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AN INVENTORY OF NONCONFORMIST CHAPELS AND MEETING-HOUSES IN EASTERN ENGLAND
Written by Christopher Stell.
Stock no. 1828430
Published by English Heritage. 1st 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This volume covers an area from the English Channel to the Humber estuary. This is the fourth and final volume which completes the Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses. The three previous volumes were published by HMSO. Large format. Red cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. B/w photos and diagrams. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. ISBN: 1873592507. From the library of Ron Brunskill (authority on the history of Architecture). SIGNED by the author with personal dedication to front endpaper. Bookplate of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Contructions of England to front endpaper. Minor foxing to text block. Grubby marks to prelims else contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is scuffed and has foxing to verso (not visible to front). A sweet odour present.

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THE SEVEN BISHOPS OF MONMOUTH
Written by Arthur Edwards.
Stock no. 1327159
Published by Arthur Edwards. 1st 1996. Very good condition.

In celebration of the 75th birthday of the diocese of Monmouth. White card wraps. B/w illustrations. Covers slightly edge rubbed and grubby. Contents fine.

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THE TARTAN PIMPERNEL
Written by Donald Caskie.
Stock no. 1326473
Published by Collins. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Abridged for young readers. Red boards, silver title to spine. 192 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed with a couple of small tears at corners and a tiny patch of surface paper damage to top corner of front panel (a small label has been removed).

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BEYOND THE PIR PANJAL
Written by Ernest F. Neve.
Stock no. 1825773
Published by Church Missionary Society. 1915. Good condition.

Popular Edition. Grey pictorial cloth. B/w photos. Life and Missionary Enterprise in Kashmir. 2nd impression. Boards rubbed and a little marked, spine browned, lower rear corner of board creased. Text block browned. Foxing throughout. All plates present.

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THE GLORY OF BYZANTIUM AND EARLY CHRISTENDOM
Written by Antony Eastmond.
Stock no. 1825578
Published by Phaidon Press Limited. 1st 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Gold coloured cloth with dark blue titles. All edges gilt. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780714848105. A few scuff marks to boards. Contents clean.

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STORIES FROM THE BIBLE
Written by Walter De La Mare.
Stock no. 2140294
Published by Faber & Gwyer. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition.

Vellum spine with gilt title. Gilt decoration to front cover; brown/red cloth. Limited edition to 300 copies printed on English hand-made paper. SIGNED by author to verso of half-title page. This is Copy No. 192. Many pages are uncut - others are a bit jagged where they have been 'cut'. Some scuff marks, spotting and fading to covers. Foxing and browning to outer page edges; some margin marks.

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STORIES FROM THE BIBLE
Written by Walter De La Mare.
Stock no. 1322911
Published by Faber & Gwyer. 1st 1929. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 397 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Spine bumped with some fading. Light foxing to textblock and prelims else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge creased, small tear to lower edge of rear panel has been repaired on verso.

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TEN SAINTS
Written by Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated by Helen Sewell.
Stock no. 2135468
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

9.75 x 7.25 ins. Illustrated endpapers. Bold full page colour illustrations. The text is specially designed for children, and each section is accompanied by a rhyme. The ten saints lived from the 3rd to the 13th Centuries. Wear to corners and spine. Bookplate and some tape marks to front pastedown. Other tape marks to rear pastedown/endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with tears and chips; tape repairs to top edge of front panel and to spine; some loss.

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HISTORY OF CONGREGATIONALISM IN CARDIFF AND DISTRICT
Written by John Williamson.
Stock no. 1822484
Published by The Educational Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1st 1920. Very good condition.

Brown cloth, black titles. B/w photos. 135 pages. Text block and endpapers browned and foxed. One or two small closed tears (no loss) to page margins.

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THE KNIGHTS OF CHRIST (MEN-AT-ARMS)
Written by Terence Wise. Illustrated by Richard Scollins.
Stock no. 2134747
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Religious/Military Orders of Knighthood 1118-1565. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. Colour plates. ISBN: 0850456045. Browning to covers.

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PINACOTECA VATICANA: IN THE PAINTING THE EXPRESSION OF THE DIVINE MESAGE IN THE LIGHT THE ROOT OF THE PICTORIAL CREATION
Written by Baldini Umberto; et al.
Stock no. 1821732
Published by Fabbri Editori. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Very large format. Grey picotrial boards, blind title to spine. 471 pages. Colour illustrations throughout, some fold-out. Tiny lower corner crease to a few pages. Grey pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase in almost fine condition.

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MEDUSA'S GAZE: CASUISTRY AND CONSCIENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE
Written by Lowell Gallagher.
Stock no. 1819661
Published by Stanford University Press. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Examining the central role of casuistry in Elizabethan religions, political, and literary culture. Black cloth boards, red title to spine. Colour frontis. ISBN: 0804718598. Some mottling to boards. Text block slightly grubby, contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel and some foxing to verso.

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