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LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST: THE EXCEPTIONAL LIFE OF A FEMALE INDUSTRIALIST
Written by Victoria Owens.
Stock no. 1828606
Published by Pen & Sword. 1st 2020. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When impoverished artistocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Charlotte championed Welsh culture and translated the Mabinogion into English. She also taught herself John's business from the inside. When John died in 1852, she replaced him as head of the ironworks. This book traces the ardent, creative years of her first marriage, explores her determination - widowed - to preserve John's legacy, and observes her growing devotion to the scholarly Charles Schreiber, her sons' tutor. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. x and 214 pages including index. ISBN: 9781526768810. Lower corners of boards bumped else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at bumped corners.

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JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY PAINTER OF LIGHT (TWO VOLUMES)
Written by Benedict Nicolson. Illustrated by Joseph Wright.
Stock no. 1328446
Published by The Paul Mellon Foundation For British Art. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large heavy volumes. Green cloth with gilt titles. Volume one contains text and catalogue, volume two contains tipped-in colour plates plus b/w photos of illustrations. ISBN: 0710062842. Bumping to spines and corners. Some slight discolouration to cover edges. Contents clean. Dustwrappers are edge worn with small tears and white rear panels are grubby.

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THE COMPLETE DIARY OF A COTSWOLD LADY VOLUME ONE THE LADY OF RODBOROUGH
Written by Agnes Witts.
Stock no. 1328429
Published by Amberley. 1st 2008. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Introduction and diaries covering the period 1788-1793. Colour and b/w illustrations. Red boards, gilt titles. ISBN: 9781848680104. Spine and corners bumped. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed/creased.

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THE WORLD OF CHARLES RICKETTS
Written by Joseph Darracott. Illustrated by Charles Ricketts.
Stock no. 1328428
Published by Eyre Methuen. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth, gilt title to spine. 200 pages. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0413396800. Pale yellow mark to front pastedown. Pale browning to endpapers. Dustwrapper is price-cut and a tiny bit rubbed at lower edge of front panel.

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HARRY BAUGHAN: A LIFE OF MOTOR CYCLING
Written by Kenneth J. Chandler.
Stock no. 1328422
Published by Walls Quarry Press. 1st 2010. Very good condition.

Greater insight of a tiny company that consisted of just one man at its outset, Harry Baughan. Cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 9780956253309. SIGNED by the author to title-page with dedication to Nick(?). Slight rubbing to cover edges.

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A LOOK AT CECIL ALDIN'S DOGS AND HOUNDS
Written by Rupert Collens. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1328398
Published by The Lambourn Press. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. A visual journey through Aldin's career. Colour & b/w illustrations. Oblong format. Brown boards with gilt titles. ISBN: 1872708005. Spine bumped at top. Some erased pencil writing and other light marks to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge creased and faded, small brown mark to front panel.

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MARY CASSATT: AN AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST
Written by Gerhard Gruitrooy. Illustrated by Mary Cassatt.
Stock no. 1828534
Published by Todtri. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

American Impressionist Mary Cassatt fulfilled a childhood determination to become a great artist, and her colourful paintings and prints rank with the works of Degas, Monet, and Renoir. This volume explores Cassatt's life and art, with an exquisite portfolio of 70 full-colour illustrations. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. 78 numbered pages. ISBN: 1880908670. Pale page edge browning else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and rubbed at top of spine, a few minor marks.

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ELIZABETH SIDDAL: PRE-RAPAHELITE ARTIST 1829-1862
Written by Jan Marsh. Illustrated by Elizabeth Siddal.
Stock no. 1828531
Published by Ruskin Gallery Collection Of The Guild Of St George In Assoc With Lund Humphries. 2nd 1994. Very good condition.

Second Edition. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal is best known as Pre-Raphaelite Muse, discovered by the Brotherhood in a milliner's shop, who posed for many of their most famous paintings and became the beloved model and wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Originally published to go alongside the exhibition of her work at the Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield. Square format. Blue cardwraps. B/w and a few colour photos. 82 pages ISBN: 0863211356. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Text block slightly grubby. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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REPORTAGE (5 VOLUMES)
Written by George Orwell.
Stock no. 1828515
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Very good condition.

Five volumes: Homage To Catalonia; Down And Out In Paris And London; Funny But Not Vulgar; The Road To Wigan Pier; My Country Right Or Left. B/w photographic pictorial cloth. B/w photos. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is split at head and base width-ways but still holding.

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TOWNSHEND OF KUT: A BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES TOWNSHEND
Written by A.J. Barker.
Stock no. 1828493
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. Lower edge of b oards lightly rubbed. Light vertical crease to spine. Foxing to text block. Includes a relevant newspaper cutting. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is faded and grubby, edge-rubbed.

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CHARLES KINGSLEY: HIS LETTERS AND MEMORIES OF HIS LIFE
Written by F.E. Kingsley; Charles Kingsley.
Stock no. 1828489
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.. 1st thus 1883. Slightly better than very good condition.

Cheaper Edition. Edited by his wife. Full leather binding, 5 raised bands to spine, gilt title and vignettes to spine. Marbled endpapers and text block. B/w portrait as frontis. 364 pages including index. Minor rubbing to lower edge of rear board. Contemporary gift inscription dated December 20 1883 to fly leaf. Very few age related marks. Overall a lovely copy.

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THE WORLD OF BERYL COOK
Written by Jess Wilder; Jerome Sans. Illustrated by Beryl Cook.
Stock no. 1328241
Published by Baltic. 1st 2007. Very good condition.

A unique survey of Cook's forty year career and the origins of her inspiration. Also, a specially commissioned interview with Beryl, who just celebrated her 80th birthday. Cardwraps. 159 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9783791339207. Corners bumped and some slight bumping to cover edges. Contents fine.

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