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London: Methuen, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiv; [2]; 170; [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in photographic dust-jacket. With 21 maps and 6 illustrations. Some offsetting to endpapers, some rubbing to spine ends. Dust-jacket has some loss at the top, rubbing to folds, and some tears. A...... More
Tunbridge Wells: J. Clifford, 1840. [Botany]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.v; [1]; 179; [1]; [one of publisher's advertisements]; [1]. Publisher's green textured cloth with paper labels to spine and upper board. Hand-coloured folding plate of Dentaria Bulbifera facing title page. Bookplate of W. H. Hills to pastedown, some..... More
London: Kent and Co, Tonbridge: Richard Ware, n.d. [1866]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.232. With seven engraved plates. Green cloth with ornate gilt margins to boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Spine has at some point been professionally rebacked. Bookbinders label of Hanbury and..... More
Maidstone: J. Smith, 1835. [Kent Voting Register] RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 192 [2]. In the original publisher's brown quarter leather grain-effect cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titles to the original navy blue label on spine. Wear to board edges and head and tail..... More
London: The Saint Catherine Press, 1926. [Kent] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.[14]; 163; [1]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper board, top edge gilt, other untrimmed. With twenty-one plates and a number of in-text illustrations. Finely printed at the Arden Press. Two neat ownership..... More
Beckenham: Printed and Published by the Author, September 1952. [Kent Poetry] INSCRIBED PRIVATE PRESS. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 16cm), pp.[4] 18. INSCRIBED by the author on a headed note card in blue ink: 'To wish Mr. and Mrs. | Wadey long and happy | years together - a belated |..... More
London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1796. [Kent Farming] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iii-xvi; 206 [4]. With a folding hand-coloured map as a frontispiece; two engraved plates, and a folding table. Contemporary marbled calf boards, recently rebacked with matching calf spine. Gilt titles to original red morocco label laid..... More
London and Tunbridge Wells: The Reliance Press, no date [1925]. [Kent and Sussex Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.63 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Major Heron, with the author's | kindred regards & in remembrance | of many a hearty..... More
London: Published by the Author, 1832. [Town Guide] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 148; [4 of adverts]. Illustrated with 3 folding maps and plans, 9 lithographic plates, and 2 in-text woodcuts. Bound in the original pink satin-effect cloth with paper title labels to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Light spotting..... More
London: M. Hingeston, J. Dodsley, T. Caslon; Tunbridge Wells: E. Baker, 1766. [Kent] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 317; [7]. Bound in contemporary tan full calf, gilt titles on a morocco square to spine. Very attractive label of Tunbridge Wells bookseller and printer Jasper Sprange to front pastedown..... More
London: M. Hingeston, J. Dodsley, T. Caslon; Tunbridge Wells: E. Baker, 1766. [Kent Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 317; [7]. Respined to style using contemporary brown calf boards, with repairs to corners. Raised bands and gilt titles on a burgundy label to spine. All edges speckled red;..... More
Tunbridge Wells: Tunbridge Wells Golf Club, n.d., [c. 1989]. RARE PRIVATE PRINTING. Demy Octavo. pp. 58. With b/w photographic illustrations. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original blue dust jacket; gilt titles. Slight wear to jacket edges; near-fine. More
London: C Cooke, [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Two volumes in one. pp.180; 168. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards, ruled in gilt to spine, later/replacement title labels. Illustrated with a map of the county to each title, and further including a table of information concerning the principal towns of the county..... More
London: John Russell Smith, Hastings: Henry Osborne, 1850. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii,264,12 of publisher's catalogue. Original green blind stamped cloth with gilt titles to spine, spine has at some point been professionally rebacked with the original cloth laid on. Folding street plan of Winchelsea facing the title page, ten other..... More
London: William Pickering, and Gravesend: James Johnston, 1843. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.v; [3]; 569; [1]. Bound in contemporary brown half pebbled morocco over marbled boards, edges speckled red. Numerous in text illustrations plus nine plate and plans, some folding. Top edge slightly dusty, some spotting to the plates with offsetting..... More
Tunbridge Wells: Stidolph and Bellamy, 1871. First Edition. Octavo, pp. vi, 371. Professionally recased dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, black decoration to boards. Hand coloured frontispiece showing Butomus Umbellatus. Numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's presentation copy inscribed "to Mr. T. Jones with the..... More
Cranbrook: Printed for and sold by S. Reader, 1814. Octavo, pp.lvi,277, [1] blank; [5] index; [1] advertisements. Hand coloured map of the Weald, eight hand coloured aquatint views. Together with a loosely inserted aquatint addition copy of one of the prints in the book, printed on letter paper, presumably for..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1844. [Kent] FIRST EDITION, SUBSCRIBER'S COPY WITH MLS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; [1]; 478; [2]. Modern russet cloth, gilt titles to a red calf label to spine, the binding done by Canterbury Bookbinders. Portrait frontispiece and hand-coloured engraved title page plus fourteen further plates (some..... More
Chichester: Phillimore and Co., 2003. [Kent Topography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 484. With black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece map. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, being number 17 of 500 copies thus, hand numbered to a label on the verso..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. Hastings: G. Wool, 1833. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 94. Folding chart with four hand coloured geological sections bound in at the rear, plus in text illustrations. Original patterned cloth, with recent paper label to spine. Cancelled library stamp and neat inscription to..... More
Ashford: Henry Igglesden. 1871-1874. First Edition. Two volumes bound in three parts as issued. Octavo, pp. xvi, 462, pp. xii, 424, pp. iii, 425-935. Bound in the publisher's handsome green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black stamped tooling and gilt motifs to the upper boards, matt brown endpapers. Numerous..... More
Canterbury: Simmons and Kirkby, 1777. SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp.[2]; 36; 402; [16]. With 24 copper plates including a frontispiece portrait of the author, a folding plan of Canterbury, and two other maps. Bound in contemporary tan calf, professionally respined to style with gilt titles on a red morocco square. Bookplate..... More
London: Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter, 1719. [Kent Topography/Cartography]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (40 x 29cm), pp.[2]; iv, Dedication; iv, Preface; ii, Ode to Kent; iv, List of Subscribers; 592; xl. Illustrated with 43 fine engravings, of which 39 are double-page and/or fold-out. Includes fine panoramas of Rochester and Tunbridge..... More
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history]. FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... More
Lewes: J. Baxter, 1824-1827. [Sussex Topography] FIRST EDITIONS, ex libris Bishop Ashurst Gilbert of Chichester. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.viii [2] 344; xlvi; vi; pp.x; 268; xxv [5]. With 30 lithographic plates to volume I, some folding, after drawings by F. Pollard, including a frontispiece..... More