British History from David Ford Books

London, J. Rivington R. Baldwin, L. Hawes, 1765 Hardcover book , 222 pages plus tables at rear. Lacking the map of London but with the plan of the Royal exchange. A trade directory of old Londonincluding names of all the streets and squares, churches chapels meeting-houses. Names and places of abode of the most eminent merchants. Rates of the… Read more about this item

London, George Virtue, 1836 Hardcover book . 776 pages with 8 engraved plates and frontis. ' Being a sure and complete guide to every acquirement essential in forming a pleasing companion and respectable Mother. A Very Good copy but with a worn half-leather binding with marbled end-papers. Title and gilt decoration to spine is still bright with crackling or… Read more about this item

London , J.M. Dent and sons, Ltd. 1922 Hardcover book in dustjacket .The Wayfarer's Library edition with coloured frontis portrait of the author, 204 pages. The History of the River. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket with slightly darkened spine. Pictures available.

London, Wilkes & Co, 1902 Hardcover book, First edition, bound in white Vellum with gilt titles and decoration, marbled endpapers. Portrait frontis , 264 pages, rough cut edges A day to day record of events at the Authors 'House' whilst master there. Including new arrivals and depatures, House football cup teams, cricket results , rowing, fives, athletics, racquets… Read more about this item

Machester, Manchester University Press, 1983 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket. 522 pages, The building of the Independent Labour Party by the British working class and their early trade unions. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

London, William Clowes & Sons Limited, 1893 Hardcover book, Probably the first edition. Cream pictorial covers, 21 pages with 7 illustrations on plates and one drawing in the text. An interesting litlle volume telling the history of whitehall Palace. A Very Good copy with light foxing to covers and some tanning to page edges and End papers. Pictures… Read more about this item

Stroud, Alan Sutton, Publishing Ltd, 1993 Hardcover book, first edition thus in dustjacket. 601 pages with illustrations. The travels in Tudor England of John Leland during the 1530's and 1540's. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Pictures available.

Yorkshire, Pen & Sword History, 2018 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket.218 pages with illustrations. ' The greatest villain of the 14th century' A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket

England: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments 1972 Hardcover book with dustjacket, 21.5x27.5cm Volume four , 1972 red cloth with dustjacket. North Dorset, 142 pages with photographs, drawings plans and maps. A near Fine book in a Fine dustjacket. Light spotting to top closed page edges. No inscriptions. Pictures available. Heavy books will require extra postage.

England: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments 1975 Hardcover book with dustjacket, 21.5x27.5cm Volume five , 1972 Grey cloth with dustjacket. North Dorset, 155 pages with photographs, drawings plans and maps. Coloured frontis. A near Fine book in a Fine dustjacket. Light spotting/tanning to top closed page edges. No inscriptions. Pictures available. Heavy books will require… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1969 Facsimile reprint of the 1853 issue of Directory and Gazeteer of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield and the whole of the Clothing Districts of Yorkshire. Hardcover book . Cloth, gilt title, dustjacket. 720p + 132 p of adverts. H: 22cms. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket. Very Lightly foxed page edges; A near… Read more about this item

Liverpool, Brown, Picton and Hornby Libraries, 1965 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket. 475 pages with illustrations. Based on the Liverpool city records up to and including the Civil war. A Very good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Book is Very good, dustjacket has some sellotape strengthening to edges . Pictures available.

London: John Tallis, c.1850 Undated. c1850 from contents (or perhaps 1830s as William 4th is shown but not Victoria). Two volumes, complete. HB. Half- leather bindings: leather spines and corners over dark green boards (near contemporary probably) with gilt titles to spine. All edges gilt. Second title page states ' Dugdale's England and Wales Delineated Edited by… Read more about this item

Oxford, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1946. First edition Four Volumes . Pictorial Domesday of Pre-War Britain. The result of a monumental undertaking in 1940, when the Ministry of Labour commissioned 95 of Britain's foremost artists to go out and paint a record of the changing face of the country before it was too late. … Read more about this item

London, St James's Press, 1933 Hardcover book, first edition, no dustjacket. 853 pages. A who's who of the attendees of Eton School since 1870? Very Good condition , portrait frontis of Henry VI. Other Books available from us concerning Eton. Pictures available. Heavy volume may require extra shipping charges.

Norfolk: Printed for the Author, 1994 Probably a first edition, though the publishing information is ambiguous: it states first printed in 1989, though the wrappers are based on a 1990 map, and the copyright is dated 1994. Paperback: card wrappers. 79pp. With b&w photos in plates, and map. The life of Lucilla Reeve, whose home and farm in the… Read more about this item

Norwich: The Soman-Wherry Press, 1947 First edition. HB. Blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, no dustjacket. 63pp. With 50 line drawings by the author in plates, and a map. With introduction, and a detailed text on each building depicted. A Very Good copy, with sunned and faded spine and odd spots, light foxing to end-papers. Pictures available

Weston Longville, Roy Benton, 1981 Hardcover book, First Edition in Dustjacket. 168 pages with many photographs covering the authors life an village characters around Hevingham in Norfolk. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Very light wear to edges of jacket, still a very nice copy. Pictures available.

Cambridge, Granta Editions, 2007 First edition. Hardcover book with dustjacket. 312 pages with illustrations, many in colour. Complete with the CD of choral and instrumental music which is often missing from this book. The Life and History Of Jesus College described in forty-five essays by numerous authors. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. with cd. Pictures… Read more about this item

London, John Baker, 1968 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. Illustrated with many photographs. Showing how trades, farmers clergy, landowners were held in bondage to the soil. Various letters and notes included inside front cover concerning the Vince family. which features in the book. Sellotape mark to endpaper, otherwise Very Good in a Very Good but worn and… Read more about this item