, Withdrawing Rooms, Bedchambers, Dressing Rooms, Libraries and Chapels. VG.

Published by Black Horse Books, Salisbury for W.H.Smith, 2001, 1st edition. Paperback. Illustrated card covers. 9.25ins x 6.25ins, 64pp. Illustrated throughout. VG.

Published by Phillimore & Co, Chichester, 2002, 1st edition. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 10ins x 7.5ins, endpapers as maps, ix, (i), 134pp. Illustrated throughout with old photographs. VG / VG.

Published by Saint Michael's Abbey Press, Farnborough, 1984, limited edition of 500 specially hand-bound copies. This no 397. Maroon rexine boards, gilt lettering to front cover. Also sticker reading ""Bound by hand at St Michaels' Abbey Press"", no dustwrapper. Oblong format, 8.5ins x 12ins, [ii], 41pp. A collection of old photographs of Clacton each with short text captions. VG.

Published by Phillimore & Co Ltd, Chichester, 1993, 1st edition. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 10ins x 7.5ins, endpapers as maps, unpaginated. Comprises half title, title, list of illustrations (2pp), acknowledgements, introduction(10pp) followed by 180 old photographs (mostly 2 to a page) and a bibliography. Dw chipped to top of spine. VG / G+ nr VG.

Published by Phillimore & Co, Chichester, 2002, 1st edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 10ins x 7.5ins, endpapers as maps, ix, (i), 134pp. Illustrated throughout with old photographs. VG / VG.

Published by Hastings House, New York, 1961, 1st edition. Grey cloth boards, blue lettering to spine, grey lettering out of blue background to front cover under gilt coloured dustwrapper. 8.5ins x 5.75ins, xii, 308pp. Dw has an old tape repair to base of spine and is generally rubbed to the corners and edges. VG / G+.

Published by Paul Cave Publications, southampton, 1991, 1st edition. Paperback. Illustrated card covers. 9.5ins x 7.25ins, 120pp. Illustrations within the text. VG.

Published by The London Record Society, London, 2004, 1st editions. Volume 39 in the societies publications. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, no dustwrappers. 10ins x 6ins. Volume one: xxxvii, (i), 275pp. Volume two: pps 276 to 522. VG nr F.