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WHEN LONDON BURNED
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by J. Finnemore.
Stock no. 1312972
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1895. Very good condition.

Blue and gilt pictorial cloth. Grey endpapers. 12 b/w plates. 388 pages plus 32 page booklist. A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire. Spine and corners bumped and covers edge rubbed. Some light scuff marks to rear cover. Foxing to prelims and catalogue pages. Some hinges pulled but binding still tight.

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CAPITAL STEAM
Written by Hugh Ramsey.
Stock no. 1710519
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red boards, silver title to spine. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 0860934128. Reprint in same year as first.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE VOLUME XVI 1841
Written by Sylvanus Urban.
Stock no. 1710405
Published by William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols And Son. 1841. Very good condition.

Library Binding. July to December 1841. iv 700 pages, b/w illustrations. Includes: The Broadway Chapel, Westminster; Fire at Astley's Theatre; Timber Houses; Loss of life when a boat being launched at Rotherham overturned with 150 people on board; Landslip at Sidmouth; new Lighthouse on the Godwin sands; Restoration of Chepstow Church; Trial of the performance of propeller driven versus paddle driven steamer; proposed new suspension bridge from Hungerford market to Lambeth; notes on Ross's expedition to the South pole with ships Erebus and Terror (note later lost in the search for the North west passage); Abbatial Grange near Yeovil; Triangular Lodge at Rushton, Northamptonshire; Population Britain 26,856,028; Huge fire at South Molton in Devon destroyed 107 houses; Derby town hall destroyed by fire; fire in the Tower of London; Prices of Hay, Straw, Coal, Candles, Corn, Hops etc; numerous other historical events, obituaries, births, marriages and deaths; Index to names at rear. Ex-library (reference) with minimal stamps and new endpapers.

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A DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS WHO HAVE EXHIBITED WORKS IN THE PRINCIPAL LONDON EXHIBITIONS FROM 1760 TO 1893
Written by Algernon Graves.
Stock no. 1808495
Published by Kingsmead Reprints. 1973. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A facsimile of the 1901 3rd edition. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 314 pages. Price-cut wrapper is unevenly faded and edge-worn.

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A DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS WHO HAVE EXHIBITED WORKS IN THE PRINCIPAL LONDON EXHIBITIONS FROM 1760 TO 1893
Written by Algernon Graves.
Stock no. 1808489
Published by Kingsmead Reprints. 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A facsimile of the 1901 3rd edition. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 314 pages. Top corner bumped and subsequently the contents have a slight corner crease to top corners. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean. Wrapper is a little edge-worn.

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THE PARISH OF BEDDINGTON IN THE YEAR 1837
Written by Ronald Michell.
Stock no. 1605575
Published by Beddington, Carshalton & Wallington Archaeological Society. 1991. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Revised edition. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0950148156. SIGNED by author (with dedication) on title page.

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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ROMAN LONDON VOLUME 1: THE UPPER WALBROOK VALLEY IN THE ROMAN PERIOD
Written by Catharine Maloney. Illustrated by Hester White.
Stock no. 1807918
Published by Museum Of London And The Council For British Archaeology. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition.

CBA Research Report 69. Large format. Cardwraps. Fold-out diagrams. ISBN: 0906780527. Covers lightly browned. Contents fine.

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WHEN LONDON BURNED
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by J. Finnemore.
Stock no. 1108435
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1895. Good condition.

Blue and gilt pictorial cloth. Grey endpapers. 12 b/w plates. 388 pages plus 32 page booklist. A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire. Covers are scuffed and unevenly browned. 2 plates are detached. Binding is a bit weak in places. Some foxing. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis.

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ANALYTICAL INDEXES TO VOLUMES II AND VIII OF THE SERIES OF RECORDS KNOWN AS THE REMEMBRANCIA
No author listed.
Stock no. 1604126
Published by The Corporation Of London. 1878. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine reads 'Remembrancia Index Vols II & VIII'. Ex-Library. Corners bumped, splitting at top and tail of spine with a little loss. Corporation of London plate to front pastedown. Scattered annotations and margin marks, mainly in pencil. Library number to spine.

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THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF HIGHGATE, MIDDLESEX
Written by Frederick Prickett.
Stock no. 1604098
Published by Frederick Prickett. 1st 1842. Poor condition.

Brown cloth boards, gilt titles. 174 pages including Index. Folding plans and maps. Corners bumped. and worn. Spine is split and chipped with loss to top and tail. Front joint is broken with bindings exposed. First section of book weak with a couple of pages detached. First folding plan is creased and torn, repaired with brown tape to verso. Some pages reinserted with tape. Scattered foxing. Folding map at rear is torn and repaired to verso with brown sticky paper.

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EAST BARNET
Written by Frederick Charles Cass.
Stock no. 1206938
Published by Nichols And Sons. 1st 1885. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. 280 pages. Folding genealogy tables. A very small amount of pencil annotation to contents.

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DRAWINGS OF WESTMINSTER
Written by Peter Jackson. Illustrated by George Scharf.
Stock no. 1707447
Published by London Topographical Society. 1st 1994. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Publication no. 147. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0902087347. Wrapper very slightly grubby.

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