Greaves, Richard: John Bunyan and English Nonconformity. London: The Hambledon Press. 1992 8vo., pp. xii, 230. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Very light shelf-wear with a little creasing to jacket, a touch of dusting to edges: a near-fine copy. Ref: 53747
Green, Edward: Prophet John Wroe: Virgins, Scandals and Visions. Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing, 2005. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 246 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A touch of dust, jacket lightly creased to edges: still a very good copy. Ref: 53927
Greenslade, M. W. & Johnson, D. A. (eds.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume VI. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1979. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, fine. Dust-jacket, lettering to spine faded, light shelf-wear, a little creased to edges with a couple of little nicks, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "January 2003" ink-inscribed above. Ref: 54011
Greenslade, M. W. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume XIV: Lichfield. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1990. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, jacket price-clipped with lettering to spine faded, a little marked, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "October 2000" ink-inscribed above. Ref: 54014
Greenslade, M. W. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume XVII. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1976. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, jacket price-clipped, creased to edges with a couple of little nicks, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "September 1999" ink-inscribed to the right. Ref: 54015
Greenslade, M. W. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Volume XX: Seisdon Hundred (Part). Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1984. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, jacket price-clipped, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "January 2003" ink-inscribed above. Ref: 54016
Gregson, Matthew: Portfolio of Fragments relative to the History and Antiquities, Topography and Genealogies of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Liverpool: [s.n.] 1824. Second edition. Folio, pp. (preliminaries), 302, cviii + portrait frontispiece, 10 further portrait plates, 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 4 genealogies, 11 other plates. Preliminaries erratically paginated, but consisting of half-title, title to 1817 edition, title to 1824 second edition, Dedication, Preface, List of Subscribers and Contents, as called for. Occasional smudgy marks but internally very good. Contemporary dark brown morocco, raised bands, gilt borders to spine compartments and boards, blind-tooled boards, gilt title to centre of upper board, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Very light rubbing to joints, a few dusty marks, endpapers foxed but still very good indeed. To ffep verso, ownership inscription of J. Feilden, Mollington Hall. The Feildens were a family of Cheshire cotton merchants who occupied Mollington Hall, from 1796 to 1906. Twycross's Mansions of England and Wales (1850) depicts a grand country house with lakes, described as 'the seat of John Feilsen Esq.' Mollington Hall was demolished in 1938, though its lodges and ice house remain. Printed by C.A. Worrall of Slater Court, Liverpool. Lowndes IV, 942 Ref: 54141show full image..
Herbert, N. M. (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester. Volume VII: Brightwells Barrow and Rapsgate Hundreds.. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1981. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, a touch of dust to edges, fine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, a little grubby, with creasing at folds and along top edge, but entirely intact. Overall. still a very good copy. Ref: 54084
Hickes, George: Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae [?]. Oxoni? [Oxford]: Theatro Sheldoniano. Typis Junianis, 1689. Small 4to., pp.[xxviii], 114, [vi], 182, [xxxviii]. With initial imprimatur leaf. Engraving of Sheldonian Theatre to title-page, woodcut initials. 'Recentissima antiquissim? lingu? septentrionalis incunabula, id est, Grammatic? Islandic? rudimenta. Per Runolphum Jonam Islandum' has its own title-page dated 1688, separate pagination but continuous register. Half-title to 'Edwardi Bernardi Etymologicon Britannicum' after the errata on p.182. Final leaf blank. A little ink to bottom margin, pp.133-145, occasional light spotting, very good. Contemporary dark brown calf lightly speckled, raised bands, replacement title label, blind-tooled border with small corner tools to boards. Neat repairs to head and tail of spine and joints, lightly scuffed, corners a little bumped, very good. To front paste-down, armorial bookplate of 'Robert Shafto Esq. of Benwell'. Benwell Towers was bequeathed in 1607 by Robert Shafto, Sheriff of Newcastle, to his son Robert Shafto, High Sheriff of Northumberland. This Robert was succeeded by three further Roberts, all of whom also served as High Sheriff. The last of these outlived his son, the estate was sold and his daughter Camilla married William Adair, whose bookplate can be found on the rear paste-down. They are also related to the politician Robert Shafto (1732-1797), famously known as 'Bobby Shafto'. "For Hickes the affairs of English politics and religion came together with his historical and linguistic studies in the years leading up to the revolution of 1688?9. One of Fell's [John Fell, canon and dean of Christ Church, vice-chancellor of the Oxford University, and renovator of the university press] earlier cherished plans had been a publication of Junius's Old English?Latin dictionary, based on the Junius manuscripts which had come to the Bodleian in 1677 together with the Junius fount of type. The dictionary was to be accompanied by Marshall's Saxon grammar. After Marshall's death this task devolved upon William Nicolson, who had copied the Junius manuscripts with a view to publication but had left for Cumberland in 1681 (Nicolson's copy would come to the Bodleian in Fell's collection in 1686). According to Hickes's later friend, the Saxonist Edward Thwaites, Fell subsequently assigned the grammar to Hickes. At Worcester, where the cathedral library was rich in Saxon charters and where his association with William Hopkins was renewed, Hickes continued his philological studies and mastered Anglo-Saxon. Hickes now had access to the newly acquired Junius manuscripts at Oxford and was influenced by Junius's ideas about the history of the Germanic languages. With the encouragement and support of Arthur Charlett, delegate of Oxford University Press, and the scholar John Mill, Hickes's Old English grammar was printed (using Junius's type) and published at Oxford as Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Goethicae (1689); yet not without Mill's drastic curtailment of Hickes's dedication to the by then suspended Archbishop Sancroft. In the following decade ecclesiastical and scholarly interests were combined and inextricably connected in Hickes's life in a manner characteristic both of antiquarian research in general and of Hickes's methods as one of its leading proponents. Hickes 'belonged in a sense to an age earlier than that in which he lived, since his mind, encyclopedic in its range, refused to specialize and so entangled his learning with his life, that it is difficult to regard him solely as an historian or philologist, or solely as a divine' (Douglas, 78)." (ODNB, Theodor Harmsen.) ESTC: R8123. Ref: 53845show full image..
Hickman, Katie: She-Merchants, Buccaneers & Gentlewomen: British Women in India. London: Virago Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 390 + plates. 4 maps to text. Hardback: red cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Slight waviness to pages towards outer edge, otherwise a fine, unread copy. Ref: 54061
