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FROM AN ACORN, THE TREE
Written by Harry Lewis.
Stock no. 1608341
c. 1949. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Bound with cord through spine. 44 pages. B/w photos. A history of the Wandsworth Gas Company. Special supplement to The Wandgas Magazine. Covers a little scuffed and darkened. Cover edges creased. Grubby mark to page 37.

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NORTHOWRAM ITS HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES
Written by Mark Pearson.
Stock no. 2121945
Published by F. King & Sons. 1898. Almost very good condition.

With a Life of Oliver Heywood and Histories of Heywood Chapel, Coley Church, Bell School, Old Halls, Residences and Families of Northowram and Shibden Dale. Large format. Dark green leather covers, gilt titles. Folding map. Scuffing and wear, with chipping to leather covers. Some foxing. Black in splash marks to outer page edges, which also bleed through to some page margins. Small edge-tear to fold-out map.

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THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE PARISH OF KIRKBURON AND OF THE GRAVESHIP OF HOLME
Written by Henry James Morehouse.
Stock no. 2121942
1st 1861. Almost very good condition.

In the County of York. With Numerous Illustrations. Large format. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Foxing/spotting to covers. Bumping along cover edges and to corners. A few marks to covers. Lengthy inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins.

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YORKSHIRE PAST AND PRESENT (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Thomas Baines; Edward Baines.
Stock no. 2121939
Published by William Mackenzie. Very good condition.

A History and Description of the Three Ridings of the Great County of York, From the Earliest Ages to the Year 1870; With an Account of its Manufactures, Commerce and Civil and Mechanical Engineering by Thomas Baines, Including an Account of the Woollen Trade of Yorkshire by Edward Baines. 2 volumes complete. Large format. Leather spine and corners. Some fading and wear to leather on spine and corners. Wear and a little chipping also along edges, with fading. Some foxing and margin marks.

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SKELTON'S ETCHINGS OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF BRISTOL
Written by J. Skelton. Illustrated by Hugh O'Neill.
Stock no. 2121875
Published by J. Skelton. Circa 1825. Almost very good condition.

Very large format. Contemporary binding; Leather spine has raised bands and gilt title. Green covers. 56 b/w plates. Book has been rebound with leather spine, which has some fading and scuffing; wear to top and tail. Green covers, which have a few marks; top corner of front cover is bumped. New endpapers, which now have some browning/foxing. Original pages internally have foxing and some damp marking; chipping to edges of some pages.

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THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON VOLUME III
Written by James Boswell; Napier.
Stock no. 2121688
Published by George Bell & Sons. 1892. Very good condition.

Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Edited by Alexander Napier. Maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Some foxing and page browning. Volume III ONLY!

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CARDIFF YESTERDAY No. 12
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1608148
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1985. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807652. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge creased.

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AMWELL AND STANSTEAD'S PAST IN PICTURES
Written by Stephen Doree; David Perman.
Stock no. 1208602
Published by The Rockingham Press. 1st 1997. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The story in pictures of four fascinating Hertfordshire parishes: Great Amwell, Little Amwell, Stanstead Abbotts and Stanstead St. Margarets. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 184 pages includes index. ISBN: 1873468571.

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GLAMORGAN HISTORIAN VOLUME ELEVEN
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 2121268
Published by Stewart Williams. Circa 1976. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807210. Page edge browning. Wrapper is price-cut with faded spine; edge-creased.

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GLAMORGAN HISTORIAN VOLUME FOUR
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 2121267
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1967. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt. Numerous photographs, paintings, drawings, engravings and maps. 252pp includes index. 8.5 x 5.75". Spotting/mottling to covers. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with faded spine; edge-creased with a few nicks and chips.

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WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: THE FIRST 150 YEARS
Written by James H. Thomas.
Stock no. 1812292
Published by W.A.N.H.S. Devizes. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Volume of ten essays written to mark the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's 150th anniversary in 2003. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0947723099. Green dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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REMEMBERING WORCESTER
Written by Ron Shuard.
Stock no. 1208579
Published by Peterson Publishing Company Limited. 1st 1988. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A picture postcard panorama of the city scene from the 1890s to the 1950s. Large format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Packed with b/w photos. 124 pages. ISBN: 0904702030. Wrapper has some faint marks with a small closed tear at top edge repaired on verso.

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