English History from

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. A very Good+ unmarked copy. First American Edition, First Printing. A rectangular format book of 240 pages. Illustrated throughout with historic photographs Old photographs painstakingly reproduced in duotone. Memorabilia - the nostalgic and affecting artifacts of another time. Lush paintings of a romantic landscape. And the words and memories of more… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. Silver title and vignette of Victorian gentleman and woman on dark blue boards which have minor marks. Internallythere is age toning to endpapers and closed edges. 322 pages. Victorian and Edwardian charicatures of the famous by R. S. Sherrifs as endpapers. Illustrated throughout by R.S. Sherriffs. Starts with the Great Exhibition and proceeds to cover… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 2003. A near Fine unmarked copy which has light bumping to corner tips with dustjacket which is price clipped. lii + 476 pages. 36 main illustrations and 55 illustrations in the text. Coloured pictorial endpapers. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943. Gold title on green boards which have age toning to spine and light bumping to lower corner tips but no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked a Very Good+ copy. xi + 801 pages. 8 plates. 31 text figures. A seminal work by the distinguished medievalist which was first… Read more about this item

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965. A near Fine unmarked copy with Very Good dustjacket which is price clipped. 220 pages. Family tree of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York endpapers. An anthology of historical events in Tudor and Stuart timesdescribed by men and women who were eye witnesses of those events. 87 accounts in all of great variety with a… Read more about this item

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1982. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 220 pages. 33 illustrations. 'I shall not be sorry when you come to keep the boys in order, for they have neither the respect of children, nor the good breeding of gentlemen, particularly Johnny, who talks of bad French novels… Read more about this item

London: Third Millennium A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 208 pages on glossy paper prolifically illustrated throughout. The book has been supported by the generosity of the Governing Body and numerous subscribers, particularly former pupils. The book presents a personal overview of the School's history through the eyes of former… Read more about this item

London: James and James, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy (apart from a small inscription written on the small erratum slip) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 172 pages on glossy paper with 14 colour plates. The founder of Charterhouse was a successful entrepreneur who had flourished in the open and competitive society of Tudor England. Such robustness… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Lomond Books, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy. 384 pages. Illustrations in the text. A thousand years ago Scotland was one of the first medieval European kingdoms. This immensely readable history charts the long, painful, sometimes tragic, often inspiring process that has formed Scotland today. A special and unique feature of the book are the 'windows' in the text which… Read more about this item

Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore, 1995. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. Telford may be a new town, but it also contains a World Heritage Site. The book tells the story, in words and pictures, of the many towns and villages that were included in the newly created Telford, most of them of great antiquity,… Read more about this item

Leicester: Leicester Mercury, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy. 144 pages. The book is a pictorial walk through the streets and changing scenes of the county, evoking fond reminiscences of the past. Taken from the archives of the Leicester Mercury, the photographs contained in the book provide reminders of landmarks long since demolished, of streets familiar even today and moments in… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2015. A New unread copy in new dustjacket. xxvi + 341 pages. 13 illustrations. First Edition, First Printing. One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Somehow, he managed to escape with the crown and regalia before being… Read more about this item

Bath: Adams and Dart, 1971. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 195 pages. 61 illustrations. When Samuel Pepys visited Bath in 1668 the city consisted of no more than 250 houses with a population of less than 1200, and was renowned as much for its innumerable and importunate beggars… Read more about this item

London: Croom Helm, 1985. A near Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. There is a D marked to rear pastedown, signifying 'damaged' but the only damage which can be detected is an imperfection to the front pastedown. 270 pages. The author is one of the foremost Scottish historians to have emerged since the Second World War. In this book… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1961. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has a decorative bookplate to front pastedown and a little light foxing to closed edges with Very Good+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 192 pages. 11 illustrations. First published as 'The England of Charles II' in 1934 and revised by the author in 1960. An indispensable companion to… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy. 80 pages. Illustrated throughout. Black and British is the moving account of the history of the Afro-Caribbean community in the United Kingdom. It describes the struggle for freedom and dignity, both in the Caribbean and in Britain; it looks at the achievements of individuals, past and present; and it looks… Read more about this item

London: Queen Anne Press, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 335 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. The Royal Warrant Holders number over 850 companies who are allowed to display the Royal Arms with the words 'By Appointment'. Since 1840 they have had an active association and this wonderfully illustrated volume celebrates their… Read more about this item

Wiltshire: Select Editions, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy. 96 pages of period photographs from the Hulton Picture company, Europe's largest photographic archive. Features: London People; The Heart of the Empire; Shopping; Markets; Streets; Transport; The Thames. 50. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions with Fine dustjacket whic is price clipped. x + 209 pages. Genealogical chart. In this pioneering study of the Verney family, Professor Slater shows how a family of country gentry lived and behaved in a time of political and social crisis. Most of their… Read more about this item

Buckingham: Barracuda, 1991. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with dedication half title page. A Fine unmarked copy. 144 pages. Photograph illustrations throughout. A chilling roll of dreadful deeds brings together the Frimley youth bludgeoned to death at Bracknell Fair, the Cookham farmer shot on his way back from market, the decapitated Wantage landlady, the Reading basketmaker who put… Read more about this item