Search Results: Local History from Abbey Antiquarian Books

Bristol: Bristol & Gloucester Archaeological Soc., 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Royal octavo 248x165mm black cloth with gilt lettering in dark blue dust jacket. Transcript & Consolidation of the six extant versions of the comprehensive Survey of the Diocese first undertaken by Bishop Benson in 1735, noting corrections & changes. Tabulation of 329 Parishes & Chapelries; chronological lists of incumbents with value of Livings and Queen Anne's Bounty. Charities & endowments for Church, the poor & schools. The Survey gave particular attention to the extent & nature of RELIGIOUS NON-CONFORMITY. Scholarly modern historical interpretations & explanations. Extensive modern Index of Persons & Places; Index of Subjects. In new condition.

London: Bell & Sons Cathedral Series 3rd edition, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Photo illustrated (49) with plan & text illus. by Edward Burrow some dated 1894. Post octavo green decorated cloth (tips slightly rubbed) (4)133pgs. About a dozen post-cards, photos, etc. illustrating the cathedral mounted on blank-versos of plates (some with cellotape); otherwise a clean & tight copy in very good condition.

London: Bell & Sons Cathedral Series 2nd edition, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Photo illustrated (49) with plan & text illus. by Edward Burrow some dated 1894. Post octavo green decorated cloth (tips slightly rubbed) (4)133pgs. blindstamp shop label on FEP else V.G

Gloucester: privately published 1st edition, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Sepia plates (5 of which several double page) . Octavo blue buckram gilt (sl.marked) (v)+133pp a few pencil marginalia else V.G. *A history of the city from primary sources and other hard to come by documents and books with many setbacks due to fires, Plague, Siege. Early trades from Domesday Book record to guild protectionism giving an unusually good insight into employment.

Cheltenham: Reardon & Son 1st edition Driveabout series, 1978. Softcover. Very Good. Illustrated with drawings by Peter Reardon.. Octavo red pictorial card covers 32pp V.G.

Bristol: Garland Press 1st edition, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Illustrations on buff ground by Gerald Gardiner + map end-papers. Duodecimo pictorial boards (lacks 2" to foot of spine/tips worn) 23pgs V.G (no dust jacket if called for)

Bristol: B&G Archaeological Soc., 2001. Hardcover. Fine. Arge octavo black cloth in blue dust jacket xxxii+343pgs, Mint condition.

Cheltenham: J.J.Banks & Son, 1919. Hardcover. Good. Photoplates (44) & 2 folding maps (one in facsimile) nice turn of century photos.. Octavo blue cloth (tips worn/1.5"split to head of lower hinge/damp marked but sound) x+221pgs inscription to flyleaf in rather faded ink,on FEP. Contents clean & crisp. *Walking tours around Cleeve Hill with flowers, viewsonto Cleeve Common,Winchcombe and Sudley Castle, Langley Hill,and Broadway and the famous Broadway tower etc.

London: Hodder&Stoughton King's England series 1st edition, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. Sepia plates throughout 166 pictures folding map at end . Octavo red cloth (spined sunned/tips slightly worn & headband bit pulled) viii+446pp inscription on FEP else V.G

Stratford: Ward et al., 1806). Hardcover. Very Good. Aquatints (8) in sepia . Octavo contemporary half calf with red spine label (tips rubbed) ii+229pgs *Subscription list slightly foxed else V.G with Victorian bookseller's miniature label on FEP.

London: Bell, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand colored plates(8) + 6 plates & text illus. . Quarto original limegreen gilt cloth (relaid/spine lacking below the title/cloth browned to spine and edges/marked/lower corner bumped) Top Edge Gilt xxiii+155pp with Subscribers list. Eastcourt Library label & name stamp on FEP a neat clean copy with the fine Roman pavements beautifully hand colored.

London: Wayland publishers 1st edition, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. Portrait illustrations + homes etc and maps . Square octavo boards in dust-jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 96pp erasure to EP else near fine

London: Epworth Press 3rd imrpession, 1943. Hardcover. Good. Two nice wood-engravings to paste-downs signed "E.P.L." ploughing with horses & farmyard. . Octavo blue cloth (cloth very faded and browned to edges/tips worn/rubbed) 251pp inscription on pastedown else V.G.

Cheltenham: Cheltenham Newspaper Co., 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Over 400 photos by Bright. Quarto blue cloth (tips sl.worn, bumped, spine sunned) 384pgs,F.C.Minoprio bookplate V.G+ *Village by village photographed by local newspaper staff

Cheltenham: Cheltenham Newspaper Co., 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Over 400 photographs by Bright. Quarto blue cloth gilt lettered (tips sl.worn, edges discoloured/sunned & marked) 384pgs, Inscription on FEP, EPs slightly foxed, the illustrations are on highly glazed china paper else V.G but thus very heavy.

London: by author, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates (14) + about 20 line drawings + 2 plans . Octavo blue boards 152pp ownership label onFEP else V.G *Town history

London: Hale reprint, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. Photo-plates (24) & map . Octavo boards in dust jacket 192pg V.G+/near Fine

Gloucestershire: Cheltenham Borough Council, 1976. Softcover. Very Good. Folding plans, drawings etc. throughout . A4 ring binding in green paper covers (slight crease one corner) 74pp V.G

London: Cotman House, 1950s approx). Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Color illustrations to every page . Quarto boards in edge torn dust jacket (47pgs) V.G in G+ jacket

Gloucester: Chance&Bland 2nd edition, 1930 approx). Hardcover. Very Good. Photo & adverts + folding map . 167x105mm red limp cloth (spine sunned/tips slightly worn and a wrinkle to cover) xxxix;208pgs V.G