GREAT CATHEDRALS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Written by Bernhard Schutz.
Stock no. 1827557
Published by Abrams. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Blue leather spine with gilt title, b/w illustrated cloth boards. Fabulous colour & b/w photos throughout. 472 pages. ISBN: 9780810932975. 5th printing (no date, but after 2002). A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is unevenly faded to plain side and is a little scuffed.

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ITALIAN FRESCOES: THE AGE OF GIOTTO 1280-1400
Written by Joachim Poeschke.
Stock no. 1827154
Published by Abbeville Press. Circa 2005. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

This volume begins with an in-depth presentation of the frescoes at San Francesco in Assisi, which became the great school of Italian painting, where Giotto, Pietro Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini, among others, created a new kind of painted mural and a new style of pictorial narrative. Large, heavy format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780789208637. Second printing. Minor red biro mark to top of text block (see photos) else a lovely copy.

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THE MILITARY SURVEY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1522
Written by R.W. Hoyle.
Stock no. 1826879
Published by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 6. An indispensable guide to Gloucestershire society at the end of the middle ages and an essential source for local historians and genealogists. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 265 pages includes index. ISBN: 0900197366. Text block a little dusty. Else contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is a little discoloured and is scuffed.

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ORIGINAL ACTA OF ST. PETER'S ABBEY GLOUCESTER C. 1122 TO 1263
Written by Robert B. Patterson.
Stock no. 1826873
Published by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1st 1998. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Gloucestershire Records Series Volume 11. Revealing much information about the ecclesiastical. topographical, tenurial, economic and social history of Gloucester and its region. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. 354 pages includes index. ISBN: 0900197471. Spine cocked. Text block a little grubby. Contents have been read but are clean. Blue dustwrapper is scuffed.

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TEWKESBURY CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS 1563-1624
Written by C.J. Litzenberger.
Stock no. 1826865
Published by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 7. Furnishing fresh insights into this formative period of the development of Tewkesbury. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 163 pages includes index. ISBN: 0900197390. Spine slightly cocked. Text block a little grubby. Contents otherwise clean. Blue dustwrapper has a closed tear to lower front corner (no loss) and is lightly scuffed.

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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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THE SECRET MIDDLE AGES
Written by Malcolm Jones.
Stock no. 1325288
Published by Praeger Publishers. 1st USA 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Discovering the Real Medieval World. Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos throughout. 374 pages includes index. ISBN: 0275979806. Spine of book and dustwrapper slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine.

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THE CROSSBOW ITS MILITARY AND SPORTING HISTORY, CONSTRUCTION AND USE
Written by Ralph Payne-Gallwey.
Stock no. 1825586
Published by Merlin Unwin Books. 1st thus 2007. Nearly fine condition.

A unique exploration of a weapon used for centuries. The crossbow, probably first introduced to England by the Norman invaders in 1066, successfully defended many an early Briton and its present-day corollaries are used by sportsmen everywhere. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781873674079. Text block very slightly grubby. Contents clean.

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TILMAN RIEMENSCHNEIDER MASTER SCULPTOR OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
Written by Julien Chapuis; Michael Baxandall; et al.
Stock no. 2139075
Published by The National Gallery Of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press. Circa 1999. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Black cloth with silver title to spine. For the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington 3rd October 1999-9th January 2000 and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 7th February - 14th May 2000. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0300081626. Bumping to a couple of corners. A few marks to endpapers and browning to outer page edges. Pencil annotations in margins to some pages. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small tears and chips.

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THE MILITARY LEADERSHIP OF MATILDA OF CANOSSA 1046-1115
Written by David J. Hay.
Stock no. 1823482
Published by Manchester University Press. 1st 2008. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Gender in History series. An account of the entire 40-year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it explains how one famous noblewoman rose to the defence of the reforming papacy, defeated the Holy Roman Emperor and turned the tide of the first great war between Church and state. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 9780719073588.

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MERCENARIES AND THEIR MASTERS: WARFARE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
Written by Michael Mallett.
Stock no. 1822242
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Concentrating mainly on fifteenth century, a period when standing armies emerged in Italy and when the 'modern' trends were just as discernible here as elsewhere in Europe. Also looking back to the middle ages and the fourteenth century and then forward to the Italian Wars (1494-1530) when foreign armies disputed the European balance of power on Italian soil. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0370105028. Large bookplate to front pastedown. Top edge of text block lightly faded. Contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is browned to spine and top edge, slightly grubby.

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THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE
Written by Heinrich Fichtenau.
Stock no. 1815113
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1968. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Studies in Mediaeval History No. 9. This book is more concerned with the strains and stresses in Carolingian society and the conflicts that arose from then than with a systematic enumeration of all the known details. Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0631053409. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Dustwrapper is grubby, has a closed tear to top front edge and remains of price label to rear flap.

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