AARONOVITCH, S. THE RULING CLASS.

Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper. Pp. 192. Edges rather spotted. [First edition] Lawrence and Wishart, 1961.

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ACT OF PARLIAMENT: ACT FOR MAKING A FAIR AND EQUAL COUNTY RATE FOR THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND.

Folio. Disbound. Pp. 14, side-sewn. 1810.

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ACT OF PARLIAMENT: ACT FOR MAKING THE RIVERS MERCY AND IRWELL NAVIGABLE FROM LIVERPOOL TO MANCHESTER

Folio. Pp. 16. [First separately paginated edition] Eyre & Strahan, 1828.

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ACT OF PARLIAMENT: ACT FOR REGISTERING BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND.

Small 8vo. Original printed cloth, rather soiled. Pp. 79, (xl). [First edition] George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1837.

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ACT OF PARLIAMENT: ACT FOR THE BETTER SECURING HIS MAJESTYS DUTIES ARISING UPON COAL, CULM, AND CINDERS, EXPORTED BEYOND SEA.

Folio. Disbound, a little torn in the fold. Pp. 767-770, in black-letter with decorated initial. 1749.

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ACT OF PARLIAMENT: ACT OF QUEEN ANNES BOUNTY.

Folio. Later half calf gilt, marbled boards. Pp. 11, top of first leaf a little soiled. Black letter throughout, with floriated initial and royal arms at head. Stamp of the Patent Office Library on first and final leaves. [First separate edition] printed by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1704. An Act “to enable Her Majesty to grant in perpetuity the revenues of first-fruits and tenths, to be applied to the use of the poor clergy”.

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ACT OF PARLIAMENT: AN ACTE FOR CONFIRMATION OF THE SUBSIDIES GRAUNTED BY THE CLERGIE.

Folio. Modern brown paper wrappers. Pp. (xvi), in black-letter throughout, with a decorated initial. Some wormholes. 1695.

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ACT OF PARLIAMENT: RULES AND CONSTITUTIONS FOR GOVERNING AND MANAGING THE MAIDEN-HOSPITAL

12mo. Original marbled wrappers. Pp. xi, 46, with typographical head- and tail-pieces. A fine copy. Edinburgh: printed by Robert Fleming and Company, 1731.

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ACTS OF PARLIAMENT: AN ABSTRACT OF THE PUBLICK ACTS

Folio. Modern half calf gilt with raised bands and contrasting spine labels. Pp. 171, (iii), 104, (ii), complete with two titles and lists of contents. Printed by Marker Baskett, 1766-68.

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ADAMSON, John William. ENGLISH EDUCATION

Large 8vo. Original green cloth gilt. Pp. x, 520. Few neat notes on rear pastedown. [First edition] Cambridge: University Press, 1930.

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ADBURGHAM, Alison. SHOPS AND SHOPPING

Original cloth, dustwrapper. Pp. xxiv, 304, with 17 plates and 100 text illustrations. Ex-library, with flyleaf removed and a few stamps. Second edition, Allen & Unwin, 1981.

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ADDISON, James Thayer. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES

Original cloth, differentially faded. Pp. xii, 400. [First edition] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.

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AGATE, James. THOSE WERE THE NIGHTS.

Original cloth gilt. Pp. xi, 145, illustrated. [First edition] Hutchinson, 1946.

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ALBUM.

Folio. Full stamped calf gilt, each board and spine with an overall random design of stylised roses stamped in silver and large and small daisies stamped in gilt, with elaborate corner-pieces and 3 broad strap-design bands, all in green onlay, the bands drawn over the spine and on to the boards, with a heavy squared gilt design and ending in fleur-de-lys. Neatly re-cased, corners a little worn and restored. Green and gilt silk patterned endpapers... [1912].

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ALLEN, Arthur B. PUPPETRY FOR BEGINNERS.

Original cloth gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little worn and chipped). Pp. viii, 175, (iv), with 32 figures. Redhill: Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1947.

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ALLEN, W.Gore. WE THE UNDERSIGNED ...

Large 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Pp. 80, (v), illustrated. Presentation T.l.s. from the Society loosely inserted. Newman Neame for The Society, 1961.

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ALLESTREE, Richard. THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN,

Contemporary calf, rather worn, spine cracked and defective. Pp. xxii, 472, (vi), (ii, advertisement), with engraved frontispiece and title ( both a little chipped). A little loose, but a good complete edition, with a delightful inscription in a large calligraphic script on the flyleaf “Ann Martyn her booke, and none but friends may in him look, 1690”. Printed for R.Norton for George Pawles, 1689.

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ALLISON, Robert. LECTURES AND ADDRESSES.

Large 8vo. Original green cloth gilt. Pp. 250, top edges gilt. Scarce. [First edition] Arthur L.Humphreys, 1913. Sir Robert Allison, of Scaleby Hall Carlisle, was elected as a Liberal MP. for Eskdale in 1885. This volume includes reminiscences of his fifteen years in Parliament and a chapter on speakers of the House of Commons, together with miscellaneous chapters on literary figures from Burke to Le Fleming and on border ballads and hymn writers.

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ANDREWS, William. OLD CHURCH LORE.

Original quarter roan gilt, spine a trifle rubbed and faded. Pp. (iv), 255, (vi), illustrated. [First edition] Hull: William Andrews & Co., 1891.

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ANDREWS, William editor ANTIQUITIES AND CURIOSITIES OF THE CHURCH.

Original cloth gilt. Pp. 285, (x). Half-title and final leaf lightly browned. [First edition] William Andrews & Co., 1897.

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