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2 vols., 48vo, ff. [287; 343]. Contemporary dark green paste grain morocco, boards bordered with a double-blind rule, spines divided by blind rules and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, housed in the original black morocco vertical slipcase with tabbed lid. A plain but attractively bound pair of miniature devotional volumes.
Fore-Edge Painting
Vol I. Basingwerk Monastery.
Ranulf de Gernon was earl of Chester from 1129-1153. He offered Basingwerk to monks of the Norman abbey of Savigny, which enjoyed a briefly fashionable status in Norman Britain. The first monks from Savigny probably lived within the protective confines of a nearby Norman fortress known as Hen Blas.
The Savigniac order merged with the Cistercian order in 1147 and then a decade later the abbey was granted to Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire. In that same year, Henry II effectively re-founded the abbey, around the time the monks moved from Hen Blas to Basingwerk, at what is now called Greenfield.
Vol II. Conway Castle.
The site was occupied… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press, 1951. first Facimilie. full Morocco. THE FORSYTE SAGAJohn GalsworthyFORE-EDGE PAINTINGPublished by William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press 1951This is the 1951 reprint from 1922 including folding family tree chart as frontice.1042pp not illustrated as per the original 1922 edition. Bound in full red straight grain Morocco for Henry Sotherans, Ltd. With tipped in signature of John Galsworthy dated March 11 1916.Fore-Edge painting is the view of Richmond Bridge, London. Beautifully painted showing the bridge and its quaint surroundings.The Forsyte Saga was first published in its entirety in 1922; the illustrated single volume edition with Anthony Gross's highly acclaimed drawings was first published in 1950. The Forsyte Saga earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, and his tales of the vicissitudes of a large upper-middle-class English family have been adapted under various guises for film and television, including the 1949 Hollywood film… Read More

FIRST PRINTED ACCOUNT OF BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR AND NEWS OF NELSON'SDEATH – TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE NEWS REACHES LONDON2 Broad Sides, manuscript letter from Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli and Engraved printedInvitation to the Funeral Procession of Nelson.All housed in a custom ½ blue morocco clamshell box lined with white moiré silk and piecesloosely framed in an archival matting for presentation and protection.GIBRALTAR CHRONICLE EXTRAORDINARY. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1805. Broadside,30.5 x 21cm, printed in two columns, English and French.Prints Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood's letter to Henry Fox, acting Governor of Gibraltar,headed Euryalus, at Sea, October 22, 1805, beginning, Sir, Yesterday a Battle was fought byHis Majesty's Fleet, with the Combined Fleets of Spain and France, and a Victory gained.Collingwood concludes the letter with, Our loss has been great in Men; but, what is irreparable,and the cause of Universal Lamentation, is the Death of the NOBLE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, whodied in the… Read More

FORGING HISTORY: THE DETECTION OF FAKE LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS. Kenneth W. Rendell. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Hardcover. Still in original plastic unopened as new. First Edition. Beige cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine; dust jacket; pp. [6], vi, 171, [2], illustrated throughout. A fine copy of this classic resource. Includes a bibliography and index.