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AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET: VOLUME FOUR NORTH DORSET
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827721
Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England. 1st 1972. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Describing the contents of 34 parishes in the northern part of Dorset. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt titles and crest to front. Colour frontis, b/w photos and plans, some folding. Maps in pocket to rear. ISBN: 011700460X. A lovely copy. All maps present in rear pocket. Picotrial dustwrapper is lightly sunned to top of spine.

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LATE IRON AGE AND ROMAN SILCHESTER: EXCAVATIONS ON THE SITE OF THE FORUM-BASILICA 1977, 1980-86
Written by Michael Fulford; Jane Timby; et al.
Stock no. 1827715
Published by Society For The Promotion Of Roman Studies. 1st 2000. Very good condition.

Britannia Monograph Series No. 15. Large format. A heavy volume. Green glazed boards. B/w photos, illustrations, and fold-out plans. ISBN: 090776424X. A few minor marks to boards. Tiny nick to base of spine. Lower rear corner of board bumped. Text block browned and a little grubby. Page margins lightly browned else contents clean.

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EXCAVATIONS IN MEDIEVAL SOUTHAMPTON 1953-1969 (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Colin Platt; R. Coleman-Smith.
Stock no. 1827710
Published by Leicester University Press. 1st 1975. Slightly better than very good condition.

Volume 1: The Excavation Reports. Volume 2: The Finds. Large volume. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, vignette to front. B/w illustrations. Contained in slipcase. ISBN: 0718511239. Lower front corner of board of volume 1 is bumped. Else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed at base and knocked to top rear spine edge.

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BAGENDON: A BELGIC OPPIDUM
Written by Elsie M. Clifford.
Stock no. 1827619
Published by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A record of the excavations of 1954-56. Bagendon is a place of mighty earthworks, in the east of the Cotwold Hills in Gloucestershire. The site, the digging, and full studies of the finds. Large format. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and photos. Damp staining to lower corner of boards (not too bad). Top & tail of spine and rear lower board edge lightly bumped. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is a bit grubby.

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DURRINGTON WALLS: EXCAVATIONS 1966-1968
Written by G.J. Wainwright; I.H. Longworth.
Stock no. 1827616
Published by The Society of Antiquaries. 1st 1971. Very good condition.

Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. XXIX. Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations, some folding. Spine lightly faded, light mottling to boards. top edge of text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

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FOREST PEOPLE AND PLACES
Written by Bob Smyth.
Stock no. 1326791
Published by Sutton Publishing. 1st 1998. Very good condition.

A contemporary insight into the character and traditions of the Forest of Dean. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0750919337. Minimal rubbing to corners of covers and a small, light crease to top corner of rear cover.

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CORSHAM: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY PART TWO
Written by C.J. Hall.
Stock no. 1326583
Published by Christopher Hall. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

Covering the span of Corsham's History 1900-1945. Large format. Grey cardwraps. 48 pages. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 0950862517. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Covers slightly faded to spine, light crease to lower corner of rear cover. Small yellow highlighted patch to map else contents fine.

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THROWLEIGH: THE STORY OF A DARTMOOR VILLAGE
Written by Emmie Varwell.
Stock no. 1326575
Published by Sydney Lee. Circa 1947. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt titles. 132 pages. B/w photos. Spine and corners bumped. Name plate (of Horace Gordon Lowe) to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and textblock.

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HISTORICAL RECORDS OF BISLEY WITH LYPIATT GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Written by Mary A. Rudd.
Stock no. 1826886
Published by Alan Sutton. 1st thus 1977. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Originally privately published in 1937 in a limited edition of 250 copies. This edition limited edition of 350 numbered copies. Brown boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 090438716X. Text block lightly browned. Pale foxing to prelims and rear endpapers. White dustwrapper is scuffed and creased, unevenly faded and browned. This is copy 172 of 350.

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COLLETT'S FARTHING NEWSPAPER: THE BOWERCHALKE VILLAGE NEWSPAPER 1878-1924
Written by Rex Sawyer.
Stock no. 1826883
Published by The Hobnob Press. 1st thus 2004. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of a newspaper like no other, written and printed every week for over forty years in the remote South Wiltshire village of Bowerchalke by its remarkable vicar, the Revd Edward Collett. Originally published as The Bowerchalke Parish Papers: Collett's Village Newspaper, 1878-1924 in 1989 by Alan Sutton Publishing. A completely revissed and reset edition with additional illustrations. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. x and 166 pages including index. ISBN: 0946418225. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded, is grubby to rear panel and has previous bookseller's label to lower edge.

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A CATALOGUE OF THE MEDIEVAL MUNIMENTS AT BERKLEY CASTLE
Written by Bridget Wells-Furby.
Stock no. 1826863
Published by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

First of two volumes. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 17. The medieval muniments at Berkeley Castle form one of the largest and and most remarkable accumulations of records relating to the ownership and administration of land. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 574 pages. ISBN: 0900197609. Spine slightly cocked. Contents a little crinkled but clean. Dustwrapper is slightly scuffed.

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OAKRIDGE: A HISTORY
Written by Pat Carrick; Kay Rhodes; Juliet Shipman.
Stock no. 1826815
Published by Oakridge Historical Research Group. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A social history of Oakridge, a village in the Cotswolds, and its surrounding hamlets of Far Oakridge, Waterlane, Bournes Green, Tunley and Daneway. Burgundy boards, white and yellow titles. Colour & b/w illustrations and photos throughout. ISBN: 0954030648. Rear panel of dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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