WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MARMION AND DYMOKE FAMILIES. FIRST EDITION ORIGINAL MAROON CLOTH BEVELLED BOARDS SOME WEAR TO THE SPINE AND BOARDS BUT VERY GOOD. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF GEOFFREY INGOLD.
VOLUME 13 OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY. ORIGINAL CREAM BOARDS ISSUED WITHOUT A DUSTWRAPPER. NEAT BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. A VERY GOOD COPY.
SIXTH EDITION FINE COPY IN A RECENT FULL LEATHER BINDING. 32mo (3.5 by 5.5 inches). MABBUT’S BOOK COMPRISES 108 PAGES INCLUDING A ONE-PAGE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED BY ASTLEY. IT IS BOUND WITH ‘THE MONY’D MAN’S POCKET-BOOK BEING TABLES OF SIMPLE INTEREST (102 PAGES). INTERESTINGLY NEWTON’S BOOK HAS A NOTE FROM ASTLEY POINTING OUT THAT THERE IS A ‘SPURIOUS EDITION OF THE BOOK WHICH IS VERY IMPERFECT AND CONSEQUENTLY A GREAT ABUSE AND IMPOSITION TO THE PUBLIC’. TO DISTINGUISH THE CORRECT AND GENUINE COPIES ASTLEY HAS EXAMINED THE BOOK AND SIGNED THE BACK OF THE TITLE PAGE. ALSO THE TABLES OF INTEREST ARE SIGNED BY ASTLEY AS A GUARANTEE OF THEIR ACCURACY. HE STATES THAT IF THE TABLES SIGNED BY HIM ARE FOUND TO BE IN ERROR OF A PENNY HE WILL ‘GIVE A PERFECT AND CORRECT COPY IN THE ROOM OF IT’. THE FRONT PASTEDOWN HAS THE AMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF THOMAS HOLME OF HOLME HALL (CUMBRIA). A FINE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE ITEM.
FIRST EDITION. SECOND SERIES. ORIGINAL BROWN BOARDS. CLOTH SPINE. VERY GOOD BUT WITH WEAK BINDING. SIGNATURE ON FRONT PASTEDOWN. COUNTRY GOSSIP FROM LUSTLEIGH IN DEVON.
EIGHT OF SMEETON’S HISTORICAL TRACTS VERY NICELY BOUND IN A MODERN QUARTER LEATHER BINDING WITH MARBLED BOARDS. THESE WERE PUBLISHED AROUND 1820 AS REPRINTS OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TRACTS. BOUND WITH THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AT THE REAR. ALL IN VERY NICE CONDITION AND EACH WITH AN ENGRAVED PORTRAIT. THE TRACTS ARE: COUNT GONDAMOR’S TRANSACTIONS (1820 30 PAGES); THE COURTAND CHARACTER OF KING JAMES (1817 61 PAGES); THE SPANISH INVASION IN 1588 BY CLARK (1819 35 PAGES); JAMES THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH (1820 45 PAGES); GEORGE VILLIERS THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (1819 54 PAGES); HUGH PETERS (1818 41 PAGES); THE KING’S DECLARATION TO HIS SUBJECTS CONCERNING LAWFUL SPORTS TO BE USED (1817 11 PAGES); THE LIFE OF HENRY THE THIRD (1820 21 PAGES).
FIRST EDITION 111 PAGES BOUND IN LATER RED CLOTH AND WITH WORN LEARHER LABEL. VERY GOOD PREVIOUS OWNER’S BOOKPLATE. VERY SCARCE. A DETAILED ACCOUNTOF THE ILLNESS OF GEORGE THE THIRD OF ENGLAND.
TWO VOLUMES OCTAVO IN FULL CALF WHICH IS WORN AND CRACKING ALONG THE SPINES. OBSERVATIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DAY FROM THE TIME OF HENRY V111. A GOOD CLEAN SET.
THE SECOND EDITION. ENLARGED AND CORRECTED. REBOUND IN FULL LEATHER USING THE ORIGINAL BOARDS NEW SPINE AND TITLE LABEL RAISED BANDS. A VERY GOOD COPY INDEED. PP xii 368.
