History

The New Paris Letter Carrier

Sketches from Paris by Balloon Post

Publisher: The Graphic, London, 1870

Original wood-engraved print, 20 x 29 cm, a couple of tiny foxing spots (hardly visible) else in Very Good condition.

£10.00

Lillywhite, Bryant

London Signs

A Reference Book of London Signs from Earliest Times to about the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1972

First edition, hardback, original green cloth gilt, dustwrapper, xx + 696 pages + plates, in Very Good condition.

£40.00

Harper, Charles G.

Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore

A Picturesque History of the Coaching Age

Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London, 1903

First edition, two volumes, hardback, original red cloth gilt, top page-edges gilt, frontispiece + xii + 360 pages, frontispiece + xi + 368 pages, illustrated with full-page plates and numerous illustrations within the text, bindings a little sunned, a couple of short tears to foot of both spines, small mark to spine of Vol II, some cracking to front inner-hinges of both volumes, a little scattered foxing to endpapers, in Good condition.

Herbert, William

Illustrations of the Site and Neighbourhood of the New Post Office, Comprehending Antiquarian Notices of St. Martin’s-le-Grand, and its Liberty, and the Adjoining United Parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes, and St. John, Zachary,

with an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Ancient Mourning Bush Tavern, &c. Aldersgate. and various London taverns, its contemporaries.

Publisher: Smales & Tuck, London, 1830

First edition, original green paper-covered boards, [ii] + 75 pages + 2 plates + double page hand-coloured street plan, one further plan within the text, spine worn with loss of one-inch pieces from top and foot of spine, small white stain to front cover, corners of covers worn with some loss, foxing to the frontispiece and scattered throughout, some spotting to the margins of some pages, some upper page-edges unopened (uncut), in Fair to Good condition.

£250.00

Benford, Mervyn

Milestones

Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd., 2002

First edition, paperback, pictorial card covers, illustrated, 48 pages, some pencil annotations inside back cover else in Very Good condition.

£4.50

Young, Margaret D.

The Parliaments of Scotland

Burgh and Shire Commissioners

Publisher: Scottish Academic Press, Edinbirgh, 1992

Two volume set, hardback, blue cloth gilt, lx + 817 pages, in Very Good condition.

£50.00

Harper, Charles G.

The Manchester and Glasgow Road

Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London, 1907

First edition, two volumes, hardback, original green cloth, frontispiece + xix + 358 pages, frontispiece + xiii + 332 pages, illustrated with full-page plates and numerous illustrations within the text, Vol. 2 a little rubbed to spine and with slight foxing to preliminaries, edges a little dusty, else in Very Good condition.

£48.00

Bertall

The Communists of Paris 1871

Types – Physiognomies – Characters

Publisher: Buckingham & Co., London, 1873

English edition, large hardback, original green cloth gilt, all page-edges gilt, unpaginated, 40 hand-coloured plates, spine and corners rubbed, head and foot of spine scuffed with slight loss, slight crack to front inner-hinge, repaired tear to title-page, some toning and occasional blemishes to margins, in Fair to Good condition.

£50.00

Evans, H.L.

Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury

An Abridged History of the Paper by H.L. Evans, its Editor, 1920-1950, with a description of the mechanical developments during the past century

Publisher: Stamford Mercury, nd (circa 1950)

Oblong format, paperback, illustrated, 12 pages, in Very Good condition.

£12.50

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