MacKenzie, Charlotte: Psychiatry for the Rich: A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum. London: Routledge, 1992. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 234, inc. plates, figures and tables. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use with mild creasing to jacket edges: still very good. Brief neat pencil annotation to a rear blank. In the Wellcome Institute series in the History of Medicine. Ref: 53935
Madox, Thomas: Baronia Anglica. An History of Land-Honors and Baronies, and of Tenure in Capite. Verified by Records. (Bound before) A Compleat Index to Mr Madox's History of the Exchequer. London: Printed for Robert Gosling 1736; 1741. First editions. Folio, 2 works in 1, pp. [2], 292 [xxviii]; [216], title of second is a cancel (second issue), engraved vignette to first title, a few large engraved initials and engraved headpieces. First title and verso of last leaf a little dusty, slight toning, small clean tear at gutter of one leaf, occasional very slight marginal spotting. Modern half calf over marbled boards, modern endpapers. Modern ex-libris of Robert Smith, dated 2008 to ffep; early biographical annotation on author; occasional early marginalia. The first edition, posthumously published, of this study by the celebrated legal antiquary Thomas Madox (1666-1727), who was historiographer-royal from 1714, and who is singled out by David C. Douglas ('English Scholars 1660-1730') for special praise, with the assessment (p. 243) that "even to-day, he seems to move among the moderns as if, apart from the immensity of his productions, he were one of themselves". The 'Index' was prepared by the editor of 'Baronia Britannica', and first issued with that work in 1741. It is a detailed glossary of the uncommon words used in Madox's 'History of the Exchequer', with which it was reprinted in 1769. The 'Index' title reads at the top: 'This Day is Published, (Price Half a Guinea, Sewed,).' ESTC T97064. Lowndes 1448. Brunet III 1289. Graesse IV 332. Ref: 53550show full image..
Mallinson, Allan: 1914: Fight the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War. London: Bantham Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 503 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good. Ref: 54239
Martin, G.H. (ed.): The Ipswich Recognizance Rolls 1294 - 1327. A Calendar. The Suffolk Records Society, Ipswich, 1973. 8vo., pp. 151. Green cloth gilt, foxing to upper edge of text-block, otherwise very good. Dust-jacket, corners of worn with minor loss, still good. Ref: 25714
Maynard, D.C.: The Old Inns of Kent. London: Philip Allan & Co., 1925. First edition. pp. [vii], 250, with illustrated frontispiece and photographic plates. Slight browning, but still very good. Blue cloth, rebacked, spine gilt, edges a bit rubbed. Wye College library stamp to front free endpaper. Ref: 53508
McGrigor, Mary: The Sister Queens: Isabella & Catherine de Valois. Stroud, Glos.: The History Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. 288 + colour plates. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy. Ref: 53860
Midgley, L. Margaret (ed.): The Victoria History of the Couny of Stafford. Volume IV: Staffordshire Domesday and West Cuttlestone Hundred. Folkestone, Kent: Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1986. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Spine-gilt lightly faded, a touch of shelf-wear, still very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title. Reprinted photographically from the 1958 first edition published by Oxford University Press. Ref: 54009
Midgley, L. Margaret (ed.): The Victoria History of the Couny of Stafford. Volume V: East Cuttlestone Hundred. Folkestone, Kent: Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1986. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Spine-gilt lightly faded, a touch of shelf-wear, still very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title. Reprinted photographically from the 1959 first edition published by Oxford University Press. Ref: 54010
Mothersole, Jessie: The Saxon Shore. London: John lane The Bodley Head, 1924. First edition. 8vo., pp. xv, [i], 272 + 11 plates, 7 in colour. Maps and plans. Publisher's ads (pp. viii) to rear. Green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Outer edges uncut. A bit worn, boards a little grubby, corners bumped, ffep browned and edges a little foxed and dusted, but binding sound: still a nice copy. With 24 illustrations by the author. Ref: 54276
Newcourt, Richard: Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London: Containing an Account of the Bishops of that Sea, from the first Foundation thereof: also, of the deans, archdeacons, dignitaries and prebendaries, from the Conquest: and lastly, of the se London: printed by Benj. Motte, and are to be sold by Chr. Bateman, Benj. Tooke, Ric. Parker, 1708; 1710. 2 vols., folio, pp.[iv], vii, [I], 761, 764-5, 768-9, 772-3, 776-928, [ii] (i.e. usual mispagination) + 4 plates; [viii], 692, [lii] + 2 plates. Vol. I with portrait frontispiece and errata leaf, vol. II with half-title and list of subscribers, as called for. Sporadic toning, vol. II heavily toned from p.609 onwards and with a small worm trail near gutter for approx. first hundred pages. MS to ffep vol. I (a description in heraldic terminology of the arms of Richard Newport depicted on the frontispiece). Contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, raised bands and reddish title labels to spines, edges sprinkled red. A bit worn with some scrapes, but very good. Each volume with armorial bookplates of John Hoadly, LLD to front paste-down and Henry Carrington Bowles to rear paste-down (the latter being the Bowles arms with those of H.C.B.'s wife Ann Garnault inset). Historian and notary Richard Newport (d.1716) complied this history of the Diocese of London from sources including the London Registers (begun in 1306), registers kept by individual bishops and a return of 1636 from which he took information about the income of the parishes. His father (also Richard Newcourt, d. 1679) was a cartographer and draughtsman who, in addition to contributing drawings to Dugdale's Monasticon, was also responsible for the most important map made of London before the Great Fire, his Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs Thereof (1658). John Hoadly (1711-1776) was a poet and dramatist, and a friend and correspondent of David Garrick. The appearance of 'LLD' on his bookplate dates it from sometime after 1747. Henry Carrington Bowles (1763-1830) was a successful publisher and seller of maps, prints and geographical games. His bookplate dates from sometime after his marriage in 1799. The ephemera found between the pages of vol. I appears to relate to his ownership of the book. Loosely inserted: two letterpress-printed sheets reproducing letters sent in January 1824 and February 1827 to The Gentleman's Magazine, concerning London churches destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 (both from 'H.C.B.'); small hand-drawn and coloured arms of Sir John Philpot, Lord Mayor of London 1378, on a scrap of paper; a piece of tracing paper with a coat of arms and an inscription referring to Sarah Bolles; 4 scraps of paper with MS notes, one seemingly part of a letter addressed to H.C. Bowles Esq. and dated 1827; a long MS list of churches on a folded piece of paper watermarked 1821. ESTC T5439; Upcott 690; Lowndes 1665; Graesse IV 662. Ref: 54146show full image..
