Search Results: Social History from Bristow and Garland

Large poster 27 x 17 1/2 inch. A little wear to blank margins, folded, overall very good.

Pageprint, Watford, 1987. Profusely illustrated. 4to (11 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches), 372-pages. Original cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket and fine slipcase. Please excuse the reflections in the photograph.

London: T. Richards, 1881. First edition. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches), 88-pages. Original dark blue cloth ruled in gilt. Chip out of headband and one corner, short split to lower joint, creasing of cloth of upper cover, stitching slack. Anon.

L. C. Page, 1956. 8th impression of this reprint of the edition of 1852. Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 724-pages. Original cloth. Inner joints pulled, spine lettering dulled otherwise overall sound in the worn dust jacket.

Worcester : Printed & Published by T. Eaton, 1830 (First two works); Henry Lea [1856] - (3rd work) & William Nimmo, 1857 (4th work). (title continued): lately discovered in a barn, at Oddingley, Worcestershire including particulars of the murder committed on the body of the Rev. George Parker, rector of Oddingley, on the 24th of June, 1806. Engraved frontispiece showing Hemming's skeleton. 53-pages. BOUND WITH: The trial of Thomas Clewes, for the murder of Richard Hemming : together with the arraignment of George Bankes, and John Barnett, as accessaries in the murder of the Rev. George Parker, at Oddingley, Worcestershire, in the year 1806 : before Mr. Justice Littledale, at the Lent assizes, Worcester, March 11th, 1830. Worcester: T.Eaton, 1830. 39-pages. BOUND WITH: The Trial of William Palmer, and for the alleged Rugeley Poisonings. London: Henry Lea [1856]. Woodcut portrait of Palmer on title. 189-pages. Cropped close by binder with the occasional loss (or partial loss) of the… Read More

London: Jarrold, c. 1875. Woodcut pictorial title. Small 8vo (6 1/2 X 4 1/4 inches), 103-pages, original cloth blocked in black and lettered in gilt. Slight wear at headbands, overall very good. Signature and date, 1875, on front free endpaper.

County of Gloucester. Handwritten instructions "To the Keeper of the House of Correction at Northleach in the said County. Discharge out of your Custody in the said House of Correction the Body of Anne Carpenter, if detained for no other Cause, than what is mentioned in my Warrant of Commitment dated the 28th Day of November 1810, Given under my Hand and Seal the 26th of Dec. 1810. Chas. Coxwell". Together with another, relating to Joseph Carpenter, whose Commitment was also 28th November 1810 but release was on 19th December 1810.

Madras: Higginbotham Ltd. 1914. Printed columns and side-headings throughout. One section headed "Marketing for the Month", he 38 printed side headings including Duck, Pigeon, Beef, Mutton, Tongue, Liver, Fish, Prawns, various Vegetable, Coconut, Eggs, Dog Meat, Ghee, etc. etc. With numerous manuscrupt entries for goods purchased. Another section is "Shop Bills" this pre-printed with the names of 18 establishments and other expenses, e.g. Club, Hotel, the Friend-in-Need Wprkshop etc. Another section is the "Cash Account - Received & Paid". This with approx 350 entries over 7-pages, entries for expenses including Japanese Toys, Calcutta Sweep, Mending two plates, Bullock Cart, etc. Another section is the "Baker, Milk, & Butter Account"; another is devoted to Servants wages for the period 1913-1914, showing the wages paid for the Butler, under Maty, Dressing Boy, Ayah, etc. other staff shown include,Cook's Maty, Dhoby, Cowherd, Dog Boy, Tennis… Read More

London: Printed and Sold by J. Lancaster, Free School, Borough Road; Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch Street, and Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1806. Fourth edition. 8vo, pp.xvi:211, contemporary full tan calf, heaband chipped, lacking lettering piece, a little rubbed. Title-page partly detached, two leaves of prelims. detached and a little dust-marked/browned on margins, occasional foxing. Upper inner joint cracked but very firm. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774 - 1844).

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. Reprint. 2 volumes. Plates. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), pages: 405 & 404, original bloue cloth, excellent in slightly spotted price clipped dust jackets which have light browning to the backstrips, that to vol. 2 slightly frayed at headband. Heavy, extra postage will be requested.

Dent, London, 1981. First edition. Photographic Illustrations. 4to (11 1/5 x 9 1/2 inches), 256-pages. Original cloth; very good in dust jacket.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1938, First edition in the L&L series. Plates. 8vo, original cloth, small inscription on front free endpaper, prelims. foxed. Good in the edge worn price clipped dust jacket.

London: for J. Rivington, 1765. Engraved title vignette. Small 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches), pages vi:251. Contemporary full speckled tan calf, sides gilt ruled, spine gilt ruled, raised bands, unlettered. Short split to lower joint, headbands frayed, piece torn from upper blank margin of title. 19th Century ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Overall very good. Rare.

The approx. 2000 entries commencing with the purchase of a chestnut horse for 15.15.0 and 6 shillings to "Knights for buying him". Then follows approx. 2000 very varied entries, e.g. Gave my wife 0.19.6; China from Lowestoft 0.6.6; Chimney Sweepers 0.5.6; Friday Club 0.3.6; Crabs 0.1.3; Pair Gloves 0.3.0; Mr Clark Maltser 7.15.0; Washer Woman 0.1.0; Sally's wages 2.2.0; Howard for Turnips 0.5.0; 3/4 of a Pig 1.12.6; Monthly Club .8.0; Expenses at Woodbridge 0.2.6; Mr Roper Woodbridge 12.12.6; Book Club 0.2.0; My Mother 45.0.0 etc.etc. The total expenditure over the priod was approx. £2538.00. All entries in a neat legible hand in a tan calf bound notebook (6 1/4 x 4 inches), spine gilt and with burgundy lettering piece "M.S. ACC. REV. J.B.". Upper cover detached. else good.

Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1833. "Second American Edition". Two volumes. 8vo (7 1/8 x 4 3/8 inches), pages: 208 & 204. Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spines gilt blocked and gilt lettered direct. Damp tide mark to the beginning and end of text in volume 2, prelims. foxed otherwise overall very good.

London: James Nisbet, 1837. First edition. 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches), pages: viii:470. Contemporary full calf. The binding very poor, rubbed & chipped. Some light foxing to prelims. but very good internally; an ideal candidate for rebinding and priced to allow for such. Bound without half-title.

Manchester: Abel Heywood, 1873. Portrait of the plump young Nixon. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches), 68-pages. Original printed brown boards. Scuffed, upper inner hinge broken, spine repaired with paper tape, foxing at front and at end.

London: Marshall Brothers, 1903. Illustrations throughout. 4to (11 3/4 x 9 inches), 242-pages, contemporary black grained binder's cloth. Tanning to the cheap paper on which it is printed otherwise very good.

London: Marshall Brothers, 1901. Illustrations throughout. 4to (11 3/4 x 9 inches), 238-pages, contemporary black grained binder's cloth. Tanning to the cheap paper on which it is printed otherwise very good.

Parkinsons, Burnley: ca. 1920. 12mo (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches), 32-pages, original illustrated wrappers. Illustrated advertisements for their varied pills. Rubbed, dusty, corner creased. Full of useful advice, e.g. "If making an introduction if both are of the same sex, present the inferior in social position to the superior".