BLACK'S PICTURESQUE GUIDE TO NORTH WALES
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Stock no. 1830667
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 8th 1882. Almost very good condition.

Eighth edition. Small format. Dark green cloth, gilt titles and decoration. B/w illustrations. Fold-out maps. xiii and 229 plus 112 pages advertisements to rear. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Front joint starting to crack but binding still firm. Text block browned. Small ink mark to front pastedown. Some light corner creasing. One folding map has a 2" closed tear (no loss). Contents generally clean for a book over 150 years old.

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PANORAMA OF NORTH WALES
Written by J. Hemingway.
Stock no. 1830666
Published by R. Groombridge. 4th 1848. Very good condition.

Fourth Edition, corrected and improved. Panorama of the Beauties, Curiosities, and Antiquities of North Wales Exhibited in its Mountains, Vallies, Waterfalls, Lakes, Cities and Towns, Castles and Ruins, Etc. intended as a Pocket Companion to the Tourist and Traveller. Small format. Red cloth boards, gilt titles, blind decoration to boards. Four b/w engravings, including frontis. Colour folding map of North Wales. viii and 333 pages including index plus a list of Works Lately Published by Seacome and Prichard, Chester to rear. Boards a little rubbed and grubby, lower edge of spine has a small split to cloth. Text block browned. Pencil annotation to front pastedown hidden beneath the fold-out map. Endpapers a little grubby. Old label (Old Sleningford Hall?) to top of title page and a rubber stamp mark. Four engravings present. Else contents generally clean for a book over 150 years old.

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TOWNLIFE IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND
Written by Elizabeth Ewan.
Stock no. 1830663
Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A complete picture of Scottish medieval townlife. In particular, the conditions of life, government, property-holding, trade and industry, the sense of community and the place of the burgh within the wider realm of scotland. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. ix and 201 pages including index. ISBN: 0748601287. A few marks to boards. A few minor foxspots to text block. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned.

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AN ATTEMPT TO DESCRIBE HAFOD
Written by George Cumberland; Jennifer Macve; Donald Moore; Andrew Sclater. Illustrated by Thomas Jones.
Stock no. 1830662
Published by The Hafod Trust. 1st thus 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

At the close of the eighteenth century, the isolated Cardiganshire estate of Hafod was an essential destination for the early tourist in Wales. Its owner, Thomas Johnes (1748-1816), transformed the wild country into a paradise, practising the most advanced Picturesque landscaping of his day. An Attempt to Describe Hafod, published in 1796, provided the fullest account of the aesthetic experience of Hafod, as viewed from Johnes' extensive walks. Its author, George Cumberland, was a close friend of Johnes. This edition is produced to mark the 200th anniversary of its first publication, the original text and map are reproduced in facsimile. Also an introductory essay by Donald Moore. Cream cardwraps. B/w illustrations. viii and 50 numbered pages. ISBN: 0952794101. Cover corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean.

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A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND & THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES
Written by Samuel Johnson; James Boswell; Peter Levi.
Stock no. 1830657
Published by Folio Society. 1992. Slightly better than very good condition.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Peter Levi. Pictorial green cloth with leather title label to spine. Colour illustrations. xxxii and 412 pages. Third printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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THE BRITISH LANDSCAPE 1920-1950
Written by Ian Jeffrey.
Stock no. 1830648
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A visual tour of Britain. A dazzling series of delightful and warmly evocative colour and b/w plates. Large format. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine and publisher's vignette to front. 112 pages including index. ISBN: 0500233985. Minor browning/foxing to top edge of text block. Browning to gutter edge of prelims else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby to rear panel.

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KEW PAST
Written by David Blomfield.
Stock no. 1830644
Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Kew is famous for its great Botanic Gardens and those who created them as well as being the home of Tudor kingmakers, of Georgian kings and of the artists that followed in their train. This is the story of how Kew grew. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Maps to endpapers. vii and 144 pages including index. ISBN: 0850339235. Foxing to top edge of text block. A few minor marks to prelims else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and has a few minor marks.

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BISLEY: A COTSWOLD VILLAGE REMEMBERED 1860-1945
Written by Juliet Shipman.
Stock no. 1830641
Published by Chantry Press. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition.

A colourful portrait of one of Gloucestershire's most interesting villages. The text has been based on the tape-recorded recollections of Bisley people and illustrated by their photographs. Green pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 124 pages. ISBN: 0951829408. Minor grubby mark to rear cover else clean.

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STROUD: A PICTORIAL HISTORY
Written by Joan Tucker.
Stock no. 1830637
Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A new look at old Stroud. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrated frontis. B/w photos throughout. Not paginated. ISBN: 085033778X. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and very lightly creased.

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Anthony West; David Verey.
Stock no. 1830636
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st thus 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

New edition. Revised by David Verey. Red cloth boards, black title block to spine. B/w photos and illustrations, colour map to rear. 64 pages plus map to rear. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly rubbed. A few grubby marks to endpapers. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and chipped, split to rear edge of spine repaired to verso with clear tape, rear panel a little grubby.

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VILLAGE AND TOWN
Written by S.R. Badmin. Illustrated by S.R. Badmin.
Stock no. 1830571
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1942. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 16. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour and b/w lithographs. Second issue. Covers lightly edge-rubbed, worn at spine with split to top & tail. Light mark to rear cover. Approx 1" square loss to lower spine edge of rear cover. Some foxing to contents.

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A TOUR THROUGH THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN
Written by Daniel Defoe; P.N. Furbank; W.R. Owens; A.J. Coulson.
Stock no. 1830557
Published by Folio Society. 2006. Slightly better than very good condition.

Edited by P.N. Furbank, W.R. Owens and A.J. Coulson. Originally published in three volumes between 1724 and 1726. This edition follows the text of the illustrated, abridged edition first published by Yale University Press in 1991, with minor emendations. Large format. Dark green cloth spine with gilt title. Green and gilt map of part of the UK on front cover. Colour & b/w illustrations. 524 pages. Second printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly rubbed at the edges of the pictorial onlay.

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