THE EVOLUTION OF THE FISHING VILLAGE: LANDSCAPE AND SOCIETY ALONG THE SOUTH DEVON COAST, 1086-1550
Written by Harold Fox.
Stock no. 1829580
Published by Leopard's Head Press. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

Leicester Explorations in Local History 1. This book is a full-length study of medieval fisheries, fishing families and fishing settlements. It deals with fishing and other activities of the shoreline with the consumption and marketing of fish and with the fishers themselves. The main focus is on the South Devon coastline but there are references to other south-western places and to other coasts. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations and maps. xviii and 208 pages including index. ISBN: 0904920437. Text block slightly grubby. Initials and date in ink to half-title page. Else contents clean.

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THE REGISTER OF THE GUILD OF THE HOLY CROSS, ST MARY AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Written by Mairi Macdonald.
Stock no. 1829575
Published by The Dugdale Society. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Dugdale Society Vol. 42. Edited by Mairi Macdonald. A detailed analysis of the Guild's membership register, supplemented with other relevant information drawn from the account rolls. Also includes a transcript of the Guild's governing ordinances of 1443, two appendices and an index which includes members occupations. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 586 pages including index. ISBN: 9780852200889. Light bumping to top corner of boards. Text block very slightly grubby. Else contents appear unread. Pictorial dustwrapper is creased to front flap and lightly rubbed at corners.

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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON WILLS 1348-1701 (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Stephanie Appleton; Mairi Macdonald.
Stock no. 1829574
Published by The Dugdale Society. 1st 2020. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Dugdale Society Vol. 52 & 53. Edited by Stephanie Appleton and Mairi Macdonald. Two volumes, complete, Volume 1: 1348-1647; Volume 2: 1648-1701. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spines. ISBN: 9780852201060. Corners of boards lightly bumped else contents appear unread. Pictorial dustwrappers are lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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THE EARLY RECORDS OF COLESHILL: C.1120-1549
Written by Andrew Watkins.
Stock no. 1829571
Published by The Dugdale Society. 1st 2018. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Dugdale Society Vol. 51. Edited by Andrew Watkins. Coleshill was one of six hundred or so small market towns to emerge during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to form the framework for trade and commerce in late medieval England. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xii and 608 pages including index. ISBN: 9780852201046. Text block slightly grubby, corners lightly bumped else looks unread. Pictorial dustwrapper is creased to front flap.

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THE NEWBURGH EARLDOM OF WARWICK AND ITS CHARTERS 1088-1253
Written by David Crouch; Richard Dace.
Stock no. 1829529
Published by The Dugdale Society. 1st 2015. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Dugdale Scoiety Vol. 48. Edited by David Crouch with an introduction and appendix by Richard Dace. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xviii and 370 pages including index. ISBN: 9780852200995. A lovely copy.

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SECRET BIDEFORD
Written by Peter Christie.
Stock no. 1829401
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2015. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book goes behind the facade of the familiar medival town to discover lesser-known aspects of its fascinating past ranging from its strategic Anglo-Saxon importance to its high-profile witch trials in the seventeenth century. From its chapels, churches and graveyards to its former patrons and men of industry, Bideford is revealed to be a town of historic importance. Cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. 96 pages. ISBN: 9781445644844. A nice, clean copy.

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THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY
Written by Boethius; V.E. Watts.
Stock no. 1829316
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Translated and introduced by V.E. Watts. Cream paper boards. Blue, brown & red titles. Floral designs surrounding title to front. Matching cream endpapers. Seven colour plates. 207 pages including bibliography. Spine is very lightly browned. Else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has some very faint scuffing (VG+).

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THE MIRROR OF THE PAST (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman.
Stock no. 1829310
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1997. Very good condition.

Two volumes; A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century and The March of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine and decorations to front. Colour and b/w illustrations. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed and lightly scratched (VG).

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MARTIN LUTHER: CATHOLIC DISSIDENT
Written by Peter Stanford.
Stock no. 1829267
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 2017. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An examination of the man, the myth and the mass movement that his act of rebellion in nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg provoked. An intimate portrait of this complex, often charismatic, man of God. The man who risked his life to challenge the corruption and complacency of late medieval Catholicism. Black boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xiv and 434 pages including index. ISBN: 9781473621664. A few minor marks to boards. Damage to some page corners whereby the book has a few pages with corner tips turned over (relatively minor). Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at edges.

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MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE MEDIEVAL ART (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Paolo Piva; A. Cadel; F. Gandolfo; et al.
Stock no. 1829195
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2012. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Paolo Piva. This is the first English language edition, originally published in Italian in 2008 as Architettura. Medievale La Pietra e La Figura. Large format. Black cloth with white titles to spines. Stunning colour photographs. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is split at top closed edge else Very Good.

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CHIVALRY
Written by Maurice Keen.
Stock no. 1829176
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2010. Very good condition.

Pictorial boards with gilt title to spine and gilt and colour front board. Colour illustrations. xx and 400 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has white scuff marks to base and is lightly scuffed to sides, light bump to corner.

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THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN ENGLAND VOLUME II: THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Written by David Knowles.
Stock no. 1829127
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The book covers the period 1336-1485. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. xii and 405 pages. Text block browned. Foxing to endpapers, contents otherwise clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is heavily foxed, heavily browned to spine with some loss to top & tail, a few minor edge-tears and chips.

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