Search Results: History : British (Bibliographies) from Wykeham Books

British Library, London, first edition, 1991. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xv, 223 pp, ills, maps, facs. Contents include: Reading an engraving: William Caxton's dedication to Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, by Lotte Hellinga-Querido; Post-Incunabula: a Dutch contribution to bibliographical vocabulary, byA. Gruys; Richard White of Basingstoke: the erudite exile, by Dennis E. Rhodes; Intercourse with the Peaceful Muses, by Helen Wallis; Dutch book trade catalogues printed before 1801 now in The British Library, by Bert van Selm; A Netherlandic Triumphal Arch for James I, by Gervase Hood; Poems by Cornelis Kilaan on engravings by Theodor Galle, by Elly Cockx-Indestege; Leonardus Lessius of Louvain and his English translator, by A.F. Allison; The City of Leiden v. Jan Claesz van Dorp, bookseller, by Theo Bogels; Printer to Town and University: Henrick van Haestens at Louvain, With a check-list (1621-1628), by Chris Coppens and Marcus de Schepper; Printed books in English and Dutch in early printed… Read More

University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, first editions, 1957. 2 vols, cloth, 8vo,. xxxix, 574 and v, 123 pp. 11,975 entries. Still the standard bibliography. Volume 1 lists as comprehensively as possible books and articles on all aspects of the history of the British Isles for the period from the coming of the Saxons circa 450 AD to 1087 AD, but excluding material dealing with literature and linguistics. Coverage includes general sources, political, social and economic history, constitutional history and law, local history, ecclesiastical history and religion, geography and place-names, general culture, archaeology (including records of "finds"), numismatics and seals, epigraphy, art, etc. Volume 2 contains author/subject & topographical indexes. An ex-library set with bookplates on the front pastedown endpapers, small stamps on the versos of the title-pages, otherwise near Very Good.

Harvester Press, Hassocks, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xvi, 214 pp. Aims to include all known Chartist items in local and national libraries. Chapters on Manuscript Sources; Contemporary Printed Sources; Unpublished Secondary Material; Published Secondary Material. Very Good in a used dustwrapper. which has a sunned spine.

Leicester University Press, second edition, 1966 being a reprint with new preface of the 1897 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xxxiv, 461 pp. 3,092 entries. A comprehensive bibliography, giving general authorities, including public records, followed by histories of particular towns. Standard county histories are included but purely topographical works and parish histories are omitted. Small bookseller's sticker on front pastedown endpaper. Very Good in slightly used dustwrapper.

Humanities Press, first edition, 1972. Cloth, 8vo,. lviii, 806 pp. 6,006 entries. Covers the printed sources and literature of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish muicipal history from the earliest times to 1966. Excludes titles cited by Gross's 1897 bibliography. Most entries are briefly annotated. Classified arrangement with a good general index. Faint long scratch to rear board, otherwise Very Good in used and chipped dustwrapper.

Harvester Press, Hassocks, 1978 reprint of 1959 second edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xxviii, 624 pp. 6,543 entries. This bibliography is designed to present a systematic survey of the material in print relative to the history of Tudor England. It includes books and pamphlets, essays and monographs, as well as significant contributions to the subject in journals and in the transactions of learned societies. In all chapters, except those dealing with cultural and local history, it aims to include with something approaching completeness all important collections of printed sources. Each subsection has an introductory note emphasizing the more important works. This edition is exhaustive to 1 January, 1957, with some later works included. A few items from the first edition were dropped, and about 2,500 added. Many entries are briefly annotated. Crease to spine, otherwise Very Good in used dustwrapper.

E.P. Publishing Limited, Wakefield, 1978 reprint in one volume of the 1818 first edition, with a new introduction by Jack Simmons. Cloth, large 8vo,. x pp + (lxii, 1576) pp reproduced 4 pages to one page in this edition. Approximately 3,000 entries. Sabin, commenting on the first edition, said "An indispensable adjunct to the library of any public institution or local collector. Contains an accurate record of local historical works, arranged under the various counties which they illustrate, with collations of the various editions, lists of the maps, plates, pages, etc., which perfect copies ought to contain" Includes detailed information on the contents of each book listed. This reprint edition has a new introduction by Jack Simmons. Very Good in dustwrapper. with minor marks. Publisher's 1-page advertisement sheet laid in.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, second edition, 1970. Cloth, 8vo,. xxxv, 734 pp. 4,350 numbered entries and many thousand more references in the notes and annotations. A complete revision, expansion and updating of the 1928 first edition, with much better coverage on economic history (at the expense of reduced coverage of legal and ecclesiastical history, for which the first edition remains useful). Classified and annotated, with author and title, and subject indexes. Indispensable for history; useful also for literature and social studies. Very Good in Very Good price-clipped dustwrapper.

Harvester Press, Hassocks, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xvi, 214 pp. Aims to include all known Chartist items in local and national libraries. Chapters on Manuscript Sources; Contemporary Printed Sources; Unpublished Secondary Material; Published Secondary Material. Very Good in heavily sunned dustwrapper.

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1929. Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. 540 pp. Approximately 3,250 entries. Still the standard work. From the introduction: "In general, there is included here contemporary material which relates directly to Cromwell or seems likely to have come under his personal notice; from the rest such has been selected as seems to bear more immediately on his career, his character, his opinions, his acts and policies; and that which relates to the more general events and interests of his time has been largely omitted. That this more or less arbitrary procedure will satisfy anyone it is perhaps too much to hope; but, after exploring every other alternative that suggested itself to the compiler and his advisers, any basis of selection except that of personal relation to the Protector seemed quite hopeless; and this is, in consequence, essentially a bibliography of Oliver Cromwell. Yet it may be hoped that by including some items connected with almost if not quite every… Read More

E.P. Publishing Limited, Wakefield, 1978 reprint in one volume of the 1818 first edition, with a new introduction by Jack Simmons. Cloth, large 8vo,. x pp + (lxii, 1576) pp reproduced 4 pages to one page in this edition. Approximately 3,000 entries. Sabin, commenting on the first edition, said "An indispensable adjunct to the library of any public institution or local collector. Contains an accurate record of local historical works, arranged under the various counties which they illustrate, with collations of the various editions, lists of the maps, plates, pages, etc., which perfect copies ought to contain" Includes detailed information on the contents of each book listed. This reprint edition has a new introduction by Jack Simmons. Booklabel on front pastedown endpaper, Good in slightly torn and marked dustwrapper.

Royal Historical Society, London, first edition, 1903. Cloth, 8vo,. 63 pp. Approximately 150 entries for Creighton; Name and date on verso of front free endpaper, otherwise Very Good.

University of Wales Press, Cardiff, second edition, 1962. Cloth, 8vo,. xviii, 330 pp. 3,574 entries. Classified bibliography covering Welsh history from prehistoric times to 1900. Top edge duststained, otherwise Very Good.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1976. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxvii, 1606 pp. 10829 entries. Very Good in slightly used dustwrapper.

A bound PHOTOCOPY of the 1896 edition printed for the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. Modern cloth, gilt spine-title, 4to,. viii, 96 pp plus indexes and facs, copied onto rectos. Reproduced from the Publications of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society : Vol. II. Full bibliographic descriptions of works published to 1700 dealing with the life and history of Mary, Queen of Scots. The original is scarce. A good -quality photocopy (although on some pages the positioning of the text leaves virtually no outer margin) in a virtually as new binding.

Leicester University Press, second edition, 1966 being a reprint with new preface of the 1897 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xxxiv, 461 pp. 3,092 entries. A comprehensive bibliography, giving general authorities, including public records, followed by histories of particular towns. Standard county histories are included but purely topographical works and parish histories are omitted. An ex-library copy with a barcode label on the title-page and occasional library stamps, otherwise Good in dustwrapper.

Leicester University Press, second edition, 1966 being a reprint with new preface of the 1897 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xxxiv, 461 pp. 3,092 entries. A comprehensive bibliography, giving general authorities, including public records, followed by histories of particular towns. Standard county histories are included but purely topographical works and parish histories are omitted. Top edge of textblock smokestained, otherwise Very Good in slightly darkened dustwrapper.

Leicester University Press, second edition, 1966 being a reprint with new preface of the 1897 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xxxiv, 461 pp. 3,092 entries. A comprehensive bibliography, giving general authorities, including public records, followed by histories of particular towns. Standard county histories are included but purely topographical works and parish histories are omitted. Very Good in slightly used dustwrapper.

Indiana University Press, Bloomington, first edition, 1942. Cloth, gilt publisher's device on front board and spine, large 8vo,. xiv, 487 pp. Approximately 1,000 entries in the Supplements. This volume contains supplements to Volumes I- III, Appendices of Important Ministers of State and the Anglican Episcopate, and a comprehensive index (pp 142 - 487) to Volumes I - IV. A single volume from the 5 volume set, described by Collison as " [a] monumental work...in effect a complete record of the publications of these years, and a storehouse of sources on all the historical, political, economic and cultural aspects of the times. A mildly ex-library copy with a stencilled callnumber on the spine, and the smakll label and stamp of the Henry E. Huntingdon Library on the rear pastedown, spine suneed, corners a little bumped, rear board slightly scuffed, contents Very Good.

E.P. Publishing Limited, Wakefield, 1978 reprint in one volume of the 1818 first edition, with a new introduction by Jack Simmons. Cloth, large 8vo,. x pp + (lxii, 1576) pp reproduced 4 pages to one page in this edition. Approximately 3,000 entries. Sabin, commenting on the first edition, said "An indispensable adjunct to the library of any public institution or local collector. Contains an accurate record of local historical works, arranged under the various counties which they illustrate, with collations of the various editions, lists of the maps, plates, pages, etc., which perfect copies ought to contain" Includes detailed information on the contents of each book listed. This reprint edition has a new introduction by Jack Simmons. Near Fine in Near Fine price-clipped dustwrapper.