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Harris’s History of Kent 1719

TERMS All entries have been thoroughly researched using the relevant bibliographies and British Library catalogue, DNB, COPAC etc, but references have been omitted from this catalogue for reasons of space, but are available in full descriptions on request. The only exception to the above is Printing in the Mind of Man.

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1. THE LAST BERTH OF THE SAILORMAN. RESEARCH REPORT.

The Society for Sailing Barge Research. 1996 Folio. Unpaginated (approximately 100 pp.) illustrated with Plans of Barge Moorings. Original pictorial blue card wrappers in an acetate cover. A very good copy. The book comprises a list of the known whereabouts and fate of every British sailing barge and includes a brief history of each and an Ordnance Survey map reference. [ref: 20819 ] £25 2. ABELL, HENRY FRANCIS. HISTORY OF KENT. With Original

Sketches and Maps. Ashford Kentish Express(Igglesden and Co.) Limited. 1898 First edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. vii + [i] +328 pp. Illustrated with 27 plates, including frontispiece and two full page maps, all sketches by author. Bound in original blue decorated cloth, gilt. Extremities worn but otherwise very good copy. Bookplate of R. E. Marshall. Mr Abell's aim was to connect the wider history of Britain with the events in Kent, from Roman times to the 19th century. It remains a useful work, which has become quite scarce. We have another similar copy, with 1898 gift inscription on verso of first free endpaper and bookseller’s label, Blinko and Son, Booksellers and stationers, 27, Queen St., Ramsgate on rear pastedown. Kent Bibliography [ref: 19777 ] £50 3. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for carrying into execution an

Agreement between Peter Burrell ... and the Trustees of Morden College, in the County of Kent ...to grant leases of Maidenstone Hill..... Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1771 Folio. General title + 12 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. [ref: 14049 ] £15 4. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for confirming certain Provisional

Orders made .....under The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to ..... Deal and Walmer .....Chatham ...... George Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1863 Folio. 87 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. Contains schedules of Duties payable on various goods at respective ports. [ref: 14084 ] £20 5. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for Enlarging and Maintaining the

Harbour of Ramsgate, and for Cleaning Amending, and Preserving the Haven of Sandwich. Thomas Baskett, 1749 Folio. General title + 32 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. This is the Act which set up the modern Ramsgate Harbour. [ref: 13821 ] £50

6. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for making Compensation to the

Proprietors of certain Messuages, Lands, etc....purchased..... for the better securing His Majesty’s Docks, Ships, and Stores at Portsmouth and Chatham. [Charles Eyre and William Strahan] [1783] Folio. 13 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. [ref: 14053 ] £15 7. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for regulating ...the Oyster Fishery in

the River Medway.... Assigns of Henry Hills, London. 1729 Folio. General title and 12 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. [ref: 14071 ] £25 8. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for revesting certain Lands,

Tenements and Hereditaments, in the County of Kent..... George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1797 Folio. General title + 5 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. This Act deals with the return of land from trustees to owners and among others, makes specific mention of James Drake Brockman and land in Shorn(e)cliffe. [ref: 14045 ] £15 9. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for the Appointment of a Stipendiary

Magistrate for Chatham and Sheerness....Kent. George Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1867 Folio. 4 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. [ref: 14067 ] £8 10. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for the more easy and speedy

Recovery of Small Debts in the City of Rochester, Strood, Chatham, Gillingham, Sheerness Etc.. Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1782 Folio. General title, + 25 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. An Act providing for the setting up of Commissioners (named in the Act) for the operation of a Small Debtors Court. [ref: 13913 ] £20 11. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for the more effectual Regulation of

Pilots and of the Pilotage of Ships and Vessels navigating the British Seas. George Grierson , Dublin. 1808 Folio. 32 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. Includes schedules of rates for pilotage from London River to the mouth of the Thames and for Cinque Ports pilotage. [ref: 14081 ] £20

12. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for vesting in .... War Department,

lands.....at Walmer.... George Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1863

Folio. 4 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. Regarding the conveyance of land abutting on and surrounding Walmer Castle and mentioning the Jenkinson family and Sir Brooke William Robert Boothby. [ref: 14066 ] £8 13. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act to continue.... An Act to prevent the

committing of Frauds By Bankrupts.... and for extending the Laws relating to Hackney Coaches, to the Counties of Kent and Essex. Mark Baskett. 1764 Folio. General title and 2 pp. This Act gave Justices of the Peace in Kent and Essex the same jurisdiction as those of London, et al. [ref: 14061 ] £8 14. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act to continue in force ...for the better

Regulation of the Oyster Fishery in the River Medway.... George Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1868 Folio. 2 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. [ref: 14073 ] £10

15. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. AN ACT TO CONTINUE

SEVERAL LAWS FOR THE BETTER REGULATING OF PILOTS, FOR THE CONDUCTING OF SHIPS AND VESSELS FROM DOVER, DEAL, AND ISLE OF THANET, UP THE RIVER THAMES AND MEDWAY... London Printed by Thomas Baskett. 1750 Folio. 8 x 12¼ inches. (12 pp.) Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt title to spine. A fine copy. An important act in respect of the Deal pilots. [ref: 21324 ] £45 16. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act to empower the Commissioners of

His Majesty’s Treasury to restore Seizures, remit or mitigate Fines, Penalties, or Forfeitures....relating to Customs or Excise.... George Grierson and John Rowe Power, Dublin. 1814 Folio. 2 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. The Act deals with the restoration of confiscated goods or fines. [ref: 14037 ] £12

17. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. AN ACT TO MAKE MORE EFFECTUAL

PROVISION FOR THE PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1807 Folio. 20 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. The Act deals with the licensing, on pain of forfeiture, of vessels above a certain tonnage and regulations regarding their clearing and sailing out of Channel Island ports. [ref: 14039 ] £20

18. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act to regulate the Clearance of

Vessels....for authorizing Officers of the Customs to seize Spirits.... George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1815 Folio. 4 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. [ref: 14041 ] £12 19. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act to regulate the issuing of Licences to

allow Open Boats to proceed to Foreign Parts, and for revoking the same when necessary. George Grierson , Dublin. 1815 Folio. 2 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. Further anti-smuggling regulation. [ref: 14088 ] £8

20. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act to repeal a certain Toll levied upon

Fishing Vessels passing the Nore. George Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1859 Folio. 4 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. [ref: 14040 ] £12 21. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act to repeal an Act ... as relates to the

Purchase of Lands.... at Sheerness .....at Gillingham.... George Grierson and Martin Keene, Dublin. 1821 Folio. 11 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. Pertaining to Finborough Marsh, otherwise St. Mary’s Marsh or Warden’s Marsh and mentioning the names of Rt. Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, Honourable William Huskisson, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and John Wilson Croker. [ref: 14065 ] £12

MAIDSTONE POOR LAW ACTS 22. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND REGULATION OF THE POOR IN THE TOWN AND PARISH OF MAIDSTONE. 15TH GEO.II AND 20TH GEO.III.CHAP.22. George III. Cap.XXII. An Act for the better Government and Regulation of the Poor, in the Town and Parish of Maidstone, in the County of Kent. Bound with: An Act To alter, amend, and enlarge the powers of an Act, passed in the Twentieth Year of His present Majesty, for the better Government and Regulation of the Poor in the Town and Parish of Maidstone, in the County of Kent. Maidstone: Printed by J.Smith, Week Street. 1828 Folio. 8 inches x 12 inches. 12 pp. + 3 + [1]. B-E2. Illustrated with royal arms at head of first act. Sewn in buff paper wrappers. A few small holes to both wrappers and chipping to rear wrapper. Clean interior. The 1780 Act replaces the former parochial authority of the churchwardens and overseers by Trustees of the Poor. The Trustees were vested with the

parish poor- and almshouses and were granted the power to appoint officers, levy rates, take up the wandering poor, to punish inmates ‘guilty of profane Cursing, Swearing, Drunkenness, or of any lewd, immoral or indecent behaviour, or refuse or neglect to perform the work or service which he or she shall be required to do...’ and to relieve the industrious poor. The second act appears to be the 1805 Act of George III, authorising the Trustees to sell a number of decayed alms and poor houses in the borough and to replace them. After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the duties of the Trustees were limited to the levying of the poor rate to fund the activities of the new Board of Guardians, who established the Maidstone Union workhouse at Coxheath in 1837-38 (Russell, History of Maidstone). Russell [ref: 19479 ] £85 23. ADAMS AND SON. ADAMS’ GUIDE TO RYE AND DISTRICT.

Adams and Son, Rye. No date but (c.1960) [8] + vi + 9-170 pp. + xvi with folding map and numerous photographic illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers. With an Account of the appalling Lifeboat Disaster and a Chapter on Smuggling: Ancient and Modern. [ref: 11288 ] £20 24. AGRICULTURE - BOYS, JOHN. GENERAL VIEW OF THE

AGRICULTURE OF THE COUNTY OF KENT; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEANS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT. DRAWN UP FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, FROM THE ORIGINAL REPORT TRANSMITTED TO THE BOARD; WITH ADDITIONAL REMARKS OF SEVERAL RESPECTABLE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN AND FARMERS. TO WHICH IS ADDED A TREATISE ON PARING AND BURNING. BY JOHN BOYS OF BETSHANGER, FARMER. 1805 Second Edition with amendments and additions. xxiii + 293 pp. with folding engraved map in original hand-colour, and 2 copper-engraved plates, folding tables etc.. Bound in fine contemporary half-calf, with marbled boards. A very attractive copy which is exceptionally clean. The second and much enlarged edition of the primary book on 18th and 19th century Kentish agriculture. Boys’ report was first issued in 1794 (but not generally circulated) in draft form as part of the extensive series of reports drawn up for the Board of Agriculture under Arthur Young. These described the conditions of farming throughout the county, and were designed to be returned to the Board with each farmer’s comments, afterwards being edited and incorporated into a final report, the first of which was published in 1796. This is the second published edition, describing in great detail the agricultural practice in Kent at the beginning of the agricultural revolution.

Boys, a farmer from Betteshanger, edited and considerably enlarged the original report with the addition of much new material. [ref: 18963 ] £450 25. AGRICULTURE - MELLING, ELIZABETH (Editor). KENTISH

SOURCES III. ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY. A collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Kent County Council. 1961 8vo. viii + 150pp. Illustrated. Small neat bookplate inside front wrapper. Original paper wrappers. [ref: 18996 ] £15 26. AGRICULTURE - [YOUNG, ARTHUR] A SIX WEEKS TOUR,

THROUGH THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES. DESCRIBING, PARTICULARLY, I. THE PRESENT STATE OF AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURES. II. THE DIFFERENT METHODS OF CULTIVATING THE SOIL. III. THE SUCCESS ATTENDING SOME LATE EXPERIMENTS ON VARIOUS GRASSES, ETC. IV. THE VARIOUS PRICES OF LABOUR AND PROVISIONS. V. THE STATE OF THE WORKING POOR IN THOSE COUNTIES, WHEREIN THE RIOTS WERE MOST REMARKABLE. WITH DESCRIPTIONS AND MODELS OF SUCH NEW INVENTED IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY AS DESERVE TO BE GENERALLY KNOWN: INTERSPERSED WITH ACCOUNTS OF THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY, AND OTHER OBJECTS WORTHY OF NOTICE. IN SEVERAL LETTERS TO A FRIEND. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE FARMER’S LETTERS. W. Nicoll, at the Paper-Mill, No. 51, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. London, 1768 First Edition. 8vo, [2] + 284 pp; without the half-title and final blank leaf which are sometimes present, but the text is complete, with seven woodcut illustrations. Bound in quarter calf, spine with raised bands, and title label, over marbled boards. This work was the beginning of a most exhaustive inquiry into the state of British agriculture. It began almost by accident, with a simple recording of the crop rotations, the implements used, the cost of labour and provisions, the size of farms, and the horses or oxen employed on holdings of different sizes. Passing reference is also made to local industries, such as the manufacture of Witney blankets, and useful facts and figures about them are mentioned. The work encompasses a vast amount of information that was to transform agriculture in these islands and beyond. Goldsmiths 10407; Higgs 4283; PMM 214; Fussell, More Old English farming books, pp. 71-72, Gazley, The Life of Arthur Young, p. 35. [ref: 18442 ] £550 27. ALLENDALE, JOHN. SAILORMAN BETWEEN THE WARS. BEING

THE JOURNAL OF A THAMES, MEDWAY AND COASTAL BARGEMAN.

John Hallewell, Rochester. 1978 205 pp. with photo illustration Original blue cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. [ref: 20793 ] £25 28.ANDERSON, OLOF. S. THE ENGLISH HUNDRED-NAMES.

Lunds Universitets Arsskrift. 1934 xlvii + 174 pp. Original printed paper wrappers. Wrapper edges a little frayed but text clean and sound. A very good copy. Although not taken specifically from Kentish examples this general survey is similar to Wallenberg’s ‘Place-Names’. Very scarce. [ref: 12070 ] £100 SIGNED BY AUTHOR

29. ANDREWS, GEORGE. MEMORIALS OF MURSTON. Privately Printed 1930.

First and only edition, 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 204 pp. Illustrated by 50 pages of black and white photographic plates, including signed portrait frontispiece. Rebound in blue cloth, gilt. Lower third of title page and lower right hand part of pp.203-4 at end missing, both with some loss of text. Contemporary ink inscription on front pastedown crossed through. Well-illustrated and scarce memoir of life in a village in the north Kent marshes.

[ref: 21674 ] £45

30. ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT.

FARNBOROUGH/ORPINGTON - A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 6 WICKHAM AND HAYES TOP LEFT. SWANLEY TOP RIGHT. SEVENOAKS BOTTOM RIGHT. WESTERHAM BOTTOM LEFT. N.B. A SMALL AMOUNT OF THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE MAP IS BLANK, AS MOST OF THIS IS IN SURREY AND THE MAP DETAIL SHOWS ONLY KENT. London. 1769 Copper-engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. A fine example with good margins. The map shows Wickham, Wickham Court, Farnborough, Orpington, the Crays, Swanley, Chelsfield, Lullingstone, Shoreham, Chevening, Brasted and Sundridge among other more or less important places. [ref: 18291 ] £250

MAGNIFICENT DELUXE HAND-COLOURED EXAMPLE ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. KENT - A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT, IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. ON A SCALE OF TWO INCHES TO A MILE, FROM AN ACTUAL SURVEY; IN WHICH ARE EXPRESSED ALL THE ROADS, LANES, CHURCHES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMENS SEATS, ROMAN ROADS, HILLS, RIVERS, WOODS, COTTAGES AND EVERY THING REMARKABLE IN THE COUNTY; TOGETHER WITH THE DIVISION OF THE LATHES AND THEIR SUBDIVISION INTO HUNDREDS. By Jno. C. Andrews, Andw. Dury, and W. Herbert. London Printed for A. Dury in Dukes Court, St. Martins Lane and W. Herbert, at No 27 in Gulstons Square. White Chappel.. Published according to Act of Parliament January ye 1st. 1769. 1769 First edition. Folio. 16 x 21.5 inches. Each map approx. 28 x 21 inches. A Map of the County of Kent (index map) and 25 copper-engraved hand-coloured maps. The engraved title and dedication form sheets 25 and 21, and a Plan of the Town of Sandwich is located in the lower left hand corner of map 22. These maps are at a scale of two inches to the mile. Nothing larger was issued until the 25 inch Ordnance Survey maps of the mid-nineteenth century. Map 5 is signed T. Kitchin, Sculp.; Maps 2, 3, 8-10, 13, 14, 17-19 and 20 signed John Andrews, Sculp. Bound in later half morocco over marbled boards with contrasting black morocco title label, gilt. Extremities slightly worn. Maps 1824 have damage to lower corners, which has some time ago been repaired, but only marginally affecting the maps themselves with no significant loss of content. Otherwise a fine clean copy of one of the most sought after of Kent Maps. A rare atlas of the county of Kent; Andrews and Dury published their 10

famous atlas some thirty years before the Ordnance Survey, immediately becoming the best large scale maps of the county. It is thought that Edward Hasted based his maps of the Hundreds of Kent on Andrews and Dury’s work. The finely engraved hatching at once distinguishes these sheets from other maps of the period and the use of the large scale enables one to see individual houses and, particularly, the ground plans of the country seats, many of which are identified with their owners’ names; even the houses of the lesser gentry are included. A circular of 1765 sought subscriptions for this project Andrews appears to have been the principal engraver and possibly surveyor as well, Dury and Herbert were booksellers in London who backed the project. The Map was reprinted in 1775, 1779 and 1794 all the issues are rare and highly prized. The map was issued in this first edition as uncoloured sheets, and coloured in outline, and these are the most frequently seen. Deluxe copies were issued fully hand-coloured with each Hundred in a different watercolour wash and other detail picked out with great skill, as in this example. Very rare thus. Burgess, Printed Maps of Kent, 60, 61. Smith p.16. Roger 225. [ref: 21279 ] £6000 FACSIMILE REPRINT 31. ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. KENT - A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. ON A SCALE OF TWO INCHES TO A MILE, FROM AN ACTUAL SURVEY; IN WHICH ARE EXPRESSED ALL THE ROADS, LANES, CHURCHES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMENS SEATS, ROMAN ROADS, HILLS, RIVERS, WOODS, COTTAGES AND EVERY THING REMARKABLE IN THE COUNTY; TOGETHER WITH THE DIVISION OF THE LATHES AND THEIR SUBDIVISION INTO HUNDREDS. London Printed for A. Dury in Dukes Court St. Martins Lane and W. Herbert at No 27 in Gulstons Sq. White Chappel, Published according to Act of Parliament January ye 1st. 1769. but reprinted by Harry Margary, Lympne Castle Kent. 1968 Folio. Engraved title and dedication, (forming sheets 25 and 21), index map of the county and 23 copper engraved maps. Each sheet approx. 19 x 28 ins. The de-luxe edition bound in original cloth. In very good condition. A facsimile of the rare atlas of the county of Kent providing an affordable example of this great map (the original is well into four figures). Andrews and Dury published their famous atlas some thirty years before the Ordnance Survey and they immediately became the best large scale maps of the county - it is thought Edward Hasted based his maps of the Hundreds of Kent on Andrews and Dury’s work. The fine engraved hatching at once distinguishes these sheets from other maps of the period and the use of the large scale enables one to see individual houses and particularly the country seats, many of which are identified with their owners’ names. Also available in card wrappers at £75. [ref: 18867 ] £175

32. ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. KENT - A

TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT - THE INDEX MAP OF THE WHOLE COUNTY. London. 1769 Copper-engraved map, 19 x 27 inches, fully hand-coloured producing a very decorative effect. Good margins all around, a particularly attractive example. Highly detailed sheet covering the entire county. For easy reference and engraved with a twenty-five square grid shows how the larger-scale sheets are divided. Thomas Kitchin, the well known engraver, produced this map for the publishers, and it remains important in Kentish cartography as the first 'modern' survey, here shown on one map. This outline of the county became something of a classic, it was widely copied and was still being used in the late nineteenth century. Further copies of the index map are available, priced according to finish. [ref: 17934 ] £300 33. ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. KENT - A

TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT - THE INDEX MAP OF THE WHOLE COUNTY. London. 1769 Copper-engraved map, 19 x 27 inches, fully handcoloured producing a very decorative effect. This example is dissected and lain on to linen and preserved within the original slip case. Good

margins all around, a particularly attractive example. The slip case has a small paper label with the title ‘KENT’ in ink and below is an inscription ‘The gift of Mrs. C.B. Ainge to Charlotte A. Weller. 15 Sept. 1826’. On the reverse in another hand is ‘Charlotte A. Weller’ in ink, below which is the date 1833. Highly detailed sheet covering the entire county. For easy reference and engraved with a twenty-five square grid showing how the larger-scale sheets are divided. Thomas Kitchin, the wellknown engraver, produced this map for the publishers, and it remains important in Kentish cartography as the first ‘modern’ survey, here shown on one map. This outline of the county became something of a classic, it was widely copied and was still being used in the late nineteenth century. [ref: 19570 ] £225 34. ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. ROMNEY MARSH -

A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 23 - ROMNEY MARSH - RYE BROOKLAND - WALLAND MARSH. London. 1769 Copper engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. [ref: 9214 ] £175

35. ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. ROMNEY MARSH -

A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 24 - ROMNEY MARSH - LYDD NEW ROMNEY - DYMCHURCH. London. 1769 Copper engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. [ref: 9215 ] £175 36. ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. TENTERDEN - A

TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 18 - FRITTENDEN TOP LEFT TO HOTHFIELD AND ASHFORD TOP RIGHT. HAM STREET BOTTOM RIGHT. ROLVENDEN AND IDEN GREEN BOTTOM LEFT WITH TENTERDEN, HIGH HALDEN, BETHERSDEN AND WOODCHURCH ROUGHLY CENTRAL. London. 1769 Copper engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. This example is dissected and laid onto linen to form a folding map but here mounted flat. A fine example. A few sets of Andrews and Dury’s great map of Kent were dissected to form a series of folding maps, this being one such. They are quite scarce in this format. [ref: 18290 ] £250 37. ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. THAMES

ESTUARY - A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 3 - HUNDRED OF HOO SHERENESS - THAMES ESTUARY. London. 1769 Copper engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. A large area of this map is the Thames estuary, but this is dotted with sand banks and ships. The town of Sheerness is on the right at the bottom of this sheet with the mouth of the Medway separating the Isle of Sheppy and the The Isle of Grean [sic] and most of the Hundred of Hoo. [ref: 9198 ] £100 38.ANON. THE KENTISH ANGLER; OR THE YOUNG FISHERMAN’S

INSTRUCTOR; SHEWING THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF FISH WHICH ARE GENERALLY ANGLED FOR IN KENT; THEIR HAUNTS, SPAWNING TIMES ETC., RULES AND CAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED BY YOUNG ANGLERS; THE PROPER METHOD OF ANGLING FOR TROUT, CARP, PIKE, TENCH, ROACH, EELS ETC., WORM, MINNOW, CADIS, AND MAGGOT FISHING; FLY FISHING, AND THE PREPARATION OF ARTIFICIAL FLIES; AND AN ABSTRACT OF THE LAWS OF ANGLING. BY AN EXPERIENCED ANGLER. Canterbury; Printed by J. Saffery; and may be had at Goulden’s Grocery and Fishing Tackle Shop, opposite Palace Street Canterbury. 1804, but reprinted, Peter Blest, Wateringbury, Kent. 1997

12mo. Frontispiece + 40 + [1] pp. Original cloth, gilt. Upper board decorated in blind. A limited edition of 350 numbered copies. Numbers 1-25 are bound in half calf, some of which are still available at a higher price. The original of this little treatise is of legendary rarity, only two or three copies are known. This is a nicely produced facsimile. [ref: 21378 ] £25 OLDEST COUNTY MAP AND FIRST MAP OF KENT 39. ANON. [but LAMBARDE, WILLIAM ?]. THE SHYRE OF KENT,

DIUIDED INTO THE FIVE LATHES THEREOF WITH THE ROADS. [n.d. but 1570, third state, c.1720-30] Oblong map within decorative border. 14.75 x 9 inches (13.5 x 7 within borders). Upper right, crown, garter and coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth; dividers surmounting scale bar, Scala Miliarium 1-10. Borders contain a banded leaf pattern within double inner and outer lines, with the four cardinal points in Latin. Kent is engraved across the map, the sea stippled with coastal shading and flow lines along the Thames. Map has former fold lines. Lower right hand margin with decorative border is missing, but not affecting text; otherwise a fine copy. This is the earliest surviving printed map of Kent, and if shown to date from 1570, the earliest of any English county. It is also the first to show the ancient five lathes of the county. The attribution is unclear, but it may be the ‘Chart of the Shire,’ referred to by William Lambarde in the first edition of his Perambulation of Kent.’ 1576. However, a map of Kent had already been cited by Lambarde in his manuscript of the Perambulation, 1570 and it is suggested that this may be identical to the 1576 map. Taylor’s Tudor Geography considers the map may be the work of the engraver, Nicholas Reynolds. The first map of Kent, which can be dated with certainty is that of Christopher Saxton, but issued as part of a larger map, including Surrey, Sussex and Middlesex. in 1575. This version appears to be the third state, as quoted by Burgess, which includes the main roads and is dated by him to c. 1720-30. Burgess, Printed Maps of Kent web site, 2/ iii. Livett, Arch. Cant., 1938 and numerous other references. [ref: 21473 ] £3,500 40. ARCHAEOLOGIA CANTIANA: BEING THE TRANSACTIONS OF

THE KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Printed for the Society between 1858-2002 We always have in stock a large selection of odd volumes of this well-known series, at various prices, depending on age and condition. (£10-30, apart from the difficult index volumes which are more expensive). Please enquire or send a list of your requirements. [ref: 15211 ] £400 COMPLETE SET 41. ARCHAEOLOGIA CANTIANA: BEING THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Printed for the Society. 1858-2003 125 volumes. Royal 8vo and 8vo. In original cloth, gilt. A complete run with all the extra volumes and scarce indices. A good set of this invaluable periodical, which remains one of the cheapest Kent books, the disadvantage being that you need 13 feet of shelving. Some volumes are a little rubbed at the head and tail of spines, some of the cloth spines are faded (the cloths used for this periodical have varied over the years, but vols. 33-49 seem particularly susceptible to the effects of sunlight). This is not an ex-library set and is in much better than average condition. The monographs that are contained here are authoritative and wellillustrated covering every aspect of Kentish history and providing a major source for the Kentish historian. A complete run of this invaluable journal. Although now available on CD, which is very handy, the folding plates and maps are never as good as the print version and you can’t take it to bed with you. I have reduced the price by £300 so this is a snip. Free delivery anywhere in the county . ***We also have numerous individual volumes available - please enquire*** [ref: 17388 ] £550 42. ARCHER, JOHN. KENT. Engraved for Dugdale’s England and Wales

Delineated. c.1857 Engraved map 7 x 9 inches. Mounted and fully hand-coloured. An excellent example particularly well coloured. [ref: 17935 ] £50 43. ARMSTRONG, ALAN. Edited by THE ECONOMY OF KENT 1640-

1914. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge/Kent County Council. 1995 8vo. 318 pp. + 29 b/w plates with tables and figures to the text. Original black cloth. As new, in like dust wrapper. This volume, the third in the Kent History Project, complements those already published on the economy of Kent and religion and society in Kent between 1640 and 1914. This volume considers the population of Kent, its growth, mobility, and distribution; agriculture; industry; transport; labour; and the importance of the sea to the county. [ref: 18895 ] £65 44.ARMYTAGE, SIR GEORGE J., Edited by A VISITATION OF THE

COUNTY OF KENT BEGUN ANNO DNI 1663 FINISHED ANNO DNI 1668. BY SIR EDWARD BYSSHE, Kt CLARENCEUX KING OF ARMES. The Harleian Society, London. 1906 Folio. 7 x 10.5 inches. xi + 203 pp. + 20 + [4] catalogue. Bound in original burgundy cloth, gilt with gilt device of The Harleian Society to upper board. A little rubbed at extremities and spine faded. Half-title a little browned but a very good copy. Pedigrees and Arms of Kent families in the 17th century. Scarce. [ref: 20097 ] £150

45. ARNOLD, JULIAN and ANDREW AUBERTIN. OLD SANDWICH. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1983 Folio. 48 pp. with b/w photo illustration throughout. Original glossy pictorial card wrappers. Patchy fading otherwise a very good copy. The illustrations are selected mostly from old postcards and give a varied and interesting view of Sandwich during the early part of the 20th century. [ref: 16045 ] £10

46.ARNOLD, JULIAN and ANDREW AUBERTIN. OLD SANDWICH. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1983 Folio. 8.75 x 12 inches. 48 pp. with b/w photo illustration throughout. Original glossy pictorial card wrappers. Some fading of edges, otherwise a very good copy. The illustrations are selected mostly from old postcards and give a varied and interesting view of Sandwich during the early part of the 20th century. [ref: 20740 ] £10

SIGNED COPY

47. ARNOLD, RALPH. THE HUNDRED OF HOO.

London Constable 1947 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. ix + [i] + 164 pp. Half title. Illustrated by coloured frontispiece and 10 black and white photographs. Maps of Hoo Peninsular on both endpapers. Bound in original cloth, gilt in slightly chipped and protected coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Signed by author on half title. Classic account of the wild North Kent marshes and the peninsula which separates the Thames and Medway. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21722 ] £25 48. ARNOLD, RALPH. THE WHISTON MATTER. The Reverend Robert

Whiston versus the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. London Rupert Hart Davis, Soho Square 1961 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 213 pp. + [1]. Half title. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece and four other black and white plates. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt in pictorial price clipped dust wrapper. Extremities a little worn but otherwise a good, ex-Kent County Library, copy. The plot of Trollope's 'The Warden' was based on this Victorian clerical scandal, 1848-53, involving the Headmaster of Rochester Cathedral Grammar School and the Dean and Chapter. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21778 ] £12 49.ARROWSMITH, R.L. A HISTORY OF KENT COUNTY CRICKET. Readers Union. 1972 165 pp. with photo illus. Original cloth in dust wrapper. [ref: 17842 ] £15

50.ASHFORD. HEADLEY'S GUIDE TO ASHFORD AND DISTRICT. Headley Brothers, The Invicta Press, Ashford, Kent. [1936] Fourth edition. 88 pp. + coloured frontis with 2 maps, a plan of Ashford and numerous photo illustrations and adverts. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A comprehensive look at the town of Ashford and its amenities in the midthirties with some excellent photographs of the principal buildings and institutions. A very good copy of this scarce Ashford guide. [ref: 19602 ] £35

ASHFORD IN 1812 51. ASHFORD - DEARN, F.D.W. (Drawn by) AND ROSENBERGH, C. (Engraved by) ASHFORD CHURCH, KENT. DEDICATED TO ROBERT MASCALL Esq. S. Reader, Britannia Printing Office, Cranbrook, !st July 1812 Uncoloured Aquatint printed in black ink, 12 x 9.5 inches, with good margins. Mounted in conservation matterials, ready for framing. A very good example with signs of an old crease, otherwise fine. One of a series of five rare aquatint views published by Reader in Cranbrook, of Wealden churches, all drawn by Dearn. We have had examples of Goudhurst, Tenterden, Hawkhurst and Cranbrook through our hands in the past. They were issued printed in sepia and hand-coloured or, as here, printed in black and uncoloured. Both are very hard to find as they were not issued in book form, but separately published as single sheets, giving them a high mortality rate. [ref: 20553 ] £250 52. ASHWORTH CHRIS ACTION STATIONS: 9. Military airfields of the

Central South and South-East Patrick Stephens Limited Wellingborough. 1985 First edition, 8vo. 9.5x6.5 inches, 313 pp. Many photographs and maps throughout. Original orange cloth. No dustwrapper, With particular emphasis on the fighter airfields of the Second World War. Many from Kent; Walmer, Dover, New Romney, Wye, Throwley, Lympne, Manston, etc., Battle of Britain airfields and the forward air stations that were built to assist the invasion. [ref: 21767 ] £15 53. ASTBURY, A.K. ESTUARY LAND AND WATER IN THE LOWER

THAMES BASIN. Carnforth Press. 1980 [x] + 326 pp., + 41 plates, 2 figures in the text and a large folding map. Original blue cloth, gilt. Mint in like dust wrapper.

A comprehensive study of the lower river and its banks, dealing with its geology, post-glacial history, Roman sites and river crossings, pre-Roman and Roman roads, the Saxon and Danish eras, stones, churches and buildings, etc. [ref: 17392 ] £20 54. AUCTION PARTICULARS. ALKHAM. PARTICULARS AND

CONDITIONS OF SALE OF FREEHOLD AND COPYHOLD ESTATES, SITUATE IN THE PARISH OF ALKHAM, ABOUT FOUR MILES FROM DOVOR, WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MESSRS. COLEMAN AND ELWIN, AT THE FLYING HORSE INN, IN DOVOR, ON MONDAY, THE 12TH DAY OF JULY, 1847, AT THREE O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, IN 10 LOTS. Kennett and Son, Dover. 1847 Folio. 9.25 x 15.25 inches. Single folded sheet, later folded in four to display title. Title a little darkened and a few small tears along creases; otherwise fine condition. Front serves as sale poster. Includes particulars of lots and conditions of sale. [ref: 20776 ] £35 55. AUSTEN, B. ENGLISH PROVINCIAL POSTS 1633 - 1840. A study

based on Kent examples. Phillimore,Chichester. 1978 8vo. viii + 192 pp. with illustrations and map, seven appendices, refences and bibliography. Original cloth gilt with neatly price-clipped dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Fine condition. A detailed study of the methods by which the Post Office ran services outside London. [ref: 18992 ] £20 SHENNANIGANS IN NEW ROMNEY, 1727 56. AUSTEN, SIR ROBERT. THE CASE OF SIR ROBERT AUSTEN AND

SIR ROBERT FURNESE, PETITIONERS FOR NEW-ROMNEY IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. [London] No printer or date but, [1727] Folio. Single sheet letterpress broadside. 9.75 x 15 inches. With a docket title to otherwise blank verso, The Case of Sir Robert Austen and Sir Robert Furnese } Barts. Decorative initial. At some time bound into a volume and subsequently removed, inner blank margin partly cut away, traces of previous folding, and some foxing. Four lines, contemporaneously deleted in ink, but still legible. A rare printed broadside concerning the disputed New Romney parliamentary election of 1727. As a Cinque Port, New Romney returned two MPs (Barons) to Parliament from 1371 to 1832. The right to vote in elections was restricted to the Mayor and the Common Council or, as the broadside states, ‘by the Mayor, Jurats, and the Commonalty of the Corporation, and there are only two Ways of obtaining such Freedom; the one by Birth, being the Sons of Freemen, and Resident within the Corporation, and the other ex Gratia, by Election of a Common Assembly of

the Corporation.’ At the election held on 17th August 1727, the two petitioners, Sir Robert Austen and Sir Robert Furnese stood against David Papillon (who had been MP since 1722) and John Essington. All four candidates secured eleven votes each, the Mayor, John Coates, voting for Papillon and Essington. The Mayor then voted again for these two and declared them elected as MPs for New Romney. Disputing this result, the two losing candidates drew up the petition. They also pointed out that the Mayor had omitted the vote of John Mascall, an elected freeman, but had allowed the vote of Jeremiah Smith who had been refused admission as a freeman in 1724. If these irregularities were set aside, the petitioners, Austen and Furnese, would have been returned by a majority of one. It should be noted that although the petitioners claim that both Papillon and Essington were the sitting members, the list of New Romney MPs indicates that only Papillon had already been MP, whereas the other sitting MP was no less than Furnese (elected 1710, 1713 and 1722). The Petition was evidently granted for in 1728, the election results were set aside and Austen and Furnese were declared the winners. Austen therefore served as one of the New Romney MPs, 1728-34. In the case of Furnese, however, a further complication arose when he was also elected for one of the Kent county seats, which he chose to represent, rather than New Romney. Consequently the recently unseated Papillon was returned again, this time as the legitimate MP for New Romney. Papillon was re-elected in 1734 but had also been elected for Dover, which he chose to represent instead of New Romney. Austen, who had been unseated in 1734 was returned again in 1736 to serve until 1741. About seven years later John Coates was playing the same game again. As outgoing Mayor he irregularly swore in two additional freemen, without the consent of the commonalty as required, and then used their votes, with the addition of two non-residents (thereby not entitled to vote), including David Papillon, then still MP, to elect Mr Wightwick as the new Mayor. The opposing faction, however, chose Richard Elles, leading to unseemly scuffling at the swearing-in ceremony: ‘For upwards of a year there were, in fact, two Mayors acting in New Romney for part of the time two Town Clerks, and indeed something like two rival and independent administrations. It must of course, be remembered that the main functions of an eighteenth century municipal corporation were to return burgesses to Parliament, to spend the corporation property, and to feast its members’. Both sides filed writs against each other, and after three separate court hearings, judgement was passed against both mayors. After the new election of 1735 Richard Elles was sworn Mayor and Sir Robert Austen and Henry Furnese (presumably the heir of Sir Robert Furnese) were invited to come to the town and partake of an entertainment: ‘New Romney had returned to normal conditions, and the Corporation was resuming one of its three essential functions - to feast its members’. Only two copies of this broadside are recorded by COPAC; in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland. ESTC T26364. Smith, 292 Jessup, Frank W., A New Romney Mayoral Dispute (Arch. Cant., 62, 1949). [ref: 21260 ] £450 57. BAGLEY, GEOFFREY SPINK. THE BOOK OF RYE AN ANCIENT

TOWN OF THE CINQUE PORTS CONFEDERATION. 19

Barracuda Books Ltd. Buckingham. 1982 4to. 132 pp. with photo illustration throughout. Bound in original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. Particularly rich in illustration. Issued in an unspecified limited edition but 477 subscribers are listed so perhaps 500 were printed? [ref: 21385 ] £15 58. BAGSHAW, CAPTAIN HARRY. RE-FIT. UNRIGGING AND

RIGGING THAMES SPRITSAIL COASTING BARGE SCONE. Privately published by the author. 2002 Folio. viii + 184 pp. with numerous b/w photo illustrations and drawings. Original spiral binding with heavy laminated pictorial wrapper. Slight yellowing of edges, otherwise a very good copy indeed. A valuable personal and technical account indispensible for anyone undertaking rerigging of a spritsail barge. Only 78 copies printed. [ref: 20821 ] £40 59. BALDOCK, KAY and IRENE HALES. OLD MAIDSTONE. A

selection of postcards from the early years of this century. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1980 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18635 ] £10

60. BALLANTYNE, R.M. THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN

SANDS. A TALE. James Nisbet. 1884. 11th Thousand. 406 pp. with illustrations by the author. Original decorated cloth, gilt a clean bright copy. Stirring Ballantyne yarn based around the Goodwin Sands Lightships. First published in 1870, the story was immediately popular and went into several printings although it is now scarce. [ref: 21285 ] £60

61. BARFRESTONE - GILBERTSON, E. BARFRESTONE CHURCH. Sept. 7 1846 Pencil drawing, 10 x 7 inches, laid on contrasting card with frame line and title neatly executed by hand Titled and dated in pencil. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing, overall size 17 x 15 inches. A very accomplished drawing depicting the eastern end of the Norman church. Several figures appear in the fore- and middle ground, the nearest seated on the low wall round the church. This drawing was among a small number from an album of drawings of places scattered throughout England. They had all been carefully mounted on card and exquisitely handtitled. None of the drawings was signed but the album was identified as the work of E. Gilbertson. [ref: 17766 ] £100

FIRST ISSUES

62. [BARHAM, REV. R.H.] aTHE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH

AND MARVELS BY THOMAS INGOLDSBY. Richard Bentley, London. 1842 - 47. 3 volumes. Large 8vo. with engraved titles and illustrations by George Cruikshank and John Leech. Contemporary half-morocco gilt, very slightly worn at extremities, some foxing to the plates as usual, but a very good set. The Ingoldsby Legends proved very popular and three volumes, the First, Second, and Third series, comprising more than fifty tales and a Life of Barham, were respectively published in 1840, 1842, and 1847, with many subsequent editions. Thus, 1840 saw the the publication of the single volume that is the First series. 1842 saw the two volumes, namely the First edition of the Second Series and the Second and subsequent editions of the First Series. 1847 saw the First Edition of the Third Series with later editions of the First and Second Series. This makes for a number of permutations in the composition of sets. In this instance we have a Second Edition, published 1843, of the 1842 First Series; a First Edition of the 1842 Second Series; and a First Edition of the 1847 Third Series. Simplicity itself! Suffice it to say that all you need is a First, a Second, and a Third series to make up a set! [ref: 17614 ] £200 63. [BARHAM, REV. R.H.] THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. Illustrated by

Cruickshank, Leech, and Tenniel. Richard Bentley and Son. 1881 Folio. Approximately 8 x 11 inches. 64 pp., with 40 woodcut illustrations. Bound in grey-green cloth preserving the original illustrated paper wrappers. The ‘People’s Edition’ of the famous tales. A scarce survivor in this format. [ref: 18213 ] £45 LOVAT FRASER’S COPY 64.[BARHAM, REV. R.H.] THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS Or Mirth and

Marvels. By Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq. Edited by his daughter Mrs Edward A. Bond. Eighty-eighth edition. In three volumes. London Richard Bentley and Son. 1894 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Vol.I. xliv. + 283 pp. + [1]; Vol.II. viii + 280 pp; Vol.III. x + 336 pp. Half titles. Title pages in red and black. Illustrated by 28 plates including frontispiece and portrait, three engraved titles in red and black, one folding in sepia, one facsimile and by numerous engravings in text. Illustrations by Leech, Cruikshank, Tenniel, etc. Decorated with publisher’s device on title pages. Bound in original calf with gilt borders; spine in compartments with raised bands decorated gilt, with contrasting maroon and green title labels, gilt. Inner dentelles. Top edges gilt, others deckled. Slight wear to extremities but otherwise a very fine copy. Armorial bookplate of Alexander Fraser, with manuscript inscription gifting the book to his grandson, Lovat Fraser, 1900, and later bookplate of the latter. Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845), Church of England clergyman, was born in Canterbury and his father living in Tappington Everard House, the

location of the first story. His knowledge of Kentish legends was developed during his residences as a curate in Ashford and Westwell, and subsequently in the livings of Snargate and Warehorne, until he moved to London in 1821: ‘And he would be not long in discovering that, dull and dreary as Romney Marsh may have been in times when railways were not and Folkestone was an insignificant fishing village, it was not without matter of interest and amusement’ (Memoir). A note in Vol. III lists the principal editions published by Richard Bentley, the author’s old school friend; the first, second and third series, first appearing in book form in in 1840, 1842 and 1846 respectively. Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921) was an English artist, related to the Lovat chiefs of the Fraser clan, whose crest is on the first bookplate. After his war service, he became friendly with Paul Nash, and died while on holiday with him at Dymchurch. [ref: 21714 ] £150 65. [BARHAM, REV. R.H.] THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH

AND MARVELS. Henry Frowde, 1905 527 pp. with engraved illus. by Cruikshank, Leech, Tenniel &c. Finely bound in full “tree”calf, spine tooled and gilt. The Oxford edition with the full text and and the original illustrations together with a brief life of Barham. [ref: 21349 ] £50 66.[BARHAM, REV. R.H.] THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH

AND MARVELS. By Thomas Ingoldsby Esquire Henry Frowde, 1905 527 pp. with engraved illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech, Tenniel etc. Finely bound in full tree calf, spine tooled and gilt. The Oxford edition with the full text and and the original illustrations together with a brief life of Barham. [ref: 21351 ] £50 67. BARHAM, REV. RICHARD HARRIS. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF

THE REV. RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM. AUTHOR OF INGOLDSBY LEGENDS: WITH A SELECTION OF HIS MISCELLANEOUS POEMS BY HIS SON. Richard Bentley. l870 First edition. 2 volumes with frontis portrait. Original cloth gilt. Extremities slightly worn, otherwise a very good copy. The scarce and very entertaining biographical memoir of the author of Ingoldsby Legends by his son. Barham was for some time vicar of Snargate and knew the smugglers and country folk, listened to their tales, some of which were to emerge in the 'Legends'. Barham was also a friend of other novelists and writers of his day and many letters to them are reprinted here. His life spans the years 1788 - 1844 and it sheds much light on Kent in this

period. The poems are included in this first edition. We have another example of this title in half-morocco binding at the same price [ref: 14347 ] £125 68. BARNWELL, P.S. and ADAMS, A.T. THE HOUSE WITHIN.

INTERPRETING MEDIEVAL HOUSES IN KENT. London Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. HMSO. 1994 4to. 8.5 x 11 inches, xii + 163 pp. + [1]. Half-title. Illustrated by black and white photographs, plans, sections and maps throughout. Original coloured laminated card wrappers as issued. A very good copy. One of three volumes resulting from a project to survey some 450 houses in sixty parishes. A useful reference work, now out of print, and due to the small print run it has become difficult to find. [ref: 21168 ] £65 69.BATEMAN, AUDREY. VICTORIAN CANTERBURY. A close look at

day-to-day life in the Cathedral City 1837-1901 Barracuda Books 1991 4to. 144 pp. illustrated throughout with endpaper maps. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper, slightly faded on spine. Small neat bookplate lightly attached to front paste down. A social history, well-illustrated. [ref: 19065 ] £15 70. BATES, H.E. A BREATH OF FRENCH AIR.

The Book Club, 121 Charing Cross Road nd but c 1960 First Edition of the Book Club Edition, 184 pp. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy of the first edition of the Book Club Edition, of the second of the ‘Larkin’ series of novels. The dust wrapper design bears a remarkable resemblance to that of the original by Broom Lynne but, although competently executed, is simply a pastiche. [ref: 19900 ] £25 71. BATES, H.E. THE DISTANT HORNS OF SUMMER.

Michael Joseph, 1967

First Edition. 8vo. 277 pp. Original cloth in dust wrapper designed by Broom

Lynne, book and wrapper in very good condition. First Edition. [ref: 19885 ] £30 72. BATES, H.E. IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY. ILLUSTRATED BY

C. F. TUNNICLIFFE. Country Life. 1942 First edition. 4to. ix + 150 pp. with 14 fine wood-engravings by Tunnicliffe. Bound in original cloth, gilt. In very good condition in the original, unclipped dust wrapper, which has slight chipping to the head and tail of the spine, not affecting the lettering. A very good copy. The book describes something of what the Southern English countryside was like during the first two winters and summers of war. Bates's prose

combined with Tunnicliffe's fine illustrations make this a most attractive book. [ref: 19605 ] £65 73. BATES, H.E. A MOMENT IN TIME.

Michael Joseph. 1964. First Edition, 247 pp. Original cloth in the scarce dust wrapper designed by Richard Barton, title page and fore-edge a little foxed but a good copy. H.E. Bates's famous story set in Kent during the Battle of Britain. Eads A100a [ref: 20852 ] £35 74. BATES, H.E. THE PURPLE PLAIN Michael Joseph, 1947. First edition. 224 pp. Original cloth in dust wrapper, which is chipped at the base of the spine with loss of publishers name and front panel is also chipped, but a reasonable copy. [ref: 19899 ] £25 75. [BATES, H.E.] THERE’S FREEDOM IN THE AIR. The Official Story of

the Allied Air Forces from the Occupied Countries. H.M.S.O. 1944 4to., 36 pp. with photo illustration. Original photo-illustrated wrappers as issued. A very good copy. Anonymous Ministry of Information pamphlet. Scarce. [ref: 20654 ] £20 76. BATES, H.E. THE VANISHED WORLD. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY,

VOLUME ONE. Michael Joseph, 1969 189 pp. Illustrated by John Ward. Original cloth, gilt, in price-clipped dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition of the first volume of the autobiographical trilogy. [ref: 19886 ] £30

77. BATES, H.E. WHEN THE GREEN WOODS LAUGH. Michael Joseph. 1960 First Edition. 157 pp. Original cloth in a very good, unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Broom Lynne. A very good copy of the first edition. The third of the “Larkin” series of novels. [ref: 16501 ] £30 78. BAVINGTON JONES, J. DOVER A PERAMBULATION OF THE

TOWN, PORT AND FORTRESS. Printed and Published at the ‘Dover Express’ Printing works, 185 Snargate Street, Dover, 1907 First Edition. 8vo. frontis. + viii + 451 pp.+ [1]. Illustrated by [29] plates, including

plans. Original red cloth gilt. A slight nick to head of spine, otherwise a tight, bright copy in very good condition. The scarce history and description of the town, which was compiled with the typical thoroughness of the author. All his books are now very hard to find. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 20905 ] £120 79. BAXTER, G.G., K.A. OWEN and P. BALDOCK. AIRCRAFT

CASUALTIES IN KENT, PART 1: 1939 TO 1940. Kent Aviation Historical Research Society. Meresborough Books. 1990 8vo. 126 pp. Original laminated pictorial boards. A very good copy. Standard work, now out of print. [ref: 19517 ] £20 80. BEARSTED AND THURNHAM HISTORY BOOK

COMMITTEE. A HISTORY OF BEARSTED AND THURNHAM. The Bearsted and Thurnham Book Committee. [1978] 8vo. 6 x 8.5 inches. xiii + [1] + 188 pp. + [6] p. blank pages for notes. Illustrated with maps and drawings in text. In original pictorial card wrappers. Some browning of edges, otherwise in good condition. Ownership inscription of Elizabeth Melling. History of two adjoining parishes, east of Maidstone, illustrated with original drawings. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 21182 ] £12 BOYS FAMILY HISTORY 81. BEHRENS, LILIAN BOYS. UNDER THIRTY SEVEN KINGS. LEGENDS OF KENT AND RECORDS OF THE FAMILY OF BOYS. The Saint Catherine Press, Stamford Street, London, S.E. 1926 4to. 8 x 11 inches. frontis. + [xii] + 163 pp. [8], A-K8, L-L4. 34 illustrations, including photographic plates, brasses and others in the text. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Spine and board edges sunned. Deckle edges. Occasional spotting but otherwise fine inside. A very good copy. Scarce and important history of the Boys family from the Norman conquest to the 19th century, with many references to other Kentish families - and to major and minor events in Kentish history. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20301 ] £250 82.BELLOC, HILAIRE. THE OLD ROAD. Illustrated by William Hyde.

Constable. 1911 8vo. xii + 296 pp. with maps, including folding map at end, and original illustrations by William Hyde. Original decorated cloth. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Slight wear on corners of boards.

First Edition of the most famous of the descriptive accounts of the old Pilgrim's Road. [ref: 19036 ] £70 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR

83.BENENDEN - [HEMSTED HOUSE] A WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

OF HEMSTED HOUSE, BENENDEN. [c.1830-40] Watercolour. 19 x 13 inches. The watercolour is untitled, but depicts old Hemsted House, near the village of Benenden in Kent. The Tudor mansion is set in wooded parkland and there are two groups of sheep grazing in the foreground and middle distance. Hemsted was a separate manor within Benenden Parish and passed through many generations of the Guldeford family. It may have been rebuilt around the time of Queen Elizabeth’s visit, in the 1570s. It was sold to Admiral of the Fleet, Sir John Norris after 1719 and later to the Hodges family in 1788. At the time of the painting, which is extracted from an album used by several generations of the family at Hemsted and at Jennings, near Maidstone, the house was in the possession of Thomas Law Hodges. He was Liberal MP for Kent from 1830-32 and for West Kent from 1832 until the dissolution of Parliament in 1841; he was again elected in 1847 and sat until defeated in 1852. He died 14 May 1857. Hemsted House was subsequently sold and demolished by its new owner, Gathorne Hardy, later Lord Cranbrook, and replaced by a new building which is the basis for Benenden School, one of the top private girls’ schools in the country. An attractive watercolour, valuable for its portrayal of old Hemsted House before its demolition around 1860. Hasted [ref: 19760 ] £250 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR 84. BENENDEN WATERCOLOUR PAINTING. BENENDEN CHURCH, 1839 REV’D MR. BOYS’S HOUSE - THE RECTORY - 1839. 1839 Watercolour. 21 x 14.25 inches. The titles and initials of the painter, FDF. fecit, are supplied by a separate caption, attached below the print in the original album. The watercolour shows the church at the top of a sloping field grazed by sheep, with three rustic figures on its edge (this land may have been the ‘Playstool,’ which Hasted records as ‘formerly used as a bowling-green by the local gentry.’) To the left is the ‘rectory,’ of the title (actually the vicarage). At the time of the painting, the Reverend Daniel Boys, MA, had been vicar since 1805. He died in 1857, aged eighty. The church had been partly rebuilt following a fire caused by lightning in 1672, which had destroyed its wooden belfry. Coincidentally, the Reverend Boys also held the living of Brookland on Romney Marsh, a church which has managed to retain its detached wooden belfry. The church, was again partly remodelled to suit Victorian tastes in the early 1860s at the instigation of Gathorne

Hardy, the new owner of the Hemsted estate and an aggressive rebuilder. Hasted (1798) records that before the Cranbrook-Tenterden turnpike road was completed, ‘the roads were so deep in winter...that within these fifty years Sir John Norris, whilst he resided at Hemsted, was forced to have his coach drawn to church in the common waggon track, by six oxen, one before the other, as the only means of conveyance to it.’ This painting has been extracted from an album used by several generations of the family of Thomas Law Hodges at his properties of Hemsted, near Benenden and Jennings, near Maidstone. They had married into many of the other local landed families and were in the habit of visiting each other’s houses and estates. Hodges was Liberal M.P. for Kent from 1830-32 and for West Kent from 1832 until the dissolution of Parliament in 1841; he was again elected in 1847 and sat until defeated in 1852. He died 14 May 1857. Hemsted House was subsequently sold and demolished by its new owner, Gathorne Hardy, later Lord Cranbrook, and replaced by a new building which is the basis for Benenden School, one of the top private girls’ schools in the country. An attractive watercolour, full of interesting detail, recording the appearance of Benenden Church before its mid-Victorian restoration. [ref: 19759 ] £250 85. BENHAM, HARVEY. DOWN TOPS'L. THE STORY OF THE EAST

COAST SAILING- BARGES. Harrap. 1971 Second edition revised. 192 pp. with photo illustrations. Original blue cloth. A very good copy in a like dust wrapper. [ref: 20791 ] £20 86. BENHAM, HARVEY and ROGER FINCH. THE BIG BARGES.

THE STORY OF BOOMIE AND KETCH BARGES. George G. Harrap. 1983 186 pp. with photo illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt. A fine copy in like dust wrapper. Boomsail or ketch barges were the big brothers of the spritsail barges. [ref: 20807 ] £30 87. BENNETT, A.S. TIDE TIME. George Allen and Unwin. 1949 8vo. 165 pp. with numerous b/w photo illustrations. Original terracotta cloth. A very good copy. The author’s story of his nautical life from yachting via wartime Royal Navy coastal craft to barge sailing. [ref: 20818 ] £30 88. BENNETT, A.S. US BARGEMEN. [By] A.S. Bennett Author of ‘June

of Rochester’ and ‘Tide Time.’ Rainham Meresborough Books, 7 Station Road, Rainham, Kent, ME8 7RS. 1980 Large 8vo. 6 x 8.5 inches. 199 pp + [1] + [2] pp., including advertisements. Half-title. Illustrated with four maps on endpapers and black and white

photographs. In pictorial boards. Extremities a little worn, otherwise fine condition. A story of life on the Sailing Barge Henry along the rivers and coasts of Kent and Essex. Arthur Bennett was born into a Kent barging family; although he never worked in the trade himself, he was thoroughly familiar with it and lived with his family on ’ June’ of Rochester before the war, buying ‘Henry’ in 1949. [ref: 21123 ] £15 89. BERGESS, WYN and STEPHEN SAGE. FIVE MEDWAY

VILLAGES. A pictorial history of Aylsford, Burham, Wouldham, Eccles and Borstal. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1983 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18644 ] £10 90. BETHERSDEN. A TRUE AND PERFECT INVENTORY OF ALL THE

GOODS AND CHATTELS OF RICHARD WARD, LATE OF BETHERSDEN IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, TAYLOR, DECEASED: MADE, TAKEN AND APPRISED THE 1 AND 20TH DAY OF FEBRUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTIE FOUR Old folds, vellum discoloured in places, but in very good condition. [ref: 15525 ] £200 91. BIGGS, HOWARD. THE SOUND OF MAROONS. THE STORY OF

LIFE SAVING SERVICES ON THE KENT AND SUSSEX COASTS. Lavenham, Terence Dalton, 1977. 4to. 176 pp. with illustration throughout. Original white cloth. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Well-researched history. [ref: 21322 ] £25 92. BIGNELL, ALAN. HOPPING DOWN IN KENT.

Robert Hale. 1977. 176 pp., with illustrations. Original cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. A fine copy . A good general history of hops and hop pickers, and the trade therein. Out of print and now become quite scarce. [ref: 18038 ] £30 93. BIGNELL, ALAN. KENT HEADLINES.

Countryside Books, Newbury. 1989 127 pp. Pictorial soft cover. A very good copy. Headline news stories from the county’s past . [ref: 19606 ] £10 94.BIGNELL, ALAN. KENT SHIPWRECKS. Countryside Books, Newbury. 1991 126 pp. with illustrations Paperback in original wrappers. A clean copy.

A history and survey of some of the most interesting Kentish shipwrecks [ref: 13110 ] £10 95. BIGNELL, ALAN. THE KENT VILLAGE BOOK. With Illustrations by

Arthur Prosser. Countryside Books, Newbury. 1986 192 pp. with illustrations. Paperback in original wrappers. A clean copy. A good general history and survey of most of the more interesting and picturesque villages in the county. [ref: 15834 ] £10 96.BIGNELL, ALAN. KENT VILLAGES. (The Village Series).

London Robert Hale. 1975 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. 191 pp. + [1]. Half title. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like pictorial dust wrapper. A good general history and survey of most of the more interesting and picturesque villages in the county. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 18467 ] £12 97. BIRCHINGTON - BARRETT, J.P. A HISTORY OF THE VILLE OF

BIRCHINGTON, THANET, KENT. Printed at ‘Keble’s Gazette’ Office. 1893,1908 Second edition. Comprising the original edition 227 pp. + 29 b/w illustrations with an additional 15 pp. printed and added later. Original printed papercovered boards. Occasional foxing and repairs to 2 pages otherwise a very good copy of a scarce book. A well-compiled account. [ref: 18611 ] £100 COUNTY AVI-FAUNA WITH HAND-COLOURED PLATES 98. BIRDS - BALSTON, R.J., REV. C.W. SHEPHERD and E. BARTLETT. NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF KENT. R. H. Porter, 7 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, London. 1907 First Edition, 8vo. xix + 465 pp., with a photo frontis and 8 hand-coloured lithographic plates and a coloured folding map. Original cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Some foxing on the half title and the corresponding leaf at the rear of the book, which leads me to think that this sheet of paper is inferior to that used for the text and plates, as the book is otherwise clean and tidy. A very good copy. The fine plates for this nicely produced book are by the famous bird artist J. Smit and are the last of their kind; a twentieth century survivor of the nineteenth century hand-finished bird book. Scarce work of county avifauna of which only 300 copies were printed. [ref: 17219 ] £375

99.BIRDS - GILLHAM, E.H. and R.C. HOMES. THE BIRDS OF THE

NORTH KENT MARSHES. Collins. 1950 First Edition. 8vo. 320 pp. with maps, diagrams and photo illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper designed by Stephen Russ. Wrapper chipped and repaired otherwise very good. Classic of modern ornithology describing the nationally important Kentish wetlands. [ref: 18523 ] £35 100. BIRDS - HARRISON, JAMES. M. THE BIRDS OF KENT. With

illustrations in colour by the author. Witherby. 1953 Two volumes. 4to. 11 x 8 inches. Vol.I. xv + 510 pp.with 49 plates, some coloured. Vol.II. xi + 314 pp. +[1] with 31 plates, some coloured. Coloured plates are all full-page. Original cloth gilt. A fine example. The standard monograph now long out of print. [ref: 16311 ] £110 101. BIRDS - TAYLOR, D.W., D.L. DAVENPORT, and J.J.M.

FLEGG. THE BIRDS OF KENT. A REVIEW OF THEIR STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION. Kent Ornithological Society 1981 440 pp. with maps, diagrams and photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper, upper part of wrapper slightly yellow, but a good copy of the original hard bound edition. Standard work. Copies of the paperback edition available at £15 [ref: 17929 ] £25 102. BISHOP, C.H. FOLKESTONE. THE STORY OF A TOWN. Headley Bros., Ashford. 1982 Revised edition 153 pp., with maps and photo illustration. Original cloth, gilt. Near fine in very good unclipped dust wrapper. Standard modern history of the town. Now long out of print. The revision was the addition of an index. [ref: 21737 ] £20

NEW BIOGRAPHY OF HASTED. 103. BLACK, SHIRLEY BURGOYNE. EDWARD HASTED, THE HISTORIAN OF KENT. Darenth Valley Publications, Otford, Kent. 2001 xiv + 469 pp. + 23 monochrome plates. Blue cloth, gilt to spine, in dust wrapper. As new. The life of Edward Hasted, 1732-1812, whose popularity as an historian is undiminished today, was one of extremes. Despite his reduction from country squire to inmate of a debtor’s prison, he remained single-minded about his work of writing a definitive history of Kent, work which occupied forty years of his life. Here is the background to that magnum opus. [ref: 20094 ] £25

104. BLACK'S. GUIDE TO KENT. J. E. Morris, Ed. Edinburgh, A. and C. Black. 1928 122 + 36 pp. with folding maps and photo illustrations throughout. Original decorated cloth. A good copy of the standard Black's early 20th century guide to the county. [ref: 7692 ] £10 105. BLAEU, J. CANTIUM VERNACULE KENT. [ENGRAVED MAP OF

KENT]. Amsterdam Joan Blaeu. 1646 Double-page copper-engraved map, 15 x 21 inches, uncoloured with very large margins from the second Blaeu issue with latin text on the reverse. A very fine example. Joan Blaeu’s attractive map of the county, combining all the fine points of Dutch cartography at the height of its influence. With eight coats of arms and a fine title cartouche, this sheet is finished with five well-engraved sailing ships dotting the sea . The map was first issued in 1645-62. This comes from the second issue, with latin text on the reverse, and is a fine dark impression. [ref: 17938 ] £500 106. BLAEU, J. CANTIUM VERNACULE KENT. [ENGRAVED MAP OF

KENT]. [P. Mortier] Amsterdam 1645, but 1714-15 Double-page copper-engraved map, 15 x 21 inches, in fine contemporaneous hand-colouring. Mounted in conservation board. A very fine example. Joan Blaeu’s attractive map of the county, combining all the fine points of Dutch cartography at the height of its influence. With eight coats of arms and fine title cartouche, this colourful sheet is finished with five wellengraved sailing ships dotting the sea. First issued in 1645-62. This impression of the plate is the very last issue of this map with a grid added, showing degrees and minutes. Issued in 1714-15 by P. Mortier in his composite Atlas. Despite the late date the plate is still very crisp and the quality of the original hand-colouring is very fine. [ref: 15471 ] £600 107. BLAKE, LEWIS. BROMLEY IN THE FRONT LINE. THE STORY OF

THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY UNDER ENEMY AIR ATTACK IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.... Published by the author. 1983 96 pp.with b/w illustration. Original pictorial card wrappers. A little stained otherwise a very good copy signed by the author. Scarce. [ref: 18470 ] £15 108. BLAXLAND, GREGORY. SOUTH-EAST BRITAIN - ETERNAL

BATTLEGROUND. Rainham, Meresborough Books. 1981

160 pp. with sketches by the author. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Useful. Contains a concise account of every battle fought in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Middlesex and London. [ref: 12238 ] £12 109. BLIGH, ALLAN L. Compiled and edited by SEASHORE AND

COUNTRYSIDE AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK FOR HOMES AND HOLIDAYS IN DISTRICTS SERVED BY THE SOUTH-EASTERN AND CHATHAM RAILWAY Published for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Company by Killby, Bligh and Co., Ltd., 34 Essex Street, London, W.C. No date but c.1912 Second edition. 170 pp. including numerous pictorial advertisements. Original coloured pictorial paper wrappers. Some loss to head and tail of spine otherwise a very good copy. Filled with details of 43 of the principal towns served by the railway, including rail fares and ticket prices. At the time of publication the fastest journey between London and Folkestone took 89 minutes. [ref: 19519 ] £45 110. BLOOMFIELD, AVRIL. STROOD A PICTORIAL HISTORY. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1977 Folio. 62 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial boards. Large format photographic history. [ref: 18686 ] £15 111. BONAVIA, MICHAEL R. THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN

RAILWAY. Unwin Hyman, 1987. 195 pp. with photo illus. Original cloth in dustwrapper. [ref: 19559 ] £15 112. BOORMAN, H. R. PRATT. HELL'S CORNER 1940. KENT

BECOMES THE BATTLEFIELD OF BRITAIN. Kent Messenger, Maidstone 1942. 8vo. 5 x 7.5 inches, vi + 128 pp. with photographic illustrations. Original pale blue cloth in scarce, unclipped, dust wrapper. Wrapper has been neatly preserved in self-adhesive film. A fine copy. The illustrations from the Messenger's archives and the conversational first hand accounts give a good idea of just what it was like to live and work in 'Hellfire Corner'. [ref: 21755 ] £25 113. BOORMAN, H. R. PRATT. KENT UNCONQUERED. By H. R. Pratt

Boorman M.B.E., M.A., F.J.I. Editor and Proprietor of the ‘Kent Messenger,’ the County Paper of Kent. [Maidstone]: Kent Messenger. 1951 4to. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. [218] pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, a very nice copy.

A compilation of photographs from the Kent Messenger files on the county in the Second World War. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 20743 ] £20 114. BOORMAN, H.R. PRATT. ASHFORD’S PROGRESS; THE

DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPORTANT TOWN. Kent Messenger. 1977 203 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A good copy. [ref: 17968 ] £20 115. BOORMAN, H.R. PRATT. KENT AND THE CINQUE PORTS.

Ashford Kent Messenger. 1957 4to. 10.75 x 805 inches, 167 pp. with photo illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good photographic survey of the Cinque Ports. Completed just after the Second World War, much war damage is still evident. [ref: 21074 ] £30 116. BOORMAN, H.R. PRATT. KENT OUR GLORIOUS HERITAGE

Kent Messenger 1950. 4to. 10.75 x 8.5 inches, 152 pp. with photo illus throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Photographic record of the county before the motorcar became allpervasive. [ref: 20462 ] £30 117. BOORMAN, H.R. PRATT. KENTISH PRIDE.

Kent Messenger, Maidstone. 1952 4to. 10.75 x 8.5 inches, 180 pp., unpaginated with photo illustration throughout. Original cloth, gilt, in near mint condition. A great compilation of photographs from the Kent Messenger’s archives. A companion to ‘Kent Our Glorious Heritage’ [ref: 16825 ] £25

118. BOORMAN, H.R. PRATT. PICTURES OF MAIDSTONE THE

COUNTY TOWN OF KENT. Kent Messenger, 1965. 4to. 229 pp. with photo illus. throughout. Published to celebrate 150 years of service to the town by the Kentish Gazette. Scarce. [ref: 20853 ] £40

119. BOORMAN, H.R. PRATT. SPIRIT OF KENT. THE RT. HON. LORD

CORNWALLIS. Kent Messenger. 1968. 458 pp. with illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. [ref: 21751 ] £20.00 120. BOORMAN, H.R. PRATT and V.J. TORR. KENT CHURCHES. By

H. R. Pratt Boorman M.B.E., M.A., F.J.I. AND V. J. Torr of the Kent Archaeological Survey. Maidstone Kent Messenger. 1972 4to. 8.75 x 11 inches. [16] + 173 pp. + [3] pp. Half title. Illustrated by black and white photographs throughout. Original purple cloth, gilt in pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy. 1972 reprint of the 1954 edition. An excellent comparative photographic record, thoughtfully contrasting similar features in churches often miles apart. We have a second similar copy. Kent Bibliography [ref: 19006 ] £35 121. BOSWORTH, GEORGE F. KENT.

Cambridge University Press. 1922 12 mo. 7 x 4.5 inches, x + 146 pp. With maps and diagrams and numerous illustrations. Original cloth, gilt in near mint condition in the original dust wrapper. Wonderfully evocative old school textbook designed for the ‘Lower forms and classes of our schools’. The text was first printed in 1901, by George Phillip, and this is a later issue now updated and taken over by C.U.P. and called ‘pocket edition’. [ref: 20888 ] £15 122. BOURGEOIS, SIR FRANCIS and R. EARLOW. SMUGGLERS

ATTACK’D. FROM THE ORIGINAL PICTURE IN THE COLLECTION OF Tho. Sam. JOLLIFFE Esq. THIS PLATE IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY HIS MUCH OBLIGED AND OBEDIENT SERVANT B. B. EVANS. B. B. Evans in the Poultry, London. October 1st. 1793 Large black aquatint 17 x 25 inches. Old closed tear, but a good example. Large, separately published print. Dramatic engraving with a group of smugglers being attacked by mounted soldiers (dragoons?). There is a known partner to this view, ‘The Smugglers Defeated’. [ref: 8382 ] £300 DUTCH IN THE MEDWAY 123. BOUTTATS, GÉRARD. L’ABBRUCCIAMENTO FATTO DA GLI VASCELLI OLANDESI DI QUELLI DE GLI INGLESI NELLA REVEERA[?] DI CATTAM ANNO 1666 24 DI AGOSTO. [THE BURNING BY DUTCH VESSELS OF THOSE OF THE ENGLISH IN THE PORT[?] OF CHATHAM AUGUST 24TH 1666]

Amsterdam 1667 Uncoloured copper engraving 17 x 13 inches. Even slight browning and traces of old folds but a very good example. A double-panel Dutch chart from an unidentified news sheet of the period. The chart on the left shows the entrance to the Thames and the coast of East Anglia and Kent. The plan on the right shows the Medway and Sheerness being attacked by the large Dutch flotilla. The date shown on this Dutch chart says the attack was in 1666. In fact the attack took place between 1214th June 1667. The title inscription is in Italian. Very scarce. [ref: 17941 ] £350 SMALL BOWEN’S KENT 1751 124. BOWEN, EMANUEL. [A MAP OF] KENT DRAWN FROM SURVEYS

AND THE BEST MODERN MAPS BY E. BOWEN GEOG., TO HIS MAJESTY. ENGRAVED FOR THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. London, Printed for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Paul’s Church Yard. 1751 Copper-engraved map, 8 x 8 inches. Traces of old folds but a very good example. The county map engraved for the Universal Magazine, which was a fashionable periodical of the day. A small but detailed map with a decorative rococo cartouche and the arms of Canterbury. [ref: 18000 ] £80 SMALL BOWEN’S KENT 1756 125. BOWEN, EMANUEL. KENT DIVIDED INTO ITS LATHES.

CONTAINING THE CITIES BOROUGHS AND MARKET TOWNS WITH THE ROADS AND DISTANCES. Engraved for the General Magazine of Arts & Sciences for W. Owen at Temple Bar. 1756 Hand-coloured copper engraving 8 x 7.5 inches. Attractive map of Kent, similar to that published for the Universal Magazine in 1751 but with numerous differences. [ref: 17974 ] £100 SMALL BOWEN’S KENT 1751 126. BOWEN, EMANUEL. KENT DRAWN FROM SURVEYS AND THE BEST MODERN MAPS BY E. BOWEN GEOG., TO HIS MAJESTY. ENGRAVED FOR THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. London, Printed for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Paul’s Church Yard. 1751 Hand-coloured copper-engraved map, 8 x 8 inches, mounted, framed and glazed using conservation materials. Overall size 14 x 14 inches. Traces of old folds but a very good example, nicely coloured. The county map engraved for the Universal Magazine, which was a fashionable periodical of the day. A small but detailed map with a decorative rococo cartouche and the arms of Canterbury. [ref: 15514 ] £165

LARGEST BOWEN AND KITCHIN’S KENT 1760

127. BOWEN, EMANUEL AND THOMAS KITCHIN. AN ACCURATE

MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT DIVIDED INTO ITS LATHES, AND SUBDIVIDED INTO HUNDREDS. DRAWN FROM SURVEYS, AND MOST APPROVED MODERN MAPS, WITH VARIOUS ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS: ILLUSTRATED WITH HISTORICAL EXTRACTS, RELATIVE TO THE AIR, SOIL, NATURAL PRODUCE, MANUFACTURES, TRADE AND PRESENT STATE OF ITS CITIES AND PRINCIPAL TOWNS. BY EMAN: BOWEN GEOGRAPHER TO HIS MAJESTY. London printed for Robert Sayer in Fleet Street, Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard, n.d. but [1760] Copper-engraved map, 21 x 27.5 inches, in original hand-colouring. A fine, clean example with good margins. This is the largest of Bowen’s classic eighteenth century maps of the county. From Bowen and Kitchin’s Large English Atlas which was published over a period of eleven years between 1749 and 1760, and forms a highly important series of large scale English county maps, some of the best produced in the eighteenth century. Crammed with information, detailed notes of historical and topographical facts fill all the available space surrounding the map. Inset is a chart of the Downs and, completing this imposing sheet, a large pictorial and allegorical cartouche depicting the maritime and agricultural importance of the county [ref: 15659 ] £550 SMALLEST OF BOWEN AND KITCHIN’S KENT 1767 128. BOWEN, EMANUEL AND THOMAS KITCHIN KENT DIVIDED INTO ITS LATHES. AND SUBDIVIDED INTO HUNDREDS; EXHIBITING THE CITIES, BOROUGH AND MARKET TOWNS WITH CONCISE HISTORICAL EXTRACTS, RELATING TO TRADE AND MANUFACTURERS. DESCRIBING ALSO THE CHURCH LIVINGS WITH IMPROVEMENTS NOT INSERTED IN ANY OTHER SET OF HALF SHEET COUNTY MAPS EXTANT. [Thomas Kitchin in Atlas Anglicanus] 1767 Hand-coloured copper engraving. 9 x 12.5 inches. A fine example in very attractive colour. Atlas Anglicanus was first published in 1767 by Thomas Kitchin issuing the Bowens’ large maps on a reduced scale making them more easily affordable. Such was its popularity that a second edition was issued in 1777. [ref: 17976 ] £250 129. BOX, PETER. PADDLE STEAMERS OF THE THAMES. Tempus, Stroud. 2000 128 pp. profusely illustrated in b/w. Original pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. [ref: 20795 ] £10 130. BOYLE, JOHN. IN QUEST OF HASTED. Phillimore. 1984

4to.146 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. The first book about Kent's great historian. Now out of print. [ref: 10754 ] £15 131. BOYLE, JOHN. RURAL KENT. With drawings by John L.Berbiers.

Robert Hale. 1976 Oblong 8vo. 192 pp. illustrated throughout with drawings. Original cloth gilt in pictorial dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Charming illustrated study of Kent countryside and villages. [ref: 19040 ] £12 RARE FIRST ISSUE OF BOYS’ AGRICULTURE OF KENT. 132. BOYS, JOHN. GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE COUNTY OF KENT, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEANS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT. By John Boys, of Betshanger, Farmer, Drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. Brentford: Printed by P. Norbury. 1794 4to. 107 pp. + [1] + folding table. p.6 misnumbered 5. Illustrated by small woodcuts in text. Lacks half-title, and the extremely scarce map, which we have only seen once, and is not recorded in a large number of copies. Disbound copy in fine clean condition. This is the rare preliminary issue of Boys’ report, part of the extensive series of reports drawn up for the first Board of Agriculture on the conditions of farming throughout the country. It is the first draft format which Boys, a Kentish farmer from Betteshanger, circulated to the principal farmers in the county, 'in order that every person, interested in the welfare of that county may have it...to examine it fully before it is published....any remark or... observation which may occur to the reader....may be written on the margin, and...returned to the Board of Agriculture before the First of March next.' Thus most copies of this format were returned to the Board, and the observations incorporated into the first published edition (1796). This edition is not recorded in the Kent bibliography and is therefore very rare. ESTC T40369. Smith p.84. Kress B2655. Perkins, 207. [ref: 20664 ] £185

133. BOYS, JOHN. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE

COUNTY OF KENT WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEANS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT. For G. Nichol, 1796

First edition. xiv + 206 + (1) pp. with a hand-coloured copper-engraved map, folding table and 2 engraved plates. On the front paste-down is the book plate of the Russell family (Dukes of Bedford) showing the crest, comprising a goat passant encircled by the motto ‘Che Sara Sara’, beneath a Ducal Coronet. Below are the words Woburn Abbey and the date 1873, contemporaneous with the 11th Duke. Bound in original half calf, gilt, over paper boards. A very good, clean neat copy. Boys’ report was first issued two years earlier in draft form as part of the extensive series of reports drawn up for the Board of Agriculture on the conditions of farming throughout the country, designed to be returned to the Board with each farmer’s comments to be edited and incorporated into this final report. Thus, this is the first definitive edition. Boys, a Kentish farmer from Betteshanger, edited and considerably enlarged the original report with the additions and comments from other farmers in the county. [ref: 20912 ] £450 134. BRADLEY, A. G. ENGLAND'S OUTPOST. THE COUNTRY OF THE

KENTISH CINQUE PORTS Robert Scott n.d. but 1927 First edition. 400 pp. with a map and illustrations by Fred. Adcock. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. Covers the whole of the Cinque Ports. Bradley's historical and conversational text and the charming line illustrations make this a highly readable depiction of Kent just after the First World War. [ref: 21332 ] £20 135. BRADLEY, A.G. AN OLD GATE OF ENGLAND. RYE, ROMNEY

MARSH, AND THE WESTERN CINQUE PORTS. Robert Scott. 1920 Second impression. 374 pp., with original illustrations by Marian E.G. Bradley. Original cloth, gilt. Split at front hinge otherwise a very good copy. Contains a wealth of anecdotal and factual information on the Romney Marshes and the towns therein, as well as Rye and Hastings. [ref: 9709 ] £18 136. BRADLEY, A.G. AN OLD GATE OF ENGLAND. RYE, ROMNEY

MARSH, AND THE WESTERN CINQUE PORTS. Robert Scott. 1925 Third Impression, 374 pp., with original illustrations by Marian E.G. Bradley. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. Contains a wealth of anecdotal and factual information on the Romney Marshes and the towns therein, as well as Rye and Hastings. [ref: 15386 ] £18 137. BRADSHAW, J. and others of the Kent Underground

Research Group. KENT AND EAST SUSSEX UNDERGROUND. Meresborough Books. 1991 128 pp. with b/w photo illustration and diagrams and drawings to the text. Laminated pictorial card wrappers. Fine copy

“..... South-East England has a huge variety of underground features ranging from simple pits dug for agricultural chalk (deneholes) to extensive subterranean quarries from which thousands of tons of stone were excavated. There are also natural caves, old military tunnels and shelters and countless wells and cess-pits.” [ref: 18472 ] £10 138. BRAMSTON, REV. W. A HISTORY OF THE ABBEY CHURCH OF

MINSTER. ISLE OF SHEPPEY, KENT. With a Description of the Monuments, and other matters relating to the Ancient Parish. London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ld. No date but c.1903. Small 8vo. 5 x 7.5 inches. 92 pp. with one plate and a wood engravings. A scarce monograph on this ancient parish. [ref: 21665 ] £35 139. BRASTED - CAVE-BROWNE, J. THE HISTORY OF BRASTED, ITS

MANOR, PARISH, AND CHURCH. J.H. Jewell, Westerham. 1874 vii + 55ac pp. + frontis albumen-type of Brasted Church + genealogical table of the owners of Brasted Park. Original cream cloth, gilt, Boards a little dusty, otherwise a very good copy. Inscribed ‘The Rev. Canon Marsden from his old friend E***** Shand ,May 1874’. [ref: 19400 ] £150 CANTERBURY IN 1572 140. BRAUN, GEORG. and FRANS HOGENBERG. CANTVARBURY. CANTUARIA VRBS FERTILIS SIMAE ANGLIAE CELEBRIS; ARCHIEPISCOPATI SEDE, COMMENDATA. Cologne 1572 Copper engraved plate, 17 x 12 inches, in fine hand-colouring. Latin text on verso. Mounted in conservation materials. A fine dark impression of the plate with good margins, some marginal discolouration but an outstanding example. The Canterbury plate from, Braun and Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the great celebration of the European city, published between 1572 and 1617 and illustrated with 363 plates. A remarkable series of engravings, incorporating an astonishing wealth of detail, giving an impression of the economy, status, wealth and the social structure of each town, even the costume of the local inhabitants is delineated. Canterbury was issued in the first volume published in 1572 with descriptive text on the verso of each plate. Three language versions were produced; Latin, German and Italian, this is the Latin edition. The Latin version was reissued several times before 1600 and, as the plate was unaltered, it is impossible to determine from which issue an individual map comes. [ref: 20645 ] £850

141. BRENTNALL, MARGARET. THE CINQUE PORTS AND ROMNEY

MARSH. John Gifford. 1972 266 pp., with folding map and numerous coloured illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. The first edition of this useful modern guide. [ref: 19624 ] £10 142. BRENTNALL, MARGARET. THE CINQUE PORTS AND ROMNEY

MARSH. John Gifford. 1980 266 pp., with folding map and numerous coloured illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. The second enlarged edition of this useful modern guide. [ref: 8192 ] £10 143. BROADSIDE. TEN POUNDS REWARD. STOLEN - A BAY MARE.

STOLEN From out of a Marsh in Woolwich Road, on the Morning of the 2nd Instant, A BAY MARE, Aged 5 Years, about Fifteen Hands high, two White Legs behind , and the off Leg before white, with a white blaze down her Face, a speck on the near Knee, had a long bushy Tail when stolen, and is a remarkably round barrelled neat Mare. Whoever will give Information to Mr. FARMER, Streights Mouth, Greenwich, shall receive a Reward of TEN POUNDS, on the Conviction of the Offender. Greenwich, June 2nd, 1830. Greenwich 1830, Helyer, Printer, (Minerva Office) London Street, Greenwich, where Bills relating to Robberies, Losses, etc. are printed with all possible dispatch. Broadside, 9 x 11 inches, printed one side as issued. The interesting use of typography brings attention to this rare broadside, few of which, by their very nature, survive. A good example. Slight loss and minor fraying of lower margin but text unaffected [ref: 18309 ] £150 144. BROADSIDE SONGSHEET. THE KENTISH GARLAND. Printed and sold by J. Pitts, Seven Dials. Price One Penny. No date but 18th C. Oblong folio. 13 x 8 inches. Printed folded sheet with woodcut portrait of a woman followed by 26 eight-line verses. Slight loss to upper and lower left corners, the latter affecting the first four lines of the second verse; fragmentation of top right corner affecting five lines but all lyrics still legible, and very small tears to right margin and lower corner without loss. The two halves have parted for three-quarters of the depth of the sheet, through seven of the verses, but without loss and leaving the lyrics legible. Rare. Julia Vaynes, in her 2-volume work ‘The Kentish Garland’, records a number of differences between the Roxburghe, Douce and Cumberland versions of the Ballad, some of which are shared by this version. However, study of her notes suggests that this is another, possibly unrecorded version. The ballad was published as early as 1720 but we have been unable to date this version accurately.

[ref: 14250 ] £100 145. BROADSTAIRS. THE BROADSTAIRS PIER ORDER AND

SCHEDULE OF HARBOUR RATES. Board of Trade and Carter, Printer, Broadstairs. 1883 and 1879 Folio. ii + 13 pp + [iv] + [6] pp. Bound in modern half-calf, gilt. A very good copy. Scarce Board of Trade order for the management of Broadstairs Pier, together with the Schedule of Dues for landing goods at the pier. [ref: 19513 ] £125 146. BROADY, JUNE. (Compiled by.) HYTHE. The Archive

Photographs Series. Chalford Publishing Co., Trowbridge. 1995 128 pp. Illustrated throughout. Pictorial soft cover. A very good copy. From the library of author David Collyer. [ref: 18136 ] £10 147. BROOKE, JOCELYN. CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS, A NOVEL.

Faber and Faber, 24 Russell Square. 1961 8vo. 192 pp. Original cloth in the scarce, unclipped, dust wrapper. A near mint copy in like dust wrapper. This late book, described as a ‘comedy of manners’ in the blurb, was his last published novel and very hard to find in good condition. ‘I was nearly fifty, and the coming winter became identified, in my mind, with the melancholy prospect of old age...’ In five years Jocelyn was dead. [ref: 17649 ] £100 148. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE CRISIS IN BULGARIA. OR IBSEN TO

THE RESCUE! Chatto and Windus. 1956 4to. 90 + [1] pp. illustrated throughout by the author. Original red cloth, gilt, in the scarce, and unclipped, dust wrapper designed by John Woodcock, which is slightly faded on spine and with some staining, but a very good copy. A curious Brooke item in which he indulged his fascination with the surreal, and his skill in producing collage, cut from Edwardian newspapers and ingeniously assembled, to produce bizarre images, reminiscent of the work of Terry Gilliam for Monty Python many years later. This is a near-mint example of a title very hard to find in good condition. [ref: 15379 ] £95

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY 149. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE CRISIS IN BULGARIA. OR IBSEN TO

THE RESCUE! Chatto & Windus. 1956

4to. 90 + [1] pp. illustrated throughout by the author. Original card wrappers, a very good copy. An uncorrected publisher’s proof copy with a second printing of one of the illustrations pasted over the first, which seems to have been quite altered. Proof copies of Brooke’s books are not common. A curious Brooke item in which he indulged his fascination with the surreal, and his skill in producing collage, cut from Edwardian newspapers and ingeniously assembled, to produce bizarre images reminiscent of the work of Terry Gilliam for Monty Python many years later. [ref: 15380 ] £135 150. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE ELEMENTS OF DEATH AND OTHER

POEMS. POEMS IN PAMPHLET 1952. XII JOCELYN BROOKE. Hand and Flower Press, Aldington. 1952 First edition, 36 pp., (paginated 351-383) with inserted compliments slip of The Listener, the BBC magazine, marked ‘With the Compliments of the Editor, and in Brooke’s hand ‘And a Happy New Year to you, dear Roy’ and initialled ‘JB’. Original printed card wrappers a very good copy. Jocelyn gave this copy to Roy Fuller, poet and literary figure. The Hand & Flower press was the child of Erica Marks who lived at Aldington and cultivated a literary circle, including young Jocelyn Brooke. The Poets in Pamphlet (this being number 12) were issued as a bound anthology as well as sold separately, hence the strange pagination. The print runs were very small and all their titles are scarce and this, Jocelyn’s second published book of poems was not a runaway success. [ref: 17776 ] £85 151. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE GOOSE CATHEDRAL. The Bodley Head. 1950 First edition. 186 pp. Original cloth in the rare dust wrapper, which has a small chip missing from the shoulder of the front panel and small amount from the top of the spine, not affecting the lettering. Front free endpaper clipped. Centred on Folkestone, Sandgate and the Elham valley, this is the third part of Brooke’s brilliant autobiographical reminiscence which has become known as the ‘Orchid Trilogy’. [ref: 15509 ] £55 152. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE GOOSE CATHEDRAL. The Bodley Head. 1950 First edition. 186 pp. Original cloth in the rare, unclipped dust wrapper, which has a small closed tear to the top of the spine, not affecting the lettering, and a small closed tear to the back upper edge. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Third part of Brooke’s brilliant autobiographical reminiscence, centred on Folkestone, Sandgate and the Elham valley, which has become known as the ‘Orchid Trilogy’. [ref: 17652 ] £85 153. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE GOOSE CATHEDRAL.

The Bodley Head. 1950 First edition. 186 pp. Original cloth, lacking wrapper. A good copy. Third part of Brooke’s brilliant autobiographical reminiscence, centred on Folkestone, Sandgate and the Elham valley, which has become known as the ‘Orchid Trilogy’. [ref: 17780 ] £20 154. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE GOOSE CATHEDRAL.

The Bodley Head. 1950 First edition. 186 pp. Original cloth in the rare dust wrapper, which is priceclipped. A little faded towards the fore-edge with tape-burns to the inside upper and lower edges that are visible from the outside and one or two small closed tears. Third part of Brooke’s brilliant autobiographical reminiscence, centred on Folkestone, Sandgate and the Elham valley, which has become known as the ‘Orchid Trilogy’. [ref: 17794 ] £85 155. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE MILITARY ORCHID.

The Bodley Head. 1948 First Edition, 134 pp. with coloured frontis and decorations by Stephen Bone. Original cloth in the scarce, unclipped dust wrapper, slightly chipped at the head and tail of the spine, and a little dust-stained, otherwise a very good copy. The scarce first issue of the first part of ‘The Orchid Trilogy’. [ref: 17783 ] £110 156. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE MILITARY ORCHID.

The Bodley Head. 1948 First Edition, second impression,134 pp., with coloured frontis and decorations by Stephen Bone. Original cloth in the second impression, priceclipped dust wrapper. Slightly chipped at the head and tail of the spine, and a little dust-stained, otherwise a very good copy. The scarce first issue of the first part of ‘The Orchid Trilogy’. The wrapper on this copy is from the second impression, which on the face of it is identical but the blurb at the front is different, the press comments on the rear flap do not appear in the first edition and the rear panel portrait of Brooke and small blurb below have been substituted with notices of the publication of the companion volumes ‘A Mine of Serpents’ and ‘The Goose Cathedral’. [ref: 19472 ] £85

157. BROOKE, JOCELYN. A MINE OF SERPENTS.

Bodley Head. 1949 First Edition. 252 pp. with photo illustration and decorations by Stephen Bone. Original cloth in the scarce dust wrapper which has a some large chips from the head and tail of the spine, affecting the lettering and design. Otherwise a very good copy.

Second volume of the "Orchid Trilogy". [ref: 15612 ] £30 158. BROOKE, JOCELYN. A MINE OF SERPENTS. Bodley Head. 1949 First Edition. 252 pp. with photo illustration and decorations by Stephen Bone. Original cloth in the scarce, unclipped dust wrapper, which has one or two small closed tears but lettering and design unaffected. A very good copy. [ref: 17651 ] £85 159. BROOKE, JOCELYN. THE PENGUIN NEW WRITING. EDITED BY

JOHN LEHMANN. No. 37. Penguin Books. 1949 128 pp. + 16 pages of illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers as issued. A very good copy - hard to find in this condition. Contains a photogravure portrait of Jocelyn Brooke. [ref: 17779 ] £15 160. BROOKE, JOCELYN. PRIVATE VIEW, FOUR PORTRAITS.

James Barrie. 1954 First Edition. 178 pp. A very good copy in the scarce, unclipped dust wrapper. Fore edge a little foxed. A quartet of wonderfully observed character studies of people we have encountered elsewhere in his novels, all in Brooke’s inimitable style. [ref: 15427 ] £45 161. BROOKE, JOCELYN. RONALD FIRBANK. Arthur Barker, London. 1951 First edition. 102 pp. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. Part of the ‘English Novelist’ series. Brooke’s full length critical essay on a favourite author. [ref: 15377 ] £35 162. BROOKE, JOCELYN. [CONTRIBUTES] THE PENGUIN NEW

WRITING. EDITED BY JOHN LEHMANN. No. 25. Penguin Books. 1945 192 pp. + 8 pages of illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers as issued. A very good copy - hard to find in this condition. Jocelyn Brooke contributes a two-page poem entitled ‘April : Italy, 1944’, first published here. At this time Jocelyn has yet to drop his first Christian name of Bernard and signs himself as B. J. Brooke. [ref: 16893 ] £15 163. BROOKE, JOCELYN. [CONTRIBUTES] THE PENGUIN NEW

WRITING. EDITED BY JOHN LEHMANN. No. 28. Penguin Books. 1946 187 pp. + 10 pages of illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers as issued. A very good copy - hard to find in this condition.

Jocelyn Brooke contributes a one-page poem entitled ‘Equinox’, first published here. [ref: 16892 ] £15 164. BROOKE, JOCELYN. [CONTRIBUTES] THE PENGUIN NEW

WRITING. EDITED BY JOHN LEHMANN. No. 36. Penguin Books. 1947 158 pp. + 17 pages of illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers as issued. A very good copy - hard to find in this condition. Jocelyn Brooke contributes a one-page poem entitled ‘February Evening’, first published here. [ref: 16890 ] £15 165. BROOKE, JOCELYN. [CONTRIBUTES] THE PENGUIN NEW

WRITING. EDITED BY JOHN LEHMANN. No. 29. Penguin Books. 1947 186 pp. + 10 pages of illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers as issued. A very good copy - hard to find in this condition. Jocelyn Brooke contributes a short story of 14 pages entitled ‘The Blanket’, which is an interlude in Brooke’s army life during the Second World War in Italy, first published here. [ref: 16891 ] £15 166. BROOKE, JOCELYN. [CONTRIBUTES] THE PENGUIN NEW

WRITING. EDITED BY JOHN LEHMANN. No. 31. Penguin Books. 1947 183 pp. + 8 pages of illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers as issued. A very good copy - hard to find in this condition. Jocelyn Brooke contributes a short story of 12 pages entitled ‘Blackthorn Winter’, about a ‘brief encounter’ during wartime, first published here. [ref: 17778 ] £15 167. BROOKS, ROBIN J. KENT AIRFIELDS IN THE SECOND WORLD

WAR. Countryside Books, Newbury. 1998 8vo., 287 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original laminated boards. As new. Useful history, now out of print. [ref: 16930 ] £15 168. BROOKS, ROBIN J. KENT’S OWN. THE HISTORY OF 500

(COUNTY OF KENT) SQUADRON ROYAL AUXILIARY AIR FORCE. Meresborough Books. 1982 158 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated boards. A fine copy with the bookplate of historian David Collyer. Useful history now out of print. ref: [18408 ] £15 169. BROWN, R.J. OLD HOUSES AND COTTAGES OF KENT. London Robert Hale. 1994

8vo. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 270 pp. Half-title. Illustrated by 132 pen and ink drawings by author, including 20 double page. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Near fine condition. Of the numerous books on Kent vernacular architecture, this title is certainly one of the finest. The well researched study of medieval and post-medieval houses and of the different building types and materials, is profusely illustrated by the author’s own splendid pen and ink drawings. [ref: 21227 ] £15 170. BUCKNALL, RIXON. BOAT TRAINS AND CHANNEL PACKETS.

The English Short Sea Routes. London Vincent Stuart 1957 First edition. 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches. xi + [i] + 218 pp. Half title. Illustrated by coloured frontispiece, numerous maps and plans in text in text and section of photographic plates at end, pp. 173-218. Bound in original yellow cloth in the scarce coloured pictorial dust wrapper, which is in fine condition, as is the book. This remains the standard work on the subject, and the only one to bring the cross-channel steamers and the boat trains together in one volume, covering both Dover and Folkestone; very well illustrated. We have another similar copy, with slightly chipped dust wrapper, at the same price. [ref: 20876 ] £45 171. BURNHAM, P. and S. MCRAE. KENT THE GARDEN OF

ENGLAND. Paul Norbury Publications, Tenterden, 1978 4to. xviii + 176 pp. Illus throughout. A very good copy in dust wrapper. An interesting work by two environmental scientists from Wye College, who using their expertise relate the history and development of Kent to agriculture and geology showing why and how our landscape has developed as it has. [ref: 19804 ] £20 172. BURTT, FRANK. STEAMERS OF THE THAMES AND MEDWAY. Richard Tilling, 1949 First edition. 192 pp. with colour frontispiece and photo illustrations. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. Covering vessels from the early nineteenth century to the date of publication, with numerous illustrations. A scarce title on the river steamers; scarcer still in a dust wrapper. [ref: 19654 ] £75 173. BURTT, FRANK. STEAMERS OF THE THAMES AND MEDWAY. Richard Tilling, 1949. First Edition, 8vo. 192 pp. with colour frontis and photo illustrations throughout. Original red cloth, gilt. Scarce and most comprehensive title on the Passenger Steam Boats confined to the Thames and Medway and Estuary, forming a companion work to his

well known Cross-Channel and Coastal Paddle Steamers. These are still the best works on the subject. [ref: 21325 ] £45 174. BURTT, FRANK. STEAMERS OF THE THAMES AND MEDWAY.

Roadmaster Publishing, Chatham. 1997 Facsimile reprint of the 1949 first edition. 192 pp. with b/w frontispiece and photo illustrations. Original dark blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. Covering vessels from the early nineteenth century to the date of publication, with numerous illustrations. Scarce as a first edition. [ref: 20789 ] £25 175. BUSHELL, T. A. THE BARRACUDA GUIDE TO COUNTY HISTORY

SERIES, VOLUME 1, KENT. Barracuda Books Ltd. Buckingham. 1976 8vo. xii +134 pp. + xiii-xlii with photo illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper, a very good copy. The principal people, places and events of the county’s history in date order, 2500BC-AD1973; with indices to places and people and a comprehensive entry-related source index. A useful work in which I often find surprising information. [ref: 17460 ] £25 176. BUTLER, DEREK. (Compiled by) CANTERBURY IN OLD

PHOTOGRAPHS. Alan Sutton. 1989 159 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original glossy paper wrappers. Part of the popular soft-bound ‘Britain in old photographs’ series. [ref: 15019 ] £10

177. CALDER, NIGEL. THE ENGLISH CHANNEL Chatto and Windus. 1986 First edition. 373 pp., with photo illustration. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Calder, well-known for his science writing, is also a yachtsman who cruises the channel. This book is a mix of science, history and travel from his own experience. [ref: 10757 ] £12

178. CALTON, ROBERT BELL. ANNALS AND LEGENDS OF CALAIS.

WITH SKETCHES OF ÉMIGRÉ NOTABILITIES, AND MEMOIR OF LADY HAMILTON. John Russell Smith, London. 1852 First Edition. 8vo. viii + 220 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's catalogue. Illustrated with a

lithographic frontis and some small wood-engravings in the text. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine faded and worn at extremities but a very good copy. An entertaining and interesting work on the history of Calais, whose history is so bound up with England and the English. [ref: 16415 ] £75 CAMDEN'S BRITANNIA. KENT. From the Edition of 1789 by Richard Gough. Annotated and edited by Gordon J. Copley. London Hutchinson. 1977 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches. xxvii + [v] + 96 pp. with illustrations. Half title. Illustrated with reproductions of black and white engravings in text, with portrait frontispiece. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. In fine condition. First published in 1586 and one of the fundamental source books of any county's history. This edition has been comprehensively annotated in the light of modern research. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 21364 ] £15 179. CAMPBELL, MARJORIE A. THE STORY OF GUIDING IN KENT

1910-1960. Compiled by Marjorie A. Campbell. [s.l.] [The Girl Guides Association. County of Kent]. Printed by Perry, Son and Lack Ltd. Lowfield Works, Dartford. No date but 1961 8vo. 5 x 7.25 inches. [ii] + 81 pp. + [1]. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white photographic plates and by facsimiles in text. Decorated with Association’s badge on title page. Bound in stiff blue card wrappers with county badge on front. Spine and edges of wrappers sunned and a little foxing; otherwise good condition. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 21715 ] £15 180. CANTERBURY. DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CATHEDRAL

CHURCH OF CANTERBURY, ILLUSTRATED WITH TEN HIGHLYFINISHED LINE ENGRAVINGS, FROM DRAWINGS TAKEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK, WITH A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF ST. AUGUSTINE’S MONASTERY, NOW CONVERTED INTO A MISSIONARY COLLEGE, FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. FIFTH EDITION. Published by Henry Ward, 8, Mercery Lane, Canterbury. 1850 4to. 48 pp. + 10 full-page steel engraved plates, one a folding ground plan. Period cloth, rebacked, and internal hinges reinforced. Some foxing to plates otherwise a very good copy. A curious work by Henry Ward, despite his assertion that the ‘plates were from

drawings taken expressly for this work’ they are off-prints from Winkles well-known work on Cathedrals and the only original material is that on the new repairs, death of W. Howley Late Archbishop of Canterbury and the founding of the new Missionary College of St. Augustine’s. [ref: 17488 ] £200 181. CANTERBURY. PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT

CITY OF CANTERBURY. Cross and Jackman 1927 138 pp. + [2 pp.] with folding street plan and photo illustration throughout. Original printed wrappers. Very good copy of this 1920's guide to the city with interesting adverts and photographs. [ref: 19617 ] £30

182. CANTERBURY. S.E. VIEW OF THE ABBEY OF ST. AUGUSTINE

WITH ETHELBERT’S TOWER IN THE ENVIRONS OF CANTERBURY. T. Hastings, sculp. Published by the author. 1812 Hand-coloured etching, 8 x 9 inches, mounted in conservation board. An attractive view. Published in “Vestiges of Antiquity, or a series of Etchings and Engravings of the ancient Monastery of St. Augustine, with the Cathedral, Castle, and other Antiquities in the Suburbs of the Metropolitan City of Canterbury”. A rare work of 12 engraved plates. [ref: 8866 ] £55 ORIGINAL SOURCES ON THOMAS BECKET

183. CANTERBURY - ABBOTT, EDWIN A. ST. THOMAS OF

CANTERBURY HIS DEATH AND MIRACLES. By Edwin A. Abbott, M.A., D.D. Formerly Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge and Hulsean Lecturer, author of ‘Philochristus’ ‘Onesimus’ Etc. Vol. I and Vol. II. Adam and Charles Black, London. 1898 Two volumes. Large 8vo. 6 x 9.25 inches. Vol.I. Frontis + xv + [1] + 333 pp. + [1] + [2] pp. advertisements. Illustrated with one plate, serving as frontispiece. Vol.II. vii + [1] + 326 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements. Both volumes have halftitle. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Spines and top of boards faded, extremities lightly worn. Pages deckle edged. Bookplate of Museum and Public Library, Maidstone, 1915, on front paste-downs. A scholarly edition of the original sources concerned with the martyrdom and subsequent miracles attributed to Thomas Becket (c.1120-1170), Archbishop of Canterbury. The accounts are translated into English, with the Latin versions in notes below. In Vol.II the extracts detailing the miracles are arranged in parallel texts. Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) spent most of his career as an innovative Headmaster of the City of London School and was notable for his teaching of languages and of English literature. His writings included studies of English grammar and numerous theological works. An essential source for the study of Becket. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20127 ] £145

ROMAN STATION AT RICHBOROUGH, 1745 184. CANTERBURY - BATTELY, JOHN. JOANNIS BATTELY S.T.P.

ARCHIADIACONI CANTUARIENSIS OPERA POSTHUMA. VIZ. ANTIQUATES RUTUPINAE ET ANTIQUATATES S. EDMUNDI BURGI AD ANNUM 1272 PERDUCTAE. [With a separate title page to each part:] ANTIQUITATES RUTUPINAE. Autore Joanne Battely S.T.P. Archiacono Cantuariensi. Editio Secunda. ANTIQUITATES S. EDMUNDI BURGI AD ANNUM MCCLXXII PERDUCTAE. Autore Joanne Battely S.T.P. Archidiacono Cantuariensi. Opus Posthumum. Text in Latin. E Theatro Sheldoniano, Oxoniae. 1745 Second edition. 4to. 8.5 x 11 inches. [ii]; Rutupinae, [xiv] + 138 pp. Illustrated with 13 plates, including four folding and three vignettes including one title page, and capital at beginning of text; [8], A-R4, S-S1; [ii]; S. Edmundi Burgi, [ii] + 164 pp. Illustrated with three plates, including one folding and one vignette at beginning of text. [2], A-U4, X-X2. General title page and separate title page and register for each part with additional half title for part two. Bound in original full calf with gilt borders to boards. Spine rebacked with original cloth decorated gilt, divided into compartments with decorated raised bands; new red morocco label and marbled endpapers. Slight traces of browning but otherwise a clean crisp interior. John Battely (1646-1708), clergyman and antiquary, was educated in his home town of Bury St Edmunds and at Trinity, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1675 and his links to his adopted county of Kent developed after his appointment as chaplain to two successive Archbishops of Canterbury. He was collated to the rectories of Hunton and Adisham, Kent in 1684, to the achdeaconry of Canterbury in 1688 and in the following year he received a canonry of the cathedral and was inducted as master of Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury. His own religion being ‘untainted by superstition on the one side, or enthusiasm on the other,’ his main concern was the study of the history of Kent and to demonstrate the Anglo-Saxon roots of the Anglican church (DNB). He became a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1708. None of his research was published in his lifetime and the Antiquitates Rutupinae did not appear until 1711. This account in Latin of the Roman stations of Thanet, and especially of Richborough, the Roman Rutupiae, was cast as a dialogue between Battely and Henry Wharton and Henry Maurice, two of his fellow chaplains at Lambeth Palace. The second edition was published by his nephew, Oliver Battely (1697-1762) with the hitherto unprinted history of Bury St Edmunds to the year 1272, the two works together recording the Battely’s range of historical research from Suffolk to Kent. The Rev. John Duncombe, one of the Six Preachers, published an English translation in an octavo format in 1774. A handsomely printed, large format edition illustrated with sixteen engraved plates and maps and four vignettes. ESTC T91281 Smith, p.273-4 [ref: 20009 ] £250 50

185. CANTERBURY - BENNETT-GOLDNEY, FRANCIS. (Compiled

by). THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT CITY OF CANTERBURY. OFFICIAL GUIDE. FULLY ILLUSTRATED. Cross and Jackman. Canterbury 1923 Fourth edition. 100 pp. + original yellow wrappers, with folding street plan and photo illustrations throughout. Original printed wrappers. Very good copy of this early guide to the city, with interesting adverts and photographs. These early twentieth-century guides have now become scarce. [ref: 19662 ] £40 ST. THOMAS BECKET IN ART 186. CANTERBURY - BORENIUS, TANCRED. ST.THOMAS BECKET IN ART. London: Methuen & Co.Ltd. 1932 4to. xix + 122 pp. illustrated with 44 black and white plates. Original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. Some pages uncut. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Slight discolouration on edges of front boards and dust wrapper but generally fine condition for age. The first adequate survey of the images of the Archbishop-Saint in European art, abundantly illustrated, mostly from littleknown material. A scarce title. [ref: 19013 ] £45

187. CANTERBURY - BOYLE, JOHN. PORTRAIT OF CANTERBURY.

Robert Hale. 1974 8vo. 192 pp. Photographic illustrations. First edition. Original cloth gilt in edge worn dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. A readable and interesting modern survey, with good illustrations. [ref: 19045 ] £25 FINE VIEW OF CANTERBURY IN 1572 188. CANTERBURY - BRAUN, GEORG and FRANS HOGENBERG. CANTVARBURY. CANTUARIA VRBS FERTILIS SIMAE ANGLIAE CELEBRIS; ARCHIEPISCOPATI SEDE, COMMENDATA. Cologne 1572 Copper engraved plate, 17 x 12 inches in fine original hand-colouring. Latin text on verso. Mounted framed and double glazed with conservation materials. A fine dark impression of the plate with good margins. An outstanding example.

The Canterbury plate from Braun & Hogenberg’s Civitates orbis Terrarum, the great celebration of the European city published between 1572 and 1617 and illustrated with 363 plates. A remarkable series of engravings incorporating an astonishing detail, giving an impression of the economy, status, wealth and the social structure of each town; even the costume of the local inhabitants is depicted. Canterbury was issued in the first volume published in 1572 with descriptive text on the verso of each plate. Three language versions were produced; Latin, German and Italian, this is the Latin edition, which was reissued several times. [ref: 20605 ] £1000 189. CANTERBURY - BRENT, JOHN. CANTERBURY IN THE OLDEN

TIME. bound with FELIX SUMMERLY’S HAND-BOOK FOR CANTERBURY: Its Historical Associations and Works of Art... [edited by] John Brent A.Ginder, Publisher, Canterbury, Bell and Daldy, London. 1860 Small 8vo. 5 x 7 inches. JOHN BRENT: First edition. Wood-engraved frontis, lithographed title page + vi + 117 pp. FELIX SUMMERLY: A New Edition, Revised, with Additions. A folding map of the City and its vicinity, a folding plan of the Cathedral + woodengraved frontis + 3 wood-engraved plates + vi + 118 pp. with numerous woodcuts to the text + [20] pp. adverts. Bound in original green cloth, with gilt title to spine and embossed titles to upper and lower boards. John Brent, a Canterbury councillor and Alderman had a keen interest in the history of Canterbury and Kent. He became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in April 1853, and was also a member of the British Archaeological Association and the Kent Archaeological Society. In 1855 Brent was asked to revise Felix Summerly's Handbook for Canterbury, and in 1860 his own well-received book on the city appeared, Canterbury in the Olden Time, which was an enlarged version of a paper originally published in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association and which appeared as a companion volume to the Handbook. Felix Summerly was a pseudonym for Sir Henry Cole, whose Hand-Book for Canterbury had originally been published in 1843. Cole was a remarkable man whose achievements are too great to list here. Suffice it to say that he was at the centre of the group of people that organized the Great Exhibition and, rather more prosaically, commissioned and published the first Christmas card. The two authors’ works complimented one another, as the former concentrated on the institutions (justice, political history, guilds and fraternities, etc.), whereas the latter focussed on the fabric of the city (the cathedral and churches, the city walls and Dane John, St. Augustine’s Monastery, the nunneries, hospitals, etc.). Each work is scarce in its own right and doubly so as a combined volume. [ref: 19945 ] £175

190. CANTERBURY - BRENT, JOHN. CANTERBURY IN THE OLDEN

TIME. Second Edition - Enlarged with numerous illustrations. By John Brent, F.S.A. London Simpkin Marshall, and Co.; Hal Drury and A. Grinder, Canterbury. 1879. 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. viii + 312 pp. Illustrated by 31 lithographed (3 hand coloured) and wood engraved plates, two additional numbered plates and by numerous woodcuts in text Bound in original purple cloth, gilt, with bevelled edges, decorated with blind stamped borders and gilt roundel on front board. Extremities a little worn and spine sunned; otherwise a very good copy. Booksellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s label of F. Wetherhead 17, George Lane Folkestone on front pastedown and bookplate. The much enlarged edition - contains a wealth of detail on the city. John Brent, a Canterbury councillor and Alderman had a keen interest in the history of Canterbury and Kent. He became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in April 1853, and was also a member of the British Archaeological Association and the Kent Archaeological Society. In 1855 Brent was asked to revise Felix Summerly's Handbook for Canterbury, and in 1860 the first edition of his own well-received book on the city appeared, Canterbury in the Olden Time, which was an enlarged version of a paper originally published in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association and which appeared as a companion volume to the Handbook. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 18531 ] ÂŁ65 191. CANTERBURY - BRENT, JOHN. CANTERBURY IN THE OLDEN

TIME. Second Edition - Enlarged, with numerous illustrations. By John Brent, F.S.A. London Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Hal Drury and A. Ginder, Canterbury. 1879. 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. viii + 312 pp., with errata slip tipped-in at end. Illustrated by 31 lithographed (3 coloured) and wood engraved plates, two additional unnumbered plates and by numerous woodcuts in text. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, with bevelled edges, decorated with blind stamped borders and gilt roundel on front board. Extremities worn and some past damage due to damp on lower left hand edge of front board; otherwise in good condition. The much enlarged edition - contains a wealth of detail on the city. John Brent, a Canterbury councillor and Alderman had a keen interest in the history of Canterbury and Kent. He became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in April 1853, and was also a member of the British Archaeological Association and the Kent Archaeological Society. In 1855 Brent was asked to revise Felix Summerly's Handbook for Canterbury, and in 1860 the first edition of his own well-received book on the city appeared, Canterbury in the Olden Time, which was an enlarged version of a paper originally published in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association and which appeared as a companion volume to the Handbook. Kent Bibliography Supplement 53

[ref: 21749 ] £65 FINE ENGRAVINGS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL 192. CANTERBURY - BRITTON, JOHN THE HISTORY AND

ANTIQUITIES OF THE METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY; Illustrated by a Series of Engraving of Views, Elevations, Plans, and Details of the Architecture of that Edifice with Biographical Anecdotes of the Archbishops, etc. By John Britton, F.S.A. etc. M.A.Nattali,19, Southampton-Street, Covent Garden, London. 1836 4to. 9.5 x 12 inches. [ii] + 114 pp. [2], [A]-[A4], BO4, P1. Illustrated by 26 engraved plates, plate 20, serving as the engraved title. Plates (other than architectural) drawn by George Cattermole and engraved by J. Le Keux. Bound in original green cloth, with black morocco label, gilt. Extremities slightly worn and sunning to top and inside of rear board. Pages deckle edged and occasional foxing. Otherwise fine and clean interior. John Britton (1771-1857) was an antiquary and photographer, born near Chippenham, Wiltshire. In 1789 he first met Edward Brayley in a Clerkenwell bookshop and began a long partnership with him, including the twenty-seven volume compilation of The Beauties of England from 1801, based on extensive fieldwork, which he partly wrote and edited. His architectural work culminated in the Cathedral Antiquities of England, published in fourteen volumes, 1814-1835. These pioneered the use of measured plans, sections and elevations to explain the principles of English Gothic to the reader but seven planned volumes did not appear as the substitution of steel engraving for copperplate made further work on the series uneconomic. This 1836 reprint of the Canterbury volume is less common in libraries than the original 1821 edition. A fine copy of this very scarce volume which is still one of the best essays on the architecture of the cathedral. COPAC Smith (1821 edn.) DNB [ref: 19967 ] £250

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL DESCRIBED, 1783 193. CANTERBURY - BURNBY, JOHN. AN HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, CANTERBURY; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ANTIQUITIES, AND OF ITS ACCIDENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS, SINCE THE FIRST ESTABLISHMENT. WITH AN ENGLISH

TRANSLATION OF THE EPITAPHS, AND A SOUTH PROSPECT OF THE CATHEDRAL. The Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged, With a Preface, containing Observations on the Gothic Architecture, And an Historical Account of the Archbishops of Canterbury, From Augustin to the Present Time. Together with An Elegy, written By the Rev. John Duncomb, M.A. Canterbury: Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby. 1783 8vo. Approx. 6 x 9 inches. [ii] + frontis. + [ii] + viii + 138, 137-156 pp. (latter section includes appendix, elegy and index). [2], A-R4, S-S5, T-U4, X-X2. (some signatures labelled incorrectly). Illustrated with one engraved plate, serving as frontispiece. Original off-white heavy paper wrappers with another layer of laid-on blue paper giving the impression of a quarter binding, with original printed title label to front. Leaves untrimmed and occasionally unopened Some worming in latter part, not affecting legibility, otherwise a very clean interior. The first edition appeared in 1772 and another came out in 1799. Published anonymously, but known to be the work of John Burnby as Smith notes: ‘This was compiled by the late Mr. John Burnby, an Attorney of Cambridge, although from the Elegy by the Rev. John Duncombe being inserted it is generally attributed to the latter’. Duncombe (1729-86) was educated at Cambridge and after ordination in 1753 held a number of Kentish livings. He acquired a contemporary reputation as a writer and poet, and in 1773, wrote an account of a cricket match, Surry Triumphant, or, The Kentish-Men’s Defeat, a parody of the ballad Chevy Chase, to which Burnby replied in The Kentish Cricketers of the same year. A fine copy in very original condition, thus rare. ESTC T61876 Smith DNB [ref: 19641 ] £175 194. CANTERBURY - BUTLER, JOHN. THE QUEST FOR BECKET’S

BONES. THE MYSTERY OF THE RELICS OF ST THOMAS BECKET OF CANTERBURY. Yale University Press 1995 4to. xii + 180 pp. Original blue cloth. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. The newest addition to the long running speculation as to the real burial place of Becket. [ref: 18191 ] £25 195. CANTERBURY - COTTON, CHARLES. THE GREY FRIARS OF

CANTERBURY 1224 TO 1538, Together with a chapter on the remains of the Friary and its restoration by R. H. Goodsall Manchester U. P. 1924 First edition. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. xvi + 112 pp. with 6 b/w plates and figures to the text. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt. Some edge spotting otherwise a very good copy. Fewer than half of the gatherings have been opened.

A useful summation of Franciscan Canterbury. The first edition benefits from 3 useful appendices, lacking in the later edition. With the bookplate of Ernest Ridley Debenham, Bt., of the well-known department stores. [ref: 19955 ] £30 196. CANTERBURY - COTTON, CHARLES. THE GREY FRIARS OF

CANTERBURY 1224 TO 1538, Together with a chapter on the remains of the Friary and its restoration by R.A. Goodsall Manchester U.P. 1926 Second Edn. [6] + 73 pp. with plan and illustrations. Original boards with label on spine and upper board, a very good copy. A useful summation of Franciscan Canterbury. [ref: 18753 ] £25 197. CANTERBURY - COTTON, CHARLES. A KENTISH CARTULARY

OF THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. Kent Archælogical Society. 1930. 188 pp. with illustrations. Original cloth, gilt. Spine faded otherwise a very good copy. [ref: 17711 ] £35 198. CANTERBURY - COTTON, CHARLES. THE SAXON

CATHEDRAL OF CANTERBURY AND THE SAXON SAINTS BURIED THEREIN. Manchester University Press. 1929 4to. 111 pp. with illustration. Original cloth, gilt. Scarce. [ref: 18524 ] £50 199. CANTERBURY - COTTON, CHARLES (EDITOR). KENT

RECORDS - THE CANTERBURY CHANTRIES AND HOSPITALS TOGETHER WITH SOME OTHERS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IN 1546. A SUPPLEMENT TO KENT CHANTRIES. Kent Archaelogical Society, 1934 80 pp. Original cloth, gilt. Book plate and previous owner’s library stamp on front paste-down. [ref: 19642 ] £35 200. CANTERBURY - COZENS, WALTER. OLD CANTERBURY.

Cross & Jackman, Canterbury. 1906. First Edition. 8vo. 120 pp. with photographs and other illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers. A useful work containing some interesting information on old city plans and detailing the changes the author had seen in his lifetime. [ref: 18534 ] £30

201. CANTERBURY - CROSS, F.W. and J.R. HALL. RAMBLES

ROUND OLD CANTERBURY. Canterbury, Cross & Jackman, 1884 Third edition, revised. 4to. 148 pp.+ 4 pp. index with wood engravings throughout. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. A very good example. Extends to include Fordwich and Chilham. An interesting and well- produced book, printed in Canterbury. [ref: 18533 ] £50

202. CANTERBURY - DAWSON, ROBERT, Lieut. R.E.

CANTERBURY. (FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY) BOUNDARY COMMISSION MAP. House of Commons. n.d. but 1831 Lithographic map, 14 x 12 inches, with contemporary hand-colouring. A fine example with very attractive colouring. These maps were produced from the Ordnance Survey maps on a scale of 2 inches to one mile, to redefine the parliamentary boundaries, in this case joining the parishes or wards to become one constituency. The map is sold together with the pages of text and statistics which accompanied the map in the report. [ref: 16652 ] £60 203. CANTERBURY - DEANE, REV. JOHN BATHURST. THE WILL

OF HENRY DENE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, DECEASED 15 FEBRUARY, 1502-3. EXTRACTED FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, VOL. XVIII. 1861. Royal Archaeological Institute, London. 1861 8vo. Extract 12 pp. Bound in boards with dark red cloth and gilt title to spine. This extract from the prestigious Archaeological Journal gives a good deal of biographical information about Dene and includes the will, written in Latin, in full with copious notes. From the library of antiquary F. William Cock with his attractive bookplate. [ref: 18517 ] £85 SCARCE 12TH C. SURVEY OF KENT CHURCHES 204. CANTERBURY - DOUGLAS, DAVID C. THE DOMESDAY

MONACHORUM OF CHRIST CHURCH CANTERBURY. Edited with an Introduction by David C. Douglas, M.A. Professor of Medieval History in the University of Leeds. Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 96 Cheyne Walk, London, S.W.10. 1944 Large folio. 13.5 x 17.25 inches. vi + 127 pp. Illustrated by [16] facsimile plates at end. [A-B4], C-R4. Text in English and Latin. Bound in original black

cloth, gilt and deckle edges. Extremities worn, bumped on lower edges, front board sunned on right edge with stain that also affects endpapers and free endpapers. Slight staining to margin edges of end facsimile pages. Otherwise a fine clean copy. A twelfth century survey of the churches, knights and lands of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury: ‘The manuscript which is here edited was written at the monastery of Christ Church in Canterbury, and is now preserved in the library of the dean and chapter of that place’ (MS. E. 28). It is written in three scripts, dated c. 1100, 1150 and 1200 and the text falls into four main groups, 1. Documents relating to Kentish churches and to payments due from them; 2. Surveys of the lands of the archbishop and the monks of Christ Church, of the see of Rochester and other Kentish landowners; 3. A list of the knights of the archbishop; 4. Documents concerning the affairs of Christ Church and its property. The editor’s introduction supplies a detailed and scholarly analysis of the texts, including a discussion on possible links to the great Domesday survey of 1085-86. A complete transliteration of the Latin documents is followed by an index and facsimile reproductions of all the manuscripts. The editor, David Charles Douglas (1898-1982), became a distinguished historian of the Norman period and was author of William the Conqueror (1964) and other works on the Normans and their achievements. A very large book with some superficial wear and tear but now quite scarce. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20204 ] £185 205. CANTERBURY - DU BOULAY, F.R.H. (Edited by.)

DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF MEDIEVAL KENTISH SOCIETY. General Editor: F. R. H. Du Boulay, M.A. Prepared for the Records Publication Committee of the Kent Archaeological Society. ( Kent Records. Volume XVIII). Ashford Kent Archæological Society. Records Publication Committee. 1964 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. xviii + 390 pp. Series title page. Illustrated with folding map of medieval Kent. Original blue cloth, gilt, with Society’s device on front boards. In fine condition. Based on six sets of records covering the medieval history of the county:1/ A list of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s tenants - reign of Henry II. 2/ The Pipe Roll of Canterbury 1292 -5. 3/ Kent Lay Subsidy Roll 1334 - 5. 4/ Earliest Canterbury Freemen’s rolls 1298-1363. 5/ King’s Bench referring to Kent 1503-1532. 6/ Calendar of archbishopric demesne leases 1503-1532 Together with copious indexes. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21172 ] £35

206. CANTERBURY - EVANS, S. & F. BENNETT-GOLDNEY.

EDITORS. CANTERBURY, MOTHER-CITY OF THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE. THE CATHEDRAL BY F.W. FARRAR, ST AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY & ST MARTIN’S CHURCH BY C.F. ROUTLEDGE. Published by Canterbury Chamber of Trade and the Corporation of the City. Cross and Jackman, n.d. c 1903 Folio [2] + 135 pp. with text and photo illustration on recto of each page, and fine advertisements on verso. Red cloth, gilt, as issued. A very good example. This is a presentation copy from the editors dated March 1903. A sort of elaborate guide book and history, with almost a trades directory contained within the splendid adverts, many with photographs of their shops and wares. A nice production. [ref: F ] £65 207. CANTERBURY - FOWLER, REV. MONTAGUE. SOME

NOTABLE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY. S.P.C.K. 1895 222 pp. + 6 chromolithographic portraits. Original decorated purple cloth, gilt. Spine faded and rather rubbed and bumped. Fourteen illustrious archbishops are dealt with in some detail, and a list of the complete sequence of archbishops is included. The colour-printed plates are quite attractive. [ref: 14436 ] £25 208. CANTERBURY - GOSTLING, WILLIAM. A WALK IN AND

ABOUT THE CITY OF CANTERBURY, WITH MANY OBSERVATIONS NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY DESCRIPTION HITHERTO PUBLISHED. THE SECOND EDITION. Canterbury, Simmons and Kirkby. 1777 402 pp. + (16) pp index. with folding engraved map and table, and 23 engraved plates, some folding. All folding embellishments have been backed with linen.. Later half-calf with gilt ruling and three-coloured monogram, gilt, to upper board. Top edges gilt. A very good copy. The second edition was considerably enlarged with the addition of some fine engraved plates by Grose, Hawkins, and others. A particularly attractive copy. We have another copy of this title at the same price. [ref: 19510 ] £200

209. CANTERBURY - GOSTLING, WILLIAM. A WALK IN AND

ABOUT THE CITY OF CANTERBURY, WITH MANY OBSERVATIONS NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY DESCRIPTION HITHERTO PUBLISHED. By William Gostling, M.A., a native of the place, and minor canon of the Cathedral. A new

edition with considerable additions, and embellished with numerous engravings. Canterbury Published and sold by William Blackley; sold also in London, by Baynes and Son, and Longman and Co., Paternoster Row, and Nichols and Son, Parliament Street, Westminster. [W. Batcheller, Printer, Dover.] 1825 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xxiv + 366 pp. + [16] pp. index + 402 pp. + (16) pp index + [2] pp. publisher’s advertisements. With list of subscribers. Illustrated by folding plan of the City of Canterbury (with table of references), 2 folding maps, of East Kent and Sandwich, and 31 copperplate engravings, 4 of which folding, and including portrait frontispiece (with 11 plates new to this edition). Bound in original publisher’s quarter cloth, over plain stiff card boards with original paper spine label, with price. Extremities a little worn but very good internally. The work by William Gostling (16961777) was first published in 1774 and proved immediately popular, with five editions appearing by 1804. It contains some fine plates, including the folding view of the castle. This sixth and last edition of 1825 includes eleven additional plates (Plate 5. Westgate without, with intended improvements, has not been bound in this copy, nor does it appear in the list of plates quoted by Smith and it is possible that it was never issued). It also incorporates many additions to the letterpress and an extra chapter on recent alterations and improvements, which could not be conveniently introduced into the body of the work, including the gas works, water works, proposed canal and the ‘Iron Rail Way from Whitstable to Canterbury,’ begun in October of that year. An appendix includes a tour of East Kent. Smith, 9. 114-5. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 21691 ] £75 210. CANTERBURY - G.S. [G. SMITH] CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY

OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. By G. S., With illustrations. Printed and published by H.S.Claris, ‘Kent Herald’ Office. 1883 8vo. 5.25 x 7.25 inches. Frontis. + x + 388 pp.+ [5], illustrated with 28 plates, 8 folding (26 numbered), including frontispiece. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, double blind stamped borders and single inner panel on boards and red edges. Spine, decorated gilt at top and bottom, chipped and worn; joints weak. A detailed historical survey of Canterbury Cathedral, well-illustrated with photo-lithographs, engravings and plans: all the information is arranged in chronological order; the various changes in the fabric and in the government of the church are noticed as each occurred, and all recorded events of any interest, that have happened in connection with the Cathedral and Monastery, are, in like manner, narrated or referred to.’ Similarly the careers of the Archbishops, Priors and Deans ‘are interwoven in the body of the work.’ (Preface). Although the author has styled himself G.S.on the title page, the plan at the end states, ‘Measured and Drawn by G. Smith’ and he has been identified as George Smith. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20113 ] £35 60

211. CANTERBURY - HALL, F. MARCUS, RICHARD S. STEVENS,

and JOHN WYMAN. THE KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL 1790-1987. Kent Postgraduate Medical Centre, Canterbury. 1987 xi + 229 pp. with b/w illustrations throughout. Original laminated pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. * Signed and dedicated by the authors to fellow author Ivan Green. [ref: 18059 ] £25 212. CANTERBURY - HASTINGS, THOMAS. VESTIGES OF

ANTIQUITY; OR, A SERIES OF ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS OF THE ANCIENT MONASTERY OF ST. AUGUSTINE, WITH THE CATHEDRAL, CASTLE, AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES, IN THE SUBURBS OF THE METROPOLITAN CITY OF CANTERBURY. Published by the Author and Sold by Murray, Albemarle Street, London. 1813 Large folio. 12 x 19 inches. [ii] + [12] pp. + [1]. Unpaginated. Frontispiece and 11 fine large etched engravings. Bound in contemporary red half-morocco, gilt. A little rubbed at extremities, one or two pages of letterpress foxed but a very good copy. The original label stating this set to be ‘Proofs’ is affixed on the rear paste-down endpaper. A scarce work. The list of subscribers accounts for 125 copies, of which 70 are proofs and it is likely that only 200 or so were printed. The engravings are very fine and interesting and are in the style of the picturesque works coming back from the antique lands of the Grand Tour. [ref: 19620 ] £650 DIOCESAN HISTORY OF CANTERBURY.

213. CANTERBURY - JENKINS, ROBERT C. CANTERBURY. By

Robert C. Jenkins, M.A. Rector and Vicar of Lyminge, Hon. Canon of Canterbury. With map. (Diocesan Histories). Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross; 43, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.; and 48, Piccadilly, W., London. Pott, Young, and Co., New York. 1880 8vo. 4.75 x 6.75 inches. [vi] + 428 pp. + [4] pp. advertisements. Illustrated by coloured folding ‘map to illustrate the annals of Canterbury’ (Stanford’s), serving as frontispiece. Bound in original blue cloth, decorated in black and gilt, with diocesan arms on front board and SPCK monogram on rear. Buff endpapers. Some foxing and spotting, especially on edges, but otherwise a fine copy. 1882 inscription on first free endpaper. A still useful compact history of Canterbury diocese from the Roman and Anglo Saxon periods, largely concerned with the period before 1688. It includes a list of archbishops from Augustine (597) to Tait (1868) and of the priors and later, the deans. Robert Charles Jenkins (1815-96) was rector of Lyminge and a noted antiquarian, who also published The Chartulary of the Monastery of Lyminge founded A.D. 633 by St AEthelburga the Queen (c.1880). [ref: 20563 ] £45

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 214. CANTERBURY - KEESEY, WALTER. CANTERBURY SKETCH BOOK. A. and C. Black. 1915 First Edition. Slim 8vo. 24 sketches by Walter Keesey without text. Original boards with paper label to upper cover. Spine slightly rubbed but a good copy. This copy is signed by Keesey on the title page. Published in A. and C. Black’s ‘Artist’s Sketch Book Series’, with very attractive pencil drawings of the city from the beginning of the motor age. We have some unsigned reprints of this title priced at £10 [ref: 15603 ] £35 215. CANTERBURY - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF CANTERBURY. Kelly's Directories. 1970 8vo. 344 pp. Original printed card wrappers. A good copy. [ref: 19542 ] £20 216. CANTERBURY - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF CANTERBURY,

WHITSTABLE, HERNE BAY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's Directories. 1936 8vo. 56 + 812 pp. + 2. Complete with the map. Original printed boards, spine faded. A good copy. Scarce pre-war directory of Canterbury together with the surrounding villages. [ref: 18738 ] £100 217. CANTERBURY - MASON, A.J. A GUIDE TO THE ANCIENT

GLASS IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. H.J. Goulden, Canterbury. 1925 Booklet. 56 pp. Original printed paper wrappers. A near fine copy. Each window in the Cathedral is carefully described by the author, Canon of Canterbury Cathedral. [ref: 18469 ] £20 218. CANTERBURY - MASON, ARTHUR JAMES. WHAT BECAME

OF THE BONES OF ST. THOMAS? A CONTRIBUTION TO HIS FIFTEENTH JUBILEE. C.U.P. 1920 8vo. 196 pp. with folding plan of Canterbury Cathedral. Original plain card wrappers with title label to spine. A consideration of the bones, excavated at Canterbury in 1888, as to the possibilty of their being those of St. Thomas a Becket. Scarce [ref: 18457 ] £30 CANTERBURY PROVINCE PROBATE ABSTRACTS

219. CANTERBURY - MATHEWS, JOHN AND GEORGE F.

MATTHEWS. YEAR BOOKS OF PROBATES . Abstracts of Probate Acts

in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Vol.1, 1630-4 (1902), Vol.2, 163539 (1903), Vol.3, 1640-44 (1905), Vol.4, 1645-49 (1906); Sentences and Complete Index Nominum (Probates and Sentences) for the Years 16301639. (1907); Abstracts of Probate Acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Commonwealth Probates, Vol.1 (1650-1) (1909), Vol. 2 (1652-3) (1911), Vol.3 (1654-5) (1914); Abstracts of Probates and Sentences in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1620-4 (1911). Edited by John Matthews and George F. Matthews, B.A. London: Issued to Subscribers from 93 and 94 Chancery Lane, London, W.C. 1902-1914 4to. Ten volumes. 6.25 x 10 inches. 349 pp.; 431 pp.; 292 pp.; 582 + [2] pp. advertisements; 171 pp.; 389 + [1] pp. advertisements; 506 pp.; 352 pp.; 341 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with PCC device on front boards. Some wrinkling of cloth and a few stains. Occasional light pencil marks in clean interiors. Armorial bookplate on front paste-down of Vol.2, 1635-39 only. Abstracts of Probates and Sentences is Vol.1 (1620-4); Vol.2 (1625-29) was never published. ‘The Probate Act Books of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury exist in an almost unbroken series from the year 1526, and are of great value to Antiquarians...they afford a means of obtaining a list of the Wills, Registered and Unregistered, in the Principal Court of Probate, more complete even than the Official Calendars themselves...’ The abstract volumes include indexes of stray names and of places (the places index not included in Commonwealth Abstracts, Vol.3) , including English and Welsh counties. Although the entries are largely drawn from the southern province of Canterbury, ‘the Wills of persons resident in the Province of York, in Scotland, Ireland, the sometime American Colonies, and elsewhere, have been registered there, when the necessary grants of Probate have been made for the administration of property lying within the Province of Canterbury.’ The 1620-24 volume does not include indexes. [ref: 19468 ] £550 220. MAUDSON, CHEMIST, WESTGATE CANTERBURY.

MANUSCRIPT PRESCRIPTION BOOK COMMENCING 21/7/1909 AND CONCLUDING 13/1/1927. OVER SIX HUNDRED PRESCRIPTIONS WERE ADMINISTERED IN THE PERIOD. Ledger manufactured by H.J. Goulden Canterbury. c.1909 Tall, thin ledger with ruled lines. Approximately 80 pages, used recto and verso, in ink in several hands. All the handwriting is clear despite some stains and torn pages. The original quarter-roan binding has been renewed, retaining the original old marbled boards which are much rubbed and worn. There are several inserted pieces of paper, as memoranda or as formulae. Apart from the interesting thought ‘What did the chemist give them?’ we do know who the recipients are by the name and, sometimes, the address of the patient, and this makes interesting reading - From the Archbishop of Canterbury, and numerous clergy, Lords and Ladies, Mrs. and Misses, even Miss Sackville-West and, as time moves through the years of the First World War, more and more military men, of all ranks. Turning to the end of the book and turning it up-side-down, the chemist has analyzed the numbers of prescriptions from Canterbury, and those from Kent generally. He has listed 63

the N.H.S. prescriptions from their introduction in 1923 to beyond the date in which he completed the book, (working from the other end) and has filled the blanks at the rear with tables detailing the amound paid by the N.H.S. This analysis is continued right up until 1954. A prime piece of social history inviting the labour of a researcher. [ref: 19663 ] £125 221. CANTERBURY - MESSENGER, A.W.B. THE HERALDRY OF

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. VOLUME I, THE GREAT CLOISTER VAULT. By Commander (S.) A.W.B.Messenger F.S.A, L.R.I.B.A., (Retd.), R.N. The Office of the Friends, Christ Church Gateway, Canterbury. 1947 8vo. 6 x 8.75 inches. [iv] +148 pp. Illustrated by one colour plate, serving as frontispiece, 3 black and white key plates, 64 black and white photographic plates and three folding plates (two pedigrees and one plan) at end. Errata slip tipped in. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Slight wear to extremities with good clean interior. Ex-Library copy, with Folkestone Public Libraries. Reference Dept. label and library stamps repeated inside. Pencil note on contents page. Very good reference work long out of print. Although other volumes were projected by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Volume I, by Arthur William Bryant Messenger, was the only one to appear. It was first issued in quarterly parts in 1939-40 as a Supplement to the Reports and Chronicles of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20214 ] £40 222. CANTERBURY - PENNELL, JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH. A

CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE. RIDDEN WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED. Seeley and Co. 1885 Small 4to. 78 pp. with full page and other illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. A charming account of a tricycle ride from London to Canterbury, with Pennell's fine illustrations depicting their early cycle, and other machines being ridden through the empty roads of Kent. As it was hopping time several illustrations are devoted to this subject.

Scarce. [ref: 17679 ] £80 223. CANTERBURY - PIKE’S CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT, HERNE

BAY and WHITSTABLE LOCAL DIRECTORY 1932-33. Garnett, Mepham and Fisher Ltd. 1933 498 pp. + 18 pp. adverts. Lacking the map, as is usual. Bound in original blue cloth only very slightly worn. A very good copy. A very good copy of the annual 'Blue Book'. Pre-war editions are now difficult to find. [ref: 20029 ] £100

224. CANTERBURY - RACKHAM, BERNARD. THE ANCIENT GLASS

OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. Published for the Friends of Canterbury by Lund Humphries and Co. Ltd. 1949 Folio. xv + 194 pp. + 21 coloured plates with descriptive guards and 80 monochrome plates. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and gilt device to front board. Near mint in publisher’s plain dust wrapper. There is a neat school library stamp on the front and rear paste-down endpapers, but the book was never seen by students as it shows no signs of use, and is preserved in the original slipcase which is a little worn on the extremities. A superb production with heavy paper and magnificent photographic illustrations, combined with comprehensive descriptions and commentaries, this remains the definitive work on the subject. It was expensive at the time and issued in a very small edition. Bernard Rackham was Keeper of the Department of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum. [ref: 16182 ] £200 225. CANTERBURY - ROUTLEDGE, REV. C.F. THE HISTORY OF ST.

MARTIN'S CHURCH CANTERBURY. A MONOGRAPH. Kegan, Paul. 1891 189 pp. with wood engraved illustrations. Original cloth, gilt. Scarce first issue of this standard history of St. Martin's. [ref: 19612 ] £40 226. CANTERBURY - RULE, MARTIN. (EDITOR). THE MISSAL OF

ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY CANTERBURY. WITH EXCERPTS FROM THE ANTIPHONARY AND LECTIONARY OF THE SAME MONASTERY. Cambridge University Press. 1896 Small folio. clxxxiv + 174 pp. printed in red and black. With 2 photo facsimile leaves. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. Very scarce. This copy presented by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press and the Editor. No recipient is named but there is the ownership inscription of C[harles] W[alter] Moule, dated 1896, who was a member of Corpus Christi college. [ref: 18526 ] £90 227. CANTERBURY - SAYERS, JANE. E. PAPAL JUDGES DELEGATE

IN THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY 1198-1254. A STUDY IN ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION AND ADMINISTRATION. Oxford University Press for Sandpiper Press. 1997 8vo. xxv + 398 pp. Original cloth gilt, fine copy in dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. The first account of how papal jurisdiction operated in pre-reformation England through a series of special courts in the southern province. It describes and assesses their origins, procedure, personnel and judicial business and contains appendices of documents in Latin with a full bibliography. First published as part of the Oxford Historical Monographs, 1971.

[ref: 18978 ] £30 FINE CANTERBURY HISTORY 228. CANTERBURY - SOMNER, WILLIAM. THE ANTIQUITIES OF CANTERBURY. aOR A SVRVEY OF THAT ANCIENT CITIE, WITH THE SUBVRBS, AND CATHEDRALL. Containing principally matters of Antiquity in them all. Collected chiefly from old Manuscripts, Lieger-bookes, and other like Records, for the most part, never as yet Printed. With an Appendix here annexed: Wherein (for better satisfaction to the learned the Manuscripts, and Records of chiefest consequence, are faithfully exhibited. All (for the honour of that ancient Metropolis, and his good affection to Antiquities) Sought out and Published By the Industry, and Goodwill of William Somner. Printed by I.L. [i.e.John Legat] for Richard Thrale, and are to be sold at his Shop at Pauls-Gate at the signe of the Crosse-Keyes, London. 1640. First edition. 4to. 6.75 x 9 inches. [xvi] + 516 + [12] pp. ([8], A-3U4). Illustrated by three folding plates, including The Mapp of Canterbury [engraved by Hollar] and, on verso of title, a full page coat of arms of the See, and vignettes, including royal devices, at heads of sections. Bound in recent full speckled calf, gilt; spine with raised bands in compartments and gilt tooling; early ink ownership inscription in Latin above title, ‘Gul. Betham 1806, repeated in Greek. Some light pencil annotations and marks in text and small missing area to foot of one page, not affecting text. A fine copy of the first published history and topography of Canterbury. First edition of the earliest printed history and topography of Canterbury. It is based on original sources and some of these records are printed in the appendix, said to be the first published book to provide this. It describes both the city (according to its six wards) including the wall and gates, castle, river and cathedral, and its churches and suburbs and includes a list of mayors. William Somner (1598-1669) was born and educated in Canterbury, the son of the registrar of the court. His patron, Archbishop Laud, to whom the book is dedicated, appointed him registrar of the ecclesiastical courts and the lengthy description of the cathedral is thoroughly Laudian in tone. As an ardent royalist, Somner attempted to protect the cathedral and its muniments from the ravages of parliamentary soldiers. He published works in praise of Charles I after his execution and was briefly imprisoned in Deal Castle in 1659. After the Restoration, he was made Master of St John’s Hospital in the city and the office of auditor of the cathedral. The first edition of the Antiquities provided the frame work for Battely (an equally famous antiquarian) to make additions and revisions for the second edition of 1703, which remains a cornerstone for the Canterbury collector, much used by all later historians. 66

The William Betham of the inscription is possibly Sir William Betham (17791853), the antiquary, who may have used it for his research; he revised part of Camden’s Britannia for a new edition of 1806, the year of the inscription. Betham spent much of his career in Dublin, working on the Irish records, and was appointed Ulster King of Arms in 1820. ESTC 121902 Smith DNB [ref: 19908 ] £1250 CANTERBURY HISTORY 229. CANTERBURY - SOMNER, WILLIAM. THE ANTIQUITIES OF CANTERBURY. IN TWO PARTS. The First Part. The Antiquities of Canterbury; or a Survey of that Ancient City, with the Suburbs and Cathedral, &c. Sought out and Published by the Industry and Good Will of WILLIAM SOMNER. The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by Nicolas Battely, M.A. Also, Mr Somner's Discourse called CHARTHAM-NEWS: Or a Relation of some Strange Bones found at Chartham in Kent. To which are added some Observations concerning the Roman Antiquities of Canterbury. And a Praface, giving an Account of the Works and Remains of the Learned Antiquary Mr. William Somner, by N.B. The Second Part. Cantuaria Sacra; Or the Antiquities I. Of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church. II. Of the Archbishoprick. III. Of the late Priory of Christ-Church; and of the present Collegiate Church, Founded by K. Hen. VIII. With a Catalogue of all the Deans and Canons thereof. IV. Of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury. V. Of the Monastery of St. Augustin; of the ParishChurches, Hospitals, and other Religious Places, that are or have been in or near that City; Enquired into, by NICOLAS BATTELY, Vicar of Beaksborn. Illustrated and Adorned with several Useful and Fair Sculptures. Printed for R. Knaplock, at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1703 Folio, with copper-engraved prospect of the City after J. Kip, and 19 copper-engraved plates and a plan of the city, including a fine folding view of the Cathedral by W. Holler. Bound in full contemporary panelled calf, skillfuly rebacked, preserving the original label . A fine copy. Second and best edition of this fine work. First published in 1640. Somner, who was a famous antiquarian and scholar of Anglo-Saxon, provided the framework for Battely (an equally famous antiquarian) to make additions and revisions. This remains a cornerstone for the Canterbury collector, much used by all later historians. [ref: 20498 ] £700

CANTERBURY HISTORY

230. CANTERBURY - SOMNER, WILLIAM. THE ANTIQUITIES OF

CANTERBURY. OR A SVRVEY OF THAT ANCIENT CITIE, WITH THE SUBVRBS, AND CATHEDRALL. Containing principally matters of Antiquity in them all. Collected chiefly from old Manuscripts, Lieger-bookes, and other like Records, for the most part, never as yet Printed. With an Appendix here annexed: Wherein (for better satisfaction to the learned the Manuscripts, and Records of chiefest consequence, are faithfully exhibited. All (for the honour of that ancient Metropolis, and his good affection to Antiquities) Sought out and Published By the Industry, and Goodwill of William Somner. Printed by I.L. [i.e.John Legat] for Richard Thrale, and are to be sold at his Shop at Pauls-Gate at the signe of the Crosse-Keyes, London. 1640. First edition. 4to. 6.75 x 9 inches. [xvi] + 516 + [12] pp. ([8], A-3U4). Illustrated by three folding plates, (one with an old repair) including The Map of Canterbury [engraved by Hollar] and, on verso of title, a full-page coat of arms of the See, and vignettes, including royal devices, at heads of sections. Bound in 19th century ecclesiastical full calf, with ruled and stamped decoration to bevelled boards and gilt edge decoration and blind decoration to dentelles, and marbled end papers. All edges red. Spine with raised bands in compartments and blind tooling with contrasting title label, gilt.; early ink ownership inscription above title, also initials R.H. and a more modern pencil signature. On one of the rear end papers, in ink, is written in an early hand an extract from Dr. Ridleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last speech. Occasional light foxing and several dilute ink stains to pp.1-6, not affecting text. A small rust hole to one leaf otherwise a fine copy of the first published history and topography of Canterbury. Engraved book plate of [Sir] John Boys to front paste down. First edition of the earliest printed history and topography of Canterbury. It is based on original sources and some of these records are printed in the appendix, said to be the first published book to provide this. It describes both the city (according to its six wards) including the wall and gates, castle, river and cathedral, and its churches and suburbs and includes a list of mayors. William Somner (1598-1669) was born and educated in Canterbury, the son of the registrar of the court. His patron, Archbishop Laud, to whom the book is dedicated, appointed him registrar of the ecclesiastical courts and the lengthy description of the cathedral is thoroughly Laudian in tone. As an ardent royalist, Somner attempted to protect the cathedral and its muniments from the ravages of parliamentary soldiers. He published works in praise of Charles I after his execution and was briefly imprisoned 68

in Deal Castle in 1659. After the Restoration, he was made Master of St. John’s Hospital in the city and given the office of auditor of the cathedral. The first edition of the Antiquities provided the frame work for Battely (an equally famous antiquarian) to make additions and revisions for the second edition of 1703, which remains a cornerstone for the Canterbury collector, much used by all later historians. ESTC 121902 Smith DNB [ref: 21632 ] £850 231. CANTERBURY - STANLEY, ARTHUR P. HISTORICAL

MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY. The Landing of Augustine. The Murder of Becket. Edward the Black Prince. Becket’s Shrine. By Arthur P. Stanley, D.D. Dean of Westminster, formerly Canon of Canterbury. Seventh edition. With illustrations. London: John Murray. 1875 8vo. Seventh Edition. 5x 7.5 inches. 304 pp. [6], B-U2. illustrated with with a folding plan and wood-engravings, including frontispiece and map in text. Bound with vellum, gilt, with maroon morocco label, marbled endpapers and red edges Front hinges and joints weak Slight foxing on front free endpapers and half title, otherwise clean interior. Small neat bookplate on front pastedown. 1889 ink inscription on first front free endpaper. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881) was born in Cheshire into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Rugby and Oxford. The essays forming the Historical Memorials of Canterbury were expanded from an article and from lectures delivered in the city and were first published in late 1854: 'here his gift of writing powerful dramatic narrative found full scope, particularly in his account of the murder of Becket.' An appendix prints medieval accounts of the Archbishop's shrine and documents from the Cathedral Treasury that relate to it. The Plan of Canterbury Cathedral at the time of Becket's murder depicts routes and spots linked to the event in red. This copy of the standard work is handsomely bound in vellum but we also have other copies in cloth at more modest prices DNB [ref: 19363 ] £35 232. CANTERBURY - STEWART, BRIAN. THOMAS SIDNEY COOPER

OF CANTERBURY Rainham: Meresborough Books. 1983 4to. 8.75 x 12.5 inches. 52 pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Bound in original pictorial paper wrappers. A useful summary of the life and work of ‘Britain’s most accomplished cattle painter.’ Cooper, of course, painted livestock other than cattle and was also an accomplished lithographer. [ref: 19681 ] £20 233. CANTERBURY - WALCOTT, MACKENZIE, E.C. MEMORIALS

OF CANTERBURY Hal Drury, Mercery Lane, Canterbury. 1868

8vo. 74 pp. + [1] Neatly bound in green half-morocco, gilt, over marbled boards. This copy has been specially bound by Robert Hovenden, and an impression of his bookplate has been used as a frontispiece in this copy, later acquired by Sir Thomas Neame with his bookplate, and later still by James Hobbs with his book label. The book is an off-print of a portion of a collective History of English Cathedrals, and issued by Hal Drury in Canterbury. Scarce. [ref: 16370 ] £60 234. CANTERBURY - WARD, LOCK AND CO. PICTORIAL AND

DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO CANTERBURY, HERNE BAY, WHITSTABLE, AND THE ISLE OF THANET. with a special section for Motorists. Maps of the District and Plans of Canterbury, Herne Bay, Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, and Sandwich. Eighty illustrations. Ward, Lock & Co. 1934 Ninth edition. xxxii + 32 pp. + 24 pp. + 32 pp. + 12 pp. + 32 pp. + [2] index + 50 pp. adverts with maps and photo illustrations. Original red pictorial cloth. A clean, bright copy. Universally popular guides now becoming more difficult to find. The large folding maps of the towns are an invaluable record. [ref: 17377 ] £20 CANTERBURY MARRIAGE LICENCES, 1751-1837

235. CANTERBURY - WILLIS, ARTHUR J. CANTERBURY

MARRIAGE LICENCES 1751-1780; 1781-1809; 1810-1837. Compiled by Arthur J.Willis, F.R.I.C.S., F.S.G. Lyminge; Arthur J. Willis. [1751-1780, 1781-1809] London and Chichester, Phillimore 1967, 1969, 1971 4to. Three volumes, 6.25 x 10 inches. 1751-1780, 372 pp., 1781-1809, 407 pp., 1810-1837, xi + 258 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with pale blue dust wrappers. Some foxing and page edge staining to first two volumes. Wrappers creased and stained with some edge tears and abrasions, that of first volume having faded spine and tape repairs. All interiors generally clean with occasional neat pencil annotations. This edition is limited to 250 copies. The first two volumes were privately published by the author. A continuation of ‘Canterbury Marriage Licences,’ edited in six series, by Joseph Meadows Cowper, 1568-1618 - 1726-1750, published from 1892. The records abstracted are contained in contemporary MS registers from the Diocesan Registrar’s archives, now deposited in the Cathedral Library at Canterbury. There are indexes of surnames of the parties, of miscellaneous surnames and of places in the appendix and, additionally for the second and third volumes, of service units (ships of the Royal Navy and Regiments of the Army). [ref: 19467 ] £300 236. CANTERBURY - WOODCOCK, AUDREY. (Editor) CARTULARY

OF THE PRIORY OF ST. GREGORY, CANTERBURY.

Royal Historical Society, 1956. 4to. 209 pp. Original cloth, gilt. Some small library stamps but a very good copy. One of the earliest Canterbury manuscripts. [ref: 18752 ] £20 237. CANTERBURY - WOODCOCK, BRIAN L. MEDIEVAL

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS IN THE DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY. O.U.P. 1952. 8vo.160 pp. Original cloth. Dust wrapper torn with small loss to upper panel, but a very good copy. A study of the day-to-day operation of Canon Law from the thirteenth century to the Reformation. Scarce. [ref: 18754 ] £35 CANTERBURY WILLS

238. CANTERBURY - WOODRUFF, C. EVELEIGH. SEDE VACANTE

WILLS: A CALENDAR OF WILLS PROVED BEFORE THE COMMISSARY OF THE PRIOR AND CHAPTER OF CHRIST CHURCH, CANTERBURY. DURING VACANCIES IN THE PRIMACY, With an Appendix containing transcripts of archiepiscopal and other wills of importance. Compiled and Edited by C. Eveleigh Woodruff, M.A., Hon Librarian to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. Kent Archaeological Society. Records Branch, Volume 3 (Kent Records). Canterbury: Printed for the Records Branch by Cross & Jackman 1914 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. [ix] + xxii + 146 + vii pp. [6]. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with Society’s device on front boards. Light fraying to top and bottom of spine and some staining on endpapers, otherwise a fine, clean copy. The calendar of wills includes an index of parishes. The copies of wills in the appendix are in Latin and English. [ref: 19469 ] £40 PRESENTATION COPY, 1912 239. CANTERBURY - WOODRUFF, C. EVELEIGH and WILLIAM DANKS. THE MEMORIALS OF THE CATHEDRAL AND PRIORY OF CHRIST IN CANTERBURY. By C. Eveleigh Woodruff, M.A. Six-Preacher of Canterbury Cathedral and Honorary Librarian to the Dean and Chapter and William Danks, M.A. Canon Residentiary. With illustrations by Louis Weirter, R.B.A. Chapman and Hall, London 1912 First Edition. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. [2] + frontis. + xxi + [i] + 489 + [3] pp. [a18], b1-4, A-2H4, 2I-[2I2] Illustrated with 34 plates, including frontispiece, and numerous text drawings. Original publisher’s blue cloth, gilt, with illustrated front board. Top edges gilt. Inscription on front free endpaper. First edition of the standard early twentieth-century history of Canterbury Cathedral and its Priory, with chapters on the library, stained glass, choir, organ and bells. A sound presentation copy from the author. [ref: 19493 ] £85

240. CANTERBURY - WRIGHT, CHRISTOPHER JOHN. A GUIDE

TO THE PILGRIMS' WAY AND NORTH DOWNS WAY. London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1981 Third edition. 8vo. [1] + 325 + [1] pp. Illustrated with maps and black and white photographs. Original cloth, gilt, in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. First edition published 1971. A comprehensive guide to walking from Winchester to Canterbury, Folkestone and Dover. [ref: 19217 ] £20 CANTERBURY DRAWINGS 241. CANTERBURY - YOUNGMAN, E. 64 BLACK AND WHITE DRAWINGS OF CANTERBURY By E.Youngman. [Canterbury]: [Youngman and Son] c.1920 Small 8vo. [32] pp. of pen and ink illustrations, without text. Sewn and bound in original pictorial card wrappers. Slight signs of wear to edges of front wrapper and small ink numeral inside wrapper. Title taken from front cover as no title page is provided. Does not appear in The Kent Bibliography or Supplement although similar titles are listed. [ref: 19210 ] £25

242. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. THE STATUTES OF THE

CATHEDRAL AND METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, CANTERBURY. Privately printed for the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. 1925 8vo. 141 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt. Upper board a little damp-stained otherwise a very good copy. This copy was presented to Rev.William Douglas Springett, (author of ‘ Handbook for Travellers in Sussex’) and is inscribed ‘ W.D. Springett from The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury K.A. Bell Dean. F. of S. John Baptist 1925’ and bears Springett’s attractive engraved bookplate. Rev. Springett was sometime Curate at Pluckley and later Vicar at St. Matthew’s, Brixton. [ref: 18466 ] £30 243. CANTERBURY GUIDE. AUSTEN’S HAND-BOOK TO

CANTERBURY AND THE CATHEDRAL. Austen’s, 17, St. George’s Street, Canterbury. No date but c.1924 91 pp. with 23 illustrations + folding map. Original pictorial wrappers. Slight crease to front wrapper otherwise a very good copy. [ref: 17200 ] £40

244. CAPPER, Douglas Parode. ON THE PILGRIMS' WAY. By D. P.

Capper. With twelve illustrations and a map. London Methuen and Co. Ltd. 36 Essex Street W.C. 1928

8vo. 5.25 x 7.75 inches. x + 84 pp. + [2] . Half title. Illustrated with 12 tipped in photo plates, including frontispiece and front endpaper map. Bound in half green cloth over buff stiff paper boards. Paper label on spine, with additional label tipped into last page. Bookseller’s label, Bryant and Rackstraw, Ltd., Gravesend on front pastedown. Extremities a little worn and slight foxing, otherwise a fine copy. Reflections arising from a walk along the Pilgrims’ Way to Canterbury. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21292 ] £15 245. CARPENTER, EDWARD. OLD ROMNEY MARSH IN CAMERA. Birlings Limited, Ashford. 1984 4to. [48] pp. with sepia illustrations throughout. Original card wrappers. Now out of print and quite difficult to find. [ref: 19778 ] £15

SIGNED COPY 246. CARPENTER, EDWARD. ROMNEY MARSH IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. Alan Sutton 1994 First Edition, 8to.,160 pp., with illustrations throughout. Bound in the original card wrappers, as issued. Now out of print and quite difficult to find. [ref: 18723 ] £15 247. CARPENTER, EDWARD. WRECKS AND RESCUES OFF THE

ROMNEY MARSH COAST E. Carpenter, Lydd, 1985 [6] + 93 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original printed card wrappers. A near fine copy with the bookplate of historian David Collyer. Now out of print and quite difficult to find. [ref: 19728 ] £12 248. CARR, FRANK G.G. SAILING BARGES. Hodder and Stoughton, London. 1931 First edition. 328 pp. with drawings and photo illustrations throughout. Original black cloth gilt. Wear to extremities but a fair copy. The standard history on the subject, with particular detail on the Thames and Medway barges. [ref: 20809 ] £15 249. CARR, FRANK G.G. SAILING BARGES. Peter Davies. 1951

Revised Edition. 350 pp. with original and photo illustration throughout. Original terracotta cloth gilt. Spotting to edges otherwise a good copy in a poor dust wrapper. The standard history on the subject, with particular detail on the Thames and Medway barges. [ref: 20790 ] £25

250. CARTER, G.C. THE GOODWIN SANDS. With a Foreword by Ronald

Jessup. Constable and Co. 1955 148 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth. A good copy in dustwrapper. Authoritative account - Carter served for two and a half years on the North Goodwin Lightship. [ref: 12451 ] £20 251. CARTER, GEORGE GOLDSMITH. FORGOTTEN PORTS OF

ENGLAND. Evans Brothers Ltd., London 1952 First reprint, 8vo. 9x6 inches. x. + 206 pp. with maps and photographic illustrations. A good copy in a very good dust wrapper with one or two minor chips to edges, not affecting the design or overall appearance. A very good copy. An interesting work concentrating on the silted-up harbours of England. The local examples are Richborough, Reculver, Sandwich, Lympne, Fordwich, Lydd, and Rye and Winchelsea. [ref: 19595 ] £20

252. CAVE, C.J.P. THE ROOF BOSSES OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH

OF CHRIST, CANTERBURY. Published by The Friends of Canterbury Cathedral and produced by Raphael Tuck & Sons. 1934 Booklet. 22 pp., including 27 b/w illustrations. Original blue printed card wrappers. Wrappers a little dusty otherwise a very good copy. Among many other works, the author made a speciality of recording and describing roof bosses in the vaulted roofs of many of our finest medieval churches and cathedrals. An invaluable companion for any visit to the cathedral at Canterbury. [ref: 17454 ] £15 253. CHALKLIN, C. W., Editor. NEW MAIDSTONE GAOL ORDER

BOOK, 1805 - 1823. Edited by C. W. Chalklin. (Kent Records. Volume XXIII). Maidstone Kent Archaeological Society. 1984 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. [vi] + 186 pp. Serial title. Illustrated with plans in text. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt with Society’s device on front board in pictorial dust wrapper. In fine condition. Detailed analysis of the construction and costing of the new Maidstone Gaol, set in the context of prison building nationally and in Kent in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. [ref: 21186 ] £20

254. CHALKLIN, C.W. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY KENT A social and

economic history Longmans. 1965 8vo., xv + 294 pp., with plates, maps and plans. Original cloth gilt with dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Slight wear to top of dust wrapper otherwise a fine copy. The book examines Kent’s position as a Home County on its agriculture, industry and trade and the special character of Kentish society. Classic text, all editions now out of print. [ref: 19016 ] £35 255. CHALKLIN, C.W. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY KENT. A SOCIAL

AND ECONOMIC HISTORY. Longmans. 1965 294 pp. with illus. A good copy of the first edition with unclipped dust wrapper. With ownership signature of Elizabeth Melling to front free endpaper. Classic text. All editions now out of print. [ref: 21192 ] £25 256. CHALKLIN, C.W. (Editor) GEORGIAN TONBRIDGE.

Tonbridge Historical Society. 1984 200 pp. with several illustrations. Original coloured, laminated pictorial card wrappers. A fine copy with historian Elizabeth Melling’s ownership signature. The usual high standard from Christopher Chalklin, Kent historian and President of the Tonbridge Historical Society. [ref: 21154 ] £15 SIGNED COPY 257. CHAMBERLAIN, DAVID. THE GOODWIN SANDS MAN-OF-WAR

1703-2003. By the same author ‘Forgotten Shipwrecks of the Downs. A Heritage from the Goodwins.’ [s.l.] [the author] 2002 4to pamphlet. 7 x 10 inches. 39 pp. Illustrated with sepia and coloured photographs, drawings, maps and facsimiles. In coloured pictorial card wrappers. Signed by author. A well-illustrated, and now scarce, account of the loss of the seventy gun third rate warship, HMS Stirling Castle on the Goodwin Sands, during the great storm of November 1703. It also describes the 1979 rediscovery of the wreck, the subsequent underwater investigation and the raising of several artefacts and a cannon. [ref: 21301 ] £25

ROMNEY MARSH 258. CHAMPNEYS, BASIL. A QUIET CORNER OF ENGLAND. STUDIES

OF LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE IN WINCHELSEA, RYE, AND THE ROMNEY MARSH. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALFRED DAWSON. Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 54 Fleet St., London. 1875 First Edition. Small folio. 11 x 8 inches, 64 pp. + eight engraved plates, including frontispiece, plus other text illustrations and a ground-plan of Winchelsea restored. All edges gilt. Bound in the original green cloth decorated in gilt. One or two leaves have marginal foxing otherwise a very good copy. A charming and scarce work devoted to the western marsh area and Rye. Champney’s keen architectural eye captures much that has now disappeared in old Rye and Lydd. [ref: 21030 ] £145

CHANNEL BRIDGE PLAN, 1892 259. THE CHANNEL BRIDGE AND RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED. LE PONT SUR LA MANCHE. Expose complet de la question avec documents, cartes et planches. The Channel Bridge and Railway Company Limited (Societe d’Etudes et de la Construction d’un Pont sur la Manche). Siege administratif: 69, Rue de la Victoire, Paris. Siege social: 110 Cannon Street, Londres, E.C. 1892 Large 8vo. 6.75 x 10.75 inches. [iv] + 185 pp. Illustrated with one folding coloured map, and eleven plates, ten of which are folding and diagrams in text. It appears to lack one double page plate called for. Contains tables in text and four appendices. Text in French. Original green paper wrappers. Spine wrapping largely absent and edges chipped and frayed. Interior clean if slightly browned, with occasional small tear not affecting text. The idea of a fixed cross-Channel link via a bridge rather than a tunnel, was first suggested in the 1830s-40s by Thome de Gamond, ingenieur en chef du departement du Pas-de-Calais. It received new impetus in the 1880s, following the British government’s order to close the trial tunnel borings, commenced in 1880, two years later on the grounds of national security. Publications advocating a bridge had appeared as early as 1874 but the most influential was thatof Schneider and Hersent (collaborating with Fowler and Baker, the Forth Railway Bridge engineers) of 1889. The Channel Bridge and Railway Company had been registered in London in 1884. In spite of the plan to install lights and fog signals on the bridge piers, the scheme was ultimately rejected on the grounds that it would form a hazard to shipping. One also suspects that the actual construction of such a large scale underwater project, even with the ingenious system illustrated in the plates, would have severely taxed the engineering resources of the day, not to mention the enormity of the task of repainting the ironwork Nevertheless the idea of a channel bridge resurfaced again in 1960 with a new group being formed in France and in 1985 Eurobridge was one of the the three alternative schemes that competed against the successful Eurotunnel bid.

A very rare original copy of this bridge proposal of the late nineteenth century, a period when fixed channel links were much debated and, in fact, actually started. It considers the engineering problems in detail, tackles the question of safe navigation and looks at the economic and financial background that would make the link viable. COPAC [ref: 19837 ] £ 260. CHANNEL TUNNEL. COPY OF A REPORT ON THE STATE OF

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL WORKS MADE TO THE BOARD OF TRADE BY MAJOR MARANDIN, R.E., C.M.G., ONE OF THEIR INSPECTING OFFICERS. (Sir Michael Hicks Beach.) London: Printed by Henry Hansard and Son .. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed 30 July 1888 Folio. Single sheet designed to be folded twice to display the title details. Slightly dusty otherwise a very good example. A rare survivor, the report relates to the inspection of the Tunnel workings and the state of their maintenance, with details. [ref: 17747 ] £50 261. CHANNEL TUNNEL. CORRESPONDENCE REFLECTING THE

PROPOSED CHANNEL TUNNEL AND RAILWAY. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. Printed by Harrison and Sons. 1875 Folio. iv + 72 pp. + 5 large coloured lithographed folding plans and maps. Original blue paper wrappers. A very good copy. The table of contents lists fifty-one items of correspondence, in English and French, between the various parties and individuals concerned. The folding plates are profiles, plans and maps both English and French. [ref: 17656 ] £350 262. CHANNEL TUNNEL. DEPUTATION TO THE PRIME MINISTER.

FULL DETAILS OF THE PRESENT SCHEME - MILITARY, ENGINEERING, FINANCIAL. SPECIAL ARTICLES. FOOD SUPPLIES IN TIME OF WAR. BENEFIT OF THE CHANNEL TUNNEL TO BRITISH TRADE. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. EDITED BY W. TURNER PERKINS. Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd. 1913 4to.136 pp. with long folding section and illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers, which have been neatly repaired. Scarce early 20th century report. [ref: 18024 ] £140 263. CHANNEL TUNNEL. DEPUTATION TO THE PRIME MINISTER.

Scarce early 20th century report. [ref: 19512 ] £150

Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd. 1913 4to.136 pp. with long folding section and illustrations in the text. Bound in modern quarter-calf, gilt. Original printed front wrapper preserved. A very good example

264. CHANNEL TUNNEL. ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL.

CHANNEL TUNNEL COMMITTEE REPORT. Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, March 1930. Together with:CHANNEL TUNNEL COMPANY Ltd. NOTES ON THE REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL CHANNEL TUNNEL COMMITTEE. PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. H.M.S.O. 1930 8vo. 2 volumes. 111 pp. with a large folding coloured lithographic plan, and 3 other folding charts, and 21 pp. Original blue printed wrapper. Near mint examples. Detailed report with the scarce confidential notes from the tunnel company. [ref: 15460 ] £100 265. CHANNEL TUNNEL. REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT

COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE CHANNEL TUNNEL; TOGETHER WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE, MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, AND APPENDIX. In addition INDEX TO THE REPORT ... ON THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. London: Henry Hansard and Son. 1883 Report: Folio. xlv + 574 pp. + 1 large folding plate showing plan and sections through Mr. Fowler’s proposed Train Ferry Boat. Index: Folio. pp.575 to 695. Report in original blue paper wrappers with repair to lower corner and index in original white paper wrappers. A very good copy. A full account of the proceedings in committee, which took place between the 24th April and the 21st June 1883. Among those giving evidence were Sir Edward Watkin, Chairman of the South Eastern Railway, James Staats Forbes, Chairman of the London Chatham and Dover Railway; the civil engineers involved with the proposed schemes, Frederick Bramwell, consulting engineer, a Vice-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and John Hawkshaw, the Engineer of the Channel Tunnel Company, representatives of the Railway Inspectorate and Col. F.E.B. Beaumont, inventor of a tunnel-boring machine and deviser of a system of compressedair powered locomotives for hauling trains through the tunnel. Also contains numerous tables describing the traffic between the channel ports and France. [ref: 17666 ] £600 266. CHANNEL TUNNEL. 1986 AGREEMENT. THE CHANNEL

FIXED LINK DATED AS OF 14TH MARCH, 1986. The Secretary of State

for Transport and Le Ministre de L’Urbanisme, du Logement et des Transports and The Channel Tunnel Group Limited and France-Manche S. A. Concession Agreement. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Transport by Command of Her Majesty April 1986. (Cmnd. 9769). HMSO, London. 1986 8vo. 6 x 9.5 inches. iv + [i] + 45 pp. + [1] with large folding map of the French concession area at Coquelles/Frethun. Original stapled blue paper wrappers, repeating title page, with royal arms on front. Library stamps, but otherwise fine condition. By the Treaty of Canterbury, 12 February 1986, the British and French governments agreed to construct and operate a Channel fixed link by private concessionaires. This publication gives details of the provisions for constructing and operating the link by the British and French concession holders. Four annexes describe the engineering parameters of terminals, track, rolling stock, signalling. etc., the question of frontier controls, the acquisition and purchase of land and insurance. The boundaries of the French concession are shown in the detailed map included. Subsequently a joint Anglo-French company, TransManche Link was established to construct the link on behalf of the British and French operating companies. [ref: 20783 ] £20 267. CHANNEL TUNNEL. MEMORANDUM BY SIR PERCY

TEMPEST, JULY 1923. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. With Compliments from W. Turner Perkins, Hon Sec., House of Commons Channel Tunnel Committee. Memorandum by Sir Percy Tempest, Engineer of the Channel Tunnel, and Joint General Manager of the Southern Railway Company, relating to the general aspects of the project of the Channel Tunnel and its construction, as well as to the methods proposed for expediting the work and reducing its cost. [s.l.]: [n.p.]. 1923 Folio. 8.25 x 13 inches. 3 pp. folded. A few small creases and slight wear to extremities; otherwise fine condition. This brief memorandum reflects a revival of interest in the Channel Tunnel scheme (in abeyance since the 1906-07 projects) in the inter-war years, but which lasted only until the early thirties, when the possibility of another European war once again caused the project to be abandoned. [ref: 20862 ] £75 268. CHANNEL TUNNEL. PROPOSED SCHEME OF 1906-07. A

COLLECTION COMPRISING FIVE PAMPHLETS RELATING TO PROPOSED CHANNEL SCHEME OF 1906-07. [s.l.]: [n.p.]; [s.l.]: [n.p.]; [s.l.]: [n.p.]; [s.l..]: [n.p.];[s.l.]: [n.p.]. 1906-07 8vo, 4to and folio pamphlets, or single sheets. 1. Illustrated by a plan and two diagrams; 2. Illustrated by two coloured maps of English and French coasts. 1. Bound in blue paper wrappers, with library stamps; 2. Bound in buff paper wrappers. 1906 report in fine condition. 2 and 3 have slight wear to extremities and 4. has small tears along one edge of fold; otherwise all in fine condition. 1, 2 and 3 have ink inscriptions, Bruton Haywood and date.

1. The Channel Tunnel: Its Commercial Advantages. The Joint Parliamentary Committee. Opinions of Experts (May 1906) 2. The Channel Tunnel. By a Military Railway Expert (March 1907, 6 pp.). 3. The Channel Tunnel. (Reprinted by permission from ‘The Westminster Review’ of February, 1907), by Thomas Barclay, 4 pp. 4. The Channel Tunnel. A few notable opinions in support. ([1907], [4] leaves, folded, stapled, foolscap). 5. The Channel Tunnel. Its chimerical dangers. By Major-General Sir Alfred E. Turner, K.C.B., Late Inspector-General of Auxiliary Forces. ([n.d.] but c.1907, [1] leaf, folded proof sheet). A collection of pamphlets compiled at the time of a resolution in favour of the Channel Tunnel scheme to be submitted to the House of Commons, 1906-07. The 1906 report (1) includes a summary of the evidence offered by commercial witnesses before the Joint Parliamentary Committee of 1883. It adds statistics of passengers passing through the ports of Calais and Boulogne from 1850 and imports and exports through Calais, 1904-05. To inspire supporters of the scheme it even reproduces a rail map of London to New York via Siberia, a Bering Strait tunnel and Alaska! The March 1907 pamphlet (2) has two coloured maps, showing the locations of the proposed stations at Maxton, near Dover and at Wissant. In general there is a strong emphasis on the commercial advantages of the scheme and a reasoned refutation of the military fears of a sudden French invasion. General Turner points out that it would take twelve to twenty days for a French army corps to disembark in Dover using the Tunnel, which could be easily closed by portcullises, flooding and the switching off of the power supply. [ref: 20781 ] £150 269. CHANNEL TUNNEL SCHEME OF 1973. A COLLECTION OF

TWO PAMPHLETS. 1. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL PROJECT. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Environment by Command of Her Majesty March 1973 (Cmnd. 5256). 2. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Environment by Command of Her Majesty, September 1973 (Cmnd. 5430). HMSO, London. 1973 2 items. 8vo. 9.5 x 6 inches. 1. vi + 33 pp. + [1]. Illustrated by 4 plates and 2 maps. 2. iv + 75 pp. + [1] pp. Includes 14 annexes and bibliography at end. Illustrated by 7 plates, including one double page, and two maps. Original stapled green/blue paper wrappers. Library stamps, but otherwise fine condition. These two studies, produced by the Department of the Environment, relate to the 1973 Channel Tunnel scheme. The first is a short summary and the second presents the proposal in much greater detail, with an extensive range of statistical forecasts. Work was begun at Dover in the following year, but the project was cancelled by the incoming Labour government in 1975. The Folkestone terminal was to be situated in the same area as the 1980s scheme that actually came to fruition, although the location of the passenger station was moved to Ashford. [ref: 20782 ] £40

270. CHAPLIN, LIEUT. COL. H.D. THE 97TH OR EARL OF ULSTER'S

REGIMENT 1824 - 1881. Q.O.R.W.K. Museum Committee. 1973 73 pp. with maps and photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A mint copy. [ref: 19810 ] £35 271. CHAPMAN, HENRY S. THE STORY OF DOLA. JULIUS CAESAR’S

LANDING PLACE. A ROMANTIC HISTORY OF EARLY BRITAIN Newnes. 1921 174 pp. with maps and illustrations. Original paper wrappers in chipped dust wrapper. Fine copy of the account of the landing at Deal in the cheaper paper bound issue. [ref: 18473 ] £15 272. CHAPMAN, HENRY STEPHEN. DEAL: PAST AND PRESENT. A

FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD, FROM THE LANDING OF JULIUS CAESAR TO THE CLOSE OF THE LAST CENTURY, Comprising many matters of distinctive interest from the earliest ages, mainly obtained from Contemporary Chronicles; Municipal Records; and from Miscellaneous Sources: including a great variety of Anecdotes, Maritime Lore, Stories of Heroism, Narratives of Disaster, Biographical Sketches; the origin and growth of Ancient Institutions and Industries; the Legends, Chronology, Traditions and Archaeology of the Locality; with many other matters of equal interest, by Henry Stephen Chapman, Member of Deal Town Council. London Reeves & Turner, 1890. 4to. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. [4] + iii +[i] + 98 pp. Bound in original decorated brown cloth, gilt. Foxing throughout, largely confined to margins, otherwise a good copy. Early inscription at top of title. Scarce history of the town with a wealth of information not found in more academic works. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21300 ] £150 273. CHAPMAN, H.T. REMINISCENCES OF A HIGHWAY SURVEYOR

1886-1932. Privately by the Author. 1932 148 pp. on art paper. Numerous photo illustrations and portraits. Original embossed blue cloth. A little bumped but a very good copy. The author was latterly the County Surveyor for Kent, having previously been surveyor for several other counties, and is largely responsible for the shape of the county’s roads and transport system,

including early proposals for the building of the Dartford Tunnel. There are many interesting photographs of buildings, bridges and road schemes and also much fascinating detail. Chapman had many friends and acquaintances among the county’s dignitaries and he mentions and provides photographs of many of them. [ref: 14401 ] £45 274. CHEVENING PARISH HISTORY GROUP. THE HISTORY OF

THE PARISH OF CHEVENING Edited by Ian Watson. Chipstead Chevening Parish History Group, 29 High Street, Chipstead, Sevenoaks, TN13 2RW. 1999 4to. 6.75 x 9.5 inches. [8] + 238 pp. Illustrated by black and white photographs, drawings, maps and facsimiles in text. In original laminated pictorial card wrappers. Extremities a little worn and edges a little sunned, otherwise fine condition. A well produced and illustrated history of Chevening parish, which also includes Chipstead. [ref: 21178 ] £12 SIGNED COPY

275. CHILDS, BOB. ROCHESTER SAILING BARGES OF THE

VICTORIAN ERA. bOB cHILDS/ Rochester sAILING bARGES pUBLICATIONS. 1993 Folio. 212 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations. Original colour printed laminated card wrappers [ref: 20815 ] £75 276. CHISLET - HASLEWOOD, REV. FRANCIS. THE PARISH OF

CHISLET, KENT: ITS MONUMENTS, VICARS, AND PARISH OFFICERS; WITH A DIGEST OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS NOW REMAINING IN THE PARISH CHEST. Privately published in Ipswich. 1887 First Edition. 4to. xiii + 193 pp. with plates and folding pedigrees. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine faded otherwise a very good copy of this rare book. Limited edition of two hundred and five copies. Haslewood’s monograms on Kentish villages are always accurate and preserve much that has now been lost (gravestone inscriptions etc.). The genealogical information is always good. [ref: 21388 ] £175 277. CHRISTIE’S SALE CATALOGUE. GODMERSHAM PARK

CANTERBURY, KENT. The Property of The late Mrs Robert Tritton Sold by order of the Executors. Volume I. Objects of Art, Furniture, Porcelain, Pictures, Silver and Linen. Which will be sold at Auction on the premises

by Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. Monday to Thursday, 6-9 June 1983 at 11.00 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. each day. (Christie’s On the Premises). London. Christie, Manson and Woods Ltd. 8 King Street, St. James’s, London, SW1Y 6QT. 1983 4to. 8x 10.5 inches. 461 pp. + [15], including [4] blank, pp. Illustrated with 437 photographs, including 113 in colour. Bound in original green cloth, gilt with pictorial dust wrapper. Fine condition. Jane Austen frequently visited her brother, Edward Austen Knight, at Godmersham Park, near Ashford. The estate was bought by Robert (d.1956) and Elsie Tritton in 1936 and some of the atmosphere of the late thirties is captured in Rex Whistler’s enormously evocative Tea in the Garden, painted at Godmersham in 1938; and in Somerset Maugham’s introduction to Pride and Prejudice written while staying at Godmersham before the war.’ Fine copy of this now scarce sale catalogue. [ref: 21042 ] £45 278. CHURCH, RICHARD. THE CRAB-APPLE TREE.

Heinemann. 1959 First Edition. 238 pp. Original cloth in slightly faded dust wrapper designed by Charles Stewart. A very good copy in a very good wrapper, fore-edges a little foxed. Fine Kentish novel. [ref: 15455 ] £25 279. CHURCH, RICHARD. DOWN RIVER Children’s Book Club, London. 1959 First Edition. 150 pp. Original cloth. A very good copy in a good wrapper. One of Church’s novels for children where the members of the Tomahawk club explore an underground river. [ref: 21376 ] £20

SIGNED COPY 280. CHURCH, RICHARD. THE GOLDEN SOVEREIGN. A

CONCLUSION TO OVER THE BRIDGE. Heinemann. 1957 First Edition. 245 pp . Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy of the book in a like wrapper. His second volume of autobiography. Signed on the title page by the author. [ref: 16585 ] £45

TUNNICLIFFE ILLUSTRATIONS

281. CHURCH, RICHARD GREEN TIDE

Country Life 1945 First Edition 4to,112 pp.Illustrated throughout by C.F. Tunnicliffe. original geen boards with gilt titles very good. Dust wrapper repaired just front panal remains

His main theme is country life in wartime life in the Weald of Kent but the book also covers aspects of London. Contains over forty illustrations by Tunnicliffe. [ref: 19380 ] £15 SIGNED COPY 282. CHURCH, RICHARD. KENT. Robert Hale. 1948 289 pp. with folding map and photo illustration Original cloth in a dust wrapper, which is a little worn at the head of the spine and has two closed tears but is complete. A good copy. This copy is signed by the author on the front free endpaper. ***We also have unsigned copies at £10*** [ref: 16586 ] £25 283. CHURCH, RICHARD. THE LAMP. Dent, London. 1946 First Edition. 95 pp. Original cloth gilt in dustwrapper. Spine sunned otherwise a fine copy. A dramatic narrative poem set in France during the German occupation. [ref: 18036 ] £10 284. CHURCH, RICHARD. THE LITTLE KINGDOM. A Kentish

collection. Illustrated by John Ward ARA. London Hutchinson. 1964 First Edition. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. 300 pp. Half title. Illustrated by drawings in text by John Ward. Bound in original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy in a like wrapper. A collection of essays, poems and stories from Caesar to Church himself, all with a Kentish theme and dedicated to Vita Sackville-West. We have two similar copies. Kent Bibliography [ref: 16619 ] £10 SIGNED COPY

285. CHURCH, RICHARD. THE PORCH.

Heinemann. 1961 A new edition. 355 pp., with a new introduction by the author. Original cloth. A very good copy in like wrapper. A later reprint of this popular novel. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper ‘To Jean and Robert in friendship. Richard Church July 1961’ . [ref: 16599 ] £35 286. CHURCH, RICHARD. A PORTRAIT OF CANTERBURY. Hutchinson. 1953

234 pp., with photo illustration. Original cloth in the scarce, slightly chipped and repaired dust wrapper. The first issue of Church's affectionate look at Canterbury. Still in print in a much changed edition. [ref: 17455 ] £15 SIGNED COPY 287. CHURCH, RICHARD. SPEAKING ALOUD

Heinemann, London. 1968 First Edition. 276 pp. Original cloth. A very good copy in like wrapper. A collection of talks and lectures given by Church. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper ‘To Jean and Robert with love from Richard Church ’. [ref: 21375 ] £20 288. CHURCH, RICHARD. THE VOYAGE HOME.

Heinemann, London. 1964 First edition. 223 pp. Original cloth gilt in price clipped dustwrapper. Spine sunned oth erwise a very good copy. The last volume of the author’s autobiographical trilogy. [ref: 13751 ] £20 289. CHURCHILL, IRENE JOSEPHINE EAST KENT RECORDS. A

Calendar of some unpublished Deeds and Court Rolls in the Library of Lambeth Palace, With Appendices referring especially to the Manors of Knowlton, Sandown, South Court, and North Court. Edited by Irene Josephine Churchill, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. (Kent Records. Volume 7, 1920-22). Printed for the Records Branch [of Kent Archaeological Society] by Mitchel Hughes and Clarke. 1922 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. l + 224 pp. [8], b-c8, d1, B-D8, E-E2, FP8, Q-Q4, R-R2. Separate title pages for series and individual title. Bound in blue cloth, gilt with double gilt bands and gilt crest of Society on front boards. Small ink stain on first title page. Ink and pencil comments in introduction. [ref: 19843 ] £35 290. CINQUE PORTS. INDEXES OF THE GREAT WHITE BOOK AND

OF THE BLACK BOOK OF THE CINQUE PORTS. Elliot Stock, London. 1905 4to., 139 pp. Original decorated burgundy cloth, gilt. Important indices. [ref: 13975 ] £45

291. CINQUE PORTS - BURROWS, MONTAGUE. HISTORIC TOWNS

- CINQUE PORTS. Longmans. 1888

261 pp., with folding maps. Original cloth gilt spine faded, otherwise a good copy. A very good monograph on the subject. [ref: 17204 ] £20 292. CINQUE PORTS - GREEN, IVAN. THE BOOK OF THE CINQUE

PORTS THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT, HAYDAY AND DECLINE. Barracuda Books Ltd. Buckingham 1984. 8vo. 144 pp. with photographs and illustrations. in original. Rexine in dust wrapper. A very good copy. A well illustrated account, signed by the author. [ref: 19573 ] £25 293. CINQUE PORTS - HUEFFER, FORD MADOX. [FORD MADOX

FORD]. THE CINQUE PORTS - A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE RECORD. William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London. 1900. First edition. Large 4to. xiv + 413 pp. with 14 photogravure plates with printed tissue guards and 19 black and white full page plates and text illustrations by William Hyde. Decorated cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Head and tail of spine and corners very slightly bumped. Slight foxing to text block but a very good copy. Ford Madox Hueffer was the real name of the well known writer Ford Madox Ford. In the late nineteenth century he was one of the group of writers who settled in and about Rye and the Romney Marsh, of whom Henry James, H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad are now the most famous. Hueffer’s delightful book is this group’s only contribution to topographical literature, and a fine book it is, greatly enhanced by William Hyde’s brooding illustrations, which capture the remote and isolated feel of the marsh countryside. As a portrait of the Marsh at the turn of last century, it is often overlooked and become scarce, as the writer has a large American following and many copies are now overseas. [ref: 18106 ] £240 294. CINQUE PORTS - HULL, FELIX. (Edited by). A CALENDAR OF

THE WHITE AND BLACK BOOKS OF THE CINQUE PORTS. 1432 1955. H.M.S.O. 1966 818 pp. Original cloth, gilt. Small split in front hinge, otherwise, a good copy. The minutes of all the meetings of the Cinque Ports Confederation since the mid 15th century. [ref: 16647 ] £20

295. CITY OF ROCHESTER SOCIETY. ROCHESTER From old

photographs. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1985 Unpaginated 60 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18634 ] £10 296. CLAIR, COLIN. A KENTISH GARNER.

Warford, Bruce & Gawthorn, in Assoc. with the Friends of St. Lawrence College. n.d. but c.1959 4to. 160 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. An interesting compendium including articles on Kentish cricket, Caxton, hop-growing in Tudor times, and the Battle of Bossenden Wood. [ref: 10768 ] £10

SIGNED COPY 297. CLARK, F.C. KENTISH FIRE. Adams and Son, Rye. 1947 4to.111 pp. with photographic illustrations. Original boards with dust wrapper. Author’s inscription on prelims. Two small neat bookplates inside front paste down. Signs of removed adhesive tape and repairs to edges of dust wrapper, otherwise good condition. Now scarce work which includes accounts of traditional farming practices and rural industries with several chapters on windmills. [ref: 19028 ] £20 298. CLARKE, DENNIS and STOYEL, ANTHONY. OTFORD IN

KENT. A HISTORY. [s.l.] Otford and District Historical Society. 1975 First edition. 8vo. 6.25 x 9 inches. xiv + 297 pp. + [1]. Illustrated with 16 black and white photographic plates, and drawings and maps in text. Original cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Spine slightly sunned and light foxing to foredge, otherwise fine condition. Elizabeth Melling’s own copy with inscription on first free endpaper and compliments slip from publisher inserted. The standard modern history, well researched and compiled. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 21185 ] £30

299. CLUNN, HAROLD. FAMOUS SOUTH COAST PLEASURE RESORTS

PAST AND PRESENT, THEIR HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS, THEIR RISE TO FAME AND A FORECAST OF THEIR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. T. Wittingham, 1929 First Edition. Large 8vo. 404 pp. with numerous illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt. Quite scarce now, this book gives a fascinating picture of the rise of the seaside resorts, and their present state (1929). The towns in Mr Clunn's survey are Brighton, Hastings, Torquay, Folkestone and Worthing. [ref: 17191 ] £45 300. COCKBURN, J. S. CALENDAR OF KENT ASSIZE RECORDS Kent

Indictments 1649-1659. London H.M.S.O. 1989 4to. 6.25 x 10 inches. vii +[i] + 436 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, decorated with royal seal on front board and spine. As new in dust wrapper. This volume contains in calendar form the official record of criminal trials at Kent assizes during the period of the Commonwealth and Protectorate and which throw light not only upon the administration of criminal justice but on a wide range of social and economic topics. One of a series of four which will contain a full calendar of all the material relating to Kent from 1625 to 1688 which survives among the assize indictment files for the Home Circuit. [ref: 21752 ] £40 301. COCKBURN, J .S. (Edited by). CALENDAR OF ASSIZE RECORDS

KENT INDICTMENTS CHARLES II 1676-1688. Woodbridge The Boydell Press and London: The Public Record Office. 1997 4to. 6 x 10 inches. ix + [1] + 468 pp. Decorated with vignette of seal on title page. Bound in original red cloth, with vignette of seal on front board and spine. Top of front board and spine sunned; otherwise a fine copy. One of a series of volumes that contain, in calendar form, the official record of criminal trials at Kent Assizes during the later part of the reign of Charles II and that of James II. The indictments throw light not only upon the administration of criminal justice, but on a wide range of social and economic topics. [ref: 21352 ] £35

302. COLLYER, DAVID. PRELUDE TO WAR. KENT AVIATION 1938-39.

Kent Aviation Historical Research Society. 1989 60 pp. with b/w illustrations. Pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy with a letter, loosely inserted, from the author to Tony Arnold at The East Kent Mercury. [ref: 18037 ] £10 303. COLLYER, DAVID. PRELUDE TO WAR. KENT AVIATION 1938-39. Kent Aviation Historical Research Society. 1989 8vo., 60 pp., with b/w illustrations. Pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. [ref: 19265 ] £8 304. COLTHUP, WILLIAM. A MAN OF KENT AT HOME AND ABROAD,

GROWER OF HOPS AND FRUIT. Canterbury: Privately printed for the Author by Messrs J.A. Jennings, Ltd. 1953. 8vo. 7.5 x 5.5 inches, 32 pp. Printed on one side only, with portrait frontis. Bound in full blue morocco, gilt. A very good copy. Signed presentation copy of this scarce, privately printed memoir of a Harbledown hop farmer. Jennings printed the book in Hall Place, Harbledown. The paper was hand-made at Hollingworth's Turkey Mill at Maidstone and bound in Canterbury by Arthur Bell, Butchery Lane. [ref: 21590 ] £75 INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

305. CONNELL, CHARLES. THE HOUSE IN THE BAY. THE STORY OF

SOUTH SANDS HOUSE FORMERLY THE HERMITAGE. St Margaret's Bay Trust. 1974 4to. 76 pp. with photo illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author and Frederick Cleary, the house’s owner. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper . Dedicated to one house but forming a broader history of St Margaret's-at-Cliffe near Dover. [ref: 20845 ] £25

306. CONSERVATORS OF THE RIVER THAMES. RULES AND BYE-

LAWS FOR THE REGULATION OF THE NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER THAMES London: Geo. Walker, Printer, Water Lane, E.C. 1885 8vo. 9 x 6 inches approx. 71 pp. + {smaller and bound in at rear}4 pp. + 4 pp. + 4 pp. Original embossed green-blue cloth, with gilt title to upper board. A little worn at head of spine otherwise very good. Commencing at 1872 with a Notice of Repeal of a number of former ByeLaws from 1857, the Bye-Laws and updates to the Bye-Laws, run until 19th March 1883 in the main part, and continue in the added parts until 5th August 1892. Areas of the text showing repealed Bye-Laws are overstamped in coloured ink, red or purple, with date of repeal and/or page number to which to refer. A working copy of the Rules and Bye-Laws for Officers of the Thames Conservancy. [ref: 19550 ] £125

307. COOKE, GEORGE ALEXANDER. TOPOGRAPHICAL AND

STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. Bound together with :TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX. Containing an Account of its Situation, Extent, Towns, Roads, Rivers, Minerals, Fisheries, Manufactures, Commerce, Fairs, Agriculture, Markets, Curiosities, Antiquities, Natural History, Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions &c. To which is prefixed, a Copious Travelling Guide; Exhibiting The District and Principal Cross Roads, Inns and Distance of Stages. Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s Seats, Forming a Complete County Itinerary. Also a list of the Markets and Fairs; and an index table, showing, at one view, the distances of all the towns from London, and from each other. Illustrated with a Map of The County. Printed for C. Cooke. 17, Paternoster Row, By Brimmer and Co. Water Lane, Fleet Street. n.d. but c.1800 12 mo. 2 volumes bound as one, 360 pp. and 168 pp. with a handcoloured, folding engraved map of each county. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards with contrasting title labels, gilt. A little rubbed at extremities but a very good, clean copy. This volume has here been bound up with the volume for Essex, with a nunber 4 stamped on the binding, so at some time it was part of a set of all Cooke’s county volumes. A most interesting pocket compendium of the counties for the traveller, containing a mass of information. The descriptions of Dover and Hythe make no reference to the works undertaken for the Napoleonic Wars, from which I conjecture the date to be about the turn of the eighteenth century. Not recorded by Smith. [ref: 17383 ] £250 308. COOKRIDGE, E H. ORIENT EXPRESS THE LIFE AND TIMES OF

THE WORLDS MOST FAMOUS TRAIN Allen Lane. 1979 First Edition 288 pp. Original ochre cloth in good dust wrapper. Definitive history of the Orient Express [ref: 19560 ] £25

309. COOKSON, E.W. (Compiled by) FROM GARDEN TO GATEWAY.

The changing face of Kent. Heathrow Publications. 1992 128 pp. Photo illustrations throughout. Blue cloth in dustwrapper. Unmarked, as new. ‘A record by Kentish people of dramatic changes taking place (now) in the early nineties, as Kent adapts to its pivotal role in Britain’s new European setting.’ [ref: 10361 ] £10 310. COOMBE, DEREK. FISHERMEN FROM THE KENTISH SHORE. Meresborough Books. 1989 9.5 x 6 inches, 184 pp. with b/w photo illustrations, diagrams and plan drawings. Original pictorial boards. A mint copy. Documents the history of the operators and owners of small inshore fishing boats, covering the Northern shores of Kent from Broadstairs up to Gravesend. [ref: 20788 ] £25

311. COOPER, F. S. A HANDBOOK OF SAILING BARGES. Evolution and

details of hull and rigging. F. S. Cooper. Illustrated by John Chancellor. Foreword by John Leather. London Adlard Coles, 8 Grafton Street, W1. 1989 Oblong 8vo. 7.5 x 5 inches. 111 pp. + [1] pp. Half-title. Illustrated by black and white drawings. Bound in original cloth with coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Fine condition. ‘The best compact reference to the design, construction, rig and handling, as well as the basic lore of the spritsail barges of south east England.’ Facsimile reprint of the original edition. ‘The text of the book has not been altered from the original. The Index of Barge Owners’ Bobs (or house flags) and the illustrations of them, the lists of Commercial Barges (active), Auxiliary Sail, Motor Barges and the List of Barge Owners have been retained as published in 1955 to provide a record of the spritsail barge fleet in its last years of commercial operation.’ [ref: 21127 ] £15 312. COOPER, F.S. RACING SAILORMEN.

Percival Marshall, London. 1963 109 pp. with numerous b/w photo illustrations. Original pale blue cloth, gilt. A good copy in a fair dust wrapper. A history of Barge racing on the East coast. [ref: 20808 ] £25 COPUS, GEOFFREY. CHELSFIELD CHRONICLES. Annals of a Kentish parish. [Cover title adds 1450-1920]. [Tunbridge Wells] [the author] 2003 8vo. 5.75 x 8 inches. 180 pp. List of subscribers at end. Illustrated by 12 pp. of 21 black and white plates, drawings in text and folding map at end. In laminated pictorial card

wrappers. Inscribed by author to Elizabeth Melling on title page. Fine condition. A well researched local history. There is a note on the artists associated with the area, including Randolph Caldecott. [ref: 21180 ] £15 313. CORDELL, ALAN AND LESLIE WILLIAMS. THE PAST

GLORIES OF MILTON CREEK. Tales of Slipways, Sails and Setting Booms: Compiled by Alan Cordell and Leslie Williams. Rainham Meresborough Books, 7 Station Road, Rainham, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 7RS. 1985 4to. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 255 pp. (pp. 249-252 blank, pp. 253-55 advertisements). Half-title. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and facsimiles and 10 maps. In pictorial boards. Extremities a little worn, but otherwise good condition. A well-illustrated history of the coastal sailing trade of Milton Creek (Sittingbourne). The barges supplied the transport requirements of the nearby brick, cement, paper making and farming industries: ‘Accounts of thriving commerce are woven together with those of wreck and rescue, record-breaking feats, witty personalities and brave deeds. The characteristic local sailing barges are strongly featured.’ Both the authors worked in the trade or had strong family connections with it. Five appendices list the Milton Creek barges, and also print a selection of barge lore and poems with ten detailed, annotated maps of the Creek. At the end is a photographic miscellany. [ref: 21122 ] £30 314. COUNCER, C.R. LOST GLASS FROM KENT CHURCHES. A

COLLECTION OF RECORDS FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Kent Archæological Society. 1980 8vo. 9 x 6 inches, 170 pp. with colour plates and other illustrations.. Blue cloth, gilt. Very good in the original dust wrapper. [ref: 20763 ] £12

315. FAVERSHAM AND EAST KENT FLORA

COWELL, M. H. A FLORAL GUIDE FOR EAST KENT, Etc., BEING A RECORD OF THE HABITATS OF INDIGENOUS PLANTS FOUND IN THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF KENT, WITH THOSE OF FAVERSHAM PARTICULARLY DETAILED, AND DEFINITELY EXHIBITED; Together with brief remarks on the uses of the several species in rural or domestic economy, Agriculture, Medicine, and historical associations; deduced from various authorities. IN TWO DIVISIONS, illustrated with two maps. By M. H. COWELL, Corresponding Member, and Local Secretary for Kent, of the Botanical Society of London.

W. Ratcliffe, Court Street; Faversham W. Pamplin, Jun Botanical Bookseller, Lavender Hill Wandsworth, Surrey, and all Booksellers . 1839 First Edition, 8vo. xiv + [ii] + 98 pp. + [6] pp. catalogue. Illustrated with one doublepage hand-coloured lithographic map of Faversham and district and one engraved uncoloured map of the Isle of Thanet. Bound in twentieth century cloth with the original label affixed to upper board. A very good copy of this rare item. This work was only produced once, and the print-run must have been very small, as we have not catalogued a single example for over 30 years. As a comment on Jacob’s ‘Flora of Faversham’ this gives an update and retrospect to that work and adds a further 21 ‘first’ records for the county. Very little seems to be known about Mr Cowell other than his membership of various Botanical Societies: and this - his lasting memorial. [ref: 19458 ] £375 316. COWPER, J. MEADOWS. THE LIVES OF THE DEANS OF

CANTERBURY, 1541 TO 1900. Canterbury, Cross & Jackman, 1900. First Edition, 8vo. 9 x6 inches, 247 pp. with an illustration of every Dean. Orig. cloth, gilt. A very good sound copy. The work contains 31 memoirs in all. Like most of Cowper's works this was produced in very small numbers, the subscribers list amounts to 144 copies in all. [ref: 21581 ] £65 317. COX, BERNARD. PADDLE STEAMERS. Blandford Press, Poole. 1979 Folio. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Illustrated front free endpaper neatly excised but illustration repeated at rear. 222 pp. with b/w photo illustration throuhgout. Original red cloth, gilt. Upper spine and boards marked, otherwise a very good copy in a like dust wrapper. From Brunel to the modern holiday cruisers of Australia via the iconic Mississippi stern-wheelers but concentrating on the British coastal craft. Very well-illustrated. [ref: 20814 ] £10 318. COX, BERNARD. PLEASURE STEAMERS.

David and Charles. 1983 64 pp. with b/w photo illustration throughout. Original laminated pictorial boards. A very good copy. Covers the development and decline, concentrating on the North Wales coast and the North West; the Bristol Channel; the South Coast; and the Thames. [ref: 20800 ] £10

SURVEY AND MAP OF KENT, 1720 319. COX, THOMAS. KENT. Taken from MAGNA BRITANNIA ET HIBERNIA, ANTIQUA and NOVA [Or, A New Survey of Great Britain; wherein to the Topographical Account given by Mr.Cambden, and the late Editors of his Britannia, is added a more large History, not only of the Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes mentioned by them, but also of many other Places of Note, and Antiquities since discovered. Collected and composed by an Impartial Hand. [In Six Volumes.] [In the Savoy: printed by Eliz. Nutt; and sold by M. Nutt, and J. Morphew, London.] [1720] 4to. 9 x 7 inches pp. 1071-1270 comprising the entire section on the County of Kent, extracted from vol. 2 of the complete work and hence lacks title page. 6Y2-8A1. Illustrated with folding map of Kent by Robert Morden at beginning of text. Rebound in half calf with maroon morocco boards and black morocco labels, gilt and raised bands. Interior slightly browned with occasional foxing and pencil notes, with some early water stains on bottom margins not affecting text. Edges darkened with a few ink stains. Otherwise a clean neat copy. Magna Britannia was intended to be an enlargement of the sixth edition of Britannia by William Camden (1607) and was originally published in monthly parts as a supplement to the Atlas Geographus (5 vols., 1711-17). Only the sections on the English counties were published in six volumes from 1720-31. Vols.1 and 2 (the latter including Kent) were continuously paginated and both appeared in 1720. The series has generally been attributed to Thomas Cox (1655/6-1734), rector of Stoke Harvard and vicar of Broomfield, Essex who published a number of works on ecclesiastical and national history. His DNB author, however, considers that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;this was probably a confusion arising from the name of the bookseller who took over the publication from 1724, who was also a Thomas Cox.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ESTC follows the traditional attribution of the work to the Rev. Thomas Cox, although it notes that the vendor of the remainder of 94

the Magna Britannia stock advertised in a sale catalogue of 1738 was probably Thomas Cox (i.e. the printer). The work was reissued in the same year by another printer. The cartographer Robert Morden (d. 1703) produced the English county maps for the 1695 edition of Camden’s Britannia and these remained standard for fifty years, hence their later use in Magna Britannia. Upcott ESTC T107759 (full set) DNB [ref: 19968 ] £200 SURVEY AND MAP OF KENT, 1720 320. COX, THOMAS. KENT. Taken from MAGNA BRITANNIA ET

HIBERNIA, ANTIQUA and NOVA [Or, A New Survey of Great Britain; wherein to the Topographical Account given by Mr.Cambden, and the late Editors of his Britannia, is added a more large History, not only of the Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes mentioned by them, but also of many other Places of Note, and Antiquities since discovered. Collected and composed by an Impartial Hand. [In Six Volumes.] [In the Savoy: printed by Eliz. Nutt; and sold by M. Nutt, and J. Morphew, London.] [1720] 4to. 7 x 9 inches pp.1071-1270 comprising the entire section on the County of Kent, extracted from vol. 2 of the complete work and hence lacks title page. Illustrated by folding map of Kent by Robert Morden at beginning of text. Rebound in half calf, gilt, with marbled boards. Extremities worn and top edge darkened; oherwise a clean neat copy. Armorial bookplate of Gilbert Compton Elliot (1871-1931) of Hull Place, Sholden, Kent and ink note on Cox on second free endpaper. Magna Britannia was intended to be an enlargement of the sixth edition of Britannia by William Camden (1607) and was originally published in monthly parts as a supplement to the Atlas Geographus (5 vols., 1711-17). Only the sections on the English counties were published in six volumes from 1720-31. Vols.1 and 2 (the latter including Kent) were continuously paginated and both appeared in 1720. The series has generally been attributed to Thomas Cox (1655/6-1734), rector of Stoke Harvard and vicar of Broomfield, Essex who published a number of works on ecclesiastical and national history. His DNB author, however, considers that ‘this was probably a confusion arising from the name of the bookseller who took over the publication from 1724, who was also a Thomas Cox.’ ESTC follows the traditional attribution of the work to the Rev. Thomas Cox, although it notes that the vendor of the remainder of the Magna Britannia stock advertised in a sale catalogue of 1738 was probably Thomas Cox (i.e. the

printer). The work was reissued in the same year by another printer. The cartographer Robert Morden (d.1703) produced the English county maps, in a larger format, for the 1695 edition of Camden’s Britannia and these remained standard for fifty years, hence their later use (in small format, compiled in 1701 and revised after 1704) in Magna Britannia. Upcott. ESTC T107759 (full set). Burgess, Printed Maps of Kent, 29/ii. DNB. [ref: 20719 ] £200 321. CRAMPTON, PAUL BEFORE AND AFTER THE HURRICANE IN

AND AROUND CANTERBURY Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1988 48 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18658 ] £10 322. CRAMPTON, PAUL. THE BLITZ OF CANTERBURY

Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1989 48 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. Documents the blitz of canterbury with many photographs and first hand accounts. [ref: 18183 ] £12 323. CRAMPTON, PAUL. CANTERBURY THEN AND NOW THE LOST

SCENES AND BUILDINGS. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1991 48 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18656 ] £12 324. CRAWFORD, O.G.S. ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE FIELD. Phoenix House. 1953 280 pp. + 24 plates and 43 figures to the text. Original green cloth, gilt. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper. One of the standard texts on the subject but eminently readable. [ref: 17415 ] £20 325. CRAYFORD - CARR, WILLIAM. THE SPOT THAT IS CALLED

CRAYFORD. HISTORICAL NOTES ON THE URBAN DISTRICT OF CRAYFORD FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. Crayford UDC. 1965 Revised and enlarged edition . 152 pp. with 19 illustrations including coloured frontis. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy signed by the author. [ref: 16941 ] £20 326. CROUCH, MARCUS AND WYN BURGESS. VICTORIAN AND

EDWARDIAN KENT FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. Batsford. 1974 4to. 168 pages of photographic illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper.

A fine selection of early photographs. [ref: 17210 ] £10 327. CUNLIFFE, BARRY. IRON AGE COMMUNITIES IN BRITAIN. An

account of England, Scotland and Wales from the seventh century BC until the Roman conquest. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1978 Second edition, 4to. xviii + 439 pp. + Photo plates 28 pp. Original dark blue cloth, gilt. Very good in like, unclipped, dust wrapper Standard authoritative text. [ref: 19002 ] £60 328. CURTIS, NEIL and JIM WALKER. NORTH DOWNS WAY.

[ref: 21760 ] £10

National trail guides, photographs by Mike Williams. Revised edition Aurum Press Ltd in association with the Countryside Agency. 2000 168 pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. Comprehensive guide to the North Downs Way which runs from Farnham in Surrey to the coast at Dover. OS 1:25000 maps accompany the text.

329. CUXTON - CHURCH, DEREK. CUXTON. A KENTISH VILLAGE.

Cassell, Sheerness. 1976 177 pp., with diagrams and illustration throughout. Original pictorial boards. A well-researched history of this village on the banks of the Medway. Becoming difficult to find. [ref: 19611 ] £25

330. DALY, AUGUSTUS A. THE HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY.

From the Roman Occupation to the Reign of His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII. By Augustus A. Daly. Author of ‘The History of Canvey Island,’ ‘Greater Lessons in massacre,’ ‘A Warning Cry to Russia.’ ‘The Missing Baronet,’ etc., etc. With 90 Illustrations by James Proctor. Reprint title; HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY. London Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1904. Reprinted, Sheerness: Arthur J. Cassell. 1975 xiv + 313 pp. + [1]. Separate title page for reprint. Illustrated by 90 drawings in text. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. A very good copy. An original is now rare, and even this reprint is hard to find. Combines charming illustrations and thorough text with an index, missing from the original edition. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 21721 ] £25

331. DALY, AUGUSTUS A. THE HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY

FROM THE ROMAN OCCUPATION TO THE REIGN OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1904 297 pp. with 90 illustrations by J. James Proctor. Bound in original red, printed cloth. Very slightly worn at the head and tail of the spine, but a very good copy. A rare guide. Combines charming illustrations and thorough text. [ref: 21664 ] £85

332. DARELL,Rev.Wm THE HISTORY OF DOVER CASTLE,

ILLUSTRATED WITH 10 VIEWS AND A PLAN OF THE CASTLE. Printed for S. Hooper. 1786 Small folio. vi + 68 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece vignette and 9 copper engraved plates and a folding plan. Bound in eighteenth century panelled calf, blind and gilt, neatly rebacked. A very nice copy of this printing of the work of William Darell, chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I, here translated from the Latin manuscript in the College of Arms. [ref: 18950 ] £175 333. DARENT VALLEY - ALEXANDER, WILLIAM G.G. A FARMING

CENTURY. THE DARENT VALLEY 1892-1992. Quiller Press, London. 1991 1st edition. 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches. 176 pp. with numerous black and white illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt. A fine copy in like dust wrapper. Signed by author on half title. Account of a farming family from Scotland who moved to the Darent Valley, Kent in 1892 and founded a farming dynasty. Now out of print. We also have a similar, but unsigned copy, in stock for £20. [ref: 20556 ] £25 RARE HISTORY OF DARTFORD 334. DARTFORD - DUNKIN, A. J. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

OF DARTFORD TOGETHER WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho Square. 1844 Large 8vo. xxvi + 478 pp. + [2] with 9 plates including an engraved frontispiece. Neatly pasted to one of the blank prelims is a black-bordered slip in memory of Ann Chapman Dunkin. This gives her details, and those of her husband, with dates, and has two photographic miniature portraits of Ann

and John Dunkin. That of John Dunkin is a photograph of his engraved portrait whilst that of his wife appears to be a reduction of an original photograph. Original red cloth, gilt. Re-spined with the original spine laid-on. A very good copy. From the imprint it appears that this edition of Dunkin's history of Dartford was issued at a later date by John Russell Smith, using the remaining sheets from Dunkin’s own press, possibly for the benefit of Dunkin’s widow or, in light of the memorial slip, in her memory. As with all Dunkin’s books the collations are difficult and this copy demonstrates the eccentricity of his books, which were printed in very small numbers. The pagination is contrary to normal practice in that the verso of page 1 is page 3, thus throughout the book the recto has an even number. Pages 22 and 23 do not exist but comparison with another copy shows that the text is uninterrupted. There is an instance where a cancel has been inserted producing no less than three pages numbered 233, two on the same leaf. The list of plates calls for fourteen plates including the frontis. This copy has nine, two of which are different to those called for, and few plates appear where they are listed. Again it is clear, from comparison with other copies, that the plates varied from copy to copy, and there is no evidence that any of the errant plates were ever actually included in this issue. [ref: 16900 ] £250

HISTORY OF DARTFORD

335. DARTFORD - DUNKIN, A.J. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

OF DARTFORD WITH TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. Printed and published by J. and W. Davis, Dartford. 1904 Large 8vo. xxviii + 477 pp. + [2] illustrated with 18 plates including an engraved frontispiece. Bound in recent red half-morocco, gilt. A very good copy, with some old ink inscriptions and annotations by a previous owner in the text, that provide additional first hand information. Combined with an attractive binding by our Bookbinder, this is a desirable example. This is the later facsimile edition of Dunkin's history of Dartford, originally published in 1844, and it retains the flavour of the original but corrects the ‘palpable mistakes’ of the earlier printing. Thus it is free from the entertaining foibles of the original in respect of variety of plates and odd pagination and represents a very good alternative to the scarce first edition. [ref: 19083 ] £250 DARTFORD - DUNKIN, A.J.c MEMORANDA OF SPRINGHEAD AND

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ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. DURING THE PRESENT PERIOD. One Hundred Copies. Printed for Private circulation. 1848 8vo. 152 pp. with a frontis portrait and 6 plates. Bound in the original cloth but re-spined at a later date. Rather worn at the extremities and covers rather stained, otherwise a good example. Printed at the Private Press of J. Dunkin, in an edition of one hundred copies only. Dunkin’s somewhat eccentric books are all very scarce, but contain interesting information. [ref: 16860 ] £165

337. DARTFORD - KEYES, SIDNEY KILWORTH. DARTFORD.

SOME HISTORICAL NOTES. Dartford, Perry, Son, and Lack, 1933 Thick Royal. 8vo. 727 pp. with maps, plans, and illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth, gilt. With a signed portrait of the author and a presentation inscription in the author’s hand pasted on the front free endpaper. A fine copy of the first volume of the author's monumental history of Dartford. [ref: 18908 ] £150 PROOF COPY

338. DARTON, F.J. HARVEY. A PARCEL OF KENT.

Nisbet and Co. Ltd., London. 1924 xv + 291 pp. + 5 illustrations by L. Russell Conway and T. Mackenzie. Faded blue paper wrappers with title label to spine. Some gatherings rather unsympathetically opened, others unopened. Untrimmed. An evocative appreciation of the Weald of Kent from the first quarter of the twentieth century. [ref: 21333 ] £10 339. DARTON, F.J.HARVEY. A PARCEL OF KENT.

Nisbet and Co. Ltd., London. 1924 xv + 291 pp. + 5 illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt. A very good, bright copy. An evocative appreciation of the Weald of Kent from the first quarter of the twentieth century. *** We also have an uncorrected proof copy *** [ref: 20260 ] £10

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340. DAVIS, J. J. DAVIS'S DEAL AND DOVER ILLUSTRATED VISITORS

GUIDE. WHAT TO SEE AND HOW TO SEE IT. J. DAVIS’S SERIES OF HOLIDAY HANDBOOKS. Tenth Edition. Ent. Stat. Hall. Price 3d., with maps of Town and District. John Davis, 24 Queen Victoria St.,London. No date but c.1900. Tenth edition. Small 8vo. pp.1 - 32 + [4] adverts and contents + pp.52 - 82 + folding view of Dover from the sea and wood engravings to the text, and one photographic illustration. These guides typically have a map but none is called for in the contents and there is no obvious indication of where one should or would have been. The contents comprise two 32 page guides with two leaves and the folding view inserted between. The Dover section was certainly published in another of the guides, Folkestone, and this may explain the unusual pagination. Original generic printed paper wrappers. Browned as usual with a small chip or two, and loss of an inch of plain backstrip. A very good copy. Attractive pre-First World War guide to the Deal and Dover area. The first 32 pages are devoted to Deal and district, while the last 32 are for Dover and district. One of a series of guides published by J. Davis, all having the same printed design on the wrappers but with the name of the town, printed on a diagonal panel, varying from guide to guide, along with local advertising, also printed in a panel left for the purpose. These guides are now scarce. [ref: 21251 ] £75 341. DEAL OFFICIAL GUIDE

Borough of Deal Publicity Committee, n.d. c.1965 8vo. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original illustrated paper wrappers, as issued. [ref: 14936 ] £12 342. DEAL - BURNAND, F.C. THE ZIG-ZAG GUIDE ROUND AND

ABOUT THE BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL KENTISH COAST. A. and C. Black. 1897 First Edition. viii + 188 pp. + 32 with folding frontis and illustrations throughout by Phil May. Original pictorial cloth. Spine darkened and a little worn, but a good copy. Primarily concerned with Deal, Sandwich and the Isle of Thanet. Attractively illustrated in Phil May's distinctive comic style. [ref: 18127 ] £65 343. DEAL - PAIN, E.C. HISTORY OF DEAL (1914 - 1953).

Deal: T.F.Pain & Sons. 1953 148 pp. with photo and other illustrations. Half-cloth over original boards, which are slightly damp-stained. Otherwise a good copy. Scarce modern history of Deal encompassing the two World Wars - intended as an update to complete Laker's history. [ref: 18010 ] £85

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IN DUST WRAPPER 344. DEAL - PAIN, E.C. THE LAST OF OUR LUGGERS AND THE MEN

WHO SAILED IN THEM. Sketches and etchings by H.W. Pain and T.A.N. Bent. Deal T.F. Pain and Sons. 1929 Tall 8vo. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. 174 pp. + [2]. Illustrated throughout with etchings and photographs. Original cloth, gilt, in the very rare dust wrapper, which has a closed tear in the front panel and a piece missing from the head of the spine, not affecting the design. Rebacked, with scratching and wear on spine and boards Newspaper photograph pasted on front free endpaper. The rare, Deal-published account of the luggers and the men who sailed them in the period 1858 - 1909. A cornerstone in any Deal / Goodwin Sands collection. The best work on the subject with much firsthand detail and anecdotes, collected and recorded when the last of the nineteenth-century sailors were still alive. Kent Bibliography [ref: 19525 ] £200 CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF THE DEAL LUGGERS 345. DEAL - PAIN, E.C. THE LAST OF OUR LUGGERS AND THE MEN

WHO SAILED IN THEM. Sketches and etchings by H.W. Pain and T.A.N. Bent. Deal T.F. Pain and Sons. 1929 Tall 8vo. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. 174 pp. + [2]. Illustrated throughout with etchings and photographs. Original cloth, gilt, extremities a little worn and small damp stains on front boards, but otherwise good condition. The rare, Deal-published account of the luggers and the men who sailed them in the period 1858 - 1909. A cornerstone in any Deal / Goodwin Sands collection. The best work on the subject with much firsthand detail and anecdotes, collected and recorded when the last of the nineteenth-century sailors were still alive. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21345 ] £175 346. DEAL - TREANOR, REV. THOMAS STANLEY. THE LOG OF A

SKY PILOT. OR WORK AND ADVENTURE AROUND THE GOODWIN SANDS. Religious Tract Society. 1893 256 pp. with illustration throughout. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Front free endpa per torn out and amateurishly reattached with stamp paper, otherwise a very good copy. A very good copy of this scarce book which continues the history of the Deal boatmen and the Goodwin sands.

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[ref: 10898 ] £65 347. DEAL - TREANOR, REV. THOMAS STANLEY. THE LOG OF A

SKY PILOT. Religious Tract Society. 1894 Second Editon, 256 pp. with illustration throughout. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Front free endpaper removed, otherwise a very good copy with the binding very fresh and bright. A very good copy of this scarce book which continues the history of the Deal boatmen and the Goodwin Sands. [ref: 20248 ] £65 348. DEAL - TREANOR, REV. THOMAS STANLEY. THE LOG OF A

SKY PILOT. Or, Work and Adventure around the Goodwin Sands. By the Rev. Thomas Stanley Treanor, M.A. Chaplain, Missions to Seamen, Deal and the Downs. Author of ‘Heroes of the Goodwin Sands.’ [London] The Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, and 65, St Paul’s Churchyard. 1894 Second Edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8 inches. 256 pp. with illustration throughout. Illustrated with 24 engravings, including many full page. Bound in original coloured pictorial cloth, gilt. Extremities lightly worn and spine slightly sunned, but front boards still fresh and bright. A fine copy. 1896 inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy of this scarce book which continues the history of the Deal boatmen and the Goodwin Sands begun in the first, and very popular work, by the Rev. Thomas Stanley Treanor (1873-1910) and very popular work, Heroes of the Goodwin Sands. (1892). The first edition of this title was published in 1893. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21289 ] £65

349. DEAL. NORTHEY, S.T. Publisher. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF

DEAL, WALMER AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Published by S.T. Northey, The Central Library, 35 High Street, Deal. 1880. Oblong view-book, 7 x 5 inches, containing 15 photos and an advertisement for S.T. Northey. Original printed red papercovered boards, gilt. Contents loose but complete. [ref: 20838 ] £25 350. DEARN, T.D.W. AN HISTORICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, AND

DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE WEALD OF KENT. Cranbrook. Printed for and sold by S. Reader. 1814 First Edition, 8vo. lvi + 277 pp. + [5] index and [1] advert. Illustrated with map and 8 sepia aquatint plates after drawings by the author. Original halfcalf over marbled boards with decorative spine. Worn at extremities but, apart from some offsetting from plates and a little light browning, a very good copy.

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Neat ownership inscriptions to front paste down in pencil and verso of frontis in ink. Rare history of the Weald with fine engraved illustrations including the wellknown view of the High Street at Cranbrook. [ref: 21624 ] £300 FISHING AND OYSTER REARING, 1868

351. DEMPSTER, HENRY. THE DECKED-WELLED FISHING BOAT,

FISHERIES AND FISH-MARKET REFORM: Being Dialogues on these Important Subjects with Full Information on the Oyster Question. By Henry Dempster, H.E.I.C.S. Printed for the Author by Aird and Coghill, Glasgow. 1868 8vo. 4.5 x 6.5 inches. 138 pp. + [1] p. [A-A4], [B-B8], C-I8, [K1]. Illustrated by coloured lithograph plan serving as frontispiece, two folding plans of vessels, one at the end and engravings in text. Bound in original blue cloth; blind stamped borders enclosing decorative patterns on boards, front gilt image of fishing craft. Title ‘Fishing’ in white on front board and spine. Extremities worn and some staining on boards. Yellow endpapers. Slight browning but otherwise clean inside. An investigation into the state of British fisheries and fish markets, largely written in the form of a dialogue, featuring Tom, Dick and Harry and a number of fishermen, etc. It has a particular emphasis on oyster culture and some detailed boat plans (one showing deck and elevation plans, the other the rigging) and descriptions of the decked-welled craft recommended for fishing. The coloured lithograph shows the proposed oyster tanks at Kinghorn, Fife. Although biased towards the southern part of the east coast of Scotland, there are frequent references to other areas, including Billingsgate Market in London and the Herne Bay Oyster Fishing Company. A very scarce work with much useful information on fishing boats and the fishing industry in the late nineteenth century. [ref: 20213 ] £175

352. DENNY, ERNEST. ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN PEGGY. A Light Comedy in

Three Acts.

Samuel French, London. 1910 159 pp. inscribed and signed by the author. Original green half-calf over marbled boards with gilt title to spine. A very good copy. Two of the three acts are set in Hawkhurst. A smartly bound presentation copy inscribed on, and incorporating, the half-title: To Miss Marjorie Dawson in old days just ‘Peggy’ from the author of her namesake:- ALL-OF-ASUDDEN PEGGY in both old days, and these, & in future days, - her friend Ernest Denny. Dec: 2. 1910. Loosely

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inserted is a two-page letter of the same date from Denny to Marjorie on his printed notepaper. This play was subsequently made into a silent movie with Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall and was one in a number of movies made from Denny’s original plays. [ref: 18153 ] £175

PRESENTATION COPY 353. DEPTFORD - DEWS, NATHAN. THE HISTORY OF DEPTFORD

IN THE COUNTIES OF KENT AND SURREY. Compiled from Authentic Records and Manuscripts. By Nathan Dews, Author of the ‘History of Somersham,’ ‘The Banks of Calder.’ etc., etc. Second edition. Revised and Enlarged, with Illustrations. London Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers’ Hall Court. Deptford: J. D. Smith, Printer, etc., Broadway. 1884 8vo. 5 x 7.25 inches. 328 pp. Errata et addenda sheet paste to verso of contents page. Illustrated by 4 plates, including one frontispiece plates and three folding (two genealogical tables and facsimile map) and other engravings in text. Numerous decorated initials. Bound in original blue cloth, decorated gilt. Bevelled edges. All page edges gilt. Slight wear to extremities and some light foxing, but otherwise fine condition. Printed presentation page, with name Arthur Crane in ink, from Mr. Evelyn, M.P. on the day of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. Wotton, 21st June, 1887. Revised and enlarged second edition of the standard nineteenth century history of Deptford, first published in 1883. The book includes chapters on the manors and Evelyn family, ecclesiastical sites, charities and schools and on commercial and industrial history, including a list of all vessels launched from the Royal Dockyard, 1551 to 1869, when naval shipbuilding ceased. The presentation leaf from the Deptford Conservative MP, William John Evelyn (1822-1908), has been included three years after publication of the book and must have been added to unbound copies. He was a descendant of the Evelyn family of Deptford and Wotton, Surrey and, through his purchase and donation of land served as a public benefactor to the inhabitants of the town. He served as MP, 1885-88, resigning in protest against the government’s Irish policy. Fine copy of a scarce book. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 21707 ] £100 DEPTFORD - DEWS, NATHAN. THE HISTORY OF DEPTFORD IN THE COUNTIES OF

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KENT AND SURREY. Compiled from Authentic Records and Manuscripts. By Nathan Dews, second edition. Revised and Enlarged, with Illustrations. (The Thamesmead Histories, Vol. III). Conway Maritime Press, 7 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London, S.E.10. 1971 Facsimile reprint. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 328 pp. Illustrated by [four] plates, including three folding (two genealogical tables and facsimile map) and other illustrations in text. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with pictorial dust wrapper. Top edges green. Bookplate. Fine condition. A facsimile reprint of the standard nineteenth century history of Deptford, itself now scarce. First published in 1883, the second edition, reprinted here, was revised and enlarged. The book includes chapters on the manors and Evelyn family, ecclesiastical sites, charities and schools and on commercial and industrial history. There is a list of all warships launched at the Royal Dockyard from 1551 to 1869, when naval shipbuilding at Deptford ceased. Fine copy of a now scarce book. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 20263 ] £65 355. DETSICAS, ALEC. COLLECTANEA HISTORICA Essays in memory

of Stuart Rigold. Kent Archæological Society. 1981 4to. 315 pp. including 64 b/w plates and 65 figures to text. Blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in dust wrapper. A collection of essays edited by Alec Detsicas. [ref: 11117 ] £25

DETSICAS, ALEC. COLLECTANEA HISTORICA. Essays in memory of Stuart Rigold, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist. S., F.R.N.S., F.R.S.A. Edited by Alan Detsicas. Maidstone Kent Archaeological Society. 1981 4to. 8.75 x 10.5 inches. xxx + [ii] + 315 pp. +[1]. Half-title. Illustrated by 64 black and white plates and 65 text figures. Bound in blue cloth, cloth, gilt. A very good copy in pictorial dust wrapper. Includes a list of the published works of Stuart Eborall Rigold, former Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Public Buildings at the Department of the Environment. About twenty of the thirty three essays relate to Kentish buildings. [ref: 21165 ] £25 356. DETSICAS, ALEC. STUDIES IN MODERN KENTISH HISTORY.

[Edited by NIGEL YATES] Presented to Felix Hull and Elizabeth Melling. Kent Ar chæological Society. 1983 4to. 230 pp. including 20 b/w plates. Blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in dust wrapper. [ref: 13324 ] £25 DETSICAS, ALEC and YATES, NIGEL. STUDIES IN MODERN KENTISH HISTORY. Presented to Felix

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Hull and Elizabeth Melling on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Kent Archives Office. Edited by Alec Detsicas and Nigel Yates. Maidstone Kent Archaeological Society. 1983 4to. 8.5 x 11 inches. xv + [i] + 230 pp. Half-title. Illustrated by 20 black and white plates and 7 figures (maps) in text. Bound in blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Includes appreciations and bibliographies of Felix Hull, former county archivist, and of Elizabeth Melling. [ref: 21164 ] £25 PRESENTATION COPY

357. DETSICAS, ALEC and YATES, NIGEL. STUDIES IN MODERN

KENTISH HISTORY. Presented to Felix Hull and Elizabeth Melling on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Kent Archives Office. Edited by Alec Detsicas and Nigel Yates. Maidstone Kent Archaeological Society. 1983 4to. 8.25 x 10.5 inches. xv + [i] + 230 pp. Half-title. Illustrated by 20 black and white plates and 7 figures (maps) in text. Presentation binding of half blue morocco over blue cloth, gilt with label on first free endpaper, to Elizabeth Melling, 22 July 1983. Includes appreciations and bibliographies of Felix Hull, former county archivist, and of Elizabeth Melling. [ref: 21166 ] £45 358. DITCHFIELD, P .H. and CLINCH, GEORGE. MEMORIALS OF

OLD KENT. Edited by The Rev. P.H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A. and George Clinch, F.G.S. With many illustrations. (Memorials of the Counties of England). London Bemrose and Sons Limited, 4 Snow Hill, E.C. and Derby 1907 First edition, Fat 8vo. 6 x 8.75 inches. xiii + [i] + 335 pp. + [1] + [4] pp. publisher’s advertisements. Half title. Illustrated by 73 illustrations, including 57 plates (the double page plans of Tong Church are extra to the index of illustrations), including frontispiece, black and white photographs and 3 double page plan, and 18 drawings in text. Decorative initials. Bound in original white cloth, gilt, with county emblem in roundel on front board and bevelled edges. Pages with rough cut edges. A good copy. Includes articles on Canterbury, Kentish Insurrections, Dickens’ Kent, Romney Marsh and Smuggling, Churches, Castles and Medway Bridges. One of the many works edited by the Rev. Peter Hempson Ditchfield (18541930), historian and prolific author and Rector of Barkham, Berkshire from 1886. George Clinch (1860-1921) wrote a number of books on Kent and also English Hops (1919).

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Kent Bibliography Supplement. [ref: 17474 ] £35 359. DOMESDAY BOOK. KENT. OR THE GREAT SURVEY OF

ENGLAND OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR A.D. 1066 Colonel Sir H. James, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. 1863 Folio. 10 x 14 inches. [vi] + 28 pp. with lithographic title 2 pages of text and 28 pages of litho facsimile pages and two woodcut illustrations. Contemporary green half-leather over cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. A very good copy of a scarce item. Colonel James, who claimed to have invented the process, introduced Photozincography for the reproduction of Ordnance Survey maps and utilised the process in the production of this accurate, life-size facsimile, issued in 33 volumes, covering one or two counties per volume. As such, this is a very early example of the process that James was to utilise widely. [ref: 18255 ] £150 360. DOMESDAY BOOK - KENT. EDITED BY PHILIP MORGAN.

Chichester, Phillimore, 1983. 8vo. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Translation of the 11th century survey. The hard back version, now out of print. ***We usually have softback editions in stock at £10*** [ref: 17198 ] £15 361. DOMESDAY BOOK - KENT. EDITED BY PHILIP MORGAN.

Chichester, Phillimore. 1983 Original printed wrappers. Very good copy Translation of the 11th century survey. Reproduces Abraham Farley’s 1783 printed text with modern translation prepared by Veronica Sankaran opposite. Softback example. [ref: 18342 ] £10 362. DONOVAN, PAUL. SPORTING THE OAK. The Life and Times of

Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn. Christine Swift. Egerton 2005 8vo. 249pp. with a large section of photographic illustrations. Original gilt boards dust wrapper. A very fine copy. Detailed study of Thomas Dearn Cranbrook’s author/artist/architect. [ref: 18045 ] £25

363. DOUCH, JOHN. SMUGGLING THE WICKED TRADE. Being a

Factual Account of some Clandestine Activities practised over the Past Centuries in and around the Romney Marsh in Kent, with special reference to the Ransleys of Aldington, Mursham and Ruckinge. Dover, Crabwell Publications, 1980

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First edition 8vo. 8.5 x 6 inches, 118 pp. with illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy of the first of John Douch's smuggling books, now difficult to find. [ref: 21710 ] £30 364. DOUCH, JOHN. SMUGGLING. FLOGGING JOEY'S WARRIORS

HOW THE ROYAL NAVY FOUGHT THE KENT AND SUSSEX SMUGGLERS. Dover, Crabwell Publications, 1985. 165 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. The book documents the efforts of the Customs and the Navy to defeat the 'gentlemen'. All of Mr. Douch’s books are long out of print and have become something of classics in Smuggling literature. [ref: 17675 ] £30 365. DOUCH, JOHN. SMUGGLING. 'ROUGH, RUDE MEN' A HISTORY

OF OLD TIME KENTISH SMUGGLING. Dover, Crabwell Publications, 1985. First Edition 8vo. 150 pp. with illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Further research into smuggling episodes along the Kentish coast by the established smuggling historian. [ref: 21711 ] £20 366. DOVER. DOVER AND THE EUROPEAN WAR, 1914-18. Reprinted

from the Dover Express and East Kent News, dec. 1918 to Feb. 1919. Dover. Dover Express Printing Office. 1919 4to. 9.5 x 7 inches. 48 pp. with double-page map showing the bombs and shells that landed on Dover. Original green, printed card wrappers faded around extremities but a very good copy of a scarce item. We have only handled three copies of this very ephemeral but extremely interesting item in the past 20 years. [ref: 21313 ] £75 367. DOVER. THE GARDEN BEHIND THE GATEWAY. DOVER RURAL

DISTRICT. With District Map and 11 illustrations. No. 86 ‘Rural England’ Series Fourth Edition. Century Publications, 79 Great Titchfield Street, London n.d. but 1952 12mo. 44 pp. with illustrations and advertisements throughout. Original printed card wrappers. A very good example. [ref: 16641 ] £20 368. DOVER. GODWYNEHURST LADIES’ SCHOOL DOVER. Seven

photographs of the School, two external and five internal. No date but c.1900 Seven photographs, 4.25 x 6 inches, mounted on paper. In very good condition.

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Pike’s Directory for 1910 lists Godwynehurst Ladies’ School as run by Mrs. J. S. Wise from Layburne Road, Dover. The photos show:1. External view of the building; 2. View from neighbouring property looking down on the field adjoining the school; 3. View of the Dining Room; 4. Junior Class Room; 5. The Senior Class Room; 6. Drawing Room; 7. A bedroom. [ref: 14907 ] £50 369. DOVER - ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for defraying the

Expenses of constructing Fortifications for the Protection of the Royal Arsenals and Dockyards and the Ports of Dover and Portland... George Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1860-69 Folio. 10 pp., 11 pp., 11 pp., 11 pp., 11 pp., 4 pp., 11pp., and 5 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. Eight Acts, published in 1860, 1862, 1863, 1864, two in 1867 and one in 1869, the later acts providing further sums for the works being carried on at Dover and Portland, and the last act providing the final sum. [ref: 14055 ] £30 370. DOVER - ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for making

Compensation to the Proprietors of certain Lands, Hereditaments, etc....purchased..... for better securing His Majesty’s Docks, Ships, and Stores at Portsmouth ....and for extending the lines and works at Dover Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1809 Folio. 7 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. [ref: 14054 ] £10 371. DOVER - ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for more effectually

maintaining and improving the Harbour of Dover. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1828 Folio. 35pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. This is one of the more important Dover Harbour Acts providing the template for the 19th century rules and regulations. [ref: 7387 ] £35 372. DOVER - ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for providing a further

sum towards defraying the Expenses of constructing Fortifications for the Protection of the Royal Arsenals and Dockyards and the Ports of Dover and Portland..... George Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1862 Folio. 11 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. The Dover works were to be carried out on Castle Hill Fort, Dover Castle and the Western Heights. [ref: 14046 ] £15 373. DOVER - ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for providing a further

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Folio. 11 pp. Disbound, preserved in a plastic sleeve. The Kent works involved Gravesend, Medway and Sheerness, Chatham, and Dover. The Dover works were to be carried out on Castle Hill Fort, Dover Castle and the Western Heights. [ref: 14047 ] £15 374. DOVER - ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT.

DOVER - A TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT SHEET 20 - DOVER - LYDDEN - RINGWOULD.

London, 1769 Hand-coloured copper-engraved map, 19 x 28 inches, mounted in conservation materials. A fine example. The Dover map of the rare 25-sheet atlas of Kent. On a scale of 2 inches to the mile, the coastline extends from East Wear Bay at Folkestone in the south, to St. Margaret's Bay in the north, whilst the country behind is shown from Alkham out to Waldershare and Coldred. [ref: 16540 ] £300 375. DOVER - ATHERTON, G.M. SOLDIERS OF THE CASTLE DOVER

CASTLE GARRISONED. Triangle/Mrs. G.M. Atherton, Canterbury. 2003 Folio. 11 x 8 inches. 99 pp. with numerous illustrations, many in colour. Original pictorial card wrappers. A very comprehensive and detailed account of the garrisons at Dover Castle from 1166 until 1958 when the last garrison, the 1st Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, removed to Connaught Barracks. A small picket was in place until 1961, and in 1963 the castle was turned over to the civilian authorities. The value of the book may be judged by the opinion of Professor Richard Holmes, the military historian, who in his foreword says “ This is a little gem of a book...” [ref: 16899 ] £15 376. DOVER - BATCHELLER, W. THE NEW DOVER GUIDE:

INCLUDING A CONCISE SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND CASTLE, WITH SUCH OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION AS MAY BE USEFUL TO VISITORS; AND A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NEIGHBOURING VILLAGES. THE FIFTH EDITION, EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS, FOUR PLANS OF THE CASTLE, AND ONE OF THE MAISON DIEU. Dover, W. Batcheller, 1842 [2], 144, [1], 144*, [14] pp. with 4 wood-engraved plans and wood engravings in the text. Original printed grey card wrappers with engraved illustration to front. A little worn at extremities, spine cracked and chipped at head and tail. Small tape mark to front. A very good copy nonetheless. Good example of this well-known mid-19th century guide to the port. Goulden p.46 No15. Goulden p.46 No15. 111

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377. DOVER - BATCHELLER, W. THE NEW DOVER GUIDE;

INCLUDING A CONCISE SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND CASTLE, WITH SUCH OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION AS MAY BE USEFUL TO VISITORS AND A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NEIGHBOURING VILLAGES. THE SIXTH EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS, AND PLANS OF THE CASTLE, THE ANCIENT TOWN WALL, ST. MARY'S CHURCH, AND THE MAISON DIEU. Dover, Printed and Published by W. Batcheller, King’s Arms Library. 1845 viii + 206 + [24] pp. with 6 plates and 26 wood engravings in the text. Original red cloth, gilt, with gilt vignette to upper board. Rebacked with original gilt titles laid on. A very good example. A much expanded version of the guide first published in 1828; comparing the two shows that much has changed in the growing harbour and watering place - most of all, the South-Eastern Railway, the wonder of the age, had arrived. A full description of this is included and from the text and adverts an interesting picture emerges of nineteenth century life in Dover. Goulden p.47 No. 20. [ref: 19116 ] £175 378. DOVER - BATCHELLER, W. THE NEW DOVER GUIDE;

INCLUDING A CONCISE SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND CASTLE, WITH SUCH OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION AS MAY BE USEFUL TO VISITORS AND A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NEIGHBOURING VILLAGES. THE SEVENTH EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED. EMBELLISHED WITH THIRTY ILLUSTRATIONS, AND PLANS OF THE CASTLE, THE ANCIENT TOWN WALL, ST. MARY'S CHURCH, AND THE MAISON DIEU, THE PRIORY CHURCH, AND THE HARBOUR OF REFUGE. Dover, W. Batcheller, 1853 223 pp. + (10) adverts + 16 pp. Appendix for the year. With a folding engraved map and engraved views throughout. Bound in the original purple/blue cloth, gilt, with gilt vignette of Dover Castle to upper board. A nice copy of the standard Batcheller's guide but more interesting than most in that it contains the rare folding engraved map of Dover by John Adams (Land Surveyor of New Folkestone Road, Dover), and even more interesting the 16-page appendix at the end of the

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guide. This section is in fact a Directory of Appointments for the Year, for example, Magistrates, Aldermen, Councillors, Police Officers, Customs and Excise Officers etc. It goes on to list Pilots, Packet Services and finally the Tide Tables for the Year. Scarce. [ref: 19975 ] £175 379. DOVER - BAVINGTON JONES, J. ANNALS OF DOVER.

INCLUDING HISTORIES OF THE CASTLE, PORT, PASSAGE, RELIGION, THE CORPORATION, MAYORS & THEIR TIMES, CORPORATION OFFICIALS, REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT, AND SOCIAL HISTORY. Dover, at the Express Works. 1916 First Edition. 8vo. [12] + 432 pp. + [16] pp. Original cloth, gilt. Spine faded but a very good copy. Indispensible history of Dover. This first edition is now hard to find. [ref: 16376 ] £85

380. DOVER - BAVINGTON JONES, J. ANNALS OF DOVER.

INCLUDING HISTORIES OF THE CASTLE, PORT, PASSAGE, RELIGION, THE CORPORATION, MAYORS AND THEIR TIMES, CORPORATION OFFICIALS, REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT, AND SOCIAL HISTORY. Dover, at the Express works. 1938 Second Edition. 480 pp. Original cloth, gilt. A clean ex-library copy with the usual stamps, offered at a reduced price. Indispensable history of Dover. This 2nd edition has been updated (as far as the end of 1937), the text and the index revised.

[ref: 7575 ] £60 DOVER - BAVINGTON JONES, J. ANNALS OF DOVER. INCLUDING HISTORIES OF THE CASTLE, PORT, PASSAGE, RELIGION, THE CORPORATION, MAYORS & THEIR TIMES, CORPORATION OFFICIALS, REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT, AND SOCIAL HISTORY. Dover, at the "Express" works. 1938 Second Edition. 8vo. 480 pp. Original cloth, gilt. A near mint copy.

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Indispensible history of Dover. This 2nd edition has been brought up-to-date (so far as the end of 1937), the text and the index revised. [ref: 17241 ] £85

381. DOVER - BAVINGTON JONES, J. THE CINQUE PORTS. THEIR

HISTORY AND PRESENT CONDITION. Dover Express. 1937 Second Edition. 8vo., 8 x 6 inches, [viii] +162 pp. + (6) pp. index. Original cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded but a very good copy. The book is in two parts - the customs and privileges of the Cinque Ports, and then a description of each port. This work is based on Jeake’s Charters of the Cinque Ports 1728, and Mantel’s History of Coronations and Courts of Brotherhood 1771, and Knocker’s Grand Court of Shepway 1862. Jones distils these rather dry texts into a very readable account which contains much interesting information on the activities of each port under the Cinque Ports Charter and a concise account of their subsequent history. The first edition of 1903 was limited to 50 copies, and this edited and updated edition was not a large printing and it too has become scarce. [ref: 19384 ] £75

THE ENGLISH CHANNEL STEAM SHIP COMPANY LTD. 382. DOVER - DICEY, CAPTAIN W.T.Y. DOVER TO CALAIS, NEWHAVEN TO DIEPPE, WITHOUT SEA SICKNESS. A LETTER SHOWING ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT IMMEDIATE, ECONOMICAL and SUCCESSFUL. Whitehead, Morris and Lowe, Steam Printers, London. 1874 Third illustrated edition. Pamphlet. 5 x 7 inches approx. 16 pp. with wood-engraved vignette to title page, 3 other woodengraved illustrations and a plan. Original printed pictorial paper wrappers. Original printed pictorial paper wrappers. [ref: 18698 ] £120 383. DOVER - GILBERTSON, E. ST. RADIGUND’S ABBEY. Near Dover.

3 Sept. 1846 Pencil drawing, 10 x 7 inches, laid on to contrasting card with frame line and title neatly executed by hand. Titled and dated in pencil. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing, overall size 17 x 15 inches.

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A very accomplished drawing depicting the west side of the Norman chapel, which had latterly been converted into a dwelling, and showing the interesting chequer pattern wrought in the stonework. This drawing was among a small number from an album of drawings of places scattered throughout England. They had all been carefully mounted on card and exquisitely hand-titled. None of the drawings was signed but the album was identified as the work of E. Gilbertson. [ref: 17767 ] £100 384. DOVER - GREEN, IVAN. DOVER A PICTORIAL HISTORY.

Phillimore, 1987 4to. 163 pp. photo illustrated, pages un-numbered. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. A well-illustrated account, now out of print. [ref: 17848 ] £12 385. DOVER - HARLEY, ROBERT J. DOVER’S TRAMWAYS.

Middleton Press. 1993 Unpaginated. Two maps and 120 photographic illustrations with letterpress descriptions. Original illustrated laminated boards. *Signed by the author on title page Excellent photographic record of the heyday of Dover’s tramways. ***An unsigned copy is available at £12*** [ref: 17967 ] £14 MINIATURE EDITION 386. DOVER - HARPER, CHARLES G. THE DOVER ROAD [ANNALS OF AN ANCIENT TURNPIKE.] Anthony Treherne and Co., Ltd. London. 1907 435 pp. with illustrations by the author and a folding strip map. Original printed paper wrappers. Cracked at front hinge and with a small tear to rear wrapper but a very good example. This example is No. 3 in a series of six of Harper’s ‘Road’ books published in miniature form. The work is the usual charming and informative Harper style mix of history, legend, and topographical detail. Scarce thus. [ref: 19597 ] £75 387. DOVER - HARPER, CHARLES G. THE DOVER ROAD. ANNALS

OF AN ANCIENT TURNPIKE. ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR, AND FROM OLD PRINTS AND PORTRAITS. Chapman and Hall. 1922 Second and revised edition. [xii] + 257 + [2] pp. with illustration throughout. Original decorated red cloth, slightly faded as usual but a very good example. The smaller format second issue. This was only the third 'Road Book' to be issued, which makes the first edition very hard to find. Harper was only just winning his readership at the time and the print run was probably quite small. The work is the usual charming and informative Harper style, a mix of history, legend, and topographical detail.

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[ref: 18875 ] £35 388. DOVER - HOLLINGSBEE, BOB. DOVER IN OLD PICTURE

POSTCARDS. European Library, Zaltbommel. 1989 [5] pp.* + 75 b/w illustrations. Signed by the author on title page. Original pictorial blue cloth. A fine copy. * Covering the first half of the twentieth century and depicting a lively and prosperous Dover, untroubled by war damage and re-development. [ref: 18033 ] £20 389. DOVER - HOWARD, LUKE. LOVE AND TRUTH IN PLAINNESS

MANIFESTED: BEING A COLLECTION OF THE SEVERAL WRITINGS FAITHFUL TESTIMONIES, AND CHRISTIAN EPISTLES, OF THAT ANCIENT SUFFERING SERVANT AND MINISTER OF CHRIST BY LUKE HOWARD OF DOVER., DECEASED. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CONVINCEMENT, LABOURS AND SUFFERINGS FOR THE TRUTH. T. Sowle, in White-Harte-Court in Gracicius-Street, London 1704 First Edition, 12mo, [14] + 316 pp. + [2] + [12]. Bound in recent half-calf, gilt. The text has been well used, resulting in several finger marks and some small holes in text and tears to fore edge here and there. Complete and without loss of text. A rare little volume of writings on, and by, Luke Howard, (1621-1699). Howard, a Quaker activist and writer, was born at Dover on 18 October 1621, the son of Robert Howard (c.1580-1625), a shoemaker. Following his father’s trade , Luke was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to a shoemaker, and for a time was a strict conformist to the Church of England. His apprenticeship completed, Howard went to London and joined John Goodwin's Independent congregation at Coleman Street. At the outbreak of the civil war Howard had hoped to join the parliamentarian army but failed to get enrolled. He took service with the garrison in Dover Castle, but there refused to sing psalms in 'rhyme and meter'. In his journal Howard relates that, after becoming successively a Brownist, presbyterian, and Independent, he joined the Baptists, and journeyed to London to be 'dipped' by William Kiffin. In turn he shifted from the Particular Baptism of Kiffin to General Baptism, rejecting the 'dark stuff' of Calvinism. He then became disillusioned with the Baptists, coming to see the very act of baptism as a merely worldly form. In 1655 Howard again went to London and was converted to Quakerism by William Caton and John Stubbs. Through Howard's work Quaker numbers

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increased at Dover, and the movement attracted many Baptists, the cause of much controversy between the two groups. Howard was largely responsible for the conversion to Quakerism of the Leveller John Lilburne, who was imprisoned in Dover Castle, where he visited him many times. Lilburne became fully convinced in 1656 and described Howard as his 'indeared, spiritual and faithful friend' At the Restoration Howard was imprisoned in Dover Castle for three months. In June 1661 he was committed to Westgate prison in Canterbury for five days, and in the July following was sent to Dover Castle for about sixteen months 'because we could not forbear meetings' On 30 January 1684 he was taken, along with seven others, from a meeting and imprisoned in the same dungeon for fifty-one weeks. Howard was held in high esteem by leading London Quakers, for a testimony from the second day morning meeting, signed by William Penn, George Whitehead, and others, described him as 'of an exemplary Christian conversation, and of a good report among his friends and neighbours, and beloved of them for his just and upright dealing.' Howard wrote a number of tracts, many of which are found in Love and Truth in Plainness Manifested. Some of these are replies to Baptists, such as A Looking Glass for the Baptists (1673) and The Seat of the Scorner Thrown Down (1673); in the latter Howard explains why he left the Baptists, and more generally discusses ideas such as the Quaker notion of the 'inner light' and their views on baptism. Luke Howard died on 7 October 1699 and was buried on 13 October 1699, presumably at Dover. In these writings he paints a vivid picture of religious intolerance and, naming names, accounts for political corruption and persecution of Dissenters in the 17th century port. ESTC located 13 copies, of which 5 in UK. [ref: 19664 ] £450

390. DOVER - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF DOVER. INCORPORATING

PIKE’S DOVER AND DISTRICT BLUE BOOK Kelly's Directories. 1967 viii + 8 + 380 pp. with original printed advertising bookmark (E.R. Longley Ltd.) Original printed wrappers. A very good copy, lacking street plan. Very useful works of reference, becoming scarcer. [ref: 20769 ] £25 391. DOVER - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF DOVER. AND

NEIGHBOURHOOD. 1953 Kelly's Directories. 1953 440 pp. Original printed wrappers. Worn at extremities, lacking map. [ref: 14785 ] £30 392. DOVER - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF DOVER. AND

NEIGHBOURHOOD. 1956 Kelly's Directories. 1956 440 pp. Original printed wrappers. Worn at extremities, lacking map. [ref: 14786 ] £30

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393. DOVER - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF DOVER. AND

NEIGHBOURHOOD. 1959 Kelly's Directories. 1959 436 pp. Original printed wrappers with folding map. A fine copy with slight fading to spine and only very light shelfwear. [ref: 19545 ] £45 394. DOVER - KNOCKER, EDWARD. AN ACCOUNT OF THE GRAND

COURT OF SHEPWAY, HOLDEN ON THE BREDENSTONE HILL, AT DOVER, FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, AS CONSTABLE OF H.M. CASTLE OF DOVER, AND WARDEN AND KEEPER OF H.M. CINQUE PORTS 28th. AUGUST 1861. John Russell Smith. 1862 4to. 164 pp. with 3 engraved plates. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine a little faded, with repair to backstrip. Some foxing but a good copy of this nicely printed book. This presentation copy is inscribed both by the original owner, to whom it was apparently presented by the author, and by Major Teichman Derville, town councillor and later author of ‘The Level and Liberty of Romney Marsh’, who presented it to W. Lamacraft, Town Clerk of New Romney. Contains much useful information. ***We have other unsigned copies in stock at £25*** [ref: 14450 ] £50 395. DOVER - KNOCKER, EDWARD. ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF

DOVER. A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEMBERS OF THE DOVER MUSEUM AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION on November 24th, 1857. Printed by W. Batcheller, Dover. 1857 8vo. [i] + 44 pp. + 5 figures on two double-page lithographic plates. Original printed paper wrappers. Neatly re-spined. Some foxing to text and slight wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. A neat local printing of one of Mr. Knocker’s early history lectures. The profits from this publication were to fund the restoration of the Maison Dieu. [ref: 16857 ] £45 396. DOVER - LANGABEER, RAY. SUNNY CORNER, ENGLAND. Printed by Adams and Sons, Dover. 1982 viii + 247 pp. Original printed card wrappers. A very good copy. “Sunny Corner” was the name of the house in which the author grew up. Due to be swept away by the new road from Folkestone to Dover, it is commemorated by the tales of its construction by the author’s grandfather and the events which unfolded through the years of its existence.

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[ref: 18117 ] £15 397. DOVER - MITCHELL, VIC and KEITH SMITH. DOVER TO

RAMSGATE INCLUDING THE MARGATE SANDS BRANCH Middleton Press 1990 Small 4to. 9.5 x17 in. 96pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and diagrams. Laminated pictorial boards, spine faded. [ref: 19378 ] £25

398. DOVER - PIKE'S DOVER AND DISTRICT LOCAL DIRECTORY

1932-33.

Garnett, Mepham and Fisher, Ltd. Brighton. 1932-33. 378 pp. Lacking map. Bound in the original blue cloth, blocked and decorated in silver. A very good copy with the usual minor faults. Scarce [ref: 20027 ] £110 399. DOVER - PIKE’S DOVER AND DISTRICT LOCAL DIRECTORY

1938-39. Garnett, Mepham and Fisher, Ltd. Brighton. 1938-39 Small 8vo. 388 pp. With the map. Original decorated cloth, a near fine copy. In fine condition. Scarce. ***We have another copy lacking the map at £85*** [ref: 17903 ] £100 400. DOVER - ROY, JOHN and TONY THOMPSON. PICTURE

PALACES REMEMBERED. An affectionate look at the Cinema Theatres of Dover, Deal and Folkestone. Glenton Publications, Dover. 1987 116 pp. profusely illustrated.. Pictorial card wrappers. A near mint copy. [ref: 18401 ] £20 401. DOVER - SCOTT, RIVERS. THE GATEWAY OF ENGLAND. A short

survey of the activities of the Port of Dover, past and present, and of the Dover Harbour Board, the modern Port Authority, which in 1956 celebrated its 350th anniversary. Dover Harbour Board, n.d. but 1965 Second Edition revised. 4to., 7.5 x 10 inches, 48 pp., text with 46 pp., of photo illustrations. Original colour illustrated card wrappers. Interesting look at the history of the Board and its state in the mid 1960’s with some fine photographs of the docks and ships. [ref: 18152 ] £12 402. DOVER - STEER, FRANCIS. (Editor). JOHN PHILIPOT'S ROLL

OF THE CONSTABLES OF DOVER CASTLE AND LORD WARDENS OF THE CINQUE PORTS, 1627. With a foreword by Sir Winston Churchill. G. Bell and Sons. 1956

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4to. 31 pp. with 7 colour plates. Original cloth in dustwrapper. [ref: 10334 ] £10 403. DOVER - VINE, JESSIE ELIZABETH. DOVER REMEMBERED.

RECOLLECTIONS OF A CHILDHOOD IN OLD DOVER. Meresborough Books. 1984 120 pp. with numerous b/w photographs and illustrations by Thomas George Vine. Original pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. [ref: 16936 ] £10 404. DOVER - WARD, LOCK AND CO. GUIDE TO DOVER, ST.

MARGARET'S BAY, WALMER, DEAL, CANTERBURY, MAP OF SOUTH-EAST KENT AND PLANS OF DOVER, DEAL, CALAIS, BOULOGNE, ETC Ward, Lock and Co. n. d. but c 1922-23 Fifth Edition.Revised xvi + 62 + 64 + 56 + 80 pp. adverts with maps and photo illustration. Original red pictorial cloth. A very good copy. Interesting hotel adverts, etc. [ref: 18740 ] £25 405. DOVER - WELBY, DOUGLAS. DOVER 1810 - 1910.

Crabwell Publications/Buckland Press, Dover. 1978 Oblong, 11.5 x 8.5 inches. [32] pp. comprising 50 illustrations in sepia on heavy cream paper, including two attractive drawings by Howard Penton. Signed by the author. Original coloured pictorial card wrappers. A little sunned but a very good example. A map indicates the location of each of the places illustrated and captions provide useful information. Well-produced item for the local historian. [ref: 16949 ] £10 406. DOVER CASTLE - DARELL, REV. WILLIAM. THE HISTORY OF

DOVER CASTLE, ILLUSTRATED WITH 10 VIEWS AND A PLAN OF THE CASTLE. Printed for S. Hooper. 1786 Small folio. vi + 68 pp. with 10 copper engraved plates and a folding plan. c A very nice copy of this printing of Darell's work, here translated from the Latin manuscript in the College of Arms. Darell was chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I. This copy is from Castle Freke Library with their attractive Bookplate. We have a further copy of this title in stock at the same price. [ref: 17376 ] £175 407. DOVER CASTLE - DARELL, REV. WILLIAM. THE HISTORY OF

DOVER CASTLE, ILLUSTRATED WITH 10 VIEWS AND A PLAN OF THE CASTLE.

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Printed for Hooper and Wigstead, No.212 High Holborn, opposite Southampton Street, BloomsburySquare 1797 Tall folio, viii +71 pp.+ [1] advert with 10 copper engraved plates and a folding plan. This copy measures overall 13 x 9.5 inches. Bound in half-calf over marbled boards with embossed and gilt decoration to spine and contrasting title label, gilt. The edition of 1797 was reset but retained the original engraved illustrations A very nice copy of this printing of the work of William Darell, Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I, translated from the Latin manuscript in the College of Arms.

408. DOVER CASTLE, PUCKLE, REV. J. THE CHURCH AND

FORTRESS OF DOVER CASTLE. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE AUTHOR'S DRAWINGS. Oxford and London : John Henry and James Parker. 1864 [10] + 132 pp. + 8 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Illustrated with 2 folding plans and 9 lithographic plates, 2 of which are printed in colour. Bound in the original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. This work is of importance as the best record of the Saxon church before it was ‘restored’ by Puckle. [ref: 19659 ] £35 409. DOVER GUIDE. DOVER HARBOUR BOARD. GUIDE FOR 1932. Dover Harbour Board, 1932 Oblong 4to., 64 pp. with plan and photo illustrations throughout. One or two of the photo plates of ships have had the sea watercoloured in by a child but quite neatly, and this remains a good copy. Original decorated boards, gilt. An interesting look at the history of the Board and its state in the 1930s, with some fine photographs of the docks and ships. [ref: 19712 ] £35

410. DOVER GUIDE. DOVER THE GATEWAY OF ENGLAND. OFFICIAL

GUIDE AND SOUVENIR PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE DOVER ENTERTAINMENTS COMMITTEE. The Dover Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 144, Snargate Street, Dover. No date but [1932] 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 110 pp.with coloured frontis illustration by Leonard Richmond, and double-page map. Illustrated throughout in b/w. Original printed card wrappers with diagonally cropped front wrapper. Staples rusted and therefore stitched. Some creasing to first few fore edges due to the novel design, otherwise very good. A flyer for the 1932 Band Season and Forthcoming Events is loosely inserted

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An unusual item with its croppped wrapper, the diagonal following the title at a 45 degree angle. A footnote ascribes copyright for the text to S.S. Dyson in 1932 and two fixtures for County Cricket are also dated 1932, thereby fixing publication date. [ref: 19805 ] £20 411. DOVER GUIDE. DOVER “THE GATEWAY OF ENGLAND”. A

GUIDE BOOK AND ITINERARY OF DOVER BRACING AND EXHILARATING. G.W. Grigg & Son, St. George’s Press, Dover. [1925] 128 pp. + small folding map with numerous b/w photo illustrations. Original full-colour pictorial paper wrapper. A little foxed and edgeworn and missing top right corner. Staples rusted but not affecting text. A good copy of a scarce guide. [ref: 17401 ] £35 412. DOVER GUIDE, EVANS, SEBASTIAN and F. BENNETT-

GOLDNEY. (Edited by). HANDBOOK TO DOVER. Printed at the “Standard” Office, Dover for the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1899 121 pp. + folding plan of Dover Harbour with several figures to the text and a folding map. Lacking separate geological map. Original red cloth, gilt. A near fine copy of a wellproduced publication. An interesting work, the handbook comprises a number of chapters, written by experts in their subjects, and pertaining to Dover. These include the Geology of the District, the Early History, The Castle, The Harbour and port of Dover as a resort, the Natural History of the District among others. [ref: 17441 ] £25 DOVER GUIDE, HEYWOOD, JOHN. JOHN HEYWOOD’S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO DOVER WITH EXCURSIONS. PRICE ONE PENNY. John Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester. n.d. c1893 8vo. 7.5 x 5 inches [2] + 24 pp. + [2] + double page plan of Dover with adverts on verso. Illustrated from photographs. Original printed paper wrappers, somewhat fragile with a corner missing from the front cover not affecting the printed matter, otherwise a very good example. These ephemeral, paper-bound, ‘Penny’ guides are very hard to find and must have had a very high mortality rate. [ref: 21733 ] £100 413. DOVER GUIDE, HEYWOOD, JOHN. JOHN HEYWOOD’S

ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO DOVER WITH EXCURSIONS. PRICE ONE PENNY. John Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester. n.d. c.1896 8vo. [6] + 32 pp. + [6] + double page plan of Dover with adverts on verso. Illustrated from photographs. Original printed paper wrappers, somewhat fragile with a corner

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missing from the rear cover not affecting the printed matter, otherwise a very good example. These ephemeral, paper-bound, ‘Penny’ guides are very hard to find and must have had a very high mortality rate. [ref: 20381 ] £110 414. DOVER HARBOUR. IN PARLIAMENT SESSION 1932-33 DOVER

HARBOUR PLANS AND SECTIONS. NOVEMBER 1932. ENGINEERS: SIR ALEXANDER GIBB AND PARTNERS, QUEEN ANNE’S LODGE, WESTMINSTER, SW1. SOLICITORS MOWLL AND MOWLL, DOVER. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS: WYATT and Co., VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER. SW1. Together with, IN PARLIAMENT SESSION 1932-33. DOVER HARBOUR BOOK OF REFERENCE TO PLANS. Cook, Hammond & Kell, 47-49 Tothill St., Westminster. 1932 Large Folio plans. Original printed wrappers, title page and 4 pages of plans and sections printed on one side only. Book of reference. Folio. Original wrappers, title page and 12 pp. Bound as issued, at present rolled. Wrappers slightly dusty, but in very good condition. These plans are for providing a railway tunnel from Buckland to near the Eastern Breakwater, a link which was never completed. From the collection of Alec Hasenson. Scarce. [ref: 12416 ] £75 415. DOVER HARBOUR BOARD. BROCHURE FOR 1932. Dover Dover Harbour Board, 1932. Oblong 4to. 10 X 8 inches, 64 pp. with plan and photo illustration throughout. One or two of the photo plates of ships have had the sea watercoloured in by a child but quite neatly, and this remains a good copy. Original decorated boards, gilt. Interesting look at the history of the Board and its state in the 1930s with some fine photographs of the docks and ships, including the Aerial Ropeway which ran from Tilmanstone Colliery to Bunkers in the harbour, and the early Townsend Motor Car Ferry. [ref: 21732 ] £35 416. DOVER VIEWS. 32 VIEWS OF DOVER AND DISTRICT.

Callcut and Beavis, 77 and 78 Great Eastern Street, London. No date but c.1910 Oblong view-book with 24 photo plates. Original gilt stamped red cloth. A little rubbed at extremities but a very good copy. The views are as follows - Shakespeare's Cliff; The Harbour, Dover; The Parade, Dover; The Lord Warden Hotel & Castle Street, Dover; The Strand, Deal; The Pier, Deal; Deal and

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Walmer Castles; The Promenade, Deal; Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket Pistol & The Sands and Parade, Dover; Dover Castle; Admiralty Pier, Dover; General View & Waterloo Crescent, Dover; The Pier, Folkestone; The Lift & Metropole Hotel, Folkestone; Folkestone Parish Church (2); Folkestone from the Pier; The Harbour, The Band Stand, Leas Shelter, Lower Sandgate Road, Folkestone; S.S. Mary Beatrice leaving Folkestone Harbour; Sandgate (2); Hythe (2); The Warren, Folkestone. [ref: 18147 ] £35

417. DOVER VIEWS. THE ALBUM OF DOVER VIEWS.

Charles Reynolds and Co., 26 & 27 Milk Street 1893 8vo. Concertina type view-book of glazed lithos, containing 17 different images and two fine panoramas, one of Dover from the sea, and a smaller one of Marine Parade. Printed in Germany. Original decorated red boards blocked in gilt. A very good copy. This type of view book originates in Germany and is an example of the curious mixture of photograph and drawing which was prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This example probably dates from about 1893 as the Promenade Pier, which was completed in that year, is shown as constructed, although it is quite common for these albums to have ‘proposed’ developments shown as completed. [ref: 17237 ] £125 418. DOVER VIEWS. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW BOOK By

FRANCIS FRITH AND OTHERS. No place or date, but c.1870

Oblong 8vo. View book containing 12 real photographic plates (albumen types) pasted onto thick card and professionally and neatly titled by hand. Original green cloth, with gilt title on the upper board, within a blind stamped frame. A fine example with the photos free from fading, slight loss of surface from one image on to the facing image, but a very good example. A most interesting collection of views which are mostly unsigned. Some are

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probably the work of Adams, the pioneering Dover photographer and some are marked ‘Frith’s series’. With the advent of photography the local publishers were quick to supply albums and binders where the customer could cho ose from the images in stock and compile their own collections as souvenirs. This is an early example. The Views are:1. Dover (view of the sea front looking east, with numerous boats drawn up above high water mark). 2. Dover (looking east from Admiralty Pier to the Harbour entrance). 3. The Esplanade ( looking west). 4. The Esplanade (looking east) 5. The Harbour (Wellington Dock with four paddle steamers and sailing ships). 6. Dover (The Crimea memorial etc). 7. Castle Street (with horse-drawn carts etc). 8. South Foreland (east cliffs). 9. Shakespeare Cliff (with old wooden railway viaduct) 10. Lord Warden Hotel ( from Admiralty Pier) 11. Dover Castle. !2. The Pharos. [ref: 13291 ] £250

419. DOVER VIEWS. THE ROYAL ALBUM OF DOVER AND DISTRICT VIEWS. A.H. POINTER (Publisher.)

A.H. Pointer, Royal Bazaar. No date but c.1880 Coloured folding concertina-type glazed lithos, printed in Germany with a photo-litho of Pointer standing outside his shop. Original red cloth, gilt.

Better than average view book of this type, not often found coloured . [ref: 17236 ] £45 420. DOVER VIEWS THIRTY TWO VIEWS OF DOVER AND DEAL. Published by Newman and Co London n.d. c.1870 Oblong 8vo. 32 steel-engraved vignette views (7 x 5 inches). Bound in the original brown cloth, gilt, without text as issued. A very good copy. The steel engravings are as follows (larger full page views are marked thus*):Marine Parade, Dover; The Promenade Gardens, Dover; The Barracks, Dover; Governor’s Apartments or the Entrance to Dover Castle; Admiralty Pier, Dover; The Espl anade, Dover; Granville Docks and Convalescent Home, Dover; Dover and Admiralty Pier; Dover Crescent and Castle; Dover Sailors’ Home and Russian Mortar; Dover Parade and Heights; Dover Castle; St. Radigund’s Abbey Dover; St. James’ Church, Dover; Officers’ Apartments, New Barracks, Dover; Dover from the Harbour; *Dover Castle; *Shakespeare’s Cliff and Tunnel Dover; *Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket Pistol; *Dover; *Dover Harbour;

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*South East View of Deal Castle; *Walmer Castle; *Walmer Church; Deal Pier looking towards the Esplanade; The Hospital Barracks, Deal; Prince of Wales Terrace, Victoria Town, Deal; The South Barracks, Deal; Walmer Castle, Kent; Walmer Castle, near Deal; North Barracks, Deal; Deal Pier from the Esplanade. [ref: 15817 ] £265

421. DREWETT, PETER., DAVID RUDLING, AND MARK

GARDINER, . THE SOUTH EAST TO AD 1000. A REGIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND Longman, 1988 xvi + 384 pp. illustrated throughout. Pictorial card covers. An impressive survey of our region from 300,000 BC to Anglo-Saxon times. Together with Peter Brandon’s volume South-east from AD 1000 the two works form a complete overview of our region’s History and Archaeology. Very well researched. [ref: 18044 ] £10 422. DU BOULAY, F.R.H. . THE LORDSHIP OF CANTERBURY. An

essay on medieval society. F. R. H. Du Boulay Professor of Medieval History in the University of London. London Nelson. 1966 First Edition. 8vo. xiv + 418 pp. Half title. Illustrated with black and white photographic frontispiece, three folding maps and map and 7 tables in text. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in pictorial, price clipped dust wrapper. Erased inscription on first free endpaper, a few chips and stains to wrapper but otherwise a good copy. In medieval England the archbishop of Canterbury was not only the most important spiritual peer, but also the lord of a huge estate scattered over south-east England. In this study Du Boulay traces the building up of this estate before the Norman Conquest and analyses its development during the five centuries between the Conquest and Cranmer’s surrender of church lands to Henry VIII. Includes appendices, Knights’ fees held of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lists of some office-holders in the Archbishop’s temporal administration to c. 1540. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21775 ] £65 423. DUCKWORTH, Christian Leslie Dyce and Graham Easton

LANGMUIR. RAILWAY AND OTHER STEAMERS. Prescot T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd. 1968 Second Edition, 8vo. 6 x 8.75 inches. xii + 432 pp. Illustrated with 34 pp. of 102 photographic plates. Bound in the original blue cloth, gilt, with the scarce original pictorial dust-wrapper. A very good copy. A comprehensive survey of all steamships that operated in the British and Irish railway fleets, arranged by region, including Lakeland shipping, and those operated by continental copies. It includes detailed fleet lists at the end. First published in 1948, this second edition records the end of the steam

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turbine era and the beginning of the motor vessel and is still the best work on the railway steamers. [ref: 21339 ] £45 424. DULWICH - BLANCH, WILLIAM HARNETT. DULWICH

COLLEGE AND EDWARD ALLEYN: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION OF GOD’S GIFT COLLEGE AT DULWICH TOGETHER WITH A MEMOIR OF THE FOUNDER BY SIR WILLIAM HARNETT BLANCH E.W.Allen. 1877 First edition. 4to. viii + 136 illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and another view of the old building and two portraits. Bound in original green cloth, heavily blocked in gilt with a central medallion-like portrait of Alleyn. A very attractive Victorian cloth binding, only very slightly worn at extremities, a very good copy. [ref: 17587 ] £50 425. DULWICH - HALL, EDWIN T. DULWICH HISTORY AND

ROMANCE 967-1922. The Manor, College, Schools, Village and Picture Gallery, Edward Alleyn and the Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatres. By Edwin T. Hall an Estates and College Governor of Dulwich College and Chairman of the Picture Gallery Committee. Second and Enlarged Edition 1922. Bickers and Sons, Ltd., Publishers, [London]. 1922 Small 8vo. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. xi + 64 pp. Illustrated by [40] plates, including frontispiece. Half-title. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt. with deckled pages. Some browning, blank label pasted on verso of first free endpaper; otherwise good condition. A well illustrated account of Dulwich, largely concerned with the history of the College and its art gallery. The links with the former priory of Bermondsey and Southwark Cathedral are also emphasised. The College was established by Edward Alleyn (1566-1626), the actor, theatre owner and contemporary of Shakespeare and received its foundation deed in 1619. The book includes a list of seventeen theatres in the London area, constructed, 1576-1632. Edwin Thomas Hall (1851-1923) was a governor of the College. [ref: 20264 ] £25 426. DURHAM, DICK. THE LAST SAILORMAN.

Terence Dalton, Lavenham. 1989 160 pp. with b/w photo illustration throughout. Original blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. [ref: 20798 ] £25 FOLKESTONE PUBS 427. EASDOWN, MARTIN and ROONEY, EAMONN. MORE TALES FROM THE TAPROOM A HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC HOUSES &

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BREWERIES OF FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, CHERITION, SEABROOK, SHORNCLIFFE, MOREHALL AND NEWINGTON. Published by the authors. 2004 232 pp., copiously illustrated. Original pictorial soft cover. New. ‘Tales From the Taproom’, the earlier work on Folkestone’s public houses by these well-known local authors, was very popular and quickly sold out. This later offering proved equally as popular as in addition to Folkestone, it encompassed Cheriton, Sandgate and Seabrook. Published in limited numbers, and now out of print. [ref: 17849 ] £13 428. EASDOWN, MARTIN AND SAGE, LINDA. HYTHE A HISTORY. Phillimore. 2004 4to. xi + 132 pp. illustrated throughout. Signed by both authors. Original cloth in price-clipped dust wrapper, otherwise as new. Well-compiled and illustrated history of Hythe. [ref: 20727 ] £20 429. EAST KENT SEWERS. PETITIONS TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF

SEWERS FOR EAST KENT. 1832 Folio manuscript, 10 x 16 inches, comprising three sheets of watermarked laid paper (1831), folded in half across the width and then folded again, written in ink in a neat hand, comprising official copies of five petitions to the Commissioners of Sewers, with various dates between October 1830 and June 1832, repesenting the dates of the sittings of Commissioners. The petitions were recorded consecutively on the three sheets with a solid line drawn between each. The three sheets show signs of old folds with some minor splits and pinholes at the top left corner. There is some water staining that predates the writing of the document, as the ink is unaffected, otherwise clean with the exception of one quarter of the blank verso of page 5 that forms the external surface when folded, this being grubby and dusty from handling and storage. The five petitions involve, respectively, [1] Charles Culmer, landowner in the valleys of Preston and Deerson, supported by Carr Culmer, John Addley, Charles Delmar, John Presser, George Culmer, Thos. A Champion, William Robinson, Edward Slater Sen., George Knight, Sam. Elgar Toomer, and James Dowker, requesting appointment as Expenditor for the said valleys, in succession to George Culmer. [2] George Culmer, petitioning for discharge from his responsibilities as Expenditor of the previously mentioned valleys. [3] Edward Gibbons, expenditor of the valley of Minster, supported by George Harman, John Paramour and Mr Pett, petitioning the rebuilding of a freshwater sluice. [4] Edward Curling, Expenditor of the valley of Seasalter, supported by Edward Stone, Mr. Tapsell, Leonard Apsley, Austin Neame and Giles Hilton, petitioning for casting and cleansing of the dike between Neame’s Horse Bridge and Graveney Stream. [5] John Bell, landowner in the valley of Chartham, on behalf of himself, Edward Darell and other landowners, petitioning for the Main River [Stour], from Horton Bridge below Chartham, and for ‘a considerable distance’ to be cast and cleansed to relieve flooding in the adjacent fields. Also to reroute the river

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through a cut of about 550 yards to improve the flow and reduce the cleansing necessary. An interesting document, giving much information about the landowners and their involvement in maintaining the sewers and waterways [ref: 20751 ] £60 430. EDDISON, JILL. ROMNEY MARSH SURVIVAL ON A FRONTIER.

With a foreword by Barry Cunliffe. Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud, Glos. 2000 4to. 160 pp. Illustrated throughout. Softback, illustrated wrappers. This erudite work, the result of over 20 years research into all things Marshian, is finally in print. The Romney Marsh Research Group was founded in 1983 by Professor Barry Cunliffe and Jill Eddison to bring together the work of archaeologists, historians and geographers. The detailed and scholarly work of these specialised fields is presented by Jill Eddison for the general reader and expert alike and has entirely succeeded in a well-produced book of enduring interest. *Please note this is a new publication and we have a small stock, but we can order further copies on request. [ref: 8149 ] £17

431. EDMUNDS, F.H. BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY: THE WEALDEN

DISTRICT. H.M.S.O., London. 1935 Large 8vo. vii + 85 pp. with folding geological map + 12 other b/w plates and 21 figures to the text. Original printed card wrappers. A good copy. Issued by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, this is a comprehensive look at the geological history and economy of the Weald. [ref: 17214 ] £15

432. ELHAM - AUCTION PARTICULARS. OXROAD FARM, ELHAM.

PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF THE RESIDENTIAL & AGRICULTURAL ESTATE KNOWN AS “OXROAD FARM,” ELHAM, COMPRISING A SUBSTANTIALLY BUILT SUPERIOR FARM HOUSE, STABLING FOR 2, COW AND CATTLE LODGES, LARGE BARN AND OTHER BUILDINGS, AND PRODUCTIVE MEADOW AND ARABLE LAND, IN ALL ABOUT 51 Acres, 3 Roods. 1 Perch. Between Canterbury and Folkestone. About 1.5 miles from Elham Station, 8 miles from Folkestone and 9 miles from Canterbury. Healthy and bracing situation 450 feet above sea level. At the Royal Fountain Hotel, Canterbury. Saturday, 30th August, 1924 at 3 p.m. Geering & Colyer, Ashford 1924 4to. 5 pp. with a coloured lithographic map. In original printed card wrappers. Wrappers a little rubbed with traces of old folds otherwise, a fine example.

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An attractive coloured map of the property accompanies the particulars. The desirable nature of all the property in the Elham Valley has pushed prices up for this type of material which adds to the history of the property. [ref: 17160 ] £45 433. ELHAM - HART, BRIAN. ELHAM VALLEY REFLECTIONS. A

PERSONAL CELEBRATION. Millgate Publishing, 1989 4to. 92 pp. Illustrated with fine photographs throughout. Original pictorial wrappers. Historical photographic tour through the Elham Valley. Long out of print and becoming very hard to find. [ref: 20379 ] £35 434. ELHAM, KENT. 1681 - 1909 A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL

DOCUMENTS: LEASES, INDENTURES, CONVEYANCES, WILLS, ETC. 1681 - 1909 Various sizes, mostly on vellum, some on paper. Sixteen items, some with more than one document attached. All hand-written in various hands with seals and signatures of the people concerned. Generally a little dusty and discoloured but all legible and mostly in very good condition. An interesting group of documents relating to the Rolfe family of Elham and lands owned or leased by them and called Harland at Ottinge. The names on the documents are, in chronological order, Henry Sander of Elham, Richard Rolfe (father and son), Robert Foster of Acrise, Thomas Gibbon, James and Isaac Rolfe, (Sir) Samuel Egerton Brydges, George Culling, and diverse other Rolfes. [ref: 14730 ] £300 435. ELKS, BRIAN. GIVE ME THE CHILD. AN EARLY STORY OF THE

KENT COALFIELD. Published by the author 2002 272 pp. with b/w illustration. Original laminated pictorial boards. A fine copy aside from some highlighting to the text. Signed by the author. [ref: 18396 ] £15 436. ELLIS AYTOUN. ‘VITESSE’. The Story of ‘Continental Express’

Barrup, Mathieson and Co. 1949 4to. 46 pp. with photographic illustrations throughout Original cloth, lettered in green A nice copy of this fascinating company history. From the library of author David Collyer. [ref: 18061 ] £40 437. ELLIS P. BERRESFORD. CAESAR’S INVASION OF BRITAIN Book Club Associates. 1978 Folio. 144 pp. profusely illustrated in black and white. Original brown cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper.

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How the Romans came, saw, but didn’t conquer. An insight into the Britons, their culture, and their preparedness for the Roman invasion of 55 B.C. [ref: 19515 ] £12 438. ELLISTON-ERWOOD, FRANK CHARLES. THE MAKING OF

THE NEW ROAD AT LEE. 1824-1828. By F. C. Elliston-Erwood, F. S. A. The Blackheath Press, Ltd., London, S.E.3 1952 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 12 pp. illustrated by two plans. Stapled pamphlet in paper wrappers. Good condition. The road network of the New Cross Turnpike Trust (established 1718 to run from Southwark to Lewisham) wAS extended to Lee Green in 1764 and on through Eltham to Footscray in 1780. In 1824 the section of turnpike through Lee ‘was dangerous, narrow and crooked’ and the Trust resolved to build a bypass around the old section. This monograph describes the properties along the route and the legal disputes involved in land acquisition before the new road was completed at a cost of over £3000. Erwood’s research is based on the Trust’s minute books housed in the Kent Archives. [ref: 20893 ] £ 439. ELLISTON-ERWOOD, FRANK CHARLES. WOOLWICH AND

DISTRICT ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. OCCASIONAL PAPERS (NO. 2) 1934. Volume XXV. Edited by F. C. Elliston-Erwood, F.S.A. Printed and published for the Society by K. I. Printing Works, Wellington Street, Woolwich. 1935 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 28 pp. Illustrated by black and white photographs, including portrait of Erwood and facsimile. Sewn in green paper wrappers, which are starting to become detached. Some inside staining around staples (which have been removed). This miscellany includes two papers by Erwood, on the Ropers of Well Hall, Eltham, with reprints of eight eighteenth century letters and his Notes on Local Artists, divided into four groups and including Paul Sandby, Drawing Master at the Royal Military Academy, 1768-97. [ref: 20892 ] £ 440. ELTHAM - BUCKLER, JOHN CHESSELL. AN HISTORICAL AND

DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL PALACE AT ELTHAM. J. B. Nichols and Son, London, First Edition 8vo. [vi] +108 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontis and wood engravings in the text. Original quarter-cloth over marbled boards with contrasting title label. One leaf torn, with no loss, and repaired with conservation tape, otherwise a very good, clean copy. [ref: 18974 ] £125

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441. ELTON, CHARLES I. THE TENURES OF KENT. By Charles I. Elton,

Late Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford; and of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister-at--Law. London James Parker and Co., 1867 Large 8vo. 6.75 x 10 inches. xx + 424 pp. +[8] pp. Publisher's Catalogue. Bound in brown original cloth, gilt, with deckled side edges; a little worn at extremities but otherwise a good copy. Scarce substantial review of the history of the Tenures of Kent, to show how much less land in the county is of the nature of Gavelkind. Highly detailed survey of the ownership of Kentish land in medieval times. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 19984 ] £100

442. ELVIN, CHARLES, R. S. RECORDS OF WALMER TOGETHER

WITH ‘THE THREE CASTLES OF THE DOWNS.’ By The Rev. Charles R. S. Elvin, M.A., Assistant Curate of Walmer. Illustrated with thirteen photo-engravings and two maps. London Henry Gray, Genealogical and Topographical Bookseller and Publisher, 47, Leicester Square, London, W.C. 1890. Large 4to. 9 x 11 inches. xxii + [ii] + 440 pp. Half title. Illustrated with 2 maps, 12 photo-engravings, including frontispiece, title page vignette view and plan in text. Decorated with head and tailpiece vignettes. Original green cloth, gilt, with framed view, gilt on front board. Top edges gilt. Extremities slightly worn but a fine clean interior. Ex-library copy, with label and discreet stamps, etc. Scarce and important history of Walmer covering almost every aspect - from the early history of the town and its people to royal visitors, the Barracks, natural phenomena (earthquake, waterspouts, great gales and the 1878 whirlwind), and personal history. It includes a detailed account of the three castles of Walmer, Deal and Sandown. Kent Bibliography.

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[ref: 21287 ] £150 HYTHE SOURCES 443. ERWOOD, F.C. ELLISTON. LECTURE NOTES ON HYTHE. [No date but c.1959-63] Manuscript ruled exercise book, with press cuttings and insertions. 4to. 7 x 9 inches. 66 leaves, of which 36 are blank (one page removed and one inserted with the genealogy of Brockhill family); [60] pp. text in blue ink and pencil, with passages in black ink and red ball point. Book has been used at both ends by inverting it. Bound in stiff boards, marbled red and black. All edges marbled. Press cutting of 1959 on Cinque Ports mayors pasted on front pastedown and printed notice of history lectures on Hythe, 1959-60, on rear pastedown. Insertions: [12] pp. manuscript, mostly on Tournay family; single sheet of pencil notes on Tournays; press cutting on link with Eye, Suffolk and typescript letter of 1963 from General Secretary of Kent Archaeological Society, Lt.-Col. Meates to Elliston Erwood, regarding his election as Chairman of Council. These notes were probably assembled for the 1959-60 lectures by Frank Charles Elliston Erwood (1883-1968). From his home area of Shooter’s Hill, his interests extended outward to South East London in general and eventually included all the turnpike roads of Kent, on which he became an authority. After the second world war he served as honorary curator and archivist of Hythe Corporation, the content of this notebook relating to that period. More details of his life and career may be found in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. LXXIV, 1969. Erwood’s notes contain Extracts from the Hythe Session and Assembly Books, a list of licensed houses, 1695-1711 and covers topics such as the Tournay family (who furnished many mayors and town clerks in the eighteenth century and beyond), the town’s water supply, the town’s link with Yarmouth, the Dover Road, Royalists and Parliamentarians (in the 1640s) and the anti-invasion construction work of 1806-08. [ref: 21064 ] £80 444. ESAU, MIKE and GERALD SIVIOUR. KENT COAST HEYDAY. Ian Allan, Shepperton. 1993 Large folio.112 pp. with numerous photographic illustrations. Original sky blue cloth, gilt. A fine copy This copy bears the bookplate of Kent author David Collyer. [ref: 18684 ] £15 445. ESTATE MAP. PARTS OF LITTLEBOURNE, ICKHAM,

GROVE FERRY (WICKHAMBREUX) RICHBOROUGH (ASH), KINGSTON. PLAN NO. 2. IN LIQUIDATION ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION. DENNE DENNE ESQ. PLAN TO ACCOMPANY

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DUNLOP AND CO’S REPORT. Note. The settled estate colored green The freehold estate colored pink. Dunlop, Naylor and Lightfoot Surveyors 3, OLd Palace Yard Westminster, S.W. 1885 Folding linen map. 67.5 x 37 inches. Hand drawn and coloured. Some wear to extremities and staining, but otherwise fine condition. A beautifully drawn and coloured estate map relating to a number of agricultural properties, largely in the Stour valley and levels, east of Canterbury, extending to the estuary at Richborough. They include Littlebourne Village ( the parishes of Littlebourne and Ickham); Grove Ferry Meadows (parish of Wickhambreux), Land at Ickham; Richborough Castle Farm (parish of Ash); Meadow in Ash parish and Marley Wood, Kingston (a small parish in Barham Downs, several miles away to the south east). Topographical features shown, include Ickham village centre, Grove Ferry Station of the South Eastern Railway, Richborough Castle and amphitheatre and the River Stour at Grove Ferry and Richborough. The names of the tenants of the properties, e.g.. Mr. George Solley, are also indicated. The estate was the former property of the Oriental Banking Company. This was founded in Bombay in 1842, although its HQ was moved to London in 1845. It became one of the leading eastern exchange banks in India and China, but fell into difficulties because of a downward swing of world markets affecting commodity prices and trade. In 1884 it went into liquidation, which is why these property assets were sold the following year, by which time it had been reconstituted as the New Oriental Banking Company (final closure was in 1892). As, apart from its London HQ, all its business and branches were overseas, it is not known how it came to own agricultural land and woods in East Kent. The Westminster firm of Land Agents and Surveyors who handled this sale was a partnership between Alexander Milne Dunlop, Arthur Millington Naylor and Francis Lowry Lightfoot, Naylor retiring from the partnership in 1889. This hand-drawn estate map was the original which would then have been lithographed and printed in the descriptive particulars for an auction sale. [ref: 20947 ] £250 446. EVERITT, ALAN. THE COMMUNITY OF KENT AND THE GREAT

REBELLION 1640 - 60. Leicester University Press, 1966 356 pp. Original green cloth, gilt. Important text on the effect of the Rebellion on Kentish families and houses. Scarce. [ref: 18886 ] £45 447. EVERITT, ALAN. THE COMMUNITY OF KENT AND THE GREAT

REBELLION 1640 - 60. Leicester University Press, 1973 356 pp. Original green soft wrappers. A very good copy with Kent historian Elizabeth Melling’s ownership signature. Paperback version of the important text on the effect of the Rebellion on Kentish families and houses. Scarce. [ref: 21139 ] £15

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448. EVERITT, ALAN. CONTINUITY AND COLONIZATION. The

evolution of Kentish settlement. Part of Leicester Studies in English Local History, Communities, Contexts and Cultures. Leicester University Press 1986 xxi + 426 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original green cloth, gilt. A fine copy in unclipped dust wrapper. Study of the evolution of Kentish settlement from the end of the RomanoBritish period and the coming of the ‘English’ down to the fourteenth century. [ref: 18539 ] £80 449. FAIRFAX-BLAKEBOROUGH, John, ed. THE HUNTING AND

SPORTING REMINISCENCES OF H. W. SELBY LOWNDES, M.F.H. Author of ‘Sporting Days and Shooting Stories,’ ‘Country Life and Sport,’ ‘Northern Sports and Sportsmen,’ etc. London Philip Allan and Co. Ltd. Quality Court, Chancery Lane. 1926 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. xiii + [i] + 244 pp. Half title. Illustrated with 12 photographic plates, including portrait frontispiece. Decorated with publisher’s device on title page. Bound in original rd cloth, gilt, with running fox on front boards. Extremities worn, small tear on edge of front board and slight staining to boards. Some foxing but otherwise good condition. Undated appreciation of Selby Lowndes (from the Kentish Express) tipped into first free endpaper. A biography of Henry William Selby Lowndes and an account of the East Kent Hunt, of which he was Master of Foxhounds from 1900. Lowndes (b.1876) was bred in an atmosphere of sport, blooded to hounds at the age of four and a half on the Whaddon Chase in Bucks and hunted with his own pack at the age of thirteen. After a spell abroad, in the Argentine, he served as Master of the Wells Harriers and M.F.H. of the Bilsdale in Cleveland. Deciding ‘to take a more fashionable country with an increased number of days’ hunting,’ he left for the East Kent Hunt, based at Elham. The book summarises the Hunt’s history, including its famous Master, Frederick Brockman of Beachborough (1832-70) and of ‘Old Norris,’ the Earth-stopper. Lowndes was famous for his colourful language, described as ‘a big bloke what swore ‘orrible.’ The second part of the book relates the hunting seasons, 1900-20 and includes chapters on the East Kent Farmers and hunting parsons. At this period the Hunt was very popular with officers of the regiments based at Shorncliffe Camp and sometimes met there as well as on the Warren and even the Leas. At the end is a list of the Hunt’s horses and of terrier work, including ‘May Day rattings’ and badger diggings, all’ conducted in a thoroughly sporting manner.’ The author, John FairfaxBlakeborough (1883-1976), was a freelance writer, originally from Cleveland, who published over a hundred titles on country sports, horse racing and Yorkshire folklore. [ref: 21587 ] £60 450. FARNHAM, TONY. A CONVERSATION WITH DICK THE

DAGGER. The Life and Times of Centenarian Bargemaster Captain Henry Miller BEM

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The Society for Sailing Barge Research. 2001 Folio. 8 x 12 inches. 78 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations. Signed by the author. Bound in the original pictorial laminated card wrappers. Aside from some slight yellowing of the outer margins, a fine copy. [ref: 20830 ] £15 451. FAVERSHAM GUIDEBOOK, 1936 FAVERSHAM - CULMER, GEORGE G. A GUIDE TO THE ANCIENT BOROUGH OF FAVERSHAM. Printed and Published by Wyard’s Printing Works Ltd, Faversham: [1936] Small 8vo. 72 pp. illustrated with sepia photographs. Contains numerous advertisements. Bound in card wrappers with title page, including borough seal reproduced on front. Fine, clean copy. The guide contains three tours of Faversham and its immediate vicinity, followed by notes on the surrounding villages. It includes a short list of references and is copiously illustrated with photographs and interesting period advertisements, which are listed at the front. A charming and attractive mid-thirties guidebook. Kent Bibliography [ref: 19414 ] £45

COCK’S, NEAME’S, HOBBS’ COPY 452. FAVERSHAM - DONNE, C. E. AN ESSAY ON THE TRAGEDY OF

‘ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM’ BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A PAPER READ AT THE MEETING OF THE KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY HELD AT FAVERSHAM IN JULY, 1872, WITH NOTES. Russell Smith & C o., London and Higham, Faversham. 1873 8vo. iv + 19 pp. Bound in red cloth, gilt, preserving the original green printed card wrappers. A near mint example. With the bookplates of William Cock, Sir Thomas Neame and James Hobbs. A rare contribution to the Arden literature. [ref: 16188 ] £150 453. FAVERSHAM - JACOB, EDWARD. THE HISTORY OF

FAVERSHAM. With an Introduction by John Whyman, B.Sc. (Econ.) (Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of Kent at Canterbury) and a Biographical Note on Jacob by Arthur Percival (The Faversham Society). Sheerness Arthur J. Cassell, for The Faversham Society. 1974 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 69 + iv-xiii + [iv] + 222 pp. + [13] +[1]. Half title. Illustrated by 23 plates, including 2 portrait frontispieces, facsimiles of original title page and dedication, plan of Faversham, 17 other plates and one engraving in text. Bound in original red cloth, gilt in pictorial dust wrapper. Spine sunned but otherwise in fine condition

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Good facsimile reprint of the 1774 edition, with new introductory material, now long out of print itself. We also have a second similar copy. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 16546 ] £25 HISTORY OF FAVERSHAM, 1774

454. FAVERSHAM - JACOB, EDWARD. THE HISTORY OF THE

TOWN AND PORT OF FAVERSHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. By Edward Jacob, Esq. F.S.A. Illustrated with copper plates. London: Printed for the author by J.March; and sold by B.White, in FleetStreet; L.Hawes, and Co. in Pater-Noster-Row; S.Patterson, in Essex-Street; and S.Doorne, in Faversham. 1774 First edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches [4] + vii-xii + [4] + 222pp. [AA8], B-P7. Illustrated with 15 engraved copperplates, including two folding plates (one being a plan of the town), as called for; it also includes five additional plates, four of them folding, at end. Engraving of arms on dedication page and engraving of the medal of King James II and his Queen on p205 (described as Plate 16). Bound in original calf, spine rebacked with red morocco label, gilt. Edges of boards slightly worn. Manuscript inscription of Willm. Jefferys Junr. Town Clerk 1818, on front paste-down and another of the same upside-down on rear paste-down. Bound in original calf, spine rebacked with red morocco label, gilt. Edges of boards worn and slightly worn. Manuscript inscription of Willm. Jefferys Junr. Town Clerk 1818, on front paste-down and another of the same upside down on rear paste-down. This copy has the printed book label of ‘Martha Short, Sevenoaks, Kent 1774’ Edward Jacob (1710?-1788), antiquary and naturalist, was born in Canterbury but moved to Faversham ‘and happily fixed his abode in this pleasant town about 1735,’ where he practised as a surgeon like his father and grandfather before him. The family had a long tradition of holding civic office in Canterbury, Sandwich and Dover and Jacob served four times as Mayor of Faversham. ‘Having an early propensity to the study of antiquities,’ he carried out extensive research on the history of his adopted town resulting in the publication of this volume: ‘In reducing his chaos into form, the author hath aimed at being concise and intelligible, without omitting any thing of consequence.’ In 1770 he wrote the preface to a reprint of the first edition of the 1592 Elizabethan domestic tragedy ‘Arden of Faversham’ and also published on the flora of the area and the fossils of the Isle of Sheppey in ‘Planta Favershamienses’ in 1777. In addition to its coverage of the usual civic and ecclesiastical subjects, Jacob’s History includes chapters on the oyster-fishery, the gunpowder works and the cultivation of the dye crop madder. There are eleven appendices, including ‘An account of Mr. Arden’s Murder’ and ‘The Account of King James the Second’s being brought to Faversham’. A fine copy of this 137

early history of Faversham, copiously illustrated with engravings, including a handsome plan of the town. ESTC T138691 Smith Kent Bibliography DNB [ref: 19496 ] £450 455. FAVERSHAM - KIP, JOHANNES. BOUGHTON COURT. THE

SEAT OF SIR BARNHAM RIDER Kt. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches,, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, this illustration varies in that it is engraved by John Harris. [ref: 20225 ] £150 456. FEAKES, LESLEY. WOODSTOCK AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL

MYSTERY. Geerings, Ashford. 2001 128 pp., with numerous cloured photographs and illustrations. Original pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. Interesting and detailed account of the archaeological investigation of the Highsted/Woodstock prehistoric site near Sittingbourne. [ref: 16937 ] £10 SURVEY OF ROCHESTER DIOCESE 457. FIELDING, CECIL HENRY. THE RECORDS OF ROCHESTER. By Revd. C.H. Fielding, M.A., Exhibitioner of Tonbridge School, and Lincoln College, Oxford. Author of ‘Memories of Malling’ ‘A Handbook of Higham,’ ‘Symbolisms,’ etc. Snowden Brothers, West Kent Printing Works, Dartford. 1910 8vo. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. frontis. + 610 pp. Illustrated with three photographic plates, one serving as frontispiece. Inset: List of Subscribers. Original lavender cloth, gilt, over bevelled boards with blind stamping to front. Spine sunned, and extremities worn. Occasional ink and pencil notes, and 1910 ink inscription on first free endpaper. Otherwise clean inside and a good copy. This work is a comprehensive list of all the clergy that served the diocese from the 13th century to the date of publication, preceded by a list of bishops from 604. It is divided into two parts, the first arranged by parish (with a brief description of the church, its bells, plate, brasses etc.), and in the second part these lists are alphabetically arranged under one alphabet and crossreferenced. Cecil Henry Fielding (1846-1918), clergyman and naturalist, was educated at Tonbridge School and Lincoln College, Oxford, being ordained in 1870. He served as curate at West Peckham, Ide Hill, Teynham and from 1875 to 1885 at Higham. Appointed Chaplain of Malling Poor Law Union in 1889, he was still in office at the time of publication, residing in West Malling. He also served as president of the Rochester Naturalists’ Club (later Rochester and District Natural History Society) and as joint editor of The Rochester Naturalist. His other publications were Symbolism (1877), A Hand-book of Higham (1882), Memoirs of Malling and its Valley. With a Flora and Fauna of Kent (1893) and A Malling Almanack, 1898. With a

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Short History of the Abbey of the Blessed Mary, West Malling. A scarce publication. [ref: 20111 ] £45

458. FILMER, RICHARD. ASHFORD IN OLD PICTURE POSTCARDS European Library - Zaltbommel Netherlands. 1992 Second Edition. Oblong 8vo. iv + 76 pp. illustrated throughout. Original illustrated laminated hardback covers. Part of the popular European Library of old picture postcards series. A very good copy [ref: 15872 ] £12 459. FILMER, RICHARD. KENT TOWN CRAFTS. [In old photographs] Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1982 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18643 ] £10 460. FILMER, RICHARD. KENTISH RURAL CRAFTS AND

INDUSTRIES. [In old photographs] Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1981 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18642 ] £10 461. FILMER, RICHARD. OLD ASHFORD.

Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1983 Folio. 48 pp. with b/w photo illustration throughout. Original glossy pictorial card wrappers. Slight creasing otherwise a very good copy, signed by the author. A fascinating collection of photographs and postcards with much informative text giving a varied and interesting view of Ashford during the early part of the 20th century. [ref: 16048 ] £12 A COLLECTION OF TRACTS, 1684 462. FILMER, SIR ROBERT THE FREE-HOLDERS GRAND INQUEST,

TOUCHING OUR SOVEREIGN LORD THE KING AND HIS PARLIAMENT. TO WHICH ARE ADDED OBSERVATIONS UPON FORMS OF GOVERNMENT. TOGETHER WITH DIRECTIONS FOR OBEDIENCE TO GOVERNORS IN DANGEROUS AND DOUBTFUL TIMES. THE FOURTH IMPRESSION. A Collection of Tracts Written by Sir Robert Filmer, Knight. I. The Free-Holders Grand Inquest... II. Reflections concerning the Original of Government, upon 1.Aristotle’s Politiques. 2. Mr Hobs’s Leviathan. 3. Mr Milton against Salmasius. 4. H. Grotius De Jure Belli. 5. Mr Hunton’s Treatise of Monarchy, or the Anarchy of a Limited or Mixed Monarchy. See note 1 below.

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III. A Succinct Examination of the Fundamentals of Monarchy, both in this and other Kingdoms, as well about the Right of Power in Kings, as of the Original and Natural Liberty of the People. A Question never yet Disputed, though most necessary in these Times. See note 2 below. IV. The Power of Kings: And in Particular, of the King of England. V. An Advertisement to the Jury-Men of England, touching Witches. Together with a Difference between an English and Hebrew Witch. VI. Patriarcha: Or the Natural Power of Kings. See note 3 below. Printed for Rich. Royston, Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty, at the Angel in Amen-corner, London. 1684 Fourth Impression. 8vo. 4.75 x 7.25 inches. Frontis. + [xiv] + 88 + [12] + 89164 + [6] + 165-236 + [[6] + 237-292 + [2] + 292-309 + [3] + 313-346. A2A8, 2B-2B4. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece of Charles II. Observations upon Aristotle’s Politiques, Observations concerning the Original of Government and The Power of Kings, each have a separate half-title but the register is continuous throughout. Bound in contemporary speckled full calf, very skilfully rebacked, title lettered in gilt and a single gilt rule on the boards. A fine crisp clean copy. 1. Reflections concerning the Original of Government is the title used in the collected works; in 1652 these two tracts were published as Observations upon Aristotle’s Politiques and Observations concerning the Originall of Government. 2. This does not exist as a separate tract as it is merely the alternative title of the preceeding tract, The Anarchy of a Limited of Mixed Monarchy as first printed in 1648 (see ESTC R202080). 3. Although provision has been made for Patriarcha at the end of the contents list, it has not been included in The Free-Holders Grand Inquest, a title which in addition to belonging to the first tract, had become to be used for Filmer’s collected works. Patriarcha, being his most substantial work was obviously thought to be too long to include in a collection of shorter tracts. Certainly Peter Laslett, in his Concise bibliography of the works of Sir Robert Filmer, confirms that the 1684 collected edition of The Free-holders Grand Inquest omits Patriarcha (a chapter in Patriarcha and other Political Works of Sir Robert Filmer, ed. Peter Laslett, Blackwell, 1949). Copies recorded by COPAC also show that the 1684 edition was normally printed with 346 pages as here, although a few have a separately paginated Patriarcha bound in with them. Sir Robert Filmer (1566-1653) was a Kentish landowner but his support for the royalist cause in the Civil War, led to the sequestration of his manors of Little Charlton and East Suttton and his imprisonment in Leeds Castle, 1643-45. the writing of Tract 5 was inspired by the witchcraft trials at the Kent Summer assizes of 1652. Filmer was a strident defender of the divine right of kings, founding his theory upon the idea that the rule over a family by the father is the true original model for all government. He articulated his views in a number of works including ‘Anarchy of a Limited and Mixed Monarchy’ (1648, an attack on Philip Hunton’s treatise on monarchy, which held that the king’s prerogative is not superior to the authority of parliament); in ‘The Power of Kings;’ in the ‘King of England’ (1648 but not published until 1680); in his Observations concerning the Original of Government upon Mr Hobbes’ Leviathan’; and most completely in Patriarcha (1680). In ‘The Free-Holders Grand Inquest,’ Filmer asserted that the Lords only give counsel to the king, the Commons only perform and

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463. FINCH, ROGER. A CROSS IN THE TOPSAIL. AN ACCOUNT OF

THE SHIPPING INTEREST OF R. and R. PAUL LTD., IPSWICH Ipswich: The Boydell Press 1979 4to.122 pp. with b/w illustration throughout. Signed by the author. Original terracotta cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like unclipped dust wrapper. Very good account of Paul’s spritsail barges. Scarce. [ref: 20804 ] £45 464. FINCH, W. COLES. IN KENTISH PILGRIM LAND. Its Ancient

Roads and Shrines. Written and illustrated by William Coles Finch Author of Water, its Origin and Use; Water in Nature; The Lure of the Countryside. London The C. W. Daniel Company Graham House, Tudor Square, E.C.4. 1925 First edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches.[2] + 326 pp. + [2] pp. publisher’s catalogue. Half title. Illustrated with 69 pages of black and white plates, including frontispiece and by drawings, maps and plans in text. Decorated by title page vignette. Bound in original red cloth, decorated gilt. A very good copy. Bookplate of Alfred Bootes on front pastedown and of R. E. Marshall on first free endpaper. Well-written and illustrated account of the ancient pilgrims roads, which also includes chapters on the Medway and prehistoric Kent. William Coles Finch (1864-1944) was a waterworks engineer of Chatham, who published a number of books on water, mills and on the history and topography of Kent. We have another copy, of the second impression, 1927, Kent Bibliography [ref: 17957 ] £35 465. FINCH, W. COLES. IN KENTISH PILGRIM LAND. ITS ANCIENT

ROADS AND SHRINES. London, C. W. Daniel Company, Graham House, Tudor Street, EC4. 1927 Second impression of the First Edition, 8vo, 9 x 5.5 inches. 326 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original decorated cloth gilt, in the scarce dustwrapper, which is chipped but largely complete, and has preserved the book very well, a very good copy. Well written and illustrated account of the ancient pilgrims roads. [ref: 21305 ] £45 466. FINCH, W. COLES. THE LURE OF THE COUNTRYSIDE. A

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First Edition, 325 pp. with frontispiece by Donald Maxwell and photo illustrations throughout. A fine copy. Original decorated cloth, gilt with the scarce original dust wrapper decorated by Donald Maxwell . Well-written account of rural English natural history in the form of a calender using Kentish examples and with some detail on mills and milling. [ref: 17553 ] £60 467. FINCH, W. COLES. THE MEDWAY RIVER AND VALLEY. The Story

of the Medway Aspects of Life on the Medway Journeyings on the Medway. Written and illustrated by William Coles Finch M.Inst. C.E. Author of In Kentish Pilgrim Land; The Lure of the Countryside; Life in Rural England; Water: Its Origin and Use; Water in Nature; etc. London The C. W. Daniel Company Forty-six Bernard Street, W.C.1. 1929 First Edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 239 pp. + [1] + [6] pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Illustrated with 78 pages of plates and line drawings and plans in text. Decorated by publisher’s device in red on title page. Bound in original red cloth, gilt. A very good bright copy. One of Coles Finch's best books, here without a wrapper but clean and bright. It remains one of the best books on the history and topography of the Medway new or old (including an account of the Dutch in the Medway, 1667. William Coles Finch (1864-1944) was a waterworks engineer of Chatham, who published a number of books on water, mills and on the history and topography of Kent. We have a second copy, with autograph letter from the author, his obituary and other articles from local papers and ink notes, pasted on to front and rear pastedowns, endpapers, etc., at £40. Kent Bibliography [ref: 17270 ] £35 SIGNED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION

468. FINCH, W. COLES. WATERMILLS AND WINDMILLS. A

HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THEIR RISE, DECLINE AND FALL AS PORTRAYED BY THOSE OF KENT. The C.W. Daniel Company, 1933. First edition. 336 pp. with numerous illustrations throughout Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. Scarce first edition of the classic book on the subject, the illustrations in particular are far better quality in this edition than the 1970’s reprint. A copy of the reprint is in stock at £35. [ref: 18758 ] £125 469. FINCH, W. COLES. WATERMILLS AND WINDMILLS. A Historical

Survey of their Rise, Decline and Fall as Portrayed by those of Kent. Sheerness Arthur Cassell. 1976 4to. 7.25 x 10 inches 336 pp. Illustrated with numerous sepia plates, including frontispiece and plates. Bound in original black cloth, gilt in pictorial dust wrapper. The only reprint of the 1933 classic, which has itself become harder to find now. [ref: 16666 ] £35

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470. FINCH, WILLIAM COLES. LIFE IN RURAL ENGLAND.

Occupations and Pastimes in Field and Village, Farm and Home, Water Mill and Wind Mill. Written and illustrated by William Coles Finch Author of the Lure of the Countryside; In Kentish Pilgrim Land; Water: Its Origin and Use; Water in Nature, etc. London The C. W. Daniel Company Forty-six Bernard Street, W.C.1. n.d. but 1928 or 29 First edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 248 pp. + [4] pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Half title. Illustrated by 69 pages of black and white plates, including frontispiece, and line drawings in text. Decorated by publisher’s device in red on title page. Bound in original red pictorial cloth, gilt. A very fine clean copy. Well written account of English rural life and industries, mainly using Kentish examples and with a particular emphasis. on mills and milling. William Coles Finch (1864-1944) was a water engineer of Chatham, who published a number of books on water, mills and on the history and topography of Kent. [ref: 21671 ] £30 471. FINCH, WILLIAM COLES. THE LURE OF THE COUNTRYSIDE. A

Nature Lover’s Pot-pourri. Written and illustrated by William Coles Finch Author of In Kentish Pilgrim Land; Water, its Origin and Use Water in Nature, etc. Frontispiece by Donald Maxwell. London The C. W. Daniel Company Graham House, Tudor Street, E.C.4. 1927 First Edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 325 pp. + [1] + [2] pp. publisher’s advertisement. Half title. Decorated by publisher’s device in red on title page. Illustrated by coloured frontispiece and 88 pages of black and white plates. Bound in original red decorated cloth, gilt. Spine sunned but otherwise a good copy. Bookplate of R. E. Marshall. Well-written account of rural English natural history in the form of a calendar using Kentish examples and with some detail on mills and milling. William Coles Finch (1864-1944) was a waterworks engineer of Chatham, who published a number of books on water, mills and on the history and topography of Kent. [ref: 18522 ] £35 472. FINCH, WILLIAM COLES. WATER, ITS ORIGIN AND USE.

Alston Rivers, Ltd. 1908 483 pp. with numerous photo. illus. Orig cloth gilt.Slight water marking on the upper and lower boards, otherwise a very good copy. Not strictly a Kent title although the chapter on chalk has drawn on the author's Kent experience and the index is peppered with Kentish references. A scarce book. [ref: 20739 ] £35 473. FIRTH A short survey of the activities of the Port of Dover, past and

present, and of the Dover Harbour Board, the modern Port Authority, which in 1956 celebrated its 350th anniversary.

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Dover Harbour Board, n.d. but 1957 4to. 48 pp. text with 46 pp. of photo illustrations. Original illustrated card wrappers. Interesting look at the history of the Board and its state in the late 50’s with some fine photographs of the docks and ships. ***A 1965 edition is also available at the same price*** [ref: 18413 ] £12 474. FIRTH, J.B. DOVER AND THE GREAT WAR.

Alfred Leney, Dover. (1920) 131 pp., with map and photo illustration. Original boards as issued. A clean copy. The only work to record, in any detail, Dover's part in the Great War. [ref: 21317 ] £35

475. FOLKESTONE. 30 VIEWS OF FOLKESTONE. This edition depicts: 1

The Lees Steps and Beach, Folkestone, Kent; 2 West Cliff, from the Pier, Folkestone; 3 Folkestone, from the Dover Road; 4 Folkestone, from the Sea; 5 Pier and Railway Station, Folkestone; 6 Folkestone Church, Kent; 7 Royal Terrace, Folkestone; 8 The Lees, West Cliff, Folkestone; 9 West Cliff Terrace, Folkestone, Kent; 10 West Cliff, Folkestone, Kent; 11 Clifton Gardens, Folkestone; 12 Sandgate Road West, Folkestone; 13 Sandgate Road East, Folkestone; 14 Wesleyan Chapel. Folkestone; 15 St Michael's Church, Folkestone; 16 Albion Villas, Folkestone, Kent; 17 Folkestone, from Sandgate plain; 18 Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone; 19 Folkestone, from East Cliff; 20 The Viaduct, Folkestone; 21 Folkestone, Marine Parade; 22 Dover, from the Castle Steps; 23 Dover, from Admiralty Pier; 24 Sandgate, Kent, from the Hythe Road; 25 Devonshire Terrace, Sandgate, Kent; 26 Gloucester Terrace, Sandgate, Kent; 27 Radnor Terrace, Sandgate, Kent; 28 Wellington Terrace, Sandgate, Kent; 29 Sandgate from the Cliff Walk; 30 Sandgate and Camp. Folkestone [London] J Riley, The Library, High Street [Rock and Co.]. [after 1870] Oblong 8vo. 7 x 5 inches. Vignette view book without text as issued. Illustrated by 30 steel engraved plates. Bound in original maroon blind stamped and gilt cloth. Extremities worn. Slight foxing affecting plates, otherwise a fine clean example. The plates are all dated to the recording of the image as opposed to its publication, the earliest being 1851 and the latest 1870. Presumably, the images would be reused until the view changed and needed updating, when

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the old plate would be dropped and a new one drawn. Rock and Co. were commercial view book producers who employed teams of artists to record images of all the popular resorts. The firm would then send travelling salesmen to local booksellers and printers who could choose from sample books which of the views they would use for their personalised publications. Competition seems to have been quite strong in this field as there were at least three similar producers of view books (e.g. Newman, Harwood and Kronheim). Some plates may bear the same titles, but are not identical, because they were drawn by different artists for different companies. This makes identification of different editions quite complex. [ref: 21105 ] £350 476. FOLKESTONE. BEACH FROM THE PIER. A view of the beach

looking East, showing the bathing machines and, beyond, the harbour. No place or date but c. 1890 Coloured lithographic view, 6.5 x 5 inches, 10.5 x 9.25 inches overall. Mounted in conservation materials, ready for framing. One of a series of charming views of Folkestone, this is an example of the curious mixture of photographic/hand-drawn lithographic views which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This is made particularly attractive by the use of colour and, as such, is scarce. [ref: 19694 ] £20 477. FOLKESTONE. FOLKESTONE - THE LEAS, FOLKESTONE. A view

of the Leas by Clifton Gardens looking East. No place or date but c.1890 Coloured lithographic view, 6.5 x 5 inches, 10.5 x 9.25 inches overall. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. One of a series of charming views of Folkestone, this is an example of the curious mixture of photographic/hand-drawn lithographic views which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This is made particularly attractive by the use of colour and, as such, is scarce. [ref: 19614 ] £20 478. FOLKESTONE. FOLKESTONE HARBOUR AND FISHING BOATS. A

view across the outer harbour towards the Stade, showing the end of the East Mole, fishing boats and a steam packet, with St. Peter’s Church and St. Andrew’s Convalescent home above. No place or date but c.1890 Coloured lithographic view, 5 x 3 inches. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. One of a series of charming views of Folkestone, this is an example of the curious mixture of photographic/hand-drawn lithographic views which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This is made particularly attractive by the use of colour and, as such, is scarce. [ref: 16577 ] £15

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479. FOLKESTONE. THE GEM OF THE KENTISH COAST. 32ND NEW

EDITION. THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE ADVERTISING AND INFORMATION BUREAU OF THE FOLKESTONE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. F.J. Parsons, Folkestone. [1932] 8vo, 144 pp. with photo illustrations throughout. Original pictorial card wrappers. Attractive 1930's Folkestone guide with detailed hotel advertisements, many illustrated with photos and illustrations of other establishments such as the Central Super Cinema in George Lane and The Playhouse in Guildhall Street. [ref: 19451 ] £35 480. FOLKESTONE. MARINE GARDENS, FOLKESTONE. A view of the

gardens with the Bandstand and Marine Crescent in the background and the Leas visible beyond. No place or date but c.1890 Coloured lithographic view, 5 x 3 inches. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. One of a series of charming views of Folkestone, this is an example of the curious mixture of photographic/hand-drawn lithographic views which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This is made particularly attractive by the use of colour and, as such, is scarce. [ref: 16574 ] £15 481. FOLKESTONE. SHORNCLIFFE CAMP. A view of the Parade Ground

with two horse-drawn gun limbers galloping across the foreground and soldiers and a row of tents beyond. An unusual view with lots of interesting detail. No place or date but c.1890 Coloured lithographic view, 6.5 x 5 inches, 10.5 x 9.25 inches overall. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. One of a series of charming views of Folkestone, this is an example of the curious mixture of photographic/hand-drawn lithographic views which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This is made particularly attractive by the use of colour and, as such, is scarce. [ref: 18080 ] £20 482. FOLKESTONE. SOME ASPECTS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF

THE FOLKESTONE DISTRICT. Ashford, Invicta Press. 1968 102 pp., with illustrations throughout. Original cloth, gilt, in dustwrapper. Published to mark the Centenary of the Folkestone Natural History Society. [ref: 10798 ] £15 483. FOLKESTONE. ST. MARY’S CHURCH, FOLKESTONE. A view of the

church from the North-West corner with Priory Gardens beyond. No place or date but c.1890

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Coloured lithographic view, 5 x 3 inches. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. One of a series of charming views of Folkestone, this is an example of the curious mixture of photographic/hand-drawn lithographic views which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This is made particularly attractive by the use of colour and, as such, is scarce. [ref: 16579 ] £15 484. FOLKESTONE. VIEW FROM THE WEST CLIFF, FOLKESTONE. A

view of the East end of the Leas showing Albion Villas, Priory Gardens, the descent to Marine Crescent and the Harbour. No place or date but c.1890 Coloured lithographic view, 6.5 x 5 inches, 10.5 x 9.25 inches overall. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. One of a series of charming views of Folkestone, this is an example of the curious mixture of photographic/hand-drawn lithographic views which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This is made particularly attractive by the use of colour and, as such, is scarce. [ref: 16607 ] £20 485. FOLKESTONE. A WINDY DAY ON THE LEES, FOLKESTONE.

OCT. 1880. Marrin’s Bookshop. 2007 Giclee reproduction 10.5 x 14.5 inches printed on Somerset Velvet acid-free paper Published in 2007 in a limited edition of 50 copies. Produced for us using state of the art reproduction technology on very high quality paper and guaranteed colourfast . A charming Victorian caricature depicting a group of promenaders with their bath chairs, children and dogs all caught up in the blustery breeze as they make their way down the ‘Lees’, gripping their umbrellas and hats. The rusty browns, muted purples and mossy greens all contribute to the feel of the Autumn day. Young soldiers glance amorously at the serving maids, ladies and gentlemen’s eyes meet, and faces look away like the ships that are passing each other in the distance. [ref: 18347 ] £35 486. FOLKESTONE - ANONYMOUS WATERCOLOUR.

FOLKESTONE FROM THE LEAS. A fine original watercolour drawing of Folkestone in the early nineteenth century, before the harbour improvements and the arrival of the railway. There are no less than three Customs cutters depicted, emphasising the switch of resources to the Preventive Men as a result of the cessation of hostilities. Folkestone had at this time a major Customs presence due to the port’s well-known connection with the ‘Free Trade’. *Provenance: We have a record of this work having passed through our hands about 30 years ago. It was purchased in the Acrise Place sale and sold to Dr C.H. Bishop, the late Folkestone historian, whose collection was dispersed after his death some years ago.

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Original watercolour no signature or date but c. 1820 Watercolour on paper 19 x 14 inches, recently mounted in conservation materials and framed in a classic gilt moulding. A very well-observed watercolour, confidently painted by an unidentified artist. Slightly faded but in fine condition. Looking east from a point just west of the top of the present day Road of Remembrance, with open fields where Albion Villas now stand. In the foreground, sheep are grazing and a couple are walking arm in arm along the cliff path, with the unrestored Parish Church in the middle distance and the Georgian and medieval buildings of Church Street behind. Perched on top of the cliff is a small walled look-out post which was presumably the south-western end of the Battery, with a building not far away which may well be the Battery Blockhouse itself. Behind these in the distance we see the two Martello towers on the East Cliff and beyond these, the cliffs to Shakespeare’s Cliff outside Dover. From a broken fence in the foreground we see a rough path leading down the cliff , and we also look down on the Harbour and Lower Road. Two customs cutters are drawn up the beach and a gang of men are in the act of pulling one of the craft over on its side to be worked on. Behind this we see three sides of the early harbour, and Copt Point beyond. Shipping is entering the harbour mouth and several fishing smacks dot the sea. Another fastlooking customs cutter is standing off the beach, on which there are two bathing machines and a lugger being launched. [ref: 19709 ] £950 487. FOLKESTONE - BISHOP, C.H. CHARLES DICKENS IN

FOLKESTONE An Account of the Novelist’s visits to Folkestone and his Writings about the Town by C.H. Bishop, M.A., Ph.D. No place or date but Folkestone [1970] [20] pp. with illustrations. Stapled and bound in original pictorial card wrappers. Bookplate inside front cover Now scarce monograph. Kent Bibliography [ref: 19213 ] £12 488. FOLKESTONE - BISHOP, C.H. OLD FOLKESTONE PUBS. OLD

INNS, TAVERNS AND HOTELS OF THE ANCIENT BOROUGH OF FOLKESTONE. K.C.C., 1979. 8vo., 107 pp. with photo illustrations. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Now scarce monograph. [ref: 18744 ] £12

489. FOLKESTONE - BISHOP, C.H. SOME FOLKESTONE WORTHIES

TEN OUTSTANDING PERSONS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO LIFE AND DEVELOPMENT OF OLD FOLKESTONE. No place or date but Folkestone. 1979 48 pp. with photo illustration. Original card wrappers. Now scarce monograph. [ref: 18452 ] £12

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490. FOLKESTONE - BROWN, REV. J.H. A HISTORY OF HARVEY

GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Folkestone, F. J. Parsons, 1962 240 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth, gilt. Fine copy. A very good copy of the definitive history of the 'Harvey'. Not having a long print run, this has become quite hard to find. [ref: 17754 ] £30 491. FOLKESTONE - COOKE, E.W. A VIEW OF FOLKESTONE

HARBOUR. Signed E.W. Cooke and dated 1830 Original pencil and wash drawing on paper, heightened with white, 10 x 5 inches approx., mounted in conservation materials, framed in light oak and glazed, overall size 17 x 12 inches approx. Depicting the foreshore at the end of The Stade with fishermen tending their nets, with boats and ships in the harbour and the general bustle of activity around the fishermen’s quarter. The Parish Church overlooks the scene in the background. Titled Folkestone, and signed and dated in pencil. A delightful, busy and accomplished drawing, which undoubtedly formed the basis of Cooke’s famous engraved view of ‘Folkestone Harbour, Low Water’, published the following year in ‘Sixty Five Views of Shipping and Craft’. [ref: 20236 ] £1400 492. FOLKESTONE - ELGAR, W.H. THE ANCIENT BUILDINGS OF

THE FOLKESTONE DISTRICT. F.J. Parsons, Folkestone. 1921. Small 4to. 6 x 9.5 inches. xi + [1] +108 pp. + [1] pp. advertisement, with plans and illustrations by the author. Original yellow boards. A mint copy The first (and only) of an intended series on the buildings of the neighbourhood. Twenty-six most interesting buildings are covered:- Folkestone Parish Church, Priory, and Mansion House, Martello Towers, Sandgate Castle, Cheriton Church, Enbrook Manor, Newington Church, Hawkinge Church, Swingfield Church, Capel Church, Alkham Church, St Radegund’s Abbey, Paddlesworth Church, Lyminge Church, Barfreston Church and Sculpture, Hythe Church and Crypt, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Hythe, Saltwood Church and Castle, Postling Church, West Hythe Church, and Lympne Church and Castle. ***Another very good copy available at £30*** Kent Bibliography [ref: 17750 ] £35 493. FOLKESTONE - ENGLISH, JOHN. ENGLISH'S

REMINISCENCES OF OLD FOLKESTONE SMUGGLERS AND SMUGGLING DAYS BY AN OLD FOLKESTONER. Folkestone, John English, n.d. but circa 1882

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12mo. [8] + 72 pp. Originally pubilished in wrappers, this copy has been neatly bound in full green buckram, with a title label. The rare first issue of English’s locally published account of the notorious local smugglers. He had originally published these in his newspaper the Folkestone Express and so popular did they became he printed them separately as above. He was to reprint them several more times with illustrations and other additions. [ref: 20137 ] £145 494. FOLKESTONE - ‘FELIX’ [W .G. GLANFIELD]. RAMBLES

AROUND FOLKESTONE. With other special articles and notes by ‘Felix.’ Reprinted by kind permission of the Proprietors from ‘The Folkestone Herald’ (1891-1913). Folkestone William George Glanfield, 6 Russell Road. n.d. but, c 1914 4to. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. [iv] + 237 pp. + [3], including [1] pp. advertisement. Half-title. Illustrated by [25] photographic plates. Bound in original printed boards with cloth spine. A series of delightful articles relating to Folkestone events, people and social history, published in The Herald newspaper between 1891 and 1913 and here collected together in book form with the addition of some fine photographic illustrations. One of the most informative and charming books on Folkestone, painting a vivid picture of the town before the First World War. Signed dedication copy. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 19536 ] £100 495. FOLKESTONE - ‘FELIX’ [W .G. GLANFIELD]. RAMBLES

AROUND FOLKESTONE. With other special articles and notes by ‘Felix.’ Reprinted by kind permission of the Proprietors from ‘The Folkestone Herald’ (1891-1913). Folkestone William George Glanfield, 6 Russell Road. n.d. but c.1914 4to. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. [iv] + 237 pp. + [3], including [1] pp. advertisement. Half-title. Illustrated by 25 photographic plates. Bound in original printed boards with cloth spine. Extremities worn and some foxing, but otherwise a good copy. A series of delightful articles relating to Folkestone events, people and social history, published in The Herald newspaper between 1891 and 1913 and here collected together in book form with the addition of some fine photographic illustrations. One of the most informative and charming books on Folkestone, painting a vivid picture of the town before the First World War. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 21080 ] £70 496. FOLKESTONE - ‘FELIX’ [W.G.

GLANFIELD] RAMBLES AROUND FOLKESTONE, AND OTHER SPECIAL ARTICLES. Folkestone, Glanfield, n.d. but, c 1914

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237 pp. with photo illustrations. This copy has additional cuttings from the local paper inserted. Bound in half morocco over marbled boards, with a considerable addition of cuttings from the local paper pasted in or inserted and a folding coloured street plan of the town of c. 1920. A attractive special bound copy of this interesting work. A series of delightful articles relating to Folkestone events, people and social history, published in the Herald newspaper between 1891 and 1913 and here collected together in book form with the addition of some fine photographic illustrations. One of the most informative and charming books on Folkestone, painting a vivid picture of the town before the First World War. The original cardboard type of binding has a tendency to fall apart, and is often found held together with sellotape or worse. This copy has been handsomely rebound in half morocco and lettered in gilt which together with the additional material make this a particularly attractive item. [ref: 19077 ] £165 497. FOLKESTONE - HARE. (Engraved by) FOLKSTONE, KENT.

[THE PARISH CHURCH]. c.1850 Coloured wood-engraving, 9 x 5.5 inches, mounted and framed in conservation materials. Overall size 14 x 11 inches. Unusual view of the parish church of St. Mary & Eanswythe from the north side, showing the building before the beginnings of the series of restoration and enlargements which were begun some time after 1851. [ref: 19711 ] £75 498. FOLKESTONE - JONES, COUNCILLOR JOHN. FOLKESTONE

AND THE WAR. Printed and published by J. Jones, Folkestone. No date but c.1919 8vo. viii + 79 pp. with photo frontis. Original printed paper wrappers, a little chipped and worn. Some top edges ink-stained but text unaffected. Very scarce. An interesting and entertaining account of the war years in Folkestone from an insider’s viewpoint. Where else would we learn of ‘The terrible Mrs. Grundy ... and other forbidding personages of the Social Purity League’? We have not seen a copy in many years. [ref: 19652 ] £65 499. FOLKESTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE,

SANDGATE, HYTHE AND SALTWOOD, 1954. Kelly's Directories. 1954 428 pp. Lacking map as is usual. Original printed cloth. A little faded, but a good copy. [ref: 17719 ] £35 500. FOLKESTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE,

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428 pp., + adverts., lacking map. Original printed cloth. Spine faded and titles rubbed, otherwise a good copy. [ref: 17714 ] £30

501. FOLKESTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE,

SANDGATE, HYTHE AND SALTWOOD, 1958. Kelly's Directories. 1958 388 pp., + adverts with map. Original printed cloth. A very good copy. [ref: 17717 ] £40 502. FOLKESTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE,

SANDGATE, HYTHE AND SALTWOOD, 1958. Kelly's Directories. 1958. 388 pp. with adverts. Lacking map. Original printed red cloth. [ref: 18681 ] £35 503. FOLKESTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE,

SANDGATE, HYTHE AND SALTWOOD. 1966. Kelly's Directories. 1960 394 pp. lacking folding map. Original printed cloth. Spine a little faded but a good copy. [ref: 20778 ] £30 504. FOLKESTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE,

SANDGATE, HYTHE AND SALTWOOD. 1966. Kelly's Directories. 1966 388 pp., with folding map. Original printed cloth. A near mint copy with repaired map. Very scarce in this condition. [ref: 17578 ] £35 505. FOLKESTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE,

SANDGATE, HYTHE AND SALTWOOD. 1966. Kelly's Directories. 1966 388 pp. lacking folding map. Original printed cloth. A little faded but a good copy. [ref: 17723 ] £25 506. FOLKESTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE,

SANDGATE, HYTHE AND SALTWOOD. 1966. Kelly's Directories. 1966 8vo. 388 pp. without the folding map. Original printed cloth.which is a little worn at the head of the spine. All the Kelly’s are becoming difficult to find in any condition. [ref: 18737 ] £30 507. FOLKESTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE,

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Kelly's Directories. 1962 410 pp. with folding map. Original printed cloth. Slight bumps to lower edges, otherwise a very clean, crisp copy. [ref: 17722 ] £35 508. FOLKESTONE - KIP, JOHANNES. BEACHBOROUGH. THE

SEAT OF WILLIAM BROCKMAN ESQ. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, and engraved by Kip. [ref: 20230 ] £150 509. FOLKESTONE - MACKIE, S.J. A DESCRIPTIVE AND

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF FOLKESTONE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITH GLEANINGS FROM THE MUNICIPAL RECORDS, REPRINTED FROM THE FOLKESTONE EXPRESS. Folkestone, J. English. 1883 8vo. vi + 352 pp. with portrait frontis of William Harvey, and numerous wood engravings throughout. Professionally re-sewn and recased preserving the original decorated cloth, gilt. A little rubbed and spine a little faded, but a very good copy. The enlarged second edition of the standard 19th century Folkestone history and guide. ‘The Gleanings from the Municipal Records’ which appear in this edition contain much of interest - The Early Charters, The Harbour, The Fishermen, Old Streets, Inns, Forms of Punishment, etc. This edition of Mackie is the most comprehensive antiquarian history of the town, but suffers from a serious production fault which affects all copies - the book was bound using metal staples instead of being sewn in the traditional way. These staples rust over time and the sections fall apart. We have had this fault professionally rectified; the book has been re-sewn and re-inserted into its original case. [ref: 15524 ] £100 510. FOLKESTONE - ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF KENT - 25

inch maps. Sheet 75. 6. FOLKESTONE NORTH EAST. O/S. First edition. 1873 Hand-coloured lithographed map 25 x 38 inches. A very good copy. beauty The north of town from the bottom of Black Bull Road, the top end of Dover Road and the East Station, the whole of Canterbury Road. Apart from these and the original Park Farm, Walton Farm and Limekiln Farm the now intensely developed part of Folkestone is fields. [ref: 7608 ] £75 511. FOLKESTONE - TAYLOR, ALAN F. FOLKESTONE IMAGES OF

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128 pp. with photo illustration throughout Original pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. Now out of print. [ref: 19655 ] £14 512. FOLKESTONE - TAYLOR, ALAN F.and EAMONN D.

ROONEY. Collected by FOLKESTONE IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. A SECOND SELECTION. Alan Sutton, Stroud. 1992 reprinted 2001 8vo. 160 pp. Original glossy paper wrappers. A very good copy. Signed by Alan Taylor. Now out of print. [ref: 19938 ] £15 513. FOLKESTONE - WARD LOCK AND CO. GUIDE TO

FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE, DYMCHURCH, NEW ROMNEY, DOVER, DEAL AND SOUTH-EAST KENT. Ward, Lock & Co. n.d. but c.1954 8 + 176 pp. + 2 folding maps + 8 plans (5 folding) + 33 b/w illustrations. Original red pictorial cloth. Front cover creased but a very good copy. One of the last examples of this series. [ref: 18188 ] £20 514. FOLKESTONE - WARD LOCK AND CO. GUIDE TO

FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE, DYMCHURCH, NEW ROMNEY, DOVER, DEAL AND SOUTH-EAST KENT. Ward, Lock and Co. n.d. but c.1954 8 + 176 pp. + 2 folding maps + 8 plans (5 folding) + b/w illustrations. Original red pictorial cloth. A near mint copy. One of the last examples of this series. [ref: 20632 ] £20 515. FOLKESTONE - WARD, LOCK AND CO. A PICTORIAL AND

DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE, CANTERBURY DYMCHURCH. Ward, Lock & Co. 1918 Fiifth Edition. xx + 80 pp. (Folkestone) + 80 pp. (Hythe) + 32pp. (Deal) + adverts + 63 pp. + [19] with 6 folding maps and photo illustration. Original red pictorial cloth. Universally popular guides now becoming more difficult to find, particularly the pre-world war two issues. The large folding maps of the towns are an invaluable record. Includes Canterbury, Dover, Romney Marsh, Calais, Bologne [ref: 19419 ] £30 516. FOLKESTONE - WARD, LOCK and CO. A PICTORIAL AND

DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE, DYMCHURCH, NEW ROMNEY, LITTLESTONE ON SEA, ETC. Ward, Lock and Co., 1913-14

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Seventh edition - Revised. 16 + xxi + 72 pp. + 44 pp. + 80 pp.adverts with maps and photo illustration. Original red pictorial cloth. Two maps neatly repaired otherwise very good. Popular guides, especially the pre-first war editions, now becoming more difficult to find. The large folding maps of the towns are an invaluable record. [ref: 20630 ] £25 517. FOLKESTONE - WARD, LOCK and CO. A PICTORIAL AND

DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE, DYMCHURCH, NEW ROMNEY, LITTLESTONE ON SEA, ETC. Ward, Lock and Co., 1925 - 26 Seventh Edition - Revised. [18] + viii +12 + ix-xxii + 72 pp. + 44 + 80 pp. adverts with maps and photo illustration. Original red pictorial cloth. A very good example. Popular guides, produced from the turn of the 19th century up until the 1950s. The large folding maps of the towns are an invaluable record. [ref: 20463 ] £25 518. FOLKESTONE - WARD, LOCK and CO. A PICTORIAL AND

DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE,, DYMCHURCH, NEW ROMNEY, LITTLESTONE ON SEA, ETC. Ward, Lock and Co., 1925 - 26 Seventh edition - Revised, viii +12 = ix-xxiv + 72 pp. + 44 pp. + [4] + 80 pp. adverts. with 8 folding maps and plans and photo illustration. Original red pictorial cloth. The large folding maps of the towns are an invaluable record. [ref: 20629 ] £20 519. FOLKESTONE - WHITNEY, CHARLES. FOLKESTONE - A

PICTORIAL HISTORY. Photographs from the collections of Eamonn Rooney, Alan Taylor and Roy Wilson. Phillimore. 1986 4to. [126] pp. With photo illus throughout. Bound in cloth, gilt in D/W. A mint example. Well compiled photographic history now out of print. [ref: 19787 ] £15 520. FOLKESTONE - WINBOLT, S.E. ROMAN FOLKESTONE. Methuen. 1925 First edition. 199 pp. with plans and photo illustration. Original red cloth. Spine faded but a very good copy. The standard book on the Folkestone villa. [ref: 17399 ] £25

FOLKESTONE - WOODWARD, MATTHEW. THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF FOLKESTONE. Together with, An account of the Reliquary of St. Eanswythe Discovered in 1885.

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Skeffington & Son, 1892 First Edition. 138 pp. + (6) adverts with 12 photo plates showing the church before and after restoration. Original cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded otherwise fine copy. Contains the only detailed description of this historic building before the ‘restoration’ of the 1860s. [ref: 15104 ] £45 521. FOLKESTONE - WOODWARD, MATTHEW. THE PAST AND

PRESENT OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF FOLKESTONE. Together with An account of the Reliquary of St. Eanswythe discovered in 1885. Skeffington & Son. 1892 First Edition. 138 pp. + (6) adverts. with 12 illustrations including photographic plates showing the church before and after restoration. Original cloth, slightly scuffed. Contains the only detailed description of this historic building before the 'restoration' of the 1860s. [ref: 17529 ] £40 522. FOLKESTONE HANDBOOK. FOLKESTONE VIEWS AND

REVIEWS. W.T. Pike and Co., Publishers, Grand Parade, Brighton. Republished by Marrin’s Bookshop, Folkestone. 2010 Facsimile reprint, Folio, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, [i] + 90 pp. illustrated throughout. Extra pages include wrapper advertisements as extra leaf and 2 pages of lists showing occupants of business premises in 1895 and 2010. Pictorial glossy card wrappers. Brand new. A facsimile of a very scarce Folkestone item not found in the British Library catalogue or the Kent Bibliography. Comprising a general description of Folkestone and Hythe and listing their main attractions. This is followed by a comprehensive trade guide to the principal hotels and businesses in Folkestone with many premises being illustrated in photographs or engravings, both internal and external views. Altogether a remarkable insight into late-Victorian Folkestone. Republished by Marrin’s Bookshop. [ref: 20238 ] £14.99 523. FOLKESTONE PANORAMA. FOLKESTONE FROM THE SEA. No place or date but c.1890 Folding photo/litho panorama, 33 x 3½ inches. Overall size, 36 x 10 inches. Framed and glazed in conservation materials. Traces of old folds, otherwise in very good condition. Very interesting panorama of Folkestone from the sea, showing the Lift and Pier (opened in 1884) and Switchback Railway (1888), on the left. Priory Gardens is roughly central and the old Harbour House overlooks the harbour with the old wooden harbour arm and landing stage. St. Andrew’s

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Convalescent Home has been erected (1885) on the East Cliff. Produced as a folding concertina type view book, probably printed in Germany. [ref: 20565 ] £165

524. FOLKESTONE VIEWS 32 PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF

FOLKESTONE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Callcut and Beavis, 77 Great Eastern Street, London. n.d. but c. 1910 Oblong 8vo. 9.5 x 7 inches. [2] pp. illustrated by 24 monochrome photographic plates. Bound in the original publishers decorated stiff red card, and blocked in gilt. Hinges and joints loose, extremities worn. The views are: The Harbour, Folkestone; The Band Stand, Folkestone; Shades and Lees, Folkestone; Lower Sandgate Road, Folkestone; The Pier, Folkestone; The Lift and Metropole Hotel, Folkestone; St. Mary’s Church, Folkestone (Two views, exterior and interior); Folkestone from the Pier; S.S. ‘Mary Beatrice’, Folkestone; Sandgate, General View and the Parade; Hythe, General View and Crypt of Church; The Warren, Folkestone; Shakespeare’s Cliff, Dover; The Harbour, Dover; The Parade, Dover; Dover Castle; Town Hall, Dover; Admiralty Pier, Dover; General View and Waterloo Crescent, Dover; Lord Warden Hotel and Castle Street, Dover; Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket Pistol and Sands and Parade, Dover; The Pier, Deal; Deal Castle and Walmer Castle; Canterbury Cathedral. [ref: 20273 ] £40 525. FOLKESTONE VIEWS. THE ALBUM OF FOLKESTONE,

SANDGATE AND HYTHE VIEWS London: Charles, Reynolds & Co., Ltd, 72 & 73 Fore Street and 18 & 20 Fore Street Avenue, London, EC n.d. but after 1890 8vo. 6.5 x 8.75 inches. Concertina type view-book of glazed lithos, containing 21 different images and two fine panoramas, one of Folkestone from the sea and one of Sandgate. Publisher’s advertisement list on rear endpaper. Bound in original dark blue decorated boards, blocked in gilt. Slight wear on edge of boards and some small dark stains on front board, otherwise a very good copy. This type of view-book originates in Germany and was printed there. It is a late example of the curious mixture of photograph and engraving which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895, when photography finally won the day. This example must date from after 1890 as the second set of cliff lift carriages is shown. [ref: 19407 ] £150 526. FOLKESTONE VIEWS. SOUVENIR ALBUM OF VIEWS.

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Folkestone, Herald Printing Works. c.1900 Oblong 4to. approximately 11.5 x 9 inches. Title and introduction and 44 photo plates and a long (14 x 36 inches) panorama of Folkestone from the Sea. Original grained, gilt-stamped red cloth with photo insets. Rather worn and time-stained but still imposing. An elaborate production in which an advertisement for the West Cliff Hotel states that ‘Since October 1900, the hotel has been entirely remodelled ...’ and one of the views shows the 'Duchess of York' leaving her berth at Folkestone for France. The 'Duchess' was delivered in 1895 and lasted until 1904. This means that this view book can only have been produced during this 3-4 year period. Scarce. [ref: 18198 ] £150 527. FOLKESTONE WATERCOLOUR. FOLKESTONE HARBOUR

FROM THE DURLOCKS. No artist or date but c.1850 Large original watercolour, 17 x 12 inches approx., mounted in conservation materials, framed in light oak and glazed. Overall size 26 x 22 inches approx. A very attractive view from the high ground above the fishermen’s quarter with two seated figures looking across the inner harbour to the Pavilion Hotel and Harbour House, with the Parish Church and the Bayle in the background. [ref: 20233 ] £750 528. FOOTE, WILLIAM. THE GENERAL OR PRINCIPAL HIGHWAY

ACT (5 & 6 WILL. 4, c.50) AND THE ACT FOR THE BETTER MANAGEMENT OF HIGHWAYS (25 & 26 Vict. c. 61), AND OTHER STATUTES AFFECTING THE LAW IN CONNECTION WITH THE HIGHWAYS IN ENGLAND AND NORTH WALES; With practical and explanatory notes, forms, references to statutes and cases, and a copious index to each of the Highway Acts. By William Foote, Attorney-at- Law. Third edition. London: John Crockford, 10, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. 1862 12mo. 4.5 x 7.5 inches. lxxxviii + 302 + [2] + 14 pp. advertisements, the New Laws of the Session of 1862, tipped in at end and advertisements on front and rear paste-downs. a-a12, b-b8, c-d12, B-L12, M-M6, N-N12, O-O8, P-P8. Bound in original buff cloth, rebacked spine, blind stamped boards, edges rubbed. First free front endpaper and title page slightly detached at lower edges. 1867 ink inscription on first free endpaper. Clean interior. The larger part of the book, whose first edition was published in 1852, is concerned with the Highway Act of 1836 and it is followed by a section on the Highway Act of 1862. Both parts have separate indexes. [ref: 19724 ] £120 529. FOSTER, REGINALD. DOVER FRONT. Secker & Warburg. 1941 8vo. 158 pp. with 8 photographic illustrations. Original stone cloth. A very good copy.

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Published during the war by a journalist who had experienced a year of life in what was, at the time, the front line. Becoming quite scarce. [ref: 21327 ] £15 530. FREESTON, EWART and BERNARD KENT. MODELLING

THAMES SAILING BARGES. Model Shipwright, Greenwich. 1976 96 pp. illustrated throughout. Original rust cloth, gilt. A fine copy in a like dust wrapper. [ref: 20803 ] £14 531. FULLARTON, A. KENT. Engraved Map of Kent

Published by A. Fullarton, Glasgow n.d. but 1843 Engraved map of the county, 9.5 x 7.5 inches, with a vignette of Canterbury in one corner and a list of the Hundreds. Trace of old fold. Good impression with good margins. A fine example. Attractive and detailed map of the county. [ref: 18142 ] £50 532. FULLARTON, A. KENT. Engraved Map of Kent Published by A. Fullarton, Glasgow n.d. but c.1845 Hand-coloured engraved map of the county, 9.5 x 7.5 inches, with a vignette of Canterbury in one corner and a list of the Hundreds. Mounted in acid-free conservation board. Good impression with good margins, attractively coloured. A fine example. Attractive and detailed map of the county showing the South Eastern Railway completed to Dover, something achieved in 1844. [ref: 16966 ] £60 533. FURLEY, ROBERT. THE ANNALS OF KENNINGTON, IN KENT. A

LECTURE DELIVERED BY ROBERT FURLEY, OF ASHFORD, F.S.A., AT THE KENNINGTON NATIONAL SCHOOL, ON MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1877. Headley Brothers, Ashford. 1972 Slim 8vo. Reprint of the scarce 1877 edition. 37 pp. Original printed card wrappers, with minimal rubbing to extremities, a little dusty and time-stained but a good copy. Reprint of the scarce Kennington item, which is one of the few works on the subject and very informative. [ref: 18258 ] £20 534. FUSSELL, L. A JOURNEY ROUND THE COAST OF KENT;

CONTAINING REMARKS ON THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS WORTHY OF NOTICE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF THAT INTERESTING BORDER, AND THE CONTIGUOUS DISTRICT; INCLUDING PENSHURST, AND TUNBRIDGE-WELLS; WITH RYE, WINCHELSEA, HASTINGS AND BATTLE IN SUSSEX: BEING ORIGINAL NOTES MADE DURING A SUMMER EXCURSION. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47 Paternoster-Row. 1818.

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8vo. Hand-coloured folding engraved map, iv + 304 pp. Recently bound in quarter-morocco gilt, over blue paper boards. A very good copy. The conversational text sheds much light on the condition of Kent in the early 19th. century. The description of remote parts such as Romney Marsh, Dymchurch Wall, The Redoubt, Lydd, and Dungeness Light are most interesting. [ref: 20361 ] £175

535. GALLEY, MARTIN R. THE LAST DAYS OF STEAM IN KENT. Alan Sutton, Stroud. 1991 4to. 136 pp. with photographic illustration throughout. Original black cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. A near fine copy [ref: 17091 ] £12 536. GALLOIS, R.W. BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY: THE WEALDEN

DISTRICT. Issued by the Natural Environment Research Council Institute of Geological Sciences, this is a comprehensive look at the geological history and economy of the Weald. [ref: 17215 ] £15

537. GARDINER, DOROTHY. HISTORIC HAVEN OF SANDWICH Pilgrim Press Ltd: Derby, 1954 First Edition 8vo. viii + 368 pp. with photo illustrations. Bound in blue cloth, gilt, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. Both book and wrapper are in very good condition. A thorough modern history of the town and port of Sandwich. Quite hard to find in good condition. [ref: 20848 ] £45 538. GARDINER, DOROTHY. Editor. THE OXINDEN LETTERS 1607 -

1642. Being the Correspondence of Henry Oxinden of Barham and his Circle. Edited with Notes and an Introduction by Dorothy Gardiner. Constable and Co Ltd., London. 1933 8vo. 5.75 x 9 inches. xxxvi + 328 pp. + [18]. Illustrated with portrait frontis. and 12 plates (including facsimiles) and a folding genealogical table and map at end. With half-title, bibliography and index. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, boards stained, spine a little faded and extremities bumped and worn. Deckle edges with top edge maroon. Some lower edge staining near beginning, otherwise clean inside. This elusive volume gives a fascinating insight into daily life in the country houses of East Kent during the early seventeenth century and the prelude to the Civil War. It prints 240 letters from the Oxinden family of Great Maydekin House, Barham, largely selected from Additional MSS, 27,999 and 28,000 in the British Museum (now in the British Library). Sir Henry

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Oxinden (1609-70) was born in Canterbury and educated at Wye and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, being admitted to Gray’s Inn, 1632. He served on the parliamentary side during the siege of Arundel, 1643 but took no further part in the events of the 1640s. He published four volumes of verse and other works which attacked Puritan ministers and moved to support for Charles I and later the Restoration. He was ordained in 1661 but never took up residence in the Buckinghamshire living of Radnage, to which he had been presented. Over 200 titles from Oxinden’s library survived to found Elham parish library and are now housed in Canterbury Cathedral Library. The editor of the letters, Dorothy Gardiner, nee Kempe (1873-1957) was educated in London and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She later worked at the LMH settlement in Lambeth, where she married the rector, and in 1917, moved with him to Canterbury, on his appointment as residential canon of the Cathedral. Her other published works included English Girlhood at School (1929), The Story of Lambeth Palace (1930) and Companion into Kent (1934). A further volume of the letters, The Oxinden and Peyton letters, 1642-1670 appeared in 1937. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20212 ] £65 539. GARRAD, G.H. A SURVEY OF THE AGRICULTURE OF KENT. By

G. H. Garrad O.B.E., N.D.A., C.D.A. (Hons.), Wye College. (County Agricultural Surveys No.1. London Royal Agricultural Society of England, 16 Bedford Square, London, W.C. 1. 1954 4to. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. iv + 232 pp. Half title. Illustrated with 8 p. of black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece, 3 map plates, and additional photograph, map and distribution maps and graphs in text. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, with RASE badge on front board, in dust wrapper. In good condition. Ink inscription, 1960 and address label, 1964 on first free endpaper. Systematic account of the farming regions, crops and livestock and the organisation of agriculture in mid-twentieth century Kent. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21363 ] £20 540. GARRETT, K. S. EVERARD OF GREENHITHE. World Ship Society, Kendal. 1991 Folio. 238 pp. profusely illustrated in black and white. Original red cloth, gilt, with house flag in gilt to upper board. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. A history of the company from its foundation in 1922, listing and illustrating 52 sailing vessels, 240 steam and motor vessels, with sections about the managed ships and Tugs and Service Craft. Scarce. [ref: 20816 ] £65

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541. GATTIE, G. BYNG. MEMORIALS OF THE GOODWIN SANDS, AND

THEIR SURROUNDINGS, LEGENDARY AND HISTORICAL. By George Byng Gattie, Late H.M.’s Civil Service. With maps, charts, and illustrations. The ‘Kelkel’ Edition. London J.J. Keliher and Co., Ltd., 99, Victoria St., and 33, King William St., E.C. 1904 Second edition. 8vo. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. xvi + [ii] + 297 pp. + 2]. Half title. Illustrated by 18 plates, including frontispiece and 6 maps and charts. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Deckled edges. Extremities slightly worn and scratch mark on front board; otherwise a bright clean copy. Second edition of this scarce work on the Sands, which is also very nicely produced and illustrated; although the binding is without the gilt decoration of the first edition of 1890, the text seems to be identical. It contains a good historical account of the Sands, the Downs and the wrecks but there is a strong emphasis on the various means of improving the safety of the Sands, including lifeboats, lightships and a variety of beacons and buoys, with full details of their designs. The frontispiece illustrates Captain Bullock’s first safety beacon, erected in 1840. The last chapter considers schemes for reclaiming part of the Sands and building breakwaters and embankments. The book concludes with an appendix in twenty sections, further elucidating parts of the main text. Kent Bibliography [ref: 17949 ] £45 542. GIBSON. J. AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT

FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES. Engraved for the Complete Magazine for J. Payne at the Feathers in Paternoster Row, N.D. 1765 Copper engraved map 8 x 7 inches. Signs of old folds, a very good example. Attractive mid-eighteenth century map. [ref: 18143 ] £75

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543. GILBERT, CLIVE. Editor. OUR COMMON SHORE - NOTRE

RIVAGE COMMUN. The Coasts and Seas of Nord-Pas de Calais and Kent. Kent County Council and Conseil Regional Nord-Pas de Calais. 1997 Folio. 96 pp., profusely illustrated in colour. Bi-lingual text. Original pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. A look at the coast and its inhabitants on each side of the Channel. [ref: 16884 ] £10

544. GILMORE, REV. JOHN. STORM WARRIORS OR LIFE-BOAT

WORK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS. By the Rev. John Gilmore, M.A., Rector of Holy Trinity, Ramsgate; Author of ‘The Ramsgate Life-Boat,’ in Macmillan’s Magazine. London Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1898 8vo. 5 x 7.5 inches. xvi + 358 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. Bound in original pictorial cloth, gilt. Extremities a little worn and some foxing, but otherwise good condition. School Prize label of 1901, on front pastedown. Very good copy of this scarce work on the Goodwins, principally concerned with the rescues of the Ramsgate lifeboat. The fifth reprint of a work first published in 1873 (dated 1874). Kent Bibliography [ref: 21296 ] £65 545. [GLEIG, GEORGE ROBERT]. THE SUBALTERN. Second Edition. Edinburgh. William Blackwood and T. Cadell, London. 1826 12mo. 4.5 x 7 inches. vi + 373 pp. + [1] + 4 pp. advertisements. Half title. Bound in original quarter blue cloth over plain card boards, with paper label on spine. Extremities worn and some foxing, but otherwise a good copy. The narrative of a junior officer in the final stages of the peninsular campaign, 1813-14, from the siege of San Sebastian, and over the French border and eventually to the siege of Bayonne. Although published anonymously, it is known to be the work of George Robert Gleig (1796-1888), born at Stirling and educated at Glasgow and Oxford. Leaving the parade ground at Hythe, his regiment set sail from Dover, but soon found themselves unable to round the headland of Dungeness, because of adverse seas, and were forced to shelter for over a week (’the very name of Dungeness is

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abomination in mine ears’), relieved only by landing on ‘the shingly beach’ and receiving a day’s hospitality from two Lydd families. After France he later saw action in North America, but at the end of the wars was pressed by his father, the Bishop of Brechin, to enter the church. After further study at Oxford Gleig was ordained in 1820, being appointed curate of Westwell, to which, by 1822 was added Ash and the living of Ivychurch. While in Kent, he became editor and part owner of the Kentish Gazette, opposing political reform to please his reluctant patron, the Duke of Wellington. He was also active as a Kent justice during the 1830-31 Captain Swing riots, which had originated in the county. After writing on church affairs, he achieved literary success with The Subaltern, originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine and in book form in 1825 (it subsequently appeared in various editions up to 1872). Gleig continued to pursue a prolific literary career, while combining his military and ecclesiastical experience in his appointment as chaplain-general of the forces (1844-75), also becoming, in 1846, inspector-general of military schools. [ref: 21346 ] £175 546. [GLEIG, G.R.] THE CHRONICLES OF WALTHAM.

A. and W. Galignani and Co., Paris : 1835 8vo. First Continental Edition, issued in the same year as the first English edition. Bound in original printed paper wrappers as issued. A little worn at extremities and the spine has been replaced, but a rare survivor in original condition. George Robert Gleig (1796-1888). On leaving Oxford in 1811, Gleig joined the army, and was involved in the later stages of the Napoleonic wars. He was ordained in 1820 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and became Curate of Westwell. Ash and Ivychurch were added later to his jurisdiction. His novel is of great social interest, reflecting the life of the country people in the parish of Waltham and East Kent in general. The backdrop of England at the end of the long years of war bringing change to these quiet communities; falling corn prices, smallholdings becoming unprofitable, leading to evictions of families who for generations had held the same farms. The knowledgeable reader will see through the thinly disguised portraits of well-known landowners, and families who are still to be found in the locality today. RARE. [ref: 19447 ] £150 547. GLENDINNING, VICTORIA. VITA THE LIFE OF V. SACKVILLE-

WEST Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, London. 1983 First Edition. 8vo. xviii + 430 pp. illustrated with photographs. Original cloth. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. Glendinning’s sparkling biography, which is much admired, here in the first edition. [ref: 16969 ] £25

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548. GLOVER, JUDITH. THE PLACE NAMES OF KENT.

Batsford. 1976 8vo. 215 pp. Original cloth, gilt, in dustwrapper. The first issue of the standard modern work on Kent’s place names. [ref: 10558 ] £25

549. GLYNNE, SIR STEPHEN. NOTES ON THE CHURCHES OF KENT.

By the late Sir Stephen R. Gyynne, Bart. With illustrations. London John Murray, Albemarle Streeet. 1877 First Edition. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. xiv + [ii] + 351 pp., + [1] + 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Illustrated by wood engravings in text. Bound in original green cloth, gilt. Preliminaries and title page slightly foxed, and a blind stamp on the title states ‘Presented by Mr Murray’. A very good copy. Thorough book covering 312 churches, mostly surveyed before the 'restorations' of the Victorians, and recording many original features since destroyed. It also, however, the dilapidation into which some had fallen before such restoration, as in the case of Sl Mary and St Eanswwthe, Folkestone: ‘The exterior has suffered much mutilation, and has a ragged appearance; the walls are chiefly of flint. Most of the windows of the nave are modern, of the vilest description. The west end of the church is wretched patchwork, the nave having been cut short on that side, probably by the damage done by a storm, and the west wall rebuilt in most niggardly Incongruous style.’ We have another similar copy, with ink initials of 1878 on verso of first free endpaper. Kent Bibliography [ref: 17683 ] £85 550. GOMME, G.L.(Editor). THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE

LIBRARY: TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF KENT AND LANCASHIRE, BEING A CLASSIFED COLLECTION OF THE CHIEF CONTENTS OF THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE FROM 1731-1868. Elliot Stock. 1895 xii + 328 pp. Original buckram, gilt. Contains many fascinating and unusual articles, fully indexed by name and subjects, mostly devoted to Kent, of the 328 pp. only about 50 are concerned with Lancs. [ref: 18538 ] £40 ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT DIARY 551. GOODNESTONE - BENGE, FREDERICK. WILLIAM. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF HOLIDAYS IN KENT AND LIFE IN GOODNESTONE Together with a mint copy of David Oliver’s book ‘The Diaries of Frederick

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William Benge. Broadstairs, 1837, Goodnestone, 1847’ which is No.3 of a limited First Edition of 500 copies, with signed dedication from Oliver to William Lapthorne, the Broadstairs historian and previous owner of the diary. 1837, 1847 4to. 7.5 x 8.75 inches. [138] pages of manuscript, comprising [109] pp. at front; [29] pp. inverted manuscript at rear with [7] blank pages in centre. Illustrated with pen and wash sketches on ten pages of the 1837 text. Bound in red half-morocco, marbled boards. A trifle rubbed at extremities Occasional slight foxing but otherwise clean.

The two diaries have been identified as the work of Frederick William Benge (1787-1849), who was living in Pimlico at the time of the holiday but moved to Rowling House, Goodnestone, Kent in 1839. First part untitled; after introductory comment, entries from 12 September to 10 October 1837, followed by conclusion. Second part titled, Continuation of the Journal from 1847, Commencing 2 November ending 14 November 1847. The diaries were transcribed and privately published by David R.Oliver (Broadstairs, 1994), illustrated throughout, with much additional matter, contemporary engravings, photographs, etc. Oliver’s book contains four appendices, including background information on the family, persons mentioned in the diary, relevant extracts from Kentish Gazette, etc. Despite having been previously researched, there remains much more to be explored. A unique item [ref: 19628 ] £1750 552. GOODNESTON - KIP, JOHANNES. GOODNESTON. THE SEAT

OF THE HON’BLE Sr BROOK BRIDGES Bart. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. From Harris’ History of Kent. [ref: 20227 ] £150 553. GOODSALL, R. H. A THIRD KENTISH PATCHWORK.

Stedehill Publications, Harrietsham 1970 8vo. [10] + 159 pp. with photographic illustrations. Original gilt cloth in dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste-down. The third of the author’s miscellanies. [ref: 19029 ] £12 554. GOODSALL, R.H. THE ARUN AND WESTERN ROTHER.

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First edition 196 pp. with photographic illustrations Original cloth in dust wrapper. Goodsall’s popular and well-informed work. [ref: 18043 ] £25 555. GOODSALL, R.H. THE EASTERN ROTHER. Constable. 1981 164 pp. with maps and illustrated. Original illustrated laminated paper wrappers The paperback issue. Includes Romney Marsh and the Royal Military Canal. [ref: 14948 ] £8 556. GOODSALL, R.H. FOURTH KENTISH PATCHWORK. Harrietsham, Stedehill Publications. 1975 121 pp. with photo illustrated. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A fine copy. [ref: 17067 ] £10 557. GOODSALL, R.H. THE KENTISH STOUR. Rochester Press 1981 8vo., 229 pp. with map and photo illustrations. Pictorial card covers . A very good copy. Good copies of Mr Goodsall’s books are becoming more difficult to find. [ref: 18065 ] £12 558. GOODSALL, R.H. THE MEDWAY AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.

E. P. Publishing 1978 Reprint. 229 pp. with map and photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Typical Goodsall, always interesting. The later reprint which is identical with the first edition in all respects apart from wrapper design. [ref: 17207 ] £15 559. GOODSALL, R.H. A SECOND KENTISH PATCHWORK. Harrietsham, Stedehill. 1968 152 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper, a very good copy. The second of Mr Goodsall’s miscellanies. [ref: 16649 ] £12 560. GOODSALL, R.H. STEDE HILL. THE ANNALS OF A KENTISH

HOME. Headley Brothers. 1949 xii + 210 pp. with photo illustration and folding pedigrees. Original wrappers. Untrimmed so edges a little untidy but a very good copy. Focusing on one house and the fortunes of its inhabitants, the book provides a history of the county in miniature. Hollingbourne/Harrietsham area. This may have been a proof copy as it more normally comes bound in cloth. [ref: 17496 ] £25

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561. GOODSALL, R.H. STEDE HILL The Annals of a Kentish Home. By

Robert H. Goodsall, F.R.I.B.A., A.R.P.S. With a Foreword by The Right Honourable Lord Cornwallis, K.B.E., M.C., Lord Lieutenant of Kent. London Headley Brothers 109 Kingsway, W.C.2 1949 8vo. 6 x 8.75 inches. xii + 212 pp. Half title. Illustrated by 35 pages of plates, including coloured frontispiece, three folding pedigrees, folding map and endpaper maps and ground plan in text. Bound in original blue cloth gilt in coloured pictorial dust wrapper, chipped at top of spine. A very good copy. Focusing on one house and the fortunes of its inhabitants, it provides a history of the county in miniature. Hollingbourn/Harrietsham area. We have a similar copy, with price clipped dust wrapper. [ref: 18537 ] £35 562. GOUGH, JOHN B. ORATIONS. Copyright Edition, Revised by

himself. London: Morgan and Scott. No date but c.1900 8vo. 5 x 7.5 inches, Frontis portrait of the author + approximate 150 pp. comprising 11 orations of 12-14 pages each, separately and eccentrically paginated. Bound in the original stamped and decorated brown pictorial cloth, gilt, with a vignette of Gough’s birthplace in Sandgate to upper board. Born in Sandgate, Kent, John B. Gough (1817-1886) emigrated to the United States with his mother and sister when he was twelve. His mother died of a stroke and Gough, despondent, began to drink. After marrying in 1838. he and his wife had a daughter who unfortunately died within days of her birth, quickly followed by her mother At the age of 25 Gough, unemployed, homeless, and a confirmed drunkard attended a temperance meeting in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he took the pledge. He began to tell his story to eager audiences and soon embarked on a career of lecturing against the evils of drink. During his career, Gough delivered some 9,600 lectures in America, Canada, England, Scotland, and Ireland. When he died in 1886, the New York Times wrote that he ‘was probably better known in this country and in Great Britain than any other public speaker.’ [ref: 20384 ] £45 563. GOULDEN, R.G. KENT TOWN GUIDES 1763-1900. A

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LOCALLY-PUBLISHED KENT TOWN GUIDES, TOGETHER WITH ACCOUNTS OF THE PRINTING, PUBLISHING, AND PRODUCTION OF TOWN GUIDES IN CERTAIN TOWNS IN KENT. The British Library. 1995 8vo. 134 pp., with 6 illustrations. New. Excellent addition to the bibliography of the county. Most of the guide books to Kent were published after 1837 when Smith's Bibliotheca Cantiana was published. Mr Goulden, whose interest was stimulated by his family connection with guide book production in Canterbury and elsewhere, works for the British Library and is thus perfectly placed to compile such a complex work. The book is concerned with local publications only, and with the aid of an introductory essay to the publishing history of each town, he unravels the

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story in an extremely lucid way. * Mr Goulden informs me that the book is still in print at the original price, but remember we have to order this from the B.L. which can take a week or so. [ref: 7381 ] £30 564. GRASBY, E. D. Y. THE PROVINCE OF KENT 1770-1970. Published with the authority of the Right Worshipful the Provincial Grand Master for the Province of Kent. Printed in England by J. A. Jennings, Ltd., Canterbury. 1970 4to. 8 x 10 inches. [viii] + 102 pp. Illustrated by black and white photographs and by blue provincial badge on title page. Prefaces by Lord Cornwallis, Provincial Grand Master and the author, signed E. Dudley Grasby, Hawkhurst, 1970. Bound in original navy, gilt. Fine condition. Published to celebrate the Bicentary of the formation of the Provincial Grand Lodge and the installation of the first Provincial Grand Master in about 1770. [ref: 20559 ] £20 565. GRASEMANN, C. and G.W.P. McLACHLAN. ENGLISH

CHANNEL PACKET BOATS. Syren & Shipping, 1939 First Edition, 205 pp. illustrated throughout. Original cloth in the very scarce dust wrapper. A very good copy. Detailed work with a chronological table of vessels engaged in regular crosschannel service from 1790 to 1939. [ref: 18508 ] £65 566. GRASEMANN, C. and McLACHLAN, G. W.. P. ENGLISH

CHANNEL PACKET BOATS. London Syren & Shipping Limited,. 1939 First Edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xviii + 205 pp. + [1]. Advertisement pages at front and rear. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Rebound in black cloth, gilt. Occasional foxing and staining. Notes in blue ink, p. 181 (list) and in red ink, p.203 (advertisement) otherwise a good copy. A pioneering work on cross-channel packet boats sailing out of all ports from Dover and Folkestone to Southampton and Weymouth. Although updated by numerous later scholarly publications, based on more detailed research, this is still a useful book, especially for its chronological list of vessels engaged on regular cross-channel service from 1790 to 1939. [ref: 21338 ] £50 567. GRAVESEND - CRUDEN, ROBERT PEIRCE. THE HISTORY OF

THE TOWN OF GRAVESEND IN THE COUNTY OF KENT AND THE PORT OF LONDON. London: William Pickering 177 Piccadilly; James Johnson 46 Harmer Street Gravesend. 1843

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Large 8vo. 569 pp. with 38 engravings, several folding. Original cloth, gilt, skilfully rebacked. Some slight foxing to the folding plates as is usual, but a very good copy. A very important Kentish town history, and a maritime history together with the story of the adjacent dockyards. Scarce. [ref: 16902 ] £250

568. GRAVESEND - HARKER, SYDNEY. THE BOOK OF

GRAVESHAM. Barracuda Books, Buckingham. 1979 4to. 140 pp. illustrated throughout. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. A well-illustrated account. As with all the Barracuda Books imprints, these were issued in limited numbers and have become quite scarce. [ref: 16767 ] £20 GRAVESEND IN 1860 S

569. GRAVESEND - MILLER, WILLIAM. JOTTINGS OF KENT. Being

a Series of Historical, Ecclesiastical, Topographical, and Statistical Sketches by William Miller, of H.M. India Office. Second Edition. Thomas Hall, 4a, Windmill Street, Gravesend. Whitaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, Ludgate Hill, London. 1864 Second edition. 8vo. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. viii + 198 pp. + [3] advertisements. Bound in original red leather, with blind-stamped borders enclosing decoration and gilt-blocked decorated title on extra gilt front boards, with gilt decorated spine title and gilt edges. The contents of this pocket version, first published in 1864, had appeared in the Gravesend Free Press (established 1855) owned by Thomas Hall. A third edition was issued in 1871. It has not been possible to identify the author but we presume he was a local man. Certainly the coverage of Gravesend itself, ‘our favourite summer resort,’ is much more extensive than any other entry. The surrounding settlements are dealt with in greater detail but there are chapters on many other towns and settlements apart from the Weald and the coast south of Dover. There is an introductory section on the history and resources of the county and a survey of the Kings and Earls and Dukes of Kent. An attractive and useful account of north and east Kent in the 1860s. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20258 ] £150 570. GRAVETT, KENNETH. TIMBER AND BRICK BUILDING IN KENT.

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Phillimore, for the K.A.S. 1971 4to. xiii + 32 pp. + 122 plates. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. In the late nineteenth century Streatf eild proposed to reissue Hasted’s history of Kent, to this end he commissioned a wealth of Architectural drawings of fine examples of Kentish buildings. These are here printed for the first time with a introduction by an acknowledged expert in the field. A later reprint is in stock at the same price.

571. GRAY, ADRIAN. THE LONDON, CHATHAM & DOVER RAILWAY.

The only modern history of this line, now quite scarce [ref: 17960 ] £30

572. GRAYLING, FRANCIS. COUNTY CHURCHES - KENT. George Allen and Co., 1913. 2 vols. 173 + 183 pp. with photo illustrated. throughout. Original blind stamped cloth, gilt, a good set. The bindings are not uniform. Invaluable pocket sized guide to the churches of Kent. [ref: 17958 ] £25 573.

GREEN, TIMOTHY. THE SMUGGLERS. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE WORLD OF THE CONTEMPORARY SMUGGLER. Michael Joseph. 1969 278 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper a very good copy. [ref: 8851 ] £10 DOVER PILOT’S NOTEBOOK 574. GREENHAM, G. C. NOTEBOOK OF G. C. GREENHAM, TRINITY HOUSE PILOT. Navigating Officer’s Note Book. c.1950 Manuscript entries in bound pocket book. Oblong 8vo. 6.5 x 4.25 inches. 80 leaves, including 2 half leaves, of which 28 are blank. Text continues on both endpapers. Illustrated by charts and diagrams, including coloured drawings of buoys, etc. Bound in buff cloth on prepared stationery, S. 548A, 4/44, N. M. Ltd. Extremities worn. Owner’s name on front board and inscribed on front paste-down, G. C. Greenham. Trinity House Pilot 5 Maison Dieu Rd. Dover. The following are loosely inserted: Cinque Ports Pilots - Alterations in the South Channel during 1950, folded card; William Watkins, Ltd., Steam Tug Owners, Tide Tables for end of 1950, folded card; Typed carbon copy of Changes Effected in the South Channels to the Thames during 1951; Blank form: London Pilotage District; Special Services and

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Detention: Form B; Single sheet, printed black, red and blue: Trinity Pilot Service. The working notes of a Trinity House pilot, living in Dover, covering the Thames Estuary and Eastern Channel from Gravesend to Dungeness, and also the estuary of the Medway. Includes depth of water plans; notes on Folkestone and Dover harbours; descriptions, with drawings, of lights and buoys; notes on sand banks, shallows and anchorages; a list of over fifty names of pilots, and a list of 71 vessels piloted by Greenham, between June and October 1949. [ref: 21060 ] £20

575. GREENWAY, AMBROSE. A CENTURY OF CROSS-CHANNEL

PASSENGER FERRIES. Ian Allan Ltd. 1981 124 pp. profusely illustrated. Original blue cloth, gilt in an unclipped dust wrapper. A very good copy. [ref: 17843 ] £18 576. GREENWICH - HAMILTON, OLIVE and NIGEL. ROYAL

GREENWICH A GUIDE AND HISTORY TO LONDON’S MOST HISTORIC BOROUGH containing photographs by Stanley Devon and historical illustrations drawn from archives, galleries and collections throughout Britain The Greenwich Bookshop. 1969 4to. xii + 267 pp. with illustration throughout. Original decorated boards. [ref: 16848 ] £20

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577. GREENWICH - RICHARDSON, HENRY S. GREENWICH, ITS

HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES, IMPROVEMENTS, AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Illustrated with Engravings on Wood by G. Baxter, from Drawings by W.B. Mackie. Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers Court; and H. Richardson, Greenwich. London, 1834 First Edition 8vo., 130 + [1] pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 2 full page woodengraved plates. Bound in modern red buckram, spine lettered gilt, one or two sections of the book are foxed, due to paper inconsistency, but a very good example with about half of the book uncut and unopened. Scarce. A great deal of information has been packed into this scarce guide, detailing a description of the town, population, and ‘modern’ improvements to Greenwich, Blackheath and neighbourhood.

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[ref: 19629 ] £200 578. GREENWOOD, C. AN EPITOME OF COUNTY HISTORY,

WHEREIN THE REMARKABLE OBJECTS, PERSONS, AND EVENTS, ARE BRIEFLY TREATED OF THE SEATS, RESIDENCES, ETC. OF THE NOBILITY, CLERGY, AND GENTRY, THEIR ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DECORATIONS, SURROUNDING SCENERY, ETC. DESCRIBED, FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATION, AND THE NAMES, TITLES, AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS, MILITARY, OR ECCLESIASTICAL, INSERTED. WITH NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHURCHES, AND THE MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS OF DISTINGUISHED FAMILIES. EACH COUNTY ILLUSTRATED BY A MAP... VOL. I - COUNTY OF KENT. [All published]. London Published for the Proprietor, at the Office of the Author No. 5, Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square. 1838 First edition. Small thick folio. 10.5 x 13 inches. xx + 470 pp. + [10]. Copy lacks plates and map. Recased in half calf, over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, decorated gilt, with contrasting black title label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top right hand corner of title page torn out without loss of text. Traces of foxing but otherwise a very clean copy. The best record of the families of Kent and their houses in the 19th century. Many of the houses have been destroyed and this record increases in importance as time passes. Although lacking all the plates and map, this is a very good copy of the text in a fine binding. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21724 ] £70 LARGE PAPER COPY.

579. GROSE, FRANCIS. A PROVINCIAL GLOSSARY; WITH

COLLECTIONS OF LOCAL PROVERBS, AND POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED. Printed for Edward Jeffery 1811 Folio, iv + 124 pp. Large paper copy 14 x 12 inches. Recently bound in half calf, gilt, with marbled boards. A very nice copy of this printing of Grose’s collection of provincial dialect, which contains a lot of Kentish examples and is one of the first works on the subject. [ref: 19892 ] £200 HANDSOME MAPS OF EARLY BRITAIN. 580. GUEST, EDWIN. ORIGINES CELTICAE (A FRAGMENT) AND

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN. By Edwin Guest, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. Late Master of Gonville and Caius, Cambridge. 2 Vols. Macmillan and Co., London. 1883 Two volumes. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. Vol.I. engraved portrait frontis + xviii + 409 pp. + [3] blank. Vol.II. vi + 538 pp. + [1] p. errata + [1]. Half-titles. Vol.I. illustrated by by portrait frontispiece and one coloured plate. Vol.II.

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illustrated by [8] folding engraved or lithographed maps, some coloured. Original green cloth, gilt. Extremities worn and hinges weak. Some foxing, lower edge chips, staining and occasional annotations. Vol.I. has bookplate of Thomas Hodgkin, Newcastle on Tyne. Vol. II has dark endpapers and undecorated and darker cloth which indicates that the two volumes were not originally paired; however, they form a perfectly acceptable set. Dr Guest’s ‘purpose would seem to have been to write the history of Britain ... until the completion of the conquest by the Angles and Saxons ... an attempt made to trace the earliest inhabitants ... in their progress from the original home of our race to their settlement in Britain ... the second volume comprises a fragmentary examination...of the historical, legendary, and fabulous traditions which are found within Britain itself.’ Nevertheless it includes substantial accounts of the the invasions of Julius Caesar (which examines the historical topography of the Kent coastline) and Aulus Plautius, of the Anglo Saxon conquests and settlements in the Severn Valley and of the Welsh boundaries in the late sixth century. Edwin Guest (1800-80) was educated at Birmingham and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (of which he ultimately became Master). His earlier work had been on philology and he had published an important work on The History of English Rhythms in 1838. He was elected an FRS in 1839 and turned his attention towards early history; ‘Indeed he almost created the academic study of Romano-British history, especially in its topographical aspect. He tramped many miles inspecting boundaries, dykes and coasts. He made a close study of Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain, surveying both sides of the channel...’ (DNB). The fragments of the unfinished Origines and Guest’s other historical papers were collected together in these two volumes by his editors, William Stubbs (1825-1901) and Cecil Deedes (1843-1920). Vol. I bears the bookplate of the historian Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1931), who settled in Newcastle upon Tyne and was best known for his multi-volume study, Italy and her Invaders and for his contributions to the local history of Northumberland. An important early work on Roman Britain and the Anglo Saxon settlements, illustrated with some handsome maps. [ref: 20684 ] £100 581. GUIDE TO THE COUNTY. EXCURSIONS IN THE COUNTY OF

engraved plates by Grieg after drawings by Gastineau and others. Bound in calf, gilt, decorated spine with morocco labels and gilt borders to boards and marbled edges, now faded. Some wear to spine edges and to top joints. Bookplate on front paste-down and ink inscription on first free endpaper. Slight foxing as is normal and a few stains on first few pages, but a good copy. A good copy of this view book of early 19th century Kent. The title page calls for 50 plates including the maps but, even including the engraved frontispiece, no copy we have seen accounts for more than 48. For some reason two plates were never issued, as noted in Smith’s bibliography. This copy, perhaps assembled later, has no more than 41, including the maps and frontispiece. Smith p. 90. [ref: 19781 ] £150 582. GUIDE TO THE COUNTY. EXCURSIONS IN THE COUNTY OF

KENT. COMPRISING BRIEF HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DELINEATIONS; TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE RESIDENCES OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY, Remains of Antiquity and other Interesting Objects of Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller and Tourist. Illustrated with Fifty Engravings, including a Map of the County. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; J.Grieg, Back Road, Islington; and P. Youngman, Witham and Maldon, Essex. 1822 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches. iv +192 pp. with engraved frontis., 2 folding engraved maps, and 45 copper-engraved plates by Grieg after drawings by Gastineau and others. Bound in halfmorocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to spine. Some wear to outer hinges and head and tail of spine. Early ownership signature in ink to verso of title page. Slight foxing as is normal, and a few stains, but a good copy., A good copy of this view book of early 19th century Kent. The title page calls for 50 plates including the maps but, even including the engraved frontispiece, no copy we have seen accounts for more than 48, as here. The directions to the binder at the rear only call for 44, which are all present For some reason two plates were never issued, as noted in Smith’s bibliography. Smith p. 90. [ref: 21628 ] £175 583. GUIDE TO THE COUNTY - BLACK'S. GUIDE TO KENT. TENTH

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10th Edition. 474 pp. + 116 pp. adverts and folding map (tear restored), engraved frontis of Hop Picking, and wood-engraved illustration throughout. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Rubbing to spine and corners but a good copy of the attractive standard Black's late 19th century guide to the county. [ref: 18092 ] £45

584. GUIDE TO THE COUNTY - BLACK'S. GUIDE TO KENT. TENTH

EDITION Edinburgh, A. and C. Black. 1890 11th Edition. 474 pp. + 128 pp. adverts, 7 town maps, engraved frontis of Rochester Castle, and wood-engraved illustration throughout. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Slight rubbing to spine and corners but a good copy. The attractive standard Black's late 19th century guide to the county. [ref: 20655 ] £45

585. GUIDE TO THE COUNTY - BLACK'S. GUIDE TO KENT. PART I. -

WEST KENT. Embracing Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Rochester, etc. PART II. - EAST KENT. Embracing Canterbury and the Watering-Places of East Kent. A. and C. Black. London. 1909 xii + 116 pp. + vii + 132 pp. + 128 pp. adverts with folding maps and photo illustration. Original decorated green cloth. A good copy of the standard Black's early 20th century guide to the county. [ref: 18102 ] £40

586. GUIDE TO THE COUNTY - BLACK'S. GUIDE TO KENT. PART 1.

WEST KENT - PART 2. EAST KENT. Edinburgh, A. and C. Black. 1915 vii + 116 + 132 pp. With folding maps and photo illustrations throughout. Original decorated cloth. A good copy of the standard Black's early 20th century guide to the county. [ref: 8107 ] £20 587. GUIDE TO THE COUNTY - [FISHER, THOMAS.] THE

KENTISH TRAVELLER'S COMPANION IN A DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF THE TOWNS, VILLAGES, REMARKABLE BUILDINGS AND ANTIQUITIES SITUATED ON OR NEAR THE ROAD TO MARGATE, DOVER AND CANTERBURY ILLUSTRATED WITH A CORRECT MAP OF THE ROAD ON A SCALE OF ONE INCH TO A MILE AND A TABLE OF DISTANCES IN KENT. THE THIRD EDITION WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.

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Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury; and W. Gillman, Rochester. The Third Edition, 1790 Third edition. 8vo. iv + 320 pp. + [8] with 3 folding copper-engraved strip maps and a folding distance chart. Bound in contemporary calf, finely rebacked in calf with raised bands and morocco label, gilt. An attractive copy. The third edition ‘with considerable additions’ states the title page and it seems so. The book is 80 pages longer than the second edition and an index has been added along with the distance table. Fisher’s name has been removed from the imprint [and Gillman’s added] so he had either sold his business or died. The work was first published in response to the growing numbers of tourists making their way to the Isle of Thanet to indulge in the new fad, 'sea bathing'. Five editions were to be published by 1799. 'This very useful volume' - Smith Smith p.80/81. [ref: 18020 ] £250

588. GUIDE TO THE COUNTY - FREELING, ARTHUR. Edited by.

PICTURESQUE EXCURSIONS; CONTAIN UPWARDS OF FOUR HUNDRED VIEWS AT AND NEAR PLACES OF POPULAR RESORT: WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH LOCALITY. Ackerman & Co., Strand, Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street. n.d. c. 1840 12 mo. 332 pp illustrated with charming wood-engravings throughout. Bound in the original decorated publisher’s cloth, gilt. Skilfully recased, preserving the original binding. The work is divided into excursions, viz, 1. The Isle of Wight. 2. Southampton, Lymington, Winchester Etc., 3. TunbridgeWells. 4. Hastings & St Leonards. 5. Brighton, Worthing, Lewis Etc. 6. Dover. 7. Down The Thames to Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Etc. 8. Up the Thames to Richmond, Hampton Court, Etc. The Margate section is another issue, in a slightly different format, of the Water Guides issued by Tilt and others, with the same charming illustrations by Bonner, which succeed so well in giving a flavour and feeling of the times of this pre-railway era. [ref: 19343 ] £175 FINE WHITSTABLE GUIDE GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE - COX, W.J. GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 589.

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W. J. Cox, High Street,Whitstable: Printed and Published, 1876 Small 8vo. 61 pp. + [21] pp. adverts. Original illustrated pink card wrappers. This is a near mint example of a scarce guide. A well-compiled work containing a wealth of information. Goulden lists three of these guides of the same date and lists three variants of the illustration on the covers. This is different again as the view here is “Whitstable from Borstal Hill Mill”. Goulden p.129 No.2 [ref: 18237 ] £85

590. PROOF COPY OF FINE WHITSTABLE GUIDE GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE - COX, W.J. GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. Whitstable: Printed and Published by W. J. Cox, High Street, 1876 Small 8vo. 61 pp. + [21] pp. adverts. Uncut. Without wrappers. A very good, bold impression, this is a mint example of a scarce guide. A well-compiled work containing a wealth of information. Goulden lists three of these guides of the same date and lists three variants of the illustration on the covers. We have discovered a fourth but there is no telling which wrapper would have been applied in this instance. Goulden p.129 No.2 [ref: 19607 ] £85 591. GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE - COX, W.J. ILLUSTRATED POPULAR

GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE-ON-SEA AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD. Whitstable: Printed and Published by W. J. Cox, High Street. No date but [1884] Small 8vo. 42 pp. + [11] pp. adverts. Original buff printed paper wrappers. Wrapper a little dusty but a very good example of a scarce guide. A well-compiled work containing a wealth of information. Goulden p.129 No.4 [ref: 18245 ] £85 592. GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE - COX, W.J. W.J. COX’S NEW ALBUM

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W.J. Cox, Whitstable. No date but c.1900 Small concertina-type view book, 4 x 5 inches approx., containing 18 twocolour lithographic views. Original blue printed card wrappers with decoration. Wrappers have several chips without loss to printed design and fold is reinforced otherwise very good. A scarce example of a rather ephemeral view-book. [ref: 18688 ] £60 593. GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE - COX, W.J. W.J.COX’S

ILLUSTRATED POPULAR GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE-ON-SEA AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD W.J.Cox, Whitstable, Publisher and Bookseller, n.d. but c. [1884] Small 8vo. [2] + 18 + [1] + 19-42 pp. + [11] advertisements Illustrated with eight plates. Buff printed paper wrappers with advertisement at rear. The last known version of Cox’s Whitstable guide. Goulden dates it to 1884 from a reference on page10. Goulden, Kent Town Guides [ref: 19074 ] £75 594. GUILMANT, AYLWIN. BYGONE TENTERDEN. Phillimore, Chichester. 1991 4to. Unpaginated but approximately 120 pp. profusely illustrated in b/w. Original blue cloth, gilt. Near fine in dust wrapper. [ref: 17202 ] £15 595. GULVIN, K.R. KENT HOME GUARD A HISTORY.

North Kent Books, 1980 93 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original laminated hardcovers.Very good copy. * Signed by author on title page. Out of print, the story of Kent’s ‘Dad’s Army’. [ref: 17966 ] £20 596. GUY, JOHN. KENT CASTLES.

Meresborough Books, 1980 264 pp. with diagrams and illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial boards. A very good copy. Covers 60 castles and castle sites. [ref: 17195 ] £14 GUY, JOHN. WEST KENT FROM THE AIR. 597. Meresborough Books. 1987 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18646 ] £10 598. HALES, IRENE. MAIDSTONE IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS.

Universal Books 1998 8vo. 159 pp. Illustrated throughout. Laminated card wrappers, near mint. This reprint now out of print itself.

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The familiar format for postcard/photographic local history books, always interesting. First published by Alan Sutton in 1990, this reprint now out of print itself. [ref: 21152 ] £12 599. HALES, IRENE. OLD MAIDSTONE. VOLUME TWO. A selection of

postcards from the early years of this century. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1981 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18636 ] £10 600. HALES, IRENE. OLD MAIDSTONE’S PUBLIC HOUSES. IN

POSTCARDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1982 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18639 ] £10 601. HALES, IRENE. VILLAGES AROUND OLD MAIDSTONE. A

RECORD OF THE TOUR OF THE CORRESPONDING SOCIETY OF THE PICKWICK CLUB IN ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, MUGGLETON, DINGLEY DELL, COBHAM AND GRAVESEND. W. and J. Mackay and Co., Rochester; Horace Marshall and Son, London. 1899 92 pp. + 18 pp. adverts with 30 b/w photo illustrations. Original pictorial soft red cloth wrappers. A little dusty but a very good copy. A fascinating tour of Kent places portrayed in Dickens’ books, each with the appropriate reference. [ref: 17290 ] £45

603. HALL, JAMES. SEA SURGEON.

London William Kimber, 46 Wilton Place, S.W. 1. 1960. First edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 205 pp. +[1] + 2 pp. advertisements. Half title. Illustrated with 8 p. of photographic plates. Bound in original blue grey cloth cloth, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper.

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Scarce and fascinating account by ‘S.O.S. Sea Surgeon’ Hall, who worked for over twenty years as a wartime doctor with the Walmer Lifeboat, assisting sick and injured seamen in the Downs. A second edition was published in 1961. Kent bIBLIOGRAPHY [ref: 21295 ] £35 604. HALLING - GOWERS, EDWARD and DEREK CHURCH.

ACROSS THE LOW MEADOW. Halling - a village on the Medway. Christine Swift Bookshop. 43 Scott Street, Maidstone. 1979 First Edition. 8vo. 134pp. with black and white photo illustration throughout. Original black cloth with gilt titles, manuscript map end papers. Very good book in like dust wrapper. A detailed history of the village of Halling in Kent, a village with a long history, as its oldest known inhabitant ,‘Halling Man’, whose remains were discovered in 1912, dates from 2000 BC. [ref: 19404 ] £35 605. HALPENNY, BRUCE BARRYMORE. ACTION STATIONS: 8.

Military airfields of Greater London Patrick Stephens Limited Wellingborough. 1984 First edition. 8vo. 248 pp. with photographs and maps throughout. Original blue cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy. With particular emphasis on the fighter airfields of the Second World War. This volume covers some 75 airfields and airports from Acton to White Waltham including Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton. [ref: 18621 ] £18 606. HARDING, PETER A. BRANCH LINES IN KENT. Peter Harding, Woking. 1996 8vo. 32 pp. illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Original printed paper wrappers. Useful reference work, now out of print. [ref: 14896 ] £10 607. HARDING, PETER A. THE NEW ROMNEY BRANCH LINE. Peter Harding, Woking. 1983 8vo., 32 pp., Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Original printed paper wrappers. Useful reference work, now out of print. [ref: 15008 ] £10 608. HARDMAN, G.W. EAST KENT WALKS. SUGGESTIONS FOR

WALKS OVER AN EXCEEDINGLY ATTRACTIVE AND UNSPOILT COUNTRY... E.F. Howe, Deal. No date but c.1936 Booklet. Enlarged edition. 40 pp. plus 2 folding maps. Original printed card wrappers. A little spotting to wrappers otherwise a near fine copy. Bookplate inside front cover. Some 28 walks outlined as well as a chapter on ‘The Secret Valley’.

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609. HARPER, CHARLES. THE INGOLDSBY COUNTRY. LITERARY

LANDMARKS OF THE ‘INGOLDSBY LEGENDS’. A. and C. Black. 1904 The First Edition, 274 pp., with 90 original illustrations by the author. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Some foxing as always. Well-compiled companion to the "Ingoldsby Legends" and the Elham Valley and many of the villages and smaller towns of East Kent. We also have copies of the second edition at £35. [ref: 17925 ] £45 610. HARPER, CHARLES. THE INGOLDSBY COUNTRY.

A. and C. Black. 1906 The Second edition. 276 pp. with 90 original illustrations by the author. Original green decorated cloth, gilt. A very bright fresh copy. Well-compiled companion to the Ingoldsby Legends. There are two issues of this edition, one in blue cloth with a portrait of the author on the upper board, the other in green cloth with the Barham coat of arms stamped in gilt on the upper board. [ref: 16738 ] £35 611. HARPER, CHARLES. THE INGOLDSBY COUNTRY. LITERARY

LANDMARKS OF THE ‘INGOLDSBY LEGENDS’. A. and C. Black. 1911 Second edition, 276 pp., with 90 original illustrations by the author. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Some foxing as always. Well-compiled companion to the ‘Ingoldsby Legends’ exploring the Elham Valley and many of the villages and smaller towns of East Kent. [ref: 19555 ] £35 612. HARPER, CHARLES. G. THE KENTISH COAST.

Chapman and Hall, Ltd., London. 1914 First Edition 4to. 6 x 9 inches. xi + [iii] + 373 pp. + [1]. Illustrated with 8 plates including frontispiece, and with numerous maps and drawings by the author, many full page. Bound in original blue cloth with impressed decoration on front board. Extremities worn and front hinges strained. Inscription on front free endpaper. A thorough historical and topographical description of the Kent coast, including chapters covering Deal and the Goodwin Sands, the Channel Tunnel, Shakespeare Cliff Colliery and Romney Marsh. Charles George

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613. HARRINGTON, DUNCAN and PATRICIA HYDE. THE EARLY

TOWN BOOKS OF FAVERSHAM c.1251-1581. The First Town Book, compiled c.1382-c.1405, being a collection of documents dating from 1251 relating to the legal status of the Borough. The Second Town Book comprises the Town Accounts, Wardmote minutes and other records for the period 1436-1581. By Duncan Harrington and Patricia Hyde. Parts I and II. [Lyminge]; privately published by History Research 2008 2 Vols. Folio. 8.5 x 12 inches. Vol.I. xcviii + 350 pp.; Vol.II. vi + 351-774 pp. Illustrated by two colour frontispieces and 27 figures, including maps (Vol. II fig. 25, misnumbered as 20) and endpaper maps of medieval Faversham. Halftitles. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, with pictorial dust wrappers depicting the earliest town seal. Limited edition of 250 numbered and signed copies, of which this is no. xli. ‘The Town Books of Faversham c.1251-1581 are invaluable because they provide the basis for the history of the town in that period. This was complicated because there were so many disputes over jurisdiction, but this is why the townsmen treasured the Town Books over the centuries and turned to them again and again...The second town book records amongst many other things the activities of Thomas Arden, a mayor of Faversham...legendary as the gentleman murdered in 1551 by his wife, Alice and nine other conspirators...the events were immortalised in an anonymous play, Arden of Faversham, first published in 1592 and still in repertory.’ [ref: 20681 ] £100 614. HARRINGTON, DUNCAN. (Edited by). KENT HEARTH TAX.

KENT HEARTH TAX ASSESSMENT LADY DAY 1664. British Records Society, and K.A.S 2000 cxii + 687 pp., with maps and coloured photo illustrations. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. Valuable reference, this volume is provided with scholarly introductions, maps, tables and a comprehensive index to be of the greatest use to social and economic historians. [ref: 21199 ] £35 615. HARRIS, G.G. THE TRINITY HOUSE OF DEPTFORD 1514-1660

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The Athlone Press 1969 8vo., 310 pp. Original cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. A good copy. Fascinating study of early years of Trinity House. The principal lighthouse, seamark, and pilotage authority. [ref: 18178 ] £25 MAGNIFICENT 18 TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATRATIONS 616. HARRIS, JOHN. THE HISTORY OF KENT. IN FIVE PARTS. CONTAINING, I. AN EXACT TOPOGRAPHY OR DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY. II. THE CIVIL HISTORY OF KENT. III. THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF KENT. IV. THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY OF KENT. VOL. I. (ALL PUBLISHED) London : Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St Pauls Church-Yard 1719 Folio. Portrait facing Title, Dedication, Preface, Ode to Kent, list of subscribers + 592 pp. + xl index . Illustrated with a large folding engraved map of the county within heraldic border. Maps of Romney Marsh and the Isle of Thanet, and 39 views (35 double-page) of Kentish houses including a fine panorama of Rochester and Chatham and the famous view of the Pantiles at Tunbridge Wells. Bound in full paneled calf, gilt expertly rebacked. A nice tall copy with the plates and maps in very good preservation, occasional light foxing to fore-edges affecting one or two plates and the text lightly browned as is normal, a few paper faults and the binding worn on extremites, but a very good copy. This copy has the heraldic bookplate of Robert Bristow of London. This magnificent illustrated history was never to be completed and Harris's work was not published until shortly after his death in 1719. It is much prized today for the sumptuous plates and maps which provide us with a picture of Kent at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The views of the great Kentish houses, by Kip and Badeslade, which utilize the birds-eye projection, show not only the house and gardens in detail but the countryside around and its cultivation. The great map of the county by Parker, within the coats of arms of the noblemen and gentry is, probably, the most splendid and decorative ever printed. The Map of Romney Marsh is also a rarity. This book is becoming very hard to find complete as the value of this type of illustration has caused numerous copies to be broken up. [ref: 18367 ] £5250 617. HARRIS, JOHN. THE HISTORY OF KENT. IN FIVE PARTS.

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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF KENT. IV. THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY. V. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF KENT. VOL. I. [all published]. By John Harris, D. D. and F. R. S. Printed: And Sold by D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St Pauls ChurchYard, London. 1719 Folio. Portrait frontispiece facing title, Dedication, Preface, Ode in Praise of Kent, List of subscribers. [2] + iii + [1] + iv + ii + iv + 592 pp. + xl pp. index and addenda. Illustrated with a large folding engraved map of the county within heraldic border. Maps of the Beacons of Kent, Dover, Romney Marsh and the Isle of Thanet (two maps) and 3 views (32 double-page) of Kentish houses; a fine panorama of Rochester and Chatham and the famous view of the Pantiles at Tunbridge Wells. Also views of Dover Castle and Reculver Church (total 44 plates and maps). N.B. Lacks the plate of The Mote, p. 192. Also illustrated by three woodcuts in text, Royal Arms at head of dedication and headpiece vignettes and decorated initials. Bound in original calf with gilt borders and expertly rebacked, spine divided into compartments, with gilt decorations, by raised bands and gilt rules, morocco label. Marbled endpapers and red speckled edges, darkened on top. A nice tall copy with the plates and maps in very good preservation, occasional light foxing affecting a few plates and the text lightly browned as is normal, a few paper faults and the binding worn on extremities; otherwise a very good copy. This magnificent illustrated history was never to be completed (the parts covering the history of the Royal Navy and the natural history of Kent) and Harris's work, which he compiled over many years, was not published until shortly after his death in 1719. It is much prized today for the sumptuous plates and maps which provide us with a picture of Kent at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The views of the great Kentish houses, by Kip and Badeslade, which utilise the birds-eye projection, show not only the house and gardens in detail but the countryside around and its cultivation. The great map of the county by Parker, within the coats of arms of the noblemen and gentry is, probably, the most splendid and decorative ever printed. The Map of Romney Marsh is also a rarity. Dr John Harris (born c.1666) was educated at Cambridge and, after ordination, held a number of livings in Sussex, London and Kent (prebend of Rochester, perpetual curacy of Strood and rector of East Barming). He was involved in the political controversies of the day and was a well known writer and lecturer on science (elected F.R.S. 1696), his 1704 Dictionary being one of the first publications to promote Newtonian science. This book is becoming very hard to find complete as the value of this type of illustration has caused numerous copies to be broken up. ESTC N 7630. Smith, p.6-8. DNB. [ref: 20618 ] ÂŁ4250 DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF KENT CRICKET 618. HARRIS, LORD. EDITOR. THE HISTORY OF KENT COUNTY CRICKET. CONTAINING CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE SEVERAL CAPTAINS OF THE KENT TEAM. ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF EVERY MATCH PLAYED BY THE KENT ELEVEN AND A COMPLETE

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SUMMARY OF THE PERFOMANCES ACCOMPLISHED BY EVERY CRICKETER WHO HAS PLAYED FOR KENT. Canterbury, Kent County Cricket Club. 2003 3 volumes. 4to. 10 x 7 inches: Vol 1, 510 pp. + 16 + [3]. Vol 2, 54 pp. + 56 pp. + 70 pp. +163 pp. Vol 3, [iv] + ii + 221 pp. Photo illustrations throughout. Original decorated cloth, a very good copy. This is a facsimile reprint of the original 1907 edition with the later printed appendices A.B.C.D. & E. in Volume One. Volume 2 contains reprints of the appendices F. G. H. & I which completed the history up to 1984. Volume 3 contains appendix J and completes the history up to 2003. The binding is also a facsimile of the original. This was a limited subscription edition and is out of print. [ref: 21314 ] £220 619. HARRISON, SHIRLEY. THE CHANNEL. DIVIDING LINK

BETWEEN BRITAIN AND FRANCE. Collins. 1986 8vo. 320 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper, very good condition in similar wrapper. From prehistory to the date of publication, a detailed and interesting account very well illustrated. [ref: 16204 ] £15 620. HART. ANN. ENGRAVINGS OF KENT.

Robert Hale, 1989 4to. 238 pp. Illustrated throughout. A mint copy in like, unclipped dust wrapper. Provides some useful information on old Kentish prints. [ref: 17211 ] £15 621. HART, BRIAN. THE CANTERBURY AND WHITSTABLE RAILWAY.

Wild Swan Publications, 1991 4to. [6] + 186 pp. with photo illustrations throughout. A fine copy in original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. The now standard history of this historic branch line, the largest collection of pictures of the line ever published. Only a small number were printed and the book is now scarce. [ref: 20850 ] £45 622. HART, BRIAN. THE ELHAM VALLEY LINE. 1887-1947.

Wild Swan Publications. 1984 4to. [8] + 104 pp. with photo illustration throughout. A fine copy in original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. The now standard history of this romantic branch line, the product of over 20 years’ research. Only a small number were produced and the book is now very scarce. [ref: 18673 ] £60 623. HARTLEY - BANCKS, REV. G.W. HARTLEY THROUGH THE

AGES. THE STORY OF A KENTISH VILLAGE.

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624. HARVEY, WALLACE. THE MERCHANT SHIPS OF WHITSTABLE.

Whitstable Emprint Publications, 9 Harbour Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1AG. 1993 Large 8vo. 6 x 8.25 inches. 320 pp. Half-title. Illustrated by black and white photographs and line drawings. In pictorial card wrappers. Slight wear to extremities but otherwise fine condition. A comprehensive guide to Whitstable shipping up to about 1900. It includes manifests of seventeenth century ships but the greater part of the book is the illustrated section on nineteenth century ships. [ref: 21121 ] £25 DEFINITIVE HISTORY 625. HASENSON, ALEC. THE HISTORY OF DOVER HARBOUR.

Arum Special Editions, 11 Garrick Street, London, 1980 First Edition, 475 pp. + [5]. 6 x 9 inches, Illustrated with maps, plans, and black and white photographs. Original blue cloth, gilt, with blue endpapers, without the slip case, otherwise a near mint example. Definitive modern history of the harbour, containing a wealth of accurate information. Now thirty years out of print and becoming increasingly difficult to find. Appendix A comprises a list of all the passenger steam boats, car ferries and commercial vehicle ferries which have used the harbour on a regular basis over the last 150 years. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 20914 ] £100

SUBSCRIBERS RECEIPTS FOR HASTED’S KENT 626. HASTED - ORIGINAL RECEIPTS FOR SUBSCRIPTION TO HASTED’S HISTORY OF KENT. Two letterpress receipts on laid paper, with manuscript completions and additions. No place or publisher but [Simmons, Canterbury] 1775 and 1776 Receipt one. 6.75 x 4.25 inches, dated 1st April 1775, made out to Edw. Marshall in the amount of £1:11:6 and signed A. Senior. The printing on the receipt is as follows: Received this_Day of _ 177_ of ___ the Sum of One Guinea and an Half, being the first payment

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towards a subscription of Three Guineas, for the History of the County of Kent, in two volumes folio; which books will be delivered, according to the proposals, as soon as printed, on the payment of the remainder of the said sum. I say received for the use of the Editor. [On the line below, between two horizontal lines] £1:11:6. Receipt two. 6.25 x 3.75 inches, dated 1st April 1776, made out to Edw. Marshall in the amount of £2:0:0 and signed A. Senior. The printing on the receipt is as follows: Received this_Day of _ 177_ of ___ the Sum of One Guinea and an Half, being in full of his subscription, for the second volume of the History of Kent, in folio, by Edward Hasted, Esq; which book will be delivered as soon as printed. I say received for the use of the Editor. [On the line below, between two horizontal lines] £1:11:6. There is an alteration in ink to the word One, it being crossed out and the word ‘two’ substituted; an ‘s’ has been added to the word Guinea. Signs of old vertical folds in both receipts. Receipt I. has a closed tear slightly affecting the first letter of Received. The left margin has a chip and the left lower corner is missing without affecting the printed matter. A stain darkens the left lower part and the paper is evenly browned. These signs of age notwithstanding, the printing is clear and crisp. Receipt II. has some signs of ageing but is intact and the printing is clear and crisp. These receipts are rare survivors, examples of the type used by booksellers to acknowledge subscriptions to Hasted’s monumental work. Hasted originally envisaged a two-volume work, to be published by James Simmons in Canterbury, when, in 1774, he issued his proposals for his History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. This is supported by the wording of Receipt I. It eventually became clear that the original amount of the subscription, three guineas, would not, given the inordinate length of time taken to produce the work, be enough to cover his costs. In addition, the historical content was greater than could be published in two volumes. Volume III was offered at two and a half guineas to current subscribers or three guineas for purchase of the single volume. Volume I was published in 1778, and Volume II in 1782. Richard Goulden, noted authority on Kentish provincial booksellers, notes that A. Senior was Anne, the wife of David Senior, schoolmaster and bookseller of Sittingbourne. David Senior died in February 1777. Ann evidently helped in the bookselling business, and after her husband’s death, continued the bookshop until her death in October 1801.

No mention is made of Edw. Marshall in the list of subscribers in either volume I or II but there is an Edward Marshall mentioned in the text of volume I as a Rector of Fawkham. Mr. Senior however does appear in the list in volume I. [ref: 21058 ] £150 THE COUNTY IN 1783 627. HASTED, EDWARD. AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT, TAKEN FROM A LATE ACTUAL SURVEY. [Simmons and Kirkby] Canterbury. 1783

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Hand-coloured copper-engraved map. 19 x 27 inches with good margins. Scale quarter of an inch to one mile. Traces of old folds. A good copy of the first edition in original outlined hand-colouring. This sheet shows the whole county and was designed to form an index map for reference to the Hundreds contained within the ‘History’. The late actual survey was that of Andrews, Dury and Herbert of 1769, which forms the basis for all the maps of Hundreds in Hasted’s work. He had much criticised the survey when it first appeared for inaccurate place-names etc., and he made great efforts to correct these for his re-publication of the map. This is an attractive example. [ref: 18011 ] £300 HASTED’S MAPS OF KENT 628. HASTED, EDWARD. aMAPS OF THE HUNDREDS aIN KENT. WE ALWAYS HAVE IN STOCK A WIDE SELECTION OF ORIGINAL EXAMPLES OF HASTED’S FAMOUS MAPS OF THE HUNDREDS, AND THE PLAN OF CANTERBURY, FROM THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. Canterbury, 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved maps (engraved area approximately 15 x 20 inches). Scale 2 inches to one mile. The 34 sheets show the whole county in great detail and are the best maps prior to the modern maps of the Ordnance Survey. Maps can be coloured, mounted and framed as required, using conservation materials and a wide range of mount colours and mouldings. Prices are dependent on geographical location and popularity and range from £65 to £300 but are generally at the lower end of the scale. We also offer modern reproductions of all the maps, printed on good quality, acid-free, off-white paper and priced at £12 each or £300 for the whole set. [ref: 15850 ] £85 BARONESS BRASSEY’S COPY 629. HASTED, EDWARD. THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHICAL

SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. CONTAINING THE ANTIENT AND PRESENT STATE OF IT, CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL; COLLECTED FROM PUBLIC RECORDS, AND OTHER THE BEST AUTHORITIES, BOTH MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED: AND ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, AND VIEWS OF ANTIQUITIES, SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY, ETC. By Edward Hasted, of Canterbury, Esq; F.S.A. and S.A. Volumes I-IV. Canterbury Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby. 1779-1799 FIRST EDITION. 4 vols. Folio. 10.25 x 16.5 inches. Vol. I, [4] + xii + cli + [i] + 580 pp. + 42 + [2]. Vol. II, [4] + iv + 817 pp. + [1] + 72 + [2]. Vol. III, [4] + ii + 765 pp. + [1] + 51 + [1] + [2]. Vol.

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IV, vi + 788 pp. + 46 + [2]. List of subscribers, Vol. I and Additional list, Vol. II. Illustrated with large coloured folding map of Kent, plan of Canterbury, 35 folding maps of the hundreds, and 124 full page engraved plates (some folding), of which 54 are are additional copies in a second state and 7 are new and not called for in the list of plates, depicting the houses, churches and antiquities of Kent; with coats of arms vignettes on title pages, end piece vignettes and numerous engravings in the text. Includes all plates, maps and other illustrations called for in lists of plates at the end of each volume. The majority of the second state additional plates differ only in the captions, adding the owner’s name of the property; a few others have altered details in the plates themselves, e.g. a more impressive vessel added to the lake, at Beachborough, a reduced size, non-folding view of the Town and Port of Folkestone, figures added to the print of St Martin’s Priory ruins, Dover and the combination of the separate plates of both the castles of Dover and Canterbury. Bound in contemporary full diced calf, with Greek key pattern decorating the boards and striking Gothic style decoration to the spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. A handsome set. Armourial bookplates of Baroness Brassey of Bulkeley and T. A. Brassey. Edward Hasted (1732-1812), devoted forty years of his life to the compilation of this superlative county history, which records in minute detail the village, parochial and town life of the entire county. Embellished with maps of the hundreds, and fine architectural views, the four volumes present a picture of Kent from the Saxons to the late 18th century; it remains the primary source book for the Kentish historian. A very attractive, extra-illustrated copy of this imposing work. It prints the text of the first edition but but adds the second state prints and the new plates, engraved for the publication of the second, octavo, edition of 1797-1800. This copy was owned by Baroness Brassey. Anna Allnutt (1839-1887) married Thomas Brassey in 1860 and made her name as a travel writer, describing her ocean voyages with her husband, Thomas Brassey, M.P. (1836-1918), created Baron Brassey in 1860, the year in which his Naval Annual was first published. Baroness Brassey died at sea, after contracting malaria, in 1887. ESTC T139786. Upcott 1/358. Smith p.8 [ref: 21373 ] £3500 630. HASTED, EDWARD. THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHICAL

SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ALAN EVERITT. W. Bristow, Canterbury, 1797 - 1801- Republished by E.P. Publishing & Kent County Library, 1972 12 volumes with folding maps and plates throughout. Original red cloth, gilt. Near fine in like dust wrappers. A complete set of the reprint of the 12 volume second edition. The second edition of Hasted’s great county history was aimed at those who could not afford the four volume set. The text was reset and the maps of the Hundreds were folded to conform to the smaller size. This reprint is itself now scarce complete. [ref: 21156 ] £750

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SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. VOLUME XII

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and Kent County Library. 1972 Volume 12 of the reprint. Original cloth, gilt, in the original dust wrappers. A very good ex-library copy [ref: 18683 ] £55

633. HASTED, EDWARD. THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHICAL

SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. VOLUME X. W. Bristow, 1801, but reprinted E.P. Publishing, 1972 Thick 8vo. 611 pp. with folding maps and plates. Original red cloth, gilt, cloth in price-clipped dust wrapper. A near fine copy. Volume 10 of the reprint of the second edition of Hasted covers the Towns and Hundreds of Deal and Walmer, Eastry, Sandwich and the Island of Thanet. [ref: 21235 ] £45 634. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF AXSTANE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15.5 x 13.5 inches) with good margins. Scale 1.5 inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows the river Thames at Greenhythe in the north, the Darenth Valley from Hawley to Eynsford in the centre and Hartly, Fawkham and Kingsdown in the south. [ref: 10444 ] £95 635. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF BOUGHTON,

BLEAN, THE LIBERTY OF SEASALTER AND THE LIBERTY OF THE VILLE OF DUNKIRK, ANTIENTLY THE KINGS FOREST OF BLEAN. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows in the north the coast between Graveney and Whitstable, Boughton and Bossenden in the centre with Selling in the south. [ref: 19583 ] £45 636. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF BRENCHLEY

AND HORSEMONDEN, AND THE HUNDRED OF WEST BARNFIELD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. Traces of old folds but a very good copy. The sheet shows Brenchley in the north, Horsmonden and Lamberhurst in the centre, with Bedgbury and Flimwell to the south. [ref: 10454 ] £85

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AND BECKENHAM AND THE HUNDRED OF RUXLEY. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 14½ inches) with good margins. Scale 1 inch to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows Beckenham, Bromley, Chislehurst and the Crays in the north, and Hayes, Keston, Farnborough and Chelsfield in the centre, with Down in the south. [ref: 16383 ] £150 638. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF

CRANBROOK, BARKLEY AND ROLVENDON. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. This sheet shows Cranbrook and Staplehurst in the north with Biddenden in the centre Benenden and Rolvenden to the west and just short of Smarden to the east. [ref: 14258 ] £110 639. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF

DOWNHAMFORD AND OF BRIDGE AND PETHAM; WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY OF THE CITY OF CANTERBURY, AND THE LIBERTY OF FORDWICH. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. Traces of old folds, but a very good copy. This sheet shows the River Stour from just east of Chartham in the west to Grove Ferry in the east. The City of Canterbury is in the centre, with the land south of the Stour as far as Bridge with Bekesbourne, Littlebourne, Wickhambreux and Stodmarsh to the east, and Nackington, the Upper and Lower Hardres and Petham and Waltham to the south and west. [ref: 15516 ] £110 640. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF

FAVERSHAM. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. Traces of old folds but a very good copy. The sheet shows the The Isle of Harty in Sheppey, The East Swale and Faversham Creek down to the town. To the south the map follows the Ashford Road through Sheldwich as far as Badlesmere Lees with Newnham to the west and Badlesmere in the east. [ref: 18324 ] £85 641. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF

FELBOROUGH AND WYE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy.

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This sheet shows the River Stour from Chartham in the north to Wye in the south. Godmersham is in the centre, with Molash, Challock and Eastwell Park to the east, and Brook, Crundale and Bodsham to the south and west. [ref: 15520 ] £90 642. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF GREAT

BARNFIELD AND SHELBRITTENDEN. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. This sheet shows Glassenbury House just outside Cranbrook in the north with Hawkhurst, Sandhurst and Newenden along the Tunbridge to Hastings Road, with Sussex forming the southern border, and the Isle of Oxney just to the east. [ref: 10461 ] £85 643. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF HOO AND OF

CHATHAM AND GILLINGHAM. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 18 inches) with good margins. Scale 1.25 inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows the Hoo Peninsula and the Isle of Grain in the north, the mouth of the river Medway down to Chatham and Gillingham in the centre, with Waldeslade and Lydsying Green in the south. [ref: 12081 ] £85 644. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF LITTLE AND

LESNES AND DARTFORD AND WILMINGTON. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15.5x 13.5 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows the river Thames from Woolwich to Dartford Marshes in the north, Plumstead, East Wickham and Erith in the centre and Dartford and Wilmington in the south. [ref: 14744 ] £75 645. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF MAIDSTONE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. Original map from Hasted’s History of Kent. The sheet shows Boxley and Barming ether side of the town of Maidstone in the centre with East Farleigh, Loose and Lynton in the south. [ref: 15840 ] £100 646. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF MARDEN. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Hand-coloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. Mounted in conservation materials.

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The sheet shows, a strip with Teise river forming the west border, with Stile Bridge in the North, Marden and Staplehurst central and further south Goudhurst and Killdown. [ref: 10458 ] £110 647. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF MARDEN. Canterbury. n.d. but 1790 Hand-coloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. Traces of old folds but a very good copy. The sheet shows, a strip with Teise river forming the west border, with Stile Bridge in the North, Marden and Staplehurst central and further south Goudhurst and Killdown. [ref: 18146 ] £75 648. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF RINGSLOW

CONTAINING THE ISLAND OF THANET. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 17 inches) with good margins. Scale 1.25 inches to one mile. A very good copy. This sheet shows the whole of the Island of Thanet from Sandwich Bay to Reculver with the fledgling towns of Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Minster as well as the numerous villages, farms and hamlets. [ref: 10471 ] £100 649. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE hundred of rochester

LIBERTY, FORMERLY CALLED THE HUNDRED, OF ROCHESTER AND OF THE HUNDRED OF LARKFIELD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19.5 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows Rochester and the north bank of the Medway down to Aylesford, and south of the river Medway from Snodland to Allington with the hinterland of the Mallings, Birling, and Addington in the south. [ref: 10448 ] £95 650. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF STOWTING,

STREET AND HEANE AND OF BIRCHOLT BARONY AND FRANCHISE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 18 inches) with good margins. Scale 1¼ inches to one mile. Traces of old folds, otherwise a very good example. This sheet shows from outside Waltham the land to the left of Stone Street, with Elmsted, Hastingleigh, Braborne and Stowting in the north with Sellinge, Aldington, Stanford and Lympne in the centre, and Saltwood and the town of Hythe in the south and the sea forming the southern border. [ref: 16203 ] £110

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651. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF TENTERDEN,

BLACKBORNE, OXNEY AND HAM. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. This sheet shows High Halden and Shadoxhurst in the north with Tenterden left of centre, and Woodchurch central and Warehorne right centre, The Isle of Oxney and Appledore are south of these. [ref: 14093 ] £75 652. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF the hundred of tun LOWY OF

TUNBRIDGE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map. (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) From the first edition. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A good copy. The sheet shows Tunbridge in the centre, Hadlow to the north, with Leigh Green to the west with Tunbridge Wells just off the map to the south. [ref: 10452 ] £70 653. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF TWYFORD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows the confluence of the Medway and Bewle rivers at Yalding with Wateringbury to the north and West Farleigh to the east and North Hatch to the west, and Brenchley in the south. [ref: 10451 ] £75 654. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF TWYFORD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1782 Hand-coloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. Trace of original folds. A very good copy. The sheet shows the confluence of the Medway and Bewle rivers at Yalding with Wateringbury to the north and West Farleigh to the east and North Hatch to the west, and Brenchley in the south. [ref: 18145 ] £100 655. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF

WACHLINGSTONE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 19 x 15 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows Tonbridge in the north, Quarry Hill, Bidborough, Speldhurst and Ashurst to the west, Tudeley, Pembury to the east with Tunbridge Wells to the south, the centre sector is blank as the separate map of the Lowy of Tunbridge fits in here. [ref: 12079 ] £75

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656. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF WESTGATE,

WHITSTABLE, BLENGATE AND PRESTON. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 1¼ inches to one mile. A very good copy. This sheet shows the sea coast from Whitstable to Reculver in the north. The City of Canterbury in the south west and all the land between the north of the River Stour and the Isle of Thanet at Sarre in the east. Below this are Preston, Stourmouth and Elmstone. ref: [ 14750 ] £100 657. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF the hundred of westWESTERHAM

AND EATONBRIDGE HUNDRED, WITH THE PARISH AND VILLE OF BRASTED: AND THE HUNDRED OF SOMERDEN. Canterbury, n.d. but 1778-1801 Hand-coloured copper engraved map (engraved area 15 x 15 inches) with good margins. Scale 1¼ inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows Westerham and Brasted in the north, Eatonbridge, Hever, Chidingstone and Penshurst in the centre, with Cowden in the south. [ref: 19140 ] £110 658. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF the hundred of westWESTERHAM

AND EATONBRIDGE HUNDRED, WITH THE PARISH AND VILLE OF BRASTED: AND THE HUNDRED OF SOMERDEN. Canterbury, n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper engraved map (engraved area 15 x 15 inches) with good margins. Scale 1¼ inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows Westerham and Brasted in the north, Eatonbridge, Hever, Chidingstone and Penshurst in the centre, with Cowden in the south. [ref: 20666 ] £90 659. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF WROTHAM,

AND THE HUNDRED OF LITTLEFIELD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. The sheet shows Stansted to the north and Wrotham, Ightham and Borough Green in the centre and Plaxtol and Mereworth in the south. [ref: 15519 ] £100 660. HASTED, EDWARD. A MAP OF THE HUNDREDS OF WINGHAM

AND KINGHAMFORD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 15 inches to one mile. A very good copy. This sheet shows Ash and Wingham in the north, Goodneston and Nonington in the centre and Bishopsborne, Kingston and Barham in the south. [ref: 10470 ] £65 REPRODUCTIONS OF HASTED’S MAPS OF KENT

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661. HASTED, EDWARD. MAPS OF THE HUNDREDS IN KENT. WE

HAVE REPRINTED THE COMPLETE SET OF 35 OF HASTED'S FAMOUS MAPS OF THE HUNDREDS OF KENT AND THE PLAN OF CANTERBURY. INDIVIDUAL MAPS ARE AVAILABLE @ £12. Canterbury, 1778-1801 but reprinted 2004 Uncoloured copper-engraved maps (engraved area aprox 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. Printed on good quality, acid-free off-white/cream paper. Price per map. £12 The sheets show the whole county in great detail and are the best maps prior to the modern maps of the Ordnance Survey. [ref: 15851 ] £12 662. HASTINGS, PAUL. UPON THE QUARRY HILLS. A History of

Boughton Monchelsea by Paul Hastings with a survey of buildings by Sarah Pearson. Boughton Monchelsea Parish Council. 2000 8vo. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. viii + 231 pp. + [1] pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps, graphs and plans. In laminated pictorial card wrappers. Fine condition. Scholarly and well researched history of the parish lying on the southern ragstone ridge overlooking the Weald, south east of Maidstone [ref: 21184 ] £12 663. HAWKINGE - HUMPHREYS, ROY. HAWKINGE 1912 - 1961.

Meresborough Books. 1981 192 pp. with maps and photo illustrations. Original laminated pictorial boards, spine sunned, otherwise a very good copy Standard history of the airfield, now long out of print. [ref: 13419 ] £22 664. HAY, DAVID & JOAN. THE DOWNS FROM THE SEA. Langstone

Harbour To The Pool Of London. Edward Stanford, London. 1972 8vo. 96 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w photgraphic plates, charts, and line drawings Original cloth in pictorial dust wrapper, Langstone Harbour to the pool of London. A journey by boat around the bottom right hand corner of England. Part travelogue, part memoir, part local history. [ref: 18186 ] £10 665. HAY, PETER. STEAMING THROUGH KENT.

Middleton Press. 1984 8vo. 100 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original laminated boards, a very good copy Typical Middleton press collection of nostalgic views of steam in its heyday. [ref: 15975 ] £12

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FINE PORTRAIT OF KENTISH M.P. 666. HAYTER, SIR GEORGE. (Painter) and JAMES SCOTT. (Engraver). THOMAS LAW HODGES, ESQ. OF HEMSTED. M.P. FOR KENT FROM 1830 TO I832, - FOR WEST KENT FROM 1832 TO 1841, AND FROM 1847 TO 1852. From a Portrait by Sir George Hayter, Painted at the Expence of his former Constituents and Presented to Mr Hodges as a tribute of respect for his Public Services and private worth. Printed by J. Brooker, no place or date, but c.1853 Black Mezzotint engraved portrait, 14 x 20 inches, a proof example printed on India paper and signed in pencil in the lower margin ‘Selected, Sir George Hayter’ showing this to be an artist’s proof. Some faint marginal foxing, otherwise a fine example. Recently remounted in conservation materials and refixed into the original gilt frame, which is a little worn and rubbed but, as the original frame, worthy of preservation. A fine, dark impression from the plate, depicting the distinguished man in a frock coat, with gloves and stick in hand, standing in front of a classical pillar with an extensive landscape behind. Sir George Hayter was the leading Royal and society portrait artist of the day and his work is represented in numerous collections. Thomas Law Hodges was Liberal MP for Kent from 1830-32 and for West Kent until the dissolution of Parliament in 1841; he was again elected in 1847 and sat until defeated in 1852. He died 14 May 1857. Hodges is listed in Pigott’s Directory for 1840 as living in Benenden; Hemsted House was subsequently sold and demolished by its new owner, Gathorne Hardy, later Lord Cranbrook, and replaced by a new building which is the basis for Benenden School, one of the top private girls’ schools in the country. [ref: 14120 ] £250 667. HAZELTON, IVAN. TIME BEFORE THE MAST. Chaffcutter Books, Ware. 2003 Revised edition. 176 pp. with numerous b/w photo illustrations. Original pictorial card wrappers. A near fine copy. East Coast reminiscences of a Sprits’l Sailorman. [ref: 20810 ] £15 668. HEADCORN LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY HEADCORN A

PICTORIAL HISTORY. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1987 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18655 ] £10

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR 669. HEMSTED, WATERCOLOUR PAINTING. HEMSTED, KENT. [c.1820] Watercolour. Image size, 17 x 13.5 inches. The initials FF, after the title, are presumably those of the artist. Mounted on the original paper page from the album, with heading ‘Benenden’ at top and numbered 142 (143 on reverse). Slight tear to the top centre.

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The watercolour shows a view of the wooded park, taken from the interior of a rustic wooden summerhouse, with a shell ornamentation above, on the interior of the thatched roof. Hemsted was a separate manor within the parish of Benenden, Kent and passed within many generations of the Guldeford family. It may have been rebuilt around the time of Queen Elizabeth’s visit in the 1570s. It was sold to Admiral of the Fleet, Sir John Norris after 1719 and later to the Hodges family, in 1788. At the time of the painting, which was extracted from an album used by several generations of the family at Hemsted and at Jennings, near Maidstone, the house was in the possession of Thomas Law Hodges. He was Liberal MP for Kent from 1830-32 and for West Kent from 1832 until the dissolution of Parliament in 1841; he was again elected in 1847 and sat until defeated in 1852. He died 14 May 1857. Hemsted House was subsequently sold and demolished by its new owner, Gathorne Hardy, later Lord Cranbrook, and replaced by a new building which is the basis for Benenden School, one of the top private girls’ schools in the country. A charming watercolour of a peaceful parkland scene. Hasted [ref: 19761 ] £175 670. HENDERSON, ROY. CROSSING THE CHANNEL.

Silver link Press 1997 4to. 128 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. Original cloth gilt. *From the library of author David Collyer. Story of the Channel crossing’s over the last 50 years. [ref: 18167 ] £15 671. HERNE BAY - WARD, LOCK AND CO. PICTORIAL AND

DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO HERNE BAY, WHITSTABLE, CANTERBURY AND NORTH EAST KENT. Ward, Lock & Co. 1921-22 18 + viii + 12 + ix to xxiv + 24 + 32 + 40 + 12 + 32 + [4] adverts + [4] + 80 + [2] pp. adverts with maps and photo illustration. Original red pictorial cloth. Universally popular guides now becoming more difficult to find. The large folding maps of the towns are an invaluable record. [ref: 17503 ] £20 672. HIGHWOOD, PHYLLIS and SKELTON, PEGGY. A WEALDEN

VILLAGE: MARDEN By Phyllis Highwood and Peggy Skelton. Illustrations by Robert Highwood. Rainham Meresborough Books. 1986 8vo. 5.75 x 8 inches. 128 pp., including [4] pp. advertisements. Half-title. Illustrated by black and white photographs, maps, drawings and facsimiles. In original laminated pictorial card wrappers. Small sunned strip on edge of front cover, otherwise fine condition. Well illustrated and documented village history. [ref: 21179 ] £12

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673. HILLIER, CAROLINE. THE BULWARK SHORE. THANET AND

THE CINQUE PORTS. Eyre Methuen. 1980 317 pp. with endpaper maps and photo illustration. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Very readable modern account. [ref: 10815 ] £10 674. HOATH. [VARIOUS AUTHORS]. HOATH AND HERNE. The Last

Of The Forest.with articles on Chislet, Upstreet, Westbere, Sturry and Fordwich K.H.McIntosh 8vo. 184 pp. illustrated throughout. Original pictorial card covers. Wonderful and varied insights into Hoath, Herne and surrounding villages. [ref: 18184 ] £8

POOTER STYLED SEASIDE HOLIDAY, 1888. 675. HOBSON, LIEUTENANT [MISS STANIFORD] AND LONG, SERGEANT [W.A. STANIFORD]. OUR LIFE AT HERNE BAY. Being a short and faithful account of an eight days’ holiday spent in that delightful locality by a party of six persons in the beginning of September, 1888. By Lieutenant Hobson and Sergeant Long of the Honourable Herne Bay Company. Published privately at Bredon in Loughborough, London. 1888. 1888 with additions to 1935. Manuscript. 6 x 7.75 inches. [20] + 268 pp. + [4] + [12] pp. 3 letters (dated 1902, 1906, 1912) tipped in + orig. p. 111-2, partly crossed through, and tipped in here, having been replaced by a cancel leaf + [74] blank leaves. Red ink occasionally used for emphasis. Halftitle. Illustrated by [4] watercolour plates, protected by tissue guards. Ruled exercise book, bound in original black half morocco over cloth boards, gilt. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Joints split but reinforced by tape on inside. Introductory letter of 1911, by W. A. Staniford, 13 Bredon Road, Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell, London, SE. added to free endpaper. An account of a late Victorian seaside holiday, in style reminiscent of the fictitious Diary of a Nobody. The Staniford family of Camberwell arrive in early September 1888 for an eight day holiday at Herne Bay. It is written in a mock pompous style as if conducting a military campaign. The party consisted of ‘Sergeant’ Long (W. A. Staniford, the paterfamilias), ‘Lieutenant’ Hobson (his sister, Miss Staniford, renowned in the diary for her voracious appetite), ‘Corporal’ Jolliffe (Miss Emma West, a cousin), ‘Gunner’ Miriam (sister to Miss West, described as ‘very stout,’ probably Mary (Polly) Biggs), ‘Gunner’ Mum (the materfamilias, possibly Emma Eliza Staniford), and ‘Orderly’ Tom (the young son, possibly Thomas Henry Staniford). The names Hobson and

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Jolliffe were taken from characters in The Fur Traders, a Jules Verne novel that ‘Sergeant’ Long brought with him. The diary is written in two hands, by Staniford and his sister and provides detailed descriptions including their meals, bathing machines at Herne Bay and Margate, the entertainment at the pier, trips on the water, excursions to Margate, and a walk to the village of Herne where they get lost at dusk on the way back. There is an interesting comment on the bicycles and tricycles for hire, mostly ‘abominable old ramshackle out of date monstrosities on wheels; they looked as though they had been packed off to the provinces after becoming obsolete in London.’ The family appear to be inclined to Roman Catholicism judging by their comments on Herne church and Herne Bay being ‘most fearfully and wonderfully ultra Protestant.’ A diatribe against Sunday observance is sparked off by the difficulty of hiring a bathing machine on that day: eventually they have to haul the machines themselves with the help of some ‘young imps ... humbugging about.’ As well as the fine watercolour sketches by Staniford, the diary adds several verses and songs composed by the writers. The Herne Bay diary is well composed with dedication, preface, introduction, contents, list of illustrations, running summaries at the tops of pages and pagination. Mary Stanley comments, in an inserted letter from her of 1906: ‘I wonder you have never had it printed and published so that the public at large may read it.’ Indeed as an example of late Victorian humour, it may well be compared to the Grossmiths’ The Diary of a Nobody, its exact contemporary in date of composition. [ref: 21044 ] £400 676. HOGARTH, WILLIAM. HOGARTH'S FROLIC. THE FIVE DAYS'

PEREGRINATION AROUND THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY OF WILLIAM HOGARTH AND HIS FELLOW PILGRIMS, SCOTT, TOTHALL, THORNHILL, AND FORREST. With sketches in sepia from the original drawings illustrating the tour by W. Hogarth and Sam. Scott. London John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly, W. No date but 1872 Large 8vo. 6.75 x 8.5 inches. [2] + xiv + [ii} + 42 pp. Transcript of original title and additional title for The Five Days’ Peregrinations, imitated in Hudibrasticks By one well acquainted with some of the Travellers, and of the places here Celebrated. Illustrated with 13 lithographic plates and half title title, all printed in sepia and folding coloured plate and other wood engravings in text, after original drawings by William Hogarth and Samuel Scott. Bound in original green decorated cloth, blocked gilt. All edges gilt. Occasional foxing but otherwise a good copy. Label of G. Bond, Bookseller and Stationer, 3, Market Row Gt. Yarmouth, on front pastedown. The famous tour took place in late May of 1732. ‘The party consists of Hogarth, Thornhill, Scott, Tothall, and Forrest, and each of the five has his allotted department. Thornhill made the map, Hogarth [1696-1764] and [Samuel] Scott 201

[c.1710-1772] furnished the sketches, Tothall faithfully discharged the joint offices of treasurer and caterer, and [Ebenezer] Forrest wrote the journal...They sent the manuscript to their friend, The Rev. W.[illiam] Gostling, the author of ‘A walk in and about Canterbury,’...Amused by the Humour of Forrest’s description, he wrote an imitation in Hudibrastic verse, with additions of his own.’ It was first published in 1782. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21667 ] £150 677. HOGARTH, WILLIAM. HOGARTH'S PEREGRINATION. Edited

with an Introduction by Charles Mitchell. [Title of manuscript text:] AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT SEEM’D MOST REMARKABLE IN THE FIVE DAYS PEREGRINATION OF THE FIVE FOLLOWING PERSONS VIZT. MESSIEURS TOTHALL, SCOTT, HOGARTH, THORNHILL AND FORREST. BEGUN ON SATURDAY MAY THE 27TH. 1732 AND FINISH’D ON THE 31ST. OF THE SAME MONTH. Oxford At The Clarendon Press 1952 Large 8vo. 6.75 x 9 inches. xxxi + [i] + 51 pp. + 3. Illustrated with frontispiece and 12 plates, including map (by Thornhill), 10 after original drawings by Hogarth and Scott, and wood engravings in text. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt in price clipped dust wrapper with publisher’s device on back. This famous tour took place in late May of 1732. ‘Mr.Thornhill Made the map...Mr. Hogarth [1696-1764] and Mr.[Samuel] Scott [c.1710-1772] all the other Drawings,Mr.Tothall was our Treasurer...and the foregoing Memoirs was the Work of [Ebenezer] fforrest.’ The text is based on the original manuscript in the British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings. The Rev. William Gostling, the author of A walk in and about Canterbury, wrote the Account in imitation of Hudibrastic verse, with additions of his own.’ It was first published in 1782. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21723 ] £20 678. HOGG, ALEXANDER. A NEW MAP OF KENT DRAWN FROM THE

LATEST AUTHORITIES. 1784 Hand coloured copper engraving. 8.5 x 4.5 inches. Includes remarks and engraved by Thomas Conder. A fine example. From Walpole’s The New British Traveller. [ref: 17977 ] £50 679. HOLLINGBOURNE - CAVE-BROWNE, J. THE STORY OF

HOLLINGBOURNE, ITS CHURCH AND ITS CLERGY. Maidstone, E. J. Dickinson. 1890 106 pp. with 10 illustrations and a folding pedigree. Original dark brown cloth, gilt. A very good copy of this very scarce local history. [ref: 18151 ] £165

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680. HOLMES, F.M. THE LIFEBOAT - ITS HISTORY AND HEROES.

S.W. Partridge, London. [1908] Second impression. 160 pp. + 32 pp. catalogue with frontis and five other b/w plates, and illustrations and plans to the text. Original pictorial blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy. [ref: 18618 ] £35

681. HOMAN, ROGER. THE VICTORIAN CHURCHES OF KENT Phillimore, 1984 4to. 122 pp. well illustrated throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A useful contribution the history of the county, concerning these much neglected buildings. Now out of print. [ref: 18064 ] £12

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682. HOME, GORDON. CANTERBURY OF OUR GRANDFATHERS AND

OF TODAY. The Homeland Assoc. London. 1927 Slim 4to. 40 pp. including numerous b/w plates and line drawings to the text and map to front endpapers. Quarter-bound in grey cloth. The rear free endpaper and pastedown have been covered with a section of a coloured one inch Ordnance Survey map showing the country from Chipstead, Surrey to Chipstead, Kent. Some foxing to the text otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed on the half-title ‘With the author’s compliments Gordon Home Dec. 14 1927’ This useful little book contains reproductions of many of the best and rarest early engravings of Canterbury. [ref: 21411 ] £20 ARTICLE ON MINSTER ABBEY, THANET 683. HONEYBOURNE, MARJORIE B., ED TRANSACTIONS OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS SOCIETY New series. Volume seventeen. Edited by Marjorie B. Honeybourne. London: Ancient Monuments Society 1970 8vo. 130 + [2] pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs in text. Bound in original cloth, gilt with Society’s monogram on front boards. Small neat bookplate. Contains article, Minster Abbey, Thanet, by Brian R. Fagg, pp, 39-50 (and frontispiece). [ref: 19209 ] £10 684. HOOK, DAEVID and AMBROSE, ROBIN. BOXLEY The Story of

an English Parish. Maidstone Published for the authors. 1999 8vo. 6 x 8.25 inches. viii + 258 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and maps in text. In laminated coloured pictorial card

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boards. Letter to Elizabeth Melling on purchase price of book enclosed. In fine condition. A detailed history of the parish of Boxley, bordering the River Medway, near Maidstone. It includes accounts of the local families, great houses, the paper mills, Penenden Heath, (the traditional gathering place for the people of Kent) and the hamlets of Weavering, Grove Green, Sandling, Boarley and Tyland. [ref: 21181 ] £15 685. HOPE, LADY ELIZABETH REID. ENGLISH HOMES AND

VILLAGES (KENT AND SUSSEX). By Lady Hope. With Illustrations J. Salmon, 85 and 87 High Street, Sevenoaks. 1909 First edition. 4to. 9.5 inches x 6.5 inches, [xvi] + 296 pp. With 63 colour plates and 17 black and white plates and numerous other photographs and vignettes within the text. Bound in original green pictorial cloth with gilt decoration, including illustration of Pantiles on front board; extremities worn, contents and illustrations all clean and tight, a very good example. Bookplate of Gerald J. Davey and ink inscription, Natalie Beard, 25 December 1910. A lavishly illustrated book describing the topography and history of the Weald and adjoining areas, within twenty-five miles of Tunbridge Wells. With 63 full page colour representations of the countryside, houses and gardens from paintings by: Sidney Baker, F. W. Burton, C. Essenhigh Corke and others. All beautifully reproduced by Salmon, the renowned Sevenoaks printers. Chapters on places of interest ranging from Maidstone and Rochester, through Knole, Ightham Mote, Penshurst and The Weald, to Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, East Grinstead, Lamberhurst, Eridge Castle, Bayham Abbey and Lewes. Elizabeth Reid, Lady Hope, nee Cotton (18421922) was born in Tasmania and married Admiral Sir James Hope in 1877; although later remarried to T.A. Denny in 1893, she continued to use the name Lady Hope. In 1915 she claimed that she had visited Charles Darwin at his home at Downe and that he had recanted his theory of evolution (she and her father had been part of the evangelistic Temperance movement and lived at Beckenham in the early 1880s). Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 20215 ] £150 686. HORSLEY, CANON J. W. PLACE NAMES IN KENT. South Eastern Gazette. Maidstone: 1921 First Edition. 8vo. 84 pp. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt to spine. A fine copy. [ref: 18542 ] £25 687. HORSLEY, JOHN WILLIAM. PLACE NAMES IN KENT. By Canon

J. W. Horsley, Late Vicar of Detling. Maidstone: South Eastern Gazette Co., Ltd., 4 High Street. 1921 First Edition. 8vo. 5 x 7.5 inches. 84 pp. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt to spine. Library stamps of St. Augustine’s Abbey Library, Ramsgate. 1944 ink inscription on first free endpaper and pencil notes in

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margins and at end. Extremities slightly worn and some spotting, otherwise a fine copy. An early study of Kent place names, following the author’s articles in the South Eastern Gazette. John William Horsley (1845-1921) was born at Dunkirk, near Canterbury, and educated at the King’s School and at Pembroke, Oxford. Horsley was ordained in 1870 and spent the greater part of his career serving the London parishes of Shoreditch, Clerkenwell (where he was prison chaplain), Woolwich and Walworth. He was appointed an honorary canon of Rochester Cathedral in 1903 and of the cathedral of the newly-created Southwark diocese in 1905. A freemason, botanist and alpine walker, Horsley was best-known as a social reformer and author of books on social questions. He retired to the living of Detling in 1911. Kent Bibliography. DNB. [ref: 20858 ] £30 HANDSOME PRESENTATION OF KENT PEDIGREES 688. HOWARD, JOSEPH JACKSON AND HOVENDEN, ROBERT. SOME PEDIGREES FROM THE VISITATION OF KENT, 1663-68. Annotated by Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D., and Robert Hovenden. Privately Printed. 100 copies. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 140 Wardour Street, W. 1887 Small folio. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. [iv] + 134 + [2] pp. advertisements at end + [71] blank sheets interleaved. Illustrated with two plates and engravings in text. Half bound in thick art vellum boards. Dent to centre of, and some fraying at top of, spine. Wear on lower edges of boards and attached paper shards at bottom of last four pages. Slight foxing of endpapers but fine clean interior. Ink inscription on front paste-down and upside down bookplate in the same name, dated 1924, on rear pastedown. Limited edition of one hundred copies. ‘The Editors...have issued these Pedigrees from ‘the Visitation of Kent in 1663-68 as a separate Volume. Many of them have appeared previously in the ‘Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica,’ but the Annotations have all been amplified, and the data specially authenticated.’ The Visitation was a detailed heraldic investigation of the main Kentish families taken at intervals in the17th century. This volume examines twelve families, employing family trees (pedigrees), wills, register extracts, marriage licences and inscriptions from church monuments, etc. A handsome copy of this genealogical work. [ref: 19475 ] £200

689. HUFTON, GEOFFREY and ELAINE BAIRD. THE

SCARECROW'S LEGION, OR SMUGGLING IN THE SOUTH EAST. Rochester Press, Upchurch, Sittingbourne. 1983

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Slim folio. 8 x 11.5 inches. v + [i] +106 pp. Illustrated throughout. Bound in original blue glazed pictorial boards, with map on rear board. Inscription on first free endpaper. Very good condition. Readable account of the activities of all the most famous gangs and smuggling locations. Now out of print. [ref: 20679 ] £20 690. HUGHES, PENNETHORNE. A SHELL GUIDE TO KENT. Edited by

John Betjeman and John Piper. Faber & Faber. 1969 4to. 176 pp. with map and numerous illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. Re-written and enlarged version of the mid 1930's guide. A large number of the photographs are by John Piper, who revised and edited the text which, due to the death of Hughes, came to him as an unfinished typscript. [ref: 16756 ] £20 691. HULL, DR. FELIX. ORDNANCE SURVEY HISTORICAL GUIDES -

KENT. George Philip / Ordnance Survey. 1988 4to. 136 pp. illustrated with maps and photos throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A near mint copy. Contrasts and compares the first survey of 1801 with those of today, and photos of the turn of last century with recent ones. [ref: 16784 ] £15 692. HULL, DR. FELIX. Edited by. CATALOGUE OF ESTATE MAPS

1590-1840 IN THE KENT COUNTY ARCHIVES OFFICE. With a preface by Miss H. M Wallis, Superintendent of the Map Room, British Library. Kent County Council. 1973 Large 4to. xiii + 288 pp. With colour and black and white plates. Original stiff printed card wrappers. A very good copy. An invaluable guide to the manuscript maps in the Kent Archives. Fully indexed as to places people and surveyors, the catalogue is very nicely produced and is long out of print. [ref: 19462 ] £45 693. HULL, F. (Ed). A KENTISH MISCELLANY. Volume XXI of the Kent

Records. Kent Archæological Society. 1979. 8vo., 162 pp., with photo illustration. Original cloth, gilt. Fine in dust wrapper. Contains: Canterbury's Earliest Rolls of Freemen Admissions 1297 - 1363. A Rental of the Manor of East Malling A.D. 1410. Memoranda from the Queenborough Statute Book, 1452 - 1556,2 - 1556. The View and State of the Commandery of Swingfield 1452 - 1363.

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A Sixteenth Century Precedent Book of Indictments. [ref: 17405 ] £10 694. HULL, FELIX. GUIDE TO THE KENT COUNTY ARCHIVES

OFFICE. Kent County Council. 1958. 8vo. xvi + 290 pp. with photographic illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. [ref: 19037 ] £20 695. HUMPHERY-SMITH, CECIL R. PHILLIMORE ATLAS AND

INDEX OF PARISH REGISTERS Phillimore & Co. Ltd., 1984 Original blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. "The genealogist’s bible." The Atlas includes the famous county "parish" maps, which show pre-1832 parochial boundaries, colour-coded probate jurisdictions, starting dates of surviving registers, and churches and chapels, where relevant. Topographical maps face each "parish" map, and show the contemporary road system and other local features, to help deduce the likely movement of people beyond the searcher’s starting point. The Index lists the parishes, with grid references to the county maps. It indicates the present whereabouts of original registers and copies, and whether a parish is included in other indexes. It also gives registration districts and census information [ref: 20298 ] £45 696. HUMPHREYS, ROY. A PICTORIAL STUDY OF HAWKINGE

PARISH. Meresborough Books. 1987 with maps and photo illustrations. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18657 ] £10 697. HUMPHREYS, ROY. and others. FLIGHT IN KENT.

Kent Aviation Historical and Research Society/Meresborough. 1985 64 pp., illustrated throughout in b/w. Pictorial card wrappers. Very good. Nine articles on the history of flight in Kent, ranging from the first airmen to fly in the county to Barrage Balloons on the Isle of Sheppey. [ref: 18051 ] £5 698. HUSSEY, ARTHUR. KENT RECORDS - KENT OBIT AND LAMP

RENTS. Compiled and edited by Arthur Hussey. Issued to Subscribers to the Records Branch. (Kent Records. Volume XIV). Ashford: Kent Archaeological Society. Records Branch. 1936 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. vii + [i] +138 pp. Series half-title. Original blue cloth, gilt., with Society’s device on front boards. Some foxing, especially on edges, otherwise a fine copy. This work complements Hussey’s Kent Chantries. It prints the information contained in the certificates returned in 1548 in compliance with the Chantries Act of 1547, with relevant entries from the Court of Augmentations

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books, recording the sale particulars of Chantry and Obit lands. The intention of Edward VII’s protestant government was the need to correct t views about purgatory and masses for the departed and the Chantries where these were said and lamps hung (and elsewhere inside the church). The lands left to support these foundations were to be converted for more godly purposes, including the establishment of grammar schools, the augmentation of the two universities, better provision for the poor and needy, as well as providing revenue for the king (the last being the dominating reason). Kent Bibliography [ref: 21174 ] £25 699. HUTCHINSON, JOHN. MEN OF KENT AND KENTISHMEN. A

MANUAL OF KENTISH BIOGRAPHY. Canterbury : Cross and Jackman, 1892 Subscription Edition. Small 8vo. 160 pp. Bound in the original terracotta cloth, gilt. Bookplate to front pastedown endpaper and a surface tear with loss to rear free endpaper otherwise a very good copy. Containing 227 individual biographies of natives of the county who have attained distinction in Arts, Science, Literature etc. A scarce and useful work, we have record of only two other copies having passed through our hands in 20 years. [ref: 21237 ] £85 700. HYNDMAN, OONAGH. WARTIME KENT 1939-40. A Selection of

Memories from the BBC Radio Kent series. Meresborough Books. 1990 160pp illustrated with b/w photographs. Laminated pictorial card wrappers. VG [ref: 19697 ] £8 701. HYNDMAN, OONAGH. WARTIME KENT 1939-40. A Selection of

Memories from the BBC Radio Kent series. Meresborough Books. 1990 160pp 8x6 inches illustrated with b/w photographs. Laminated pictorial card wrappers. VG [ref: 21773 ] £8 702. HYTHE. AUCTION PARTICULARS. Particulars and Conditions of

Sale of the Valuable Freehold Property.......situate and being No. 93, High Street, Hythe, Formerly Licenced as a Beer House, and known as The Providence Inn..... to be Sold by Auction, by Cobay Brothers, Limd.... on Monday, February25th, 1979 .... etc., etc. Printed by W.S. Paine, Hythe. 1907 Large sheet, approximately 16 x 21 inches, printed on both sides and folded. With full particulars of the site, conditions of sale and receipt form. [ref: 19118 ] £20

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703. HYTHE. AUCTION PARTICULARS. Particulars and Conditions of

Sale of the Valuable Freehold Building Site....... being the Old Sportsman Inn, Recently Destroyed by Fire..... to be Sold by Auction, by Cobay Brothers, Limd.... on Monday, February 8th, 1909 .... etc., etc. Printed by W.S. Paine, Hythe. 1909 Large sheet, approximately 16 x 21 inches, printed on both sides and folded. With full particulars of the site, conditions of sale and receipt form. [ref: 14024 ] £20 704. HYTHE - COX, DAVID. HYTHE, KENT. Drawn by D. Cox Engraved

by J. C. Allen. Published for the Proprietors n.d. but c. 1840 Hand-coloured steel engraving, approximately 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Mounted in conservation materials. A lively view by the English landscape artist David Cox looking south from the high ground above the church, with the town and English Channel beyond. Fort Twiss and Fort Sutherland, the two strong points built on the seashore during the Napoleon invasion scare, are still in evidence. [ref: 15826 ] £65 705. HYTHE - DAVIES, W.J.K. THE ROMNEY, HYTHE &

DYMCHURCH RAILWAY. David & Charles. 1975. 208 pp., with photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper. First edition of the standard history. [ref: 17100 ] £20 706. HYTHE - DAWSON, ROBERT, Lieut. R.E. HYTHE. (FROM THE

ORDNANCE SURVEY) BOUNDARY COMMISSION MAP. House of Commons. n.d. but 1831 Lithographic map, 17 x 11 inches, with contemporary hand-colouring. A fine example with very attractive colouring. These maps were produced from the Ordnance Survey maps on a scale of 2 inches to one mile, to redefine the parliamentary boundaries, in this case Hythe, Folkestone and Sandgate became one constituency. The map is sold together with the 4pp. of text and statistics which accompanied the map in the report. [ref: 16650 ] £75 707. HYTHE - DAWSON, ROBERT, Lieut. R.E. HYTHE. (FROM THE

ORDNANCE SURVEY) BOUNDARY COMMISSION MAP. House of Commons. 1831 Lithographic map, 15 x 12 inches. With contemporary hand-colouring. A fine example with attractive colouring. These maps were produced from the Ordnance Survey maps, in this instance on a scale of 3 inches to one mile, to redefine the town boundaries, which now encompassed small fragments of the parishes of Newington and Saltwood. Five windmills are marked in Hythe, as are the three forts which were built to defend the town in the Napoleonic wars, Fort Twiss, Fort Sutherland, and Fort Moncrief.

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708. HYTHE - FORBES, DUNCAN. HYTHE HAVEN. THE STORY OF

THE TOWN AND CINQUE PORT OF HYTHE. Shearwater Press, Hythe. 1982 8vo. 240 pp. with maps and illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in a very good wrapper. *This copy is signed by th e author. We also have available another, unsigned, copy (wrapper has neat repair at top) for the same price. [ref: 16730 ] £20 709. HYTHE - ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS. MAP OF HYTHE. Ordnance Survey. No date but before or about 1884 Specially constructed folding map, 25 x 21 inches approximately, dissected into ten panels and laid on to linen. Folding to 12.5 x 4.25 inches, the map extends from Lympne down to Dymchurch Wall and across to just east of Cannongate Road, with a hand-coloured strip of beach below High Water Mark extending from the western Municipal Boundary of Hythe , just east of the Redoubt to the eastern Municipal Boundary at Twiss Road. A neat stamp in the bottom right (blank) corner shows that it was received Aug 18 1884 at the Board of Trade. Next to this is stamped the number 6588. Bright and clean with one short split to one fold otherwise very good. This map was clearly a piece of evidential information in a case between ‘The Attorney General (for the Crown) and The Mayor &c of Hythe’ for this much is written in a neat hand on the back of the map. It is referred to as a ‘Plan referred to in Information’. Above this, in another hand, is the wording ‘Plan referred to in Mr. Redgrave’s letter of 16 Aug 1884 to C. Cecil Trevor Esq., C.B.’ C. Cecil Trevor was at the Board of Trade in the Harbour Department. [ref: 17465 ] £25 710. HYTHE - ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF KENT - 25 inch

maps. Sheets 74.15. & 74.14. HYTHE SOUTH OF THE CANAL AND THE RANGES AS FAR AS WEST HYTHE AND BOTOLPH’S BRIDGE. O/S 1898 2 hand-coloured lithographed maps 25 x 38 inches. Dissected and laid on to linen and preserved in a slipcase. (Included is a section of another O/S map with a small parcel of land highlighted at Baronet Bridge near Dymchurch which must have been part of the same estate). A trifle dusty but very good copies. These maps have been specially prepared by Stanfords for F. W. Butler, Estate Agents and Auctioneers in Hythe, for the sale of land, (marked on the maps in red). The land is now been built upon and is known as the Pennypot Estate. Apart from this, the detail of Hythe before the extensive development between the sea and the canal is most interesting. [ref: 8606 ] £75

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711. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOL XXIV Ashford : The Kentish Express, 1930. 4to 10x7.5 inches. 82 pp. with illustration by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Hythe, Newington-next-Hythe, Borden, Tunstall, Newenden. [ref: 21771 ] £30 712. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOL. XX. Ashford, Kentish Express, 1927 4to. 10 x 7 inches, 88 pp. with original illustrations. by Xavier Willis. Orig. pictorial cloth. From Westminster library with the usual stamps but very clean and neat. Barfrestone, Coldred, Tilmanstone, Shepherdswell, Eythorne, Lydden, Kingsdown, Ringwould, Oxney, Worth, Ripple, Waldershare. [ref: 21306 ] £25 713. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME II. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1911 4to. 81 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. Appledore, Hollingbourne, Benenden, Hemsted, Great Chart, Godington, Littlebourne, Ickham and Willesborough. [ref: 14219 ] £20 714. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME III. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1901 4to. 95 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. Eastwell, Elham, Lyminge, Allington, Aylesford and the Old Carmelite Priory at Aylesford. [ref: 15794 ] £25

715. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME IV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1902 4to 10x7.5 inches. 95 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth a little faded. Tenterden, St Michael's, Smallhythe, Betteshanger, Little Chart, Northbourne, Brenchley and Matfield. [ref: 21772 ] £20 716. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME V. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1903 4to. 110 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth.

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Minster in Thanet, Ebbsfleet, Biddenden, Staplehurst, Rolvenden, Brookland and Fairfield. [ref: 10826 ] £20

717. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME V. The Kentish Express, Ashford 1903 4to., 112 pp. + [2] . Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Ink signature on front end paper Minster in Thanet, Ebbsfleet, Biddenden, Staplehurst, Rolvenden, Brookland and Fairfield. [ref: 19019 ] £20 718. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME VII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1906 4to. 92 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. Cranbrook, Bilsington, Bilsington Priory and Woodchurch. [ref: 10829 ] £20

719. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME VIII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1908 4to. 88 pp. illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Herne, Hoath, Herne Bay, Broomfield, Leeds and Leeds Castle. [ref: 16923 ] £20 720. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME IX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1910 4to. 88 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A good copy. Sissinghurst, Goodnestone-Next-Wingham, Loose, Coxheath, Chartham, Bridge and Patrixbourne. [ref: 16927 ] £25 721. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME X. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1913 4to. 82 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Brabourne, Bircholt, Smeeth, Sellindge, Nonington and Womenswold. [ref: 16924 ] £25 722. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOL. X. Ashford, Kentish Express. 1913 82 pp. with illustrations by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth.

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Brabourne, Bircholt, Smeeth, Sellindge, Nonington, Womenswold. [ref: 20671 ] £25 723. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. no date but c.1916 4to. 8o pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Godmersham, Goudhurst, Kilndown, Luddesdown, Cuxton and Halling. [ref: 16631 ] £25 724. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XIII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1919 4to., 85 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. Slight cockling to text but a very good copy. Dymchurch, Aldington, Sevington, Mersham and Egerton. [ref: 16919 ] £20

725. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOL XIII Ashford : The Kentish Express, 1919. 4to. 8o pp. with illus. by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. Dymchurch, Aldington, Sevington, Mersham, Egerton. [ref: 20670 ] £25 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 726. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XIV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1920 4to 10x7.5 inches. 80 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis, this copy includes an additional photographic portrait of sir Charles Igglesden which is signed and inscribed ,‘yours truly’. Original decorated cloth. Westwell, Hothfield, Bearsted, Thurnham and Kingsnorth. [ref: 10832 ] £45 727. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1922 4to. 88 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Hawkhurst, Sandhurst, Flimwell, Hamstreet, Orlestone, Warehorne and Ruckinge. [ref: 16920 ] £25 728. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. xp A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XVI. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1923 4to. 89 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy.

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Kenardington, Stone-in-Oxney, Wittersham, East Sutton, Chart Sutton, Sutton Valence and Frittenden. [ref: 16921 ] £25

729. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XVII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1924 4to. 84 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Ulcombe, Headcorn, Horsmonden, Lamberhurst, Bayham Abbey and Scotney Castle. [ref: 16922 ] £25 730. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XVIII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1925 4to. 83 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. Westbeer, Chislet, Upstreet, Grove Ferry, Reculver, Sarre, Ash and Woodnesbough. [ref: 17428 ] £25

731. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XIX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1926 4to. 80 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis Original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Richborough, Sandwich, Eastry, Staple and Ham. [ref: 17429 ] £30 732. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1927 4to., 88 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original pictorial cloth. A near fine copy. Barfrestone, Coldred, Tilmanstone, Shepherdswell, Eythorne, Lydden, Kingsdown, Ringwould, Oxney, Worth, Ripple and Waldershare. [ref: 16913 ] £25 733. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1927 4to. 88 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original pictorial cloth. Ex-library copy with usual stamps. Boards rather damp-stained otherwise a very good copy. Barfrestone, Coldred, Tilmanstone, Shepherdswell, Eythorne, Lydden, Kingsdown, Ringwould, Oxney, Worth, Ripple and Waldershare. [ref: 18512 ] £20

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734. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOL. XXI. Ashford, Kentish Express, 1927. 4to. 83 pp. with original illustrations by Xavier Willis. Original pictorial cloth, A good copy. Challock, Molash, Badlesmere, Leaveland, Throwley, Newchurch, Ivychurch, Adisham and Witfield. [ref: 20595 ] £30 735. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1928 4to. 93 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Sheldwich, Ospringe, Stone-by-Faversham, Greenstreet, Teynham, Lynsted, Wateringbury andYalding. [ref: 15791 ] £25 736. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXIII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1928 4to. 80 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A fine copy. Barham, Kingston, Stanford, Westenhanger Castle, Saltwood and Saltwood Castle. [ref: 16910 ] £30 737. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXIV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1930 4to. 82 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Hythe, Newington-next-Hythe, Borden, Tunstall and Newenden.. [ref: 15536 ] £28 738. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1931 4to. 93 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. Lacking front endpaper otherwise a very good copy. Sandgate, Doddington, Newnham, Boughton Aluph, Brook and Hinxhill. [ref: 21701 ] £25

739. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXVI. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1932 4to. 98 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A fine copy. Boughton Malherbe, Linton, Denton, Bishopsbourne, Monkton and St. Nicholas-at-Wade. [ref: 18052 ] £28

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PRESENTATION COPY FROM XAVIER WILLIS 740. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXVI. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1932 4to. 98 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A fine copy. Boughton Malherbe, Linton, Denton, Bishopsbourne, Monkton and St. Nicholas-at-Wade. [ref: 20597 ] £30

741. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOL. XXVII. Kentish Express. 1933 91 pp. illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A fine copy. Faversham, Davington, Birchington, Bekesbourne. [ref: 20598 ] £30

742. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXIX. The Kentish Express. Ashford: 1934 4to. 78 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A fine copy. Harbledown, Hackington, New Romney and Hawkinge. [ref: 14595 ] £30 743. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1939 4to. 84 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A fine copy. Broadstairs, East Farleigh, West Farleigh, Mongeham, Sholden, Acrise and Swingfield. [ref: 16918 ] £50 744. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

PEN AND PENCIL. VOL XXXI Ashford : The Kentish Express 1939. 4to. 76 pp. with illustrations by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth. A fne copy. Capel-Le-Ferne, Hougham, Paddlesworth, Hartlip, Bredhurst, Stockbury and Bredgar. [ref: 20600 ] £50 745. IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH

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4to. 74 pp. Ilustrated by Xavier Willis. Original decorated cloth, bumped at the head of spine otherwise a good copy. Ashford, Lower Hardres, Nackington, Upper Hardres, Stelling and Thanington. *The last volume of the series. Scarce. [ref: 17431 ] £70 746. INDENTURE. LEASE OF LANDS IN THE PARISHES OF

KENNINGTON, BOUGHTON ALUPH AND WORMSHILL. MR THO: TITHERTON TO MR. RICH: PECKHAM. A MORTGAGE FOR 100 YEARS...£105..8th AP: 1731. 1731-32 Folded vellum with embossed stamp and seal. Receipt and witness statements, etc. on verso. 32 x 26 inches. A few edge tears, small holes and wear around creases, not significantly affecting legibility of text. Browning and staining on verso. In this document of 1731, Thomas Titherton, yeoman of Allington, transfers landed property (technically on a lease ‘one thousand years from hence’) to Richard Peckham, yeoman of Hollingbourne. The properties in question are situated in the parishes of Kennington, in the neighbouring parish of Boughton Alulph and in the parish of Wormshill. They include arable lands, orchards, cottages, ‘Ye Great Park-house,’ (with courts, gardens, stables, etc.) and various ‘waters water courses woods underwoods feedings parks comons comon of pasture,’ etc., ‘to have and to hold.’ On the verso, Thomas Titherton acknowledges receipt of payment of £100 from Richard Peckham. In a later statement of 16 November 1732, Peckham notes that he has received the sum of £105.14s., including interest, from an executor or of Thomas Titherton, now deceased. Both statements are signed and witnessed. [ref: 20882 ] £45 747. INGRAMS, RICHARD & FAY GODWIN. ROMNEY MARSH AND

THE ROYAL MILITARY CANAL. Wildwood House, 1980. First Edition, 8vo 192 pp. with photo illus. Original cloth in unclipped dust wrapper, previous ownership inscription on first flyleaf, otherwise a very good example. Fay Godwin's fine evocative photographs combine with Richard Ingrams’ interesting text to make this a sought-after volume. [ref: 21303 ] £30 748. IRELAND, SAMUEL. PICTURESQUE VIEWS, ON THE RIVER

MEDWAY, FROM THE NORE TO THE VICINITY OF ITS SOURCE IN SUSSEX: WITH OBSERVATIONS ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND OTHER WORKS OF ART IN ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. London. T. and J. Egerton, Whitehall. 1793 First Edition, small 4to. xii + 206 + (1) pp with aquatint engraved frontis and 28 fine

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sepia aquatint plates and a map and 8 wood-cuts in the text. Bound in original diapered calf, gilt, with board edges and dentelles decorated gilt. Professionally rebacked with original, gilt decorated, spine and contrasting title label laid on. Internally a very clean fresh copy. The finest illustrated view-book of Kent’s principal river, performed in classic 18th century style, at the height of the cult of the Picturesque. Sadly copies of this book have been much broken for the plates and have become quite scarce. [ref: 21635 ] £400 749. IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. ENGLAND'S TOPOGRAPHER OR

A NEW AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF KENT: FROM THE EARLIEST RECORDS TO THE PRESENT TIME. INCLUDING EVERY MODERN IMPROVEMENT. EMBELLISHED WITH A SERIES OF VIEWS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY GEO. SHEPHERD, H. GASTINEAU, Etc. Geo.Virtue. London: 1828-9. First Edition. 4 volumes, 8vo. Engraved titles and 124 steel engraved plates (some foxing as is usual) and a folding engraved map. Bound in later half-calf, gilt. A very good set. W.H. Ireland was known as ‘Shakespeare’ Ireland, after his involvement in forging documents by the Bard. The importance of this work is now recognised as being the steel engravings - they give a unique picture of Kent in the early 19th century. [ref: 17094 ] £400 750. IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. ENGLAND'S TOPOGRAPHER OR

A NEW AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF KENT: FROM THE EARLIEST RECORDS TO THE PRESENT TIME. INCLUDING EVERY MODERN IMPROVEMENT. EMBELLISHED WITH A SERIES OF VIEWS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY GEO. SHEPHERD, H. GASTINEAU, Etc. Geo.Virtue. London: 1828-9. First Edition. 4 volumes, 8vo. Engraved titles and 122 steel engraved plates (some foxing as is usual) and a folding engraved map of the county. Bound in full diced calf, gilt, skilfully rebacked. Appears to lack two plates from volume two but a very good set. W.H. Ireland was known as ‘Shakespeare’ Ireland, after his involvement in forging documents by the Bard. The importance of this work is now recognised as being the steel engravings - they give a unique picture of Kent in the early 19th century. [ref: 20620 ] £300 IRELAND’S HISTORY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. 751. IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. ENGLAND'S TOPOGRAPHER, OR

A NEW AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT: FROM THE EARLIEST RECORDS TO THE PRESENT TIME, INCLUDING EVERY MODERN IMPROVEMENT. Embellished with a series of views From Original Drawings by Geo.Shepherd, H.Gastineau, etc. with historical, topographical, critical and biographical delineations.

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Geo.Virtue. London: 1828-30 First Edition, 4 vols. 8vo. 5.75 x 9 inches. Illustrated with 124 steel engraved plates, vignette and map. Vol.I. Folding map, [iv] + 712 pp. + xix + [i] index. [2], B-4X4, [10]. Illustrated with folding map of Kent (and added map by Thomas Moule showing railways, c.1850), title page vignette and 29 engraved plates. Vol.II. 713 pp. + [1] + xv + [i] index. B4-4X4, [8]. Illustrated with 27 engraved plates. Vol.III. [ii] + 698 pp. + xviii index. [3], C-4U3. Illustrated with 29 engraved plates. Vol.IV. [ii] + 786 pp. + xiii + [xviii]. [1], B-S6, T5G2,[8]. [Vol.IV has irregular pagination, pp.137-140 repeated, to accommodate cancel pages]. Illustrated with 38 engraved plates. Bound in publisher’s original cloth with labels. Some plates are foxed. Dedication at the beginning of Vol.I, indexes to all four volumes, lists of plates for Vols. III at beginning of Vol I and for Vols. III-IV at the end of Vol. IV with errata and list of subscribers. As some of the plates (e.g. of Dover) are dated as late as 1839, it seems likely that the sole printing of the letterpress was kept in sheets and was bound up only upon demand, incorporating the same plates. Virtue, who also published some of the prints separately, presumably updated them from time to time, so an example of the book bound up in 1840 would account for a later dating of some of the plates. William Henry Ireland (1775-1835) became known as ‘Shakespeare’ Ireland, after his activities in forging Elizabethan documents, originally for his Shakespeare obsessed father and then to display them to the general public. At first accepted, these forgeries were soon denounced and his alleged lost Shakespeare play, Vortigern, was howled down on its opening night in Drury Lane in 1796. In his ‘Confessions’ of 1805, Ireland justified his forgeries as works equal to those of Shakespeare. He was a prolific writer, producing ninety literary works of all types, ‘dramas, Gothic and sentimental novels, imitation ballads, satirical and political poems, romances, topographic works and Chattertonian fantasies’. A stay in France resulted in works on French history and culture. This account of Kent is derided by Smith (Bibliotheca Cantiana) as a ‘miserable performance, with pretensions of being a County History; it is chiefly taken from Hasted and others; the owners of estates are brought no later down than the time of Hasted; he does not appear to have set his foot in the County, but at some of its fashionable watering-places.’ Of course today, the importance of the work is recognised as lying in the superb quality of its steel engravings. They give a unique picture of Kent in the early 19th. century. We have in stock another example of this work, bound in later half-calf, gilt, at the same price DNB Smith [ref: 19257 ] £400 219

752. JACOB, EDWARD. THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND PORT OF

FAVERSHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. Printed for the Author, by J. March, 1774 First Edition. 222 pp. + 16 copper-engraved plates including a folding engraved plan. Bound in recent full-calf. A little foxed, with some offsetting and repairs to several leaves and the view of Faversham church, but a good copy. Jacob's famous 18th century history of the town. Smith pp.199. [ref: 21629 ] £250 KENT 1683 753. JANSSON, J., [SCHENK, PETER and GERALD VALK.]

CANTIUM VERNACULE KENT. Amsterdam. [1646] but reissued [c.1683] Hand-coloured copper engraved map, 15 x 19 inches, with good margins. A very good impression in very attractive hand-colouring. This is an example of the art of Dutch mapmaking at its height. In this reissue of Jansson's map of 1646, all the art of the engraver and cartographer are combined to produce a finished ‘accurate’ map of the county together with such embellishments as sea monsters, galleons, compass roses and coats of arms held aloft by angels, combined to make this one of the most decorative and accomplished examples of 17th century cartography. [ref: 10723 ] £450 KENT 1644 754. JANSSON, JOANNES. PROVINCIAE CANTII VULGO KENDT NOVA DESCRIPTIO. Amsterdam, 1644 Engraved map in original outline hand colour. 15 x 20 inches. Dutch text on verso. A crisp impression with excellent margins. A fine example. This impression comes from the Dutch text appendix published by Jansson in 1644, in which he published eleven English county maps, derived from Speed’s maps. However, the plates are in an unfinished state [state I] and were to be extensively re-engraved and augmented before being published in the more commonly seen Novus Atlas in 1646. These rare impressions differ in the decoration of the cartouche, which is without its familiar embellishments. These were to appear on the later issues and differ in several other features. They only appeared in this state once and the impression was probably not large. Rare. See R A Skelton p.224. [ref: 17987 ] £600 755. JARVIS, M.A. CAPTAIN WEBB AND 100 YEARS OF CHANNEL

SWIMMING. David and Charles, 1975 4to. 64 pp. with maps and illustrations throughout. Original black cloth. Very good, in like dust wrapper.

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Well-illustrated account. [ref: 20844 ] £20 756. JENKINS, REV. R.C. THE SAXON DYNASTY. PEDIGREE OF THE

KENTISH KINGS. Folkestone, J. English. 1867 8vo. 48 pp. with 5 steel and 2 wood-engraved plates. Modern rebind in half leather over cloth with gilt title to spine. Internally very good though some slight water-staining to margins of illustrations. Some pertinent pencil annotations. Scarce - the illustrations include one of the few engraved views of Lyminge Church. [ref: 21384 ] £75 757. JENNER, THOMAS, and JACOB VAN LANGEREN. [A MAP OF]

KENT. Thomas Jenner. 1643 Copper-engraved map, 4 x 4 inches, with letterpress below (and to verso) 6 x 4 inches overall. Hand-coloured and mounted in conservation materials, and attractively framed and glazed. A very crisp example with a good plate mark and delicate colouring. A very concise map and distance table within a four-inch square. The towns and distances between, are in the form that is commonplace in road atlases today. The map occupies the lower right corner of the square, inclined at 45 degrees, and covering about one third of the square. It includes the rivers of Kent, parts of Surrey and Sussex and the north bank of the Thames as far up as London. Thomas Jenner published these county maps in several editions of "A Direction to the English Traveller" and "A Booke Of The Names Of All Parishes" between 1643 and 1668. This map is from the latter as evidenced by the letterpress on both sides of the paper, with a catch word at the lower right corner. [ref: 17989 ] £95 ‘ QUARTERMASTER’S MAP’

758. JENNER, THOMAS and WENCESLAUS HOLLAR. A MAPPE OF

KENT, SOUTHSEX, SVRREY, MIDDLESEX, BARKE, and SOUTHAMPTON SHIRE, AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT, PART OF ESSEX, AND WILTSHIRE, ETC. Printed Coloured and Sold by Iohn Garrett: at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange in London. [1676] Engraved hand-coloured map. 20 x 11 inches. Previously folded. Small compass rose above imprint, lower centre. Title in frame above scale of miles, lower right. Coastal shoals depicted off North Kent and Essex and a number of ships at sea, with a small naval battle in progress in the Channel. Some browning to borders and occasional foxing, otherwise fine condition. A later edition of the so-called Quartermaster’s Map, engraved by Hollar and first published by Jenner in 1644 as part of The Kingdome of England

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and Principality of Wales. It consisted of six folding maps, this being the south eastern part. These had been reduced from Christopher Saxton’s large twenty sheet wall map of c.1583. The title of Quartermaster’s Map derives from the title description of the original 1644 edition, which refers to the map’s usefulness to ‘all Commanders for Quarteringe of Souldiers, and all sorts of Persons, that would be informed, Where the Armies be...’ It proved to be especially popular with the Parliamentarian army, the Civil War having greatly increased the demand for easily portable maps. The Royal Arms, present on many maps of the period, has probably been deliberately omitted by Jenner, who sympathised with Parliament. Following Jenner’s death in 1673, the plates which had been used by him for the 1671 reprint, passed into the possession of John Garrett of the Royal Exchange, who published it, with the addition of roads, in 1675 (on silk), 1676 and 1688. A fine copy of this historically significant map. Chubb. Skelton. Wing 2448a. [ref: 20635 ] £750 759. JERROLD, WALTER. HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS IN KENT. Macmillan. 1908 8vo. 447 pp. with folding map and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Original cloth, gilt. A trifle worn at head and tail of spine. A good copy of this well-illustrated compendium. [ref: 16862 ] £20 760. JERROLD, WALTER. HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS IN KENT. WITH

ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMPSON Macmillan. 1920. 447 pp. with folding map and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Original cloth, gilt, A clean and neat example. Fine copy of this well-illustrated compendium which remains one of the best companions to the county. [ref: 18748 ] £8 761. JERROLD, WALTER. HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN KENT. Macmillan. 1907 First Edition. 447 pp. with folding map and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Original cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt. Worn at head and tail of spine, but a clean and neat example. A good copy of the first edition of this well-illustrated compendium, which was much reprinted. We usually have copies of the later editions. [ref: 13053 ] £20 762. JESSUP, F. W. SIR ROGER TWYSDEN 1597-1672 London The Cresset Press; 1965. First Edition 8vo. 9 x 6 inches 229 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper. A very good copy. A very good biography, typical of Jessup's encyclopaedic Kentish knowledge. [ref: 21354 ] £20 763. JESSUP, F.W. KENT HISTORY

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Phillimore, 1974 4to., 164 pp., with maps and illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper. As an introduction to a fascinating subject this remains the most useful and readable modern county history. [ref: 7913 ] £10 764. JESSUP, F.W. KENT HISTORY ILLUSTRATED. WITH MAPS AND

DIAGRAMS PREPARED BY R.R. SELLMAN. Maidstone: KCC. 1966 Reprint of second edition, 1978. Oblong 4to., 70 pp. Original pictorial boards. A very good copy. Designed for educational use, as a quick reference book I find I use it a lot. For example - when did x railway open? When was x road turnpiked? The answers are to be found easily here. [ref: 15908 ] £12 765. JESSUP, F.W. SIR ROGER TWYSDEN 1597-1672

London The Cresset Press. 1965 First Edition 8vo. 9 x 6 inches 229 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper. Some spotting to edges otherwise a fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Inscribed by the author, ‘Miss Elizabeth Melling. With many thanks. Frank Jessup. January 1966.’ A very good biography, typical of Jessup's encyclopaedic Kentish knowledge. [ref: 21142 ] £35 766. JESSUP, R.F. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF KENT.

Methuen. 1930 272 pp., with folding map and photo illustration. Original blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy. Part of the County Archaeologies series, a useful work. [ref: 16321 ] £10 767. JESSUP, R.F. KENT. Methuen. 1950 12mo. 6 x4 inches. 7th edition. First thus, 307 pp., with folding map and original and photo illustration throughout. Original cloth in the original dust wrapper designed by Brian Cook. Based on Cox's "Little Guide". [ref: 15903 ] £12 768. JESSUP, R.F. SOUTH EAST ENGLAND Ancient People and Places. Thames and Hudson, 1970 273 pp. Illus. throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Primarily concerned with pre-history, Roman Kent, Sussex and Surrey. [ref: 19574 ] £25 769. JESSUP, R.F. and F.W. THE CINQUE PORTS. With a Foreword by

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128 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth in an unclipped dust wrapper designed by Brian Cook. [ref: 16033 ] £12 770. JESSUP, RONALD. MAN OF MANY TALENTS. An Informal

Biography of James Douglas 1753-1819. By Ronald Jessup. Chichester Phillimore 1975 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches.[xiv] + 310 pp. Half title. Illustrated by 32 pp. of 36 black and white plates and by vignettes and facsimiles in text. Bound in original cloth, gilt, in red and cream pictorial dust wrapper. Top edge yellow. Fine condition. James Douglas, antiquary and geologist, had a varied career. Born in London, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and sent to Italy as an agent for his brother William, a Manchester cloth merchant. Having misappropriated funds, he eventually ended up as a junior officer in the Austrian army, serving in Flanders before returning home and enrolling as a student at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After receiving a commission in the British army in 1779, he was sent to work on the Chatham Lines, under construction to protect the Dockyard, living in Rochester. This appointment gave him the opportunity to excavate barrows on the Lines and helped to develop his interest in archaeology, which had first been awakened by his visits to Vienna and Tongres in the Low Countries. His Travelling Anecdotes through Various Parts of Europe, was first published in Rochester in 1782. The following year he was elected to the Royal Society of Antiquaries and was also ordained. His two most influential publications were A Dissertation on the History of the Earth (1785) and Nenia Britannica (1793 in book form), both works relying to great extent on his excavations in Kent. His novels, including The Maid of Kent (1790 met with less success. The second part of this biography by Jessup, himself a distinguished archaeologist of Kent and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, provides as selection of letters written by Douglas to a number of correspondents. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 21361 ] £25 771. JOHNSON, STEPHEN. THE ROMAN FORTS OF THE SAXON

SHORE. Paul Elek, London. 1976 First edition, 172 pp. with numerous figures to the text. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. A mint copy in a fine, unclipped dust wrapper. A comprehensive account of the Saxon Shore Forts explaining the complete system of Forts on our coast and on the continent. [ref: 19904 ] £40 772. JONES, DAVID K. C. THE SHAPING OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND.

Edited by David K. C. Jones, Department of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science. (Institute of British Geographers Special Publication, No. 11). Academic Press, A Subsidary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, London, etc. 1980

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4to. 7.25 x 10 inches. x, 274 pp. Illustrated by maps and figures, including black and white photographs, in text. Bound in original green cloth, gilt in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine condition. ‘The Shaping of Southern England presents a compilation of essays written to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the publication of S.W. Wooldridge and D.L. Linton’s classic monograph Structure, Surface and Drainage in South-East England. Originally published in 1939, and subsequently revised in 1955...’ This new study considers new interpretations on their synthesis of landscape evolution and presents the results of more recent research. Chapters by the different contributors include the Tertiary evolution of the south-east, sarsens, the North Downs of Surrey, glaciation of the London Basin, the rivers Thames and Kennet and the weathering and erosion of the chalk. [ref: 20275 ] £45 773. JOYCE, PATRICK. PATRONAGE AND POVERTY IN MERCHANT

SOCIETY THE HISTORY OF MORDEN COLLEGE BLCKHEATH 1095 to the Present. Patrick Joyce. Gresham Books in association with Morden College, Henley-onThames. 1982 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches. xi + [iii] + 106 pp. Illustrated with four colour portraits and numerous black and white images in text. Half-title. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with blue endpapers. A full and well illustrated history of Morden College, Blackheath. It was founded by the Levant Company and East India Company merchant, Sir John Morden (1623-1708) in 1695, and built 1695-1700, to a design attributed to Sir Christopher Wren, as a home for elderly and decayed merchants, the only such institution of its kind in the country. Since 1884 it has been administered by the Court of Aldermen of the City of London. A full list of Trustees and Officers is given in an appendix. [ref: 20941 ] £30 774. KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA. WEALD OF KENT AND SUSSEX. Robert Hale, reprint. 1963 viii + 232 pp. with photo illustration. A fine copy in dust wrapper. [ref: 7528 ] £15

LIFE, LITERATURE AND MARGATE. 775. KEATE, GEORGE. SKETCHES FROM NATURE, TAKEN AND COLOURED, IN A JOURNEY TO MARGATE. Published from the Original Designs. By George Keate, Esq. To which is now first added Memoirs of the Life of the Author. Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy Lane, For T. Hurst, Paternoster Row, London; J. Booth, Duke Street, Portland Chapel; J. Dingle, Bury; T. Richards, Plymouth; W. Robinson, Liverpool; H. Holmes and A. Bothhomley, Leeds. 1802 Fifth Edition. 12mo. 4.5 x 7 inches. [2] + viii + [6] + 261 pp. + [1] (p. ii misnumbered iv). Illustrated by two copper engraved plates, A. Zucchi pinx. C. Grignion fc., including frontispiece, title page

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vignette and numerous head and tailpiece wood engravings, some signed Austin, or RA, in text. Bound in original marbled calf; recently rebacked, spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt, with gilt title. New endpapers and all edges red. Extremities worn. paper embrittled on lower edges, C10-12. Small tear in text of D1-2, not affecting legibility and tear on top margin of L1-2. Occasional spotting but otherwise fine condition. The author’s observations on life and literature, structured around a visit to Margate, and written in imitation of Sterne’s Sentimental Journey. Described by the DNB as one whose ‘wide-ranging intellectual curiosity about literary, artistic, and scientific fields was genuine and deeply committed.’ George Keate (1729-1797) was a writer and artist, who was called to the bar in 1753, but never practised. After making the Grand Tour, he visited Geneva in 1756, where he became a friend of Voltaire, the two becoming correspondents for the next twenty years. Keate was a founder of the Royal Academy in 1768 and was elected a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Society of Arts in 1766. His capacity for friendship is testified by the names of David Garrick, Samuel Johnson and Angelica Kauffmann. Among Keate’s other publications were his short account of Geneva (1761) and the Poetical Works (1781). The Sketches from Nature was first published in two volumes in 1779 and proved popular with new editions appearing in that year, in 1784 and 1790. A US edition appeared in Boston in 1793 and it was also translated into French. This is the last edition, with the life of the author added. It has the copper engravings drawn by Antonio Pietro Zucchi (17261795) and engraved by Charles Grignion (1717-1810), with many of the woodcuts being the work of Richard T. Austin (1781-1842), who worked for numerous British publishers, producing very attractive Bewick like wood engravings. Although primarily a literary work in its Sketches from Nature aspect, the Journey to Margate part of the work offers many insights on life at the time. We learn of the Long-Coaches to Margate, which ran from 176168 (although Keate preferred a more comfortable post-chaise), of the use of the bathing-rooms at the seaside and of the hoys which plied the sea route between London and Margate. There is a colourful account of ‘all Margate running down to the Pier-head to see them land,’ and of the seasick ladies, freight and livestock, ‘odd bundles, and bandboxes,’ which they carried. His account of his journey home on the London hoy is equally graphic and eloquently expressed. A charming work, quite rare in this fifth and most complete edition; COPAC records only five copies in British libraries. DNB. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 20869 ] £175 776. KEESEY, WALTER M.A. CANTERBURY SKETCH BOOK.

A. and C. Black. 1915 24 sketches by Walter Keesey. Original boards with paper label to upper cover. Attractive pencil drawings of the City. [ref: 14813 ] £10

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777. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE, HYTHE, SANDGATE

AND SALTWOOD, 1970. Kelly's Directories. 1970 402 pp. Original printed wrappers. Lacking map. [ref: 17733 ] £10 778. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE, HYTHE, SANDGATE

AND SALTWOOD, 1970. Kelly's Directories. 1970 402 pp. Original printed wrappers, with the map. [ref: 18444 ] £10

779. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE, HYTHE, SANDGATE

AND SALTWOOD, 1971. Kelly's Directories. 1971 404 pp. Original printed wrappers. Lacking map. [ref: 17732 ] £10 780. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE, HYTHE, SANDGATE

AND SALTWOOD, 1973. Kelly's Directories. 1973 416 pp., with folding map Original printed wrappers. [ref: 17736 ] £12

781. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE, HYTHE, SANDGATE

AND SALTWOOD, 1974. Kelly's Directories. 1974 408 pp., with folding map Original printed wrappers. [ref: 17731 ] £12 782. KELLY’S DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE

AND SALTWOOD. Kelly's. 1962 410 pp. lacking folding map as usual. Original printed cloth binding. A very useful source of local information for historians or family researchers. [ref: 21275 ] £30

783. KELLY’S DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE

AND SALTWOOD. Thirty-Seventh Edition Kelly's. 1964 402 pp. lacking folding map as usual. Original printed cloth binding. Hinges and lower spine worn otherwise a very good copy. A very useful source of local information for historians or family researchers. [ref: 21276 ] £25 784. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF KENT. 1903.

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4to. 1066 pp. +178 pp adverts, without the map. Original cloth very faded and worn but the text block is in very good condition. Usable and stitching holding well, could do with rebacking, so priced accordingly A good reference copy of a scarce year. [ref: 18344 ] £110 785. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF THE MEDWAY TOWNS ROCHESTER,

CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM, STROOD, RAINHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's Directories. 1969 1096 pp. complete with folding map. Original printed wrappers. A good, clean copy. [ref: 19547 ] £15 786. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF THE MEDWAY TOWNS ROCHESTER,

CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM, STROOD, RAINHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's Directories. 1972 1128 pp. lacking folding map. Original printed wrappers. A good, clean copy. [ref: 21387 ] £15 787. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF THE MEDWAY TOWNS ROCHESTER,

CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM, STROOD, RAINHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's Directories. 1973 1144 pp. Lacks folding map. Original printed wrappers. [ref: 18173 ] £15 788. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF THE MEDWAY TOWNS ROCHESTER,

CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM, STROOD, RAINHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's Directories. 1973 1144 pp. with the folding map. Original printed boards. [ref: 18174 ] £15 789. KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF THE MEDWAY TOWNS ROCHESTER,

CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM, STROOD, RAINHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's Directories. 1974 1134 pp. lacking folding map. Original printed wrappers. [ref: 18170 ] £15 790. KELLY'S. KELLY’S MAP OF KENT.

Kelly's Directories. c.1883 Large folding map of the county, 41 x 27 inches, coloured by hand in outline, dissected and laid on to linen. Bound in original red cloth-covered stiff card with embossed decoration and gilt title. Spine amateurishly repaired but serviceable. Some chipping to edges of panels but a good example. Borough of Chatham Library label to pastedown.

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791. KELLY'S. TRADEFINDER OF MAIDSTONE AND

NEIGHBOURHOOD. 1970-71 Kelly's Directories. 1970 pp. 485 - 588 Original printed wrappers, which are slightly stained. Text browned as usual, otherwise a very good copy Dedicated trade section for Maidstone area. [ref: 18189 ] £10 792. KEMP, JOHN. MEMOIR OF JOHN KEMP, FIRST PASTOR OF

'EBENEZER' STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL, BOUNDS CROSS, BIDDENDEN, KENT. INCLUDING AUTOBIOGRAPHY, EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS, MEDITATIONS, VERSES, AND SERMONS....PUBLISHED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE BY HIS WIDOW. Farncombe and Sons Ltd; 1933 viii + 232 pp. with 10 photo plates. Original green cloth, gilt. A very good copy. Despite the religious nature of the work it reveals an unexpected amount of the social history of the small Wealden parishes of Wadhurst, Ticehurst and Biddenden. [ref: 19946 ] £30 793. KEMPE, A. B. C. MIDST BANDS AND BOMBS BY THE TOP HAT

MAYOR OF RAMSGATE. Maidstone: Kent Messenger, 1946 Small 8vo. 136 pp. and photo plates throughout. Original cloth gilt. A very good copy of this war economy production, which is very difficult to find in good order. Interesting, humourous, and well-illustrated record of the Second World War in Ramsgate by the larger than life Mayor. [ref: 21334 ] £25 794. KEMPE, A. B. C. MIDST BANDS AND BOMBS BY THE TOP HAT

KENNINGTON - FURLEY, ROBERT. THE ANNALS OF KENNINGTON, IN KENT. A LECTURE DELIVERED BY ROBERT FURLEY, OF

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ASHFORD, F.S.A., AT THE KENNINGTON NATIONAL SCHOOL, ON MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1877. Headley Brothers, Ashford. 1877 First Edition. Slim 8vo. 37 pp. Original grey printed card wrappers, with minimal rubbing to extremities, a little dusty and time-stained but a good copy. The very scarce original edition of this Kennington item which is one of the few works on the subject and very informative. [ref: 19108 ] £45 796. KENT AVIATION HISTORICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY. KENT

AIRFIELDS IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. Meresborough Books. 1981 192pp. Illustrated throughout. Original laminated boards. Spine slightly sunned, otherwise a very good copy This copy signed by one of the authors David G. Collyer. A well-compiled survey. ***An unsigned copy is available at £10*** [ref: 15076 ] £15

797. KENT COUNTY COUNCIL. KENT THE COUNTY

ADMINISTRATION IN WAR 1939-1945. Kent County Council. 1946 Folio. 8 x 13 inches. [8] + 170 pp. with maps, one colour and black and white illustrations; includes folding map showing the location of flying bombs that fell in Kent. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Spine missing and boards edge worn but a very good copy. The official story of the events in war time Kent and how the county coped with it. W. L. Platts, Clerk of the County Council, at foot of title page. We have another similar copy, with most of the spine intact.

[ref: 18200 ] £45 798. KENT COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING BASIS FOR KENT.

INCORPORATING REPORTS UPON THE COUNTY PLANNING SURVEY AND THE COUNTY ROAD PLAN. Kent County Council. 1948 Folio. [10] + 121 p. with photo illustration throughout and 12 large folding maps and diagrams. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. With the benefit of hindsight some of this is very sad. This was such an important document and so much of it was wrong. [ref: 17661 ] £45

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THE KENT COUNTY YEAR BOOK. THE KENT COUNTY YEAR BOOK 1953. Edited by DOROTHY PILCHER. Incorporating Kent Personalities. Kent Messenger, Maidstone. 1953 [xvi] + 272 pp. with a folding map. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy Mostly comprised of lists of Kent personalities and local Government information, etc. [ref: 14522 ] £20 799. KENT ELECTION BROADSIDE. EAST KENT ELECTION. BROTHER ELECTORS ... ... I call upon my Brother Blues to VOTE FOR DERING AND DEEDES, and by their vote to shew SIR BROOKE BRIDGES and his compatriot CAPTAIN ACHESON, that in Politics, as in all other matters, ‘Honesty is the best policy.’

Ramsgate, 31st March, 1857 Printed broadside, 12 x 18 inches, black letterpress on white paper Traces of old folds, otherwise fine. An interesting example of the style of electioneering typical of the era. Boldly designed and printed. [ref: 18310 ] £150 800. KENT ELECTION BROADSIDE. THE THREE CANDIDATES

BEFORE THE COUNTY. KENT WANTS A TRIED MAN -- AN ABLE MAN -- AN INDEPENDENT MAN.

KNATCHBULL. 1. A TRIED MAN. In Four Parliaments, and found valuable and influential in all .... HODGES. 1. In one Parliament, and valuable to the amount of AYE and NO... RYDER. 1. Non mi ricordo. 2. Non mi ricordo. 3. Non mi ricordo. 4. Non mi ricordo. 5. Non mi ricordo. 6. Non mi ricordo. Shall we ask which of these we ought to choose? Shall we ask whether the Freeholders of Kent can dream of discarding the Representative who they know has always devoted his whole heart and time to our interests, and who understands those interests better than any man living? No! We only ask how the Men of Kent can be so blinded, as not to call for ANOTHR COLLEAGUE to Knatchbull, and drive BOTH THESE QUACKS ENTIRELY OUT OF THE FIELD. H. Ward, Printer, Canterbury. n.d. but [1831] Printed broadside, 9 x 11 inches. Some faint glue stains, but a very good example. The Reform Bill caused a cataclysmic upheaval in the political landscape of the 1830’s. At this extremely significant time in the country’s political evolution, two factions of the Conservative party emerged. The anti-bill Ultras were mostly devout landowners and provincial notables who were, on the whole, agrarian paternalists. Although they were styled as ‘a selfish, aristocratic clique’ by their opponents, they were more populist and innovative than the pro-bill ‘Red Tapist’ elite, represented by the Duke of

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Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, against whom they ranged themselves. In Kent, Sir Edward Knatchbull, MP between 1819 and 1830, and again in 1832, represented the anti-bill faction. He and his fellows were defeated in the subsequent election. [ref: 16435 ] £145 801. KENT. HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL AND PICTORIAL.

Published for Subscribers. Allan North, London. 1907. 4to. 8 x 10.5 inches, unpaginated (approx. 240 pp.) with biographical details of 99 subscribers and 42 tissue-guarded, photographic plates of Kentish notaries, some with their residences. Original half calf over blue cloth, gilt. Inscribed in ink on title page ‘H.W. Selby-Lowndes from F.D. Brockman.’ Francis Drake Brockman was a member of an old Kent family whose seat was at Beachborough House, near Folkestone, and who is included among the subscribers. Henry William Selby Lowndes became Master of Foxhounds at the East Kent Hunt in 1900. Interesting picture of the great and the good in early 20th century Kent. [ref: 20025 ] £175 802. KENT MAP BURROW'S RAC COUNTY MAP & GAZETTEER: KENT Ed. J. Burrows and Co. Cheltenham and London. No date but c.1938 Fourth edition. Booklet approx. 6 x 9 inches. 72 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations and two double-page coloured maps of East and West Kent with coloured key map. Original printed card wrappers a little stained and rubbed at spine with neat contemporary ownership signature to front. In addition to the maps there is a comprehensive list with descriptions of places to see in the county, suggested tours and interesting adverts. [ref: 18402 ] £12 803. KENT PAPER MANUFACTURE. HOLLINGWORTH PAPERS. A

BOOK OF SAMPLES SHOWING A RANGE OF THESE BEAUTIFUL PAPERS IN SEVERAL WEIGHTS AND FINISHES APPLIED TO VARIOUS PROCESSES OF PRINTING AND REPRODUCTION. Hollingworth and Co., Maidstone. No date but c.1920s Folio. Unpaginated. 34 leaves of varying weights and finishes of papers manufactured by Hollingworth at Turkey Mill, bound together, and 3 heavilyembossed loose leaves inside the lower board. Top edges gilt. Comprises a brief history and description of the famous mill near Maidstone with 6 monochrome photogravure plates, 3 coloured photogravures, 2 etchings, a stamped and illuminated coat of arms, and an offset lithograph in colour. In addition there are examples of illuminated and rubricated texts. The heavily embossed leaves are three examples of the same die, of a large printing machine, stamped on different qualities of paper. Original vellum quarterbinding over turquoise cloth, gilt. A very impressive sample-book of Hollingworth paper products from Turkey Mill, where James Whatman developed wove paper. His son, also James, sold the mill to the Hollingworths, Thomas, Robert and Finch, in 1792 and high-quality paper-making continued there until the mill closed finally in the 1970s.

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[ref: 21377 ] £80 804. THE KENT POLICE CENTENARY. Recollections of a hundred

years. Canterbury Kent County Constabulary, 1957. 161 pp. + 42 pp. + xxxiv advertisements. Illustrated by black and white photographs, including portrait frontispiece. Bound in original blue cloth with silver embossed Kent Constabulary badge to upper board. A fine copy in a good, unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. An excellent copy of the celebratory book published for the 100th anniversary of the police in Kent. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21151 ] £15 805. KENT RECORDS. A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MISCELLANY.

Prepared for the Records Publication Committee of the Kent Archaeological Society. (Kent Records. Volume XVII). Ashford: Kent Archaeological Society. Records Publication Committee. 1960 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. ix + 186 pp. Series title page. Illustrated by five plates, including one folding map and drawings in text. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with Society’s device on front boards. Extremities a little worn, otherwise fine condition. Pencil signature of Elizabeth Melling on first free endpaper. Includes ‘Court Rolls of the Manor of Chilham, 1654-6’; ‘The Tufton Sequestration Papers, 1644-7’; ‘An Account Book of the Committee of Kent, 1646-7’; and ‘The Compton Census of 1676 - the Dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester’. The latter enumerates conformists, papists and nonconformists by parish. The Tufton papers, one of the two Civil War items, includes lists of farm stock, crops and woods with woodland products. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21173 ] £25 806. KENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS. MAIDSTONE JOURNAL AND

KENTISH ADVERTISER and MAIDSTONE GAZETTE AND KENTISH COURIER. Printed and published every Tuesday by John Vine Hall, King’s Arms Office, Maidstone. 1832-33 Broadsheet newspapers. Maidstone Journal between Nos. 2398 and 2452, from January 3rd, 1832 to January 13th, 1833, 34 of 54 issues; with Maidstone Gazette between Nos.1816 and 1839, January 22nd, 1833 to July 2nd, 1833, complete run of 24 issues. Recent half-leather over marbled boards with spine in compartments with raised bands and contrasting title label, gilt. The contents are clean and free from tears. In all, 58 issues of one of Kent’s principal papers, published during the period of upheaval and political reform in Britain. [ref: 19658 ] £600

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807. KENTISH WEALD - CLEERE, HENRY. and DAVID

CROSSLEY. THE IRON INDUSTRY OF THE WEALD. Leicester University Press . 1985 xvi + 395 pp. With numerous illustrations. Original cloth gilt, in dust wrapper. A fine copy. A highly scholarly work by the foremost experts, gathering much scattered information under one cover. Now out of print. [ref: 21761 ] £55 808. KENTISH WEALD - DEARN, T.D.W. AN HISTORICAL,

TOPOGRAPHICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE WEALD OF KENT. Cranbrook, S. Reader. 1814 First Edition, 8vo., lvi + 277 + [5] index and [1] pp. advert. Illustrated with map and eight sepia aquatint plates after drawings by the author. Bound in recent half-calf over marbled boards. Apart from some offsetting from plates and a little light browning, a very good copy. Rare history of the Weald with fine engraved illustrations including the well-known view of the High Street at Cranbrook. [ref: 19912 ] £350 809. KENTISH WEALD - FURLEY, ROBERT. A HISTORY OF THE

WEALD OF KENT. WITH AN OUTLINE OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, ALSO A SKETCH OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE DISTRICT BY HENRY B. MACKESON. Igglesden. Ashford, 1871-74 FIRST EDITION Two volumes bound in three. Vol. I. xvi + 462 pp. Vol. II. part one, xii + 424 pp. Vol. II part two, [iv] + 425- 935 pp. with folding maps throughout.. Original green decorated cloth, gilt, only very slightly worn at extremities otherwise a very good copy. A very good set of the standard source book on the geology and history of the Weald. Much under-rated work which is central to the county’s history. [ref: 19988 ] £200 FURLEY’S OWN INTERLEAVED COPY 810. KENTISH WEALD - FURLEY, ROBERT. A HISTORY OF THE WEALD OF KENT. WITH AN OUTLINE OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, ALSO A SKETCH OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE DISTRICT BY HENRY B. MACKESON. Ashford, Igglesden. Ashford, 1871-74 FIRST EDITION Two volumes bound in three. 5.5 X 8.5 inches. Fully interleaved. Vol. I. xvi + 462 pp. Vol. II. Part one, xii + 424 pp. Vol. II Part two, [iv] + 425- 935 pp. with 6 folding maps. The interleaving and the printed pages show numerous annotations in ink, a number (according to a note by

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Furley, facing the Preface) transcribed from the copy owned by the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, with many cuttings and notes tipped in or loosely inserted, other day-to-day printed and plain paper items, personal letters, etc., used as page markers. There is also loosely inserted the original prospectus for the book comprising the title page, table of contents and pp.[ix] to xvi of the preface. Furley’s ownership signature appears on all three title pages. Original green decorated cloth with gilt titles and gilt and black decoration and different gilt vignettes to upper boards. These volumes are almost twice the thickness of the standard edition. The binding on these books was never very strong and these volumes show, unsurprisingly, signs of much use. Internally very good. A very good set of the standard source book on the geology and history of the Weald. A much under-rated work which is central to the county’s history and made more interesting by the additional materials. Furley was clearly on close terms with George James Finch-Hatton, 11th Earl of Winchilsea and 6th Earl of Nottingham, whose family seat was Eastwell Park, Ashford, Kent. [ref: 21077 ] £ 811. KENYON, G. H.

THE GLASS INDUSTRY OF THE WEALD. By G. H. Kenyon, F.S.A. With a Foreword by D. B. Harden, O.B.E, Ph.D, F.S.A. Leicester Leicester University Press, 1967 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches. xxii + 231 pp. [i]. Illustrated with 22 black and white plates, text figures and folding map at end. Bound in original green cloth,gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Extremities a little worn and wrapper price-clipped and slightly chipped on spine; otherwise a fine copy. Comprehensive account of the forest industry, located in the Weald of Sussex and Surrey, which thrived for at least 200 years until the seventeenth century. Forty-two sites are described with another nine outside the Weald district. The standard work. [ref: 21686 ] £45 SIGNED COPY 812. KEYES, SIDNEY KILWORTH. DARTFORD. SOME HISTORICAL NOTES...FURTHER HISTORICAL NOTES. Dartford, Perry Son and Lack Ltd. 1933 & 1938 Two volumes. Thick Royal 8vo. 727 pp. and 984 pp. with maps, plans, and illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth, gilt. A good set. With a signed portrait of the author in Vol. I. Good copies of the scarce first editions of the author's monumental history of Dartford. Both volumes were issued in a very small edition. The subscribers list in Vol. I. accounts for 162 copies. [ref: 20843 ] £275 813. KEYS, DICK and KEN SMITH. BLACK DIAMONDS BY SEA.

NORTH-EAST SAILING COLLIERS 1780-1880. Newcastle Libraries. 1998 Oblong folio. 9.5 x 8 inches. 48 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations. Bound in original laminated coloured pictorial card wrappers. A near fine copy.

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FIRST FULL GAZETTEER OF KENT, 1659 814. KILBURNE, RICHARD. A TOPOGRAPHIE OR SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. WITH SOME CHRONOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND OTHER MATTERS TOUCHING THE SAME, AND SEVERAL PARISHES THEREIN. Thomas Mabb, for Henry Atkinson, London, 1659 422 pp. with copper-engraved frontis of the author. Original full calf. Rebacked twice, with the spine from the first rebacking re-used, having raised bands, gilt decoration and contrasting title labels, gilt. A very good copy with good margins. The most important 17th century gazetteer of the county. This copy is inscribed on the free endpaper by an early owner ‘John Guy 1680/81’. Another early hand has inscribed some remarks about the book and concludes with the opinion that ‘Kilburn’s Survey of Kent is all modern and superficial’. A further early hand has made some neat inscriptions on another free endpaper. Additionally, one or another of these owners has carefully been through the list of Errata at the rear of the book and corrected the text as necessary. Richard Kilburne (1605 - 1678), was an eminent solicitor in the Court of Chancery and a resident of Hawkhurst. This is a 'must' in any definitive Kent collection. [ref: 19362 ] £650

815. KILBURNE, RICHARD. A TOPOGRAPHIE OR SURVEY OF THE

COUNTY OF KENT. WITH SOME CHRONOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND OTHER MATTERS TOUCHING THE SAME, AND SEVERAL PARISHES THEREIN. Thomas Mabb, for Henry Atkinson, London, 1659 Small 4to. 7 x 5.5 inches, 422 pp. with copper-engraved frontispiece of the author. Bound in original full panelled calf, gilt neatly rebacked. The fore edges of the first gathering have been trimmed rather crudely but the text is unaffected. The most important 17th century gazetteer of the county. Richard Kilburne (1605 - 1678) was an eminent solicitor in the Court of Chancery and a resident of Hawkhurst. This is one of the definitive Kent books. Wing K434 Upcott Vol 1 pp351-2 Smith p4 [ref: 21190 ] £450 FIRST FULL GAZETTEER OF KENT, 1659

816. KILBURNE, RICHARD. A TOPOGRAPHIE OR SURVEY OF THE

COUNTY OF KENT. WITH SOME CHRONOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND OTHER MATTERS TOUCHING THE SAME, AND SEVERAL PARISHES THEREIN.

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Thomas Mabb, for Henry Atkinson, London, 1659 Small 4to. 7 x 5.5 inches. 422 pp. with copper-engraved frontis portrait of the author. Original full mottled calf, spine with raised bands. No title externally but very early library accession label to base of spine. Embossed decoration to edges of boards. The upper hinge is cracked but sound. Top inner corner is damp stained affecting frontis portrait, title and first few leaves otherwise a very clean copy with good margins in a contemporary unrestored binding. The most important 17th century gazetteer of the county. Richard Kilburne (1605 - 1678) was an eminent solicitor in the Court of Chancery and a resident of Hawkhurst. This is a ‘must-have’ in any definitive Kent collection. [ref: 21631 ] £600 817. KIP, JOHANNES. THE GRANGE AND LEYBOURN CASTLE. THE

SEATS OF WILLIAM SAXBY ESQ. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, this illustration varies in that it is engraved by John Harris. [ref: 20228 ] £150 818. KIP, JOHANNES. HIGH STREET HOUSE. THE SEAT OF HENRY

STREATFIELD ESQ. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 Large copper-engraving, 17 x 14 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade. [ref: 20224 ] £125 819. KIP, JOHANNES. TUTSHAM HALL. THE SEAT OF EDWARD

GOULSTON ESQ. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches,, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, and engraved by Kip. [ref: 20229 ] £150 820. KIP, JOHANNES. WALDERSHARE. THE SEAT OF SIR ROBERT

FURNESE BARONETT IN KENT. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 Large copper-engraving, 17 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade,

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[ref: 20223 ] £150 821. KIP, JOHANNES. WIERTON. THE SEAT OF Sr CHRISTOPHER

POWELL Bart. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, this illustration varies in that it is engraved by John Harris. [ref: 20226 ] £150 822. KIP, WILLIAM, after NORDEN, JOHN. CANTIUM QUOD NUNC

KENT. [George Bishop, John Norton, London]. 1610 Copper engraved map, finely hand-coloured. 15 x 11 inches. Title, upper central panel. Numbered key to hundreds, dated 1605, upper right panel. Scale of miles. Johannes Norden deliniauit above, William Kip, Sculpsit, below. Compass rose lower right, in Britannici Maris pars. [Pl no.] 11 appears lower left. Backed on to two sheets of paper. Small tear to upper left corner (Parte of Middlesex) and lower centre left (Sussex), before backing. Early fold line in centre, otherwise fine condition. The so-called ‘Saxton-Kip’ maps appeared in editions of Camden's Britannia from 1607 and were based on Christopher Saxton's great county atlas of 1579. This map of Kent, drawn in 1605, was based on a survey by John Norden (c.1547-1625), the surveyor and cartographer and engraved by William Kip (fl.1585-1618). The engraving is typical of the early seventeenth century with a fine compass rose in the English Channel and scroll work cartouches around the title and list of hundreds. The 1607 Britannia (which included six of Norden’s county maps and thirty-four Norden and Saxton maps engraved by Kip) was the sixth and last Latin edition (first, 1586). The last to be published in Camden’s lifetime, it has been described as the first true English county atlas. The plate no. 11 indicates that this map was prepared for insertion in the 1610 edition of Camden, the first in English, the plate numbers being added before 1622, although the 1610 text continued to be used unaltered until the 1637 edition, which included the same maps. This map includes some interesting details in the Romney Marsh area, commenting on Denge Marshe, ‘Holme or hollye growing to great trees on the mayn beach.’ It also indicates the ‘Vindelis Insula Old Winchelsey whose ruynes lurk unseen under the sea waues’ (Sussex). An attractive copy of this early map of Kent. Skelton, 6. O’Shea Gallery, Kent and the Channel, 15. Burden, Catalogue V (2010), 17. Burgess, Printed Maps of Kent, 8/ii. [ref: 20615 ] £250

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SCARCE TRANSCRIPT OF ORPINGTON PARISH REGISTERS 823. KIRBY, HERBERT CHARLES THE REGISTER OF THE MARRIAGES, CHRISTENINGS AND BURIALS IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, ORPINGTON, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, FROM 1560 TO 1754. At head of title: Lewisham Antiquarian Society. Edited by Herbert Charles Kirby. Lewisham Antiquarian Society Publications No.8. London: Printed by Charles North, Blackheath Printing Works, S.E. 1895 110 copies privately printed, of which this is No.3. Small folio. 7.5 x 11 inches. [iv] + iv + 98 pp. Title page and index rubricated. Original cloth, gilt, with blind stamped borders and black endpapers. All corners bumped, with some abrasions on rear top right corner with creasing extending into pages. An ex-library copy with several small stamps, including title page. Ink inscription on half title and brief pencil note at end. The transcript reproduces the black letter title of 1597 from the beginning of the parchment register and the unusually styled preface of Christopher Monckton, who became vicar in 1620. An appendix of relevant wills is followed by indexes of persons and of places. A scarce item produced only in a very limited edition. Only two copies are recorded in London libraries, including the British Library copy. COPAC [ref: 19476 ] £250 824. KITCHIN, THOMAS. KENT DRAWN FROM AN ACTUAL SURVEY

AND REGULATED BY ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS. [R. Baldwin, The London Magazine] 1747 Hand-coloured copper-engraved map. 6 x 8 inches. A fine example. Attractive map of the county with a cartouche showing hop pickers stripping a hop bine and cannon and flags to show Kent’s martial achievements. The arms of Canterbury also appear, as does the coast of France (from Calais to Ambletuse). Rivers and main roads are clearly marked. [ref: 17990 ] £75 825. KITCHIN, THOMAS. KENT DRAWN FROM AN ACTUAL SURVEY

AND REGULATED BY ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS. [R. Baldwin, The London Magazine] 1747

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Hand coloured copper engraved map. 6 x 8 inches. Mounted, framed and glazed in conservation materials. Overall size 11 x 14. A fine example. Attractive map of the county with a cartouche showing hop pickers stripping a hop bine, plus canon and flags to show Kent’s martial achievements. The arms of Canterbury also appear as does the coast of France (from Calais to Ambleteuse). Rivers and main roads are clearly marked. [ref: 18326 ] £125 826. KITCHIN, THOMAS. A MAP OF KENT. Kitchin and Jeffreys, London. 1749 Hand-coloured copper-engraved plate. 7 x 5 inches. With letterpress below. Also engraved on the plate is an explanation of the map, statistical information, and a list of towns with their fairs and market days noted. A fine example. Attractively coloured map in full body colour and the statistical information underneath makes this a curious and quaint item. [ref: 17991 ] £75 827. KITCHIN, THOMAS. A NEW MAP OF KENT DRAWN FROM THE

BEST AUTHORITIES. By Thomas Kitchin, Geographer. Engraver to H.R.H. The Duke of York. [R. and J. Dodsley] 1770 Uncoloured copper engraving, 8 x 10 inches, with good margins. A fine example. From Kitchin’s ‘English Atlas or A Complete Set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales’ published by R. and J. Dodsley, using the maps from Kitchin’s ‘England Illustrated’ published in 1764. [ref: 17992 ] £85 828. KLOPPER, HARRY. TO FIRE COMMITTED. THE HISTORY OF

FIRE-FIGHTING IN KENT. Kent Council of Fire Services Benevolent Fund 1984 x + 254 pp. with photo illustrations. Soft-cover, original printed wrappers. A very good copy. This excellent history was not widely distributed outside the fire service. A hardback edition was issued in very limited numbers. [ref: 18451 ] £12 829. KNIGHT, H.R. LOYAL TO THE KING: THE STORY OF THE

KENTISH PROTESTANT MARTYRS. D. Catt, 74 Strand, W.C. Ashford, Headley Brothers, One Shilling. Cloth Boards, Eighteenpence. 1903 First Edition, 8vo.105 pp. + [6] pp. adverts, Illustrated with photographic plates and line drawings. Bound in the original pictorial cloth, small bit missing from spine, but a very good copy. A well illustrated and detailed account of Kent’s 75 Protestant Martyrs who perished under Queen Mary’s short but bloody rule. [ref: 20734 ] £35

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AUTHOR’S OWN COPY 830. KNOCKER, EDWARD. A LECTURE ON THE ARCHIVES OF THE CINQUE PORT AND BOROUGH OF DOVOR, Delivered before the Corporation and Inhabitants on the 25th day of April, 1877; to which is added a paper on The Ancient Connection between the Cinque Ports, and the Borough of Great Yarmouth. With an Appendix. By Edward Knocker, F.S.A., Honorary Librarian. George Fielding, Esq., Mayor. Wollaston Knocker, Town Clerk. Printed at the ‘Standard’ Office, Snargate Street, Dover. 1879 8vo., 117 pp., interleaved with blank pages. Decorated with tailpiece vignettes. Extra illustrated by woodcut pasted to blank leaf opposite. p. 36. 1883. Five pages of blank leaves contain manuscript notes by author. Manuscript inserts: 1. Letter (on printed headed paper, from Ryde, I.o.W.), initialled by author. 2. Signed note from Wollaston Knocker to his father. The author’s own copy with his bookplate and by descent to R. E. Knocker with this later presentation inscription on second free endpaper. Bound in red morocco, decorated gilt, with inside dentelles; spine in compartments, with raised bands, gilt, with contrasting title label, gilt. All edges gilt. Some foxing to text and slight wear to extremities; otherwise a very good copy. Scarce Dover-printed book which systematically describes the early charters etc., right up to the 17th century, quoting from a large number of examples. At 94 pages (excluding the appendix), it must have been a very long lecture to deliver on a single day. Edward Knocker (1804-84), historian and antiquarian, was a member of a Dover family of solicitors, which also provided municipal officials; the son, Wollaston serving as town clerk. This lecture was first published as a 104 page booklet in 1878; both editions are very scarce and the 1879 one is known only from the three copies recorded in the Kent Bibliography (Dover, Maidstone and Bexley). Attractive presentation copy in a handsome red binding. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 20907 ] £250 831. KNOLE - BRIDGMAN, JOHN. AN HISTORICAL AND

TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF KNOLE, IN KENT; WITH A BRIEF GENEALOGY OF THE SACKVILLE FAMILY. EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS. Published by W. Lindsell, 87, Wimpole-Street; W. Hodsoll and T. Clout, Sevenoaks; and Strange, and Nash, Tonbridge Wells. 1817

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First Edition 8vo. viii + 164 pp. with 3 aquatint plates and 6 plates of Coats of Arms Bound in marbled paper wrappers with paper title label. Some slight offsetting and spotting otherwise a very good copy. The first detailed description of the great house, with a catalogue of the then contents. Scarce. Smith p.236 [ref: 18128 ] ÂŁ180 832. KNOLE - BRIDGMAN, JOHN. AN HISTORICAL AND

TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF KNOLE, IN KENT; WITH A BRIEF GENEALOGY OF THE SACKVILLE FAMILY. EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS. Published by W. Lindsell, 87, Wimpole-Street; 1827 Second Edition, 8vo., viii + 164 pp., with 1 aquatint plate and 5 plates of coats of arms. Bound in recent blue half-morocco, gilt, over marbled paper boards with title label. Some slight offsetting and spotting otherwise a very good copy. The second edition of the first detailed description of the great house, with a catalogue of the then contents. Scarce. Smith p.236 [ref: 19084 ] ÂŁ180 KNOX, G. J. [Artist] and E.R. WALKER, [Lithographer]. LITHOGRAPH PANORAMA OF SANDGATE. John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho. London. S. and M. Purday, Sandgate. 1853 136 pp. + two tinted lithographic plates, one folding. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt. Spine and edges faded otherwise a very good copy of a very rare work. MOSELEY, SANDGATE AS A RESIDENCE FOR INVALIDS John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho. London. S. and M. Purday, Sandgate. A major feature of this work is the large (22 x 8 inches) folding lithographic panorama of Sandgate, taken from the heights at the end of the Leas looking down on Sandgate and Shorncliffe, with an undeveloped Sandgate Hill in the foreground and the sweep of Hythe Bay in the distance. Figures dot the landscape, a group picnicking, a shepherd rounding up his sheep and others strolling, taking in the sights and fine air. The view was drawn by G. J. Knox and lithographed by E. Walker. The second plate, also by them, depicts Radnor Terrace From the Beach (9 x 8 inches). This is another lively view looking up at the elegant houses then recently built on Radnor Cliff, with groups of people disporting themselves on the beach. The author, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Surgeon to the Sandgate Dispensary, presents a considerable amount of evidence as to the suitability of Sandgate as a healthy locale. The benefits of the local climate, atmosphere and general healthiness are examined and propounded and various afflictions are considered in this light. Three copies are recorded in the Kent Bibliography, and we have records of three copies having passed through our hands but only one with the two plates present. This copy has the label of George Marrin Bookseller at 16a Cheriton Place, which was our first Folkestone shop in the early 1950s.

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[ref: 19944 ] £ 833. LABARGE, MARGARET WADE. A BARONIAL HOUSEHOLD OF

THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London. 1965 8vo. 235 pp. + 9 b/w illustrations on 7 plates. Original terra cotta cloth, gilt. Slight spotting to board otherwise a fine copy in a good unclipped dust wrapper. ‘A succinct account of the organisation and daily life of the household of a great baron in the thirteenth century. In all its detail, their every everyday life is explored and explained.’ The Economist [ref: 21141 ] £18 834. LAKER, JOHN. HISTORY OF DEAL. By John Laker, B.A., B.Sc.

Deal T.F. Pain and Sons, ‘Mercury’ Office, Queen Street, Deal. 1917 First Edition. 8vo. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. 420 pp. Fine condition. Bound in original decorated cloth, gilt. A very good copy of the scarce first edition of Laker's history, itself a reworking with many additions, of Stephen Pritchard's 1864 history. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 21719 ] £120 835. LAKER, JOHN. HISTORY OF DEAL.

Deal T.F. Pain & Sons. Second Edition. 1921. Second Edition, 4to. 10 x 6.5 inches. 443 pp. illustrated with plates from original drawings. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Lacks the rear free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. This is the second, much updated edition of Laker's history - itself a reworking with many additions of Pritchard's 1865 history. [ref: 21304 ] £115 836. LAMBARDE, WILLIAM. A PERAMBULATION OF KENT.

CONTAINING THE DESCRIPTION, HYSTORIE, AND CUSTOMES OF THAT SHIRE. WRITTEN IN THE YEERE 1570. Chatham, W. Burrill, 1826 but reprinted by Adams and Dart 1970 538 pp. with portrait. Original cloth in dust wrapper, a very good copy. This useful and affordable 1970 reprint of the Sixth Edition is surprisingly difficult to find. Richard Church contributes an interesting introduction to this edition. [ref: 17197 ] £45 EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY 837. LAMBARDE, WILLIAM. A PERAMBULATION OF KENT: CONTEINING THE DESCRIPTION, HYSTORIE, AND CUSTOMES OF THAT SHYRE. WRITTEN IN THE YEERE 1570. BY WILLIAM LAMBARD, OF LINCOLNE'S INN, GENT: First

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published in the yeere 1576. and now increased and altered after the Authors own last Copie. Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, 1596 2nd edition. 8vo. 5 x 7 inches let into large folio 10.5 x 16 inches. Frontis. + [10] + 588 pp. + [5] + [1].(Pagination errors, p.35 is numbered 31, p.239, 139). A-2O8, 2P-2P5. Illustrated with decorated title page, within broad border, vignette at beginning of epistle and 2 maps, a full page woodcut map, Anglia Heptarchia, with table of Saxon characters and exposition and a folding woodcut map, 'A Carde of the Beacons, in Kent.’ Extra illustrated with portrait and facsimile signature of Lambarde, 1594, serving as frontispiece, two page folding map, Mappa Thaneti Insule, similar to that in John Harris’ The History of Kent, 1719, and folding plate, The North Prospect of Canterbury, engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77) and published by John Ogilby (1600-76). Includes two dedication epistles and a Table (index), followed by list of ‘Faultes escaped’ (errata). Printed in black letter. Bound in recent calf, gilt; boards have blind stamped and gilt decorated borders; Spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt. Generally a fine clean copy. Early signature, Snm Galfridi Brissenden, on title page and partly cropped signature, John .?.way, 1614, at top of first dedication page. An impressive copy of the book that is the first English county history, here in the second and best edition (it was first published 1570 and later editions appeared in 1640, 1656, 1826, 1970, etc.). It is this work that inspired all subsequent county histories. William Lambarde (1536-1601) was a lawyer and antiquary and a personal consultant to Elizabeth I. This second edition contains the fine map of the beacon system for signalling danger from the coast to London, which was not to reappear in subsequent editions. ‘The description and historie of the shyre of Kent’ forms the greater part of the work and includes an account of its geography and pre-Conquest history, a new section on the execution of justice, a taxation summary by lathe, hundred and parish, a list of particular features (e.g. fairs, poorhouses, etc.), an account of the see of Canterbury and archbishops and a parish by parish account, with Thanet, the Goodwin Sands area and the Cinque Ports grouped together at the beginning. The final section lists the customs of Kent. The text of all later editions is taken from this beautiful Elizabethan black letter printing, one of the most desirable of Kentish books. This copy has been enhanced by being skilfully let into folio pages, extra illustrated with a portrait of Lambarde, an early map of the Isle of Thanet and a Hollar/Ogilby engraving of Canterbury and handsomely bound in calf. S108239 Smith p.1. Upcott 1/350 [ref: 20191 ] £2000 A FINE LAMBARDE 838. LAMBARDE, WILLIAM. A PERAMBULATION OF KENT: CONTEINING THE DESCRIPTION, HYSTORIE, AND CUSTOMES OF THAT SHYRE, WRITTEN IN THE YEERE 1570, BY WILLIAM LAMBARD, OF LINCOLNE'S INN, GENT. FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE 244

YEERE 1576, AND NOW INCREASED AND ALTERED AFTER THE AUTHOR'S OWNE LAST COPIE. Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant. 1596 4to. [10] + 588 + [5] pp. With a full page woodcut map of the Saxon Heptarchy and a folding woodcut map, 'A Card, of the Beacons, in Kent'. The Heptarchy map is trimmed close at the lower margin but retaining border. The ‘Card’ is complete with except for a small restoration to the lower edge only affecting about 1/8th of an inch of printed matter, otherwise it is in very good condition. Bound in 19th century full-calf, gilt, boards ruled, gilt . A fine crisp clean copy with good margins, the text is clean and fresh throughout. A single, neat marginal note in an old hand otherwise pristine. A fine copy. The first English county history, here in the second and most complete edition, dedicated to Thomas Wotton. Lambarde was a lawyer and antiquary and a personal consultant to Elizabeth 1. This 2nd edition contains the fine anonymous map of the beacon system for signalling danger from the coast to London, which was not to reappear in subsequent editions. The text of all later editions is taken from this beautiful Elizabethan black letter printing, one of the most desirable of Kentish books. A fine example. Smith p. 1. S.T.C. 15176. Upcott 1/350 [ref: 21626 ] £1950 839. LANGLEY, EDWARD. and WILLIAM BELCH. LANGLEY’S

NEW MAP OF KENT. Langley and Belch, No.17 High Street Borough, London. n.d. but c.1817 Steel-engraved map of Kent, 10 x 8 inches, in original full hand colouring, with two uncoloured inset vignettes, one depicting Hop picking, and the other Shipbuilding and Agriculture. A fine example, in very good condition. Attractive early 19th century map of the county with the decorative vignettes which show the county’s claims to fame. [ref: 17506 ] £150 840. LANGTON, ROBERT. CHARLES DICKENS AND ROCHESTER.

With Numerous Illustrations From Original Drawings by the late William Hull and the Author. Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1880 Booklet. 24 pp. + 12 illustrations on nine plates with a number of illustrations to the text. Original pictoral greyblue paper wrappers. Front a little dusty and creased otherwise a good copy. This nicely produced item is an offprint of a paper presented to the Manchester Literary Club, and reprinted by Dickens Publishers in a paper wrapper made to resemble the weekly parts of Dickens Works.

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841. LANSBERRY, FREDERICK. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN

KENT, 1640-1914 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge/Kent County Council. 2001 8vo. 302 pp. + 12 b/w illustrations on 8 plates, with 7 figures to the text and 6 maps. Original black cloth. As new in like dust wrapper. This volume, the seventh in the Kent History Project, complements those already published on the economy of Kent and religion and society in Kent between 1640 and 1914. The volume begins with an important new assessment of the impact of the Civil Wars and Interregnum in Kent, which challenges some of the interpretations of previous studies of this period of Kent's history. The major thrust of the volume is, however, the transformation of Kent’s government from a system controlled by a small number of landed families into one which, on the eve of the First World War, involved a much broader range of people from the commercial, industrial and professional classes. There are also detailed studies of political radicalism in Kent between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries and of the impact of crime and the maintenance of public order. [ref: 19666 ] £65 842. LANSBERRY, H. C. F. SEVENOAKS WILLS AND INVENTORIES

IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II. Edited by H. C. F. Lansberry. (Kent Records. Volume XXV). Maidstone Kent Archaeological Society. 1988 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xxxiv + 266 pp. Serial title. Illustrated by 8 black and white photographic plates at end. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with Society’s device on front board, in laminated pictorial dust wrapper. Fine condition. This volume of the Kent Records series prints the wills and inventories of 153 households in the parish of Sevenoaks, which includes Sevenoaks Town, Sevenoaks Weald and Riverhead. The occupations covered include yeomen and husbandmen, craftsmen, tradesmen and innkeepers as well as gentlemen. The inventories are of particular value to economic historians, listing not only domestic and household items, but also the tools, equipment and stock of various trades and the implements, grain, hay, hops and livestock held by the farmers. For instance we find there were seven teams of four and one team of six oxen, the most favoured draught animals for working the land, particularly the heavy clay of the Weald. Appendices provide the 1664 Hearth Tax Returns for the area, the Rental of the Manor of Sevenoaks, 1665 and livestock and crop prices in the inventories, 1665-80. [ref: 21200 ] £30 843. LARN, RICHARD. GOODWIN SANDS SHIPWRECKS. Newton Abbot David & Charles, 1977.

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8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. 176 pp. Half title. Illustrated with ten maps in frontispiece and 32 numbered photographic plates, plus frontispiece. Bound in original red cloth in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Now scarce standard work on the subject. The chronological maps record the sites of every known wreck, and there is a comprehensive alphabetical index of ships lost at the end. [ref: 21297 ] £25 844. LARN, RICHARD and BRIDGET. SHIPWRECKS OF THE

GOODWIN SANDS. David & Charles. 1979 191 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations. Laminated pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. Now scarce standard work on the subject. This is the paperback reissue of original edition. [ref: 18118 ] £12 LEA’S KENT, 1693.

845. LEA, PHILIP. TO HIS GRACE THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN

GOD JOHN [TILLOTSON] BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND AND METRAPOLITAN, AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTIES MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, &C. THIS NEW MAP OF KENT IS MOST HUMBLY PRESENTED AND DEDICATED BY P. LEA. [From The Shires of England and Wales, described by Christopher Saxton, Being the Best and Originall Mapps With many Additions and Corrections Viz: ye Hundds, Roads, etc. by Philip Lea. Also the new Surveis of Ogilby, Seller, etc. Sold by Phillip Lea. [c.1693] ]. P. Lea, London. [1693] Large copper-engraved map. First state, 21.25 x 16.25 inches to plate mark, margins concealed by mount. [approx. scale, one inch to three miles]. Upper left panel with key to River Thames and, to the right, eight shields with coats of arms. Centre left, A Table of Explanations and below it A Scale of Miles. Lower left, a plan of Canterbury, based on Speed, and to the right of it a panel with four columns listing the places identified on the plan. Lower right, dedication panel, surmounted by mitre and Archbishop’s coat of arms. Very attractively later hand-colouring. Traces of old folds and an old, minor repair to top right margin where small piece has been torn away and skilfully replaced (so skilfully it could not be detected until map was removed from frame and held to the light), affecting about one inch of the border of the map and blank sea area. Otherwise a fine copy. A fine hand-coloured map of Kent, divided into the five lathes and further divided into hundreds, with a separate plan of Canterbury. Symbols are used to indicate the sees, deaneries, shire towns, corporations, market, fair and post towns, cinque ports, country houses, parish churches, etc. The City of London is shown at the top left and the estuary and lower reaches of the Thames are shown in some detail with the channels, shoals and banks indicated and coloured. This new map of Kent was commissioned by Philip Lea, instrument-maker and mapseller, who had bought the Saxton plates in 1665, prior to reworking

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and updating them. It replaced the original Saxton (also including Surrey and Sussex) and later Ogilby maps, used in earlier editions of his county atlas, The Shires of England and Wales. The date of this edition, in its first state, may be inferred by the dedication to John Tillotson, who was Archbishop, 1691-94. After Lea’s death in 1700 his widow Anne continued the business; following her death in about 1730, the copper plates were again sold and a new printing of the Kent map was issued by John and Thomas Bowles, 1730-33. A handsome depiction of the county. Burgess, Printed Maps of Kent, 26-ii. Skelton, 12. O’Shea Gallery Catalogue, Kent and the Channel, 38. Burden, Catalogue V, 49. B.L. Maps C 7 c 4 and Maps C 21 e 11. [ref: 20604 ] £1650 846. LEATHER, JOHN. THE SAILOR’S COAST. An East Coast Evocation

from the Photographs of Douglas Went. Barrie and Jenkins, London. 1979 Folio. 112 pp. with b/w illustration throughout. Original black cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. [ref: 20812 ] £15 847. LEE - HART, F. H. HISTORY OF LEE AND ITS

NEIGHBOURHOOD, By F. H. Hart, Member of the Lee Parochial Committees, Guardian of the Poor, etc., and formerly Overseer for the Parish of Lee, and Surveyor of Highways. (Thamesmead Histories Vol. II). Conway Maritime Press, 7 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London, S.E.10. 1971 Reprint of first edition of 1882. 8vo. 6.5 x 9.25 inches. [viii], 100 pp. + [8] pp. new index. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with price clipped blue and grey pictorial dust wrapper and blue top edges. Slight spotting of edges otherwise a fine clean copy. Hart lived in the parish of Lee for more than seventy years and collected his material for this history while serving on various parochial committees. In addition to Lee, the work covers Eltham, Lewisham, Blackheath, Charlton and Greenwich. A fine reprint of a work first published in 1882. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20209 ] £25 848. LEEDS CASTLE - HARRIS, EDWIN. THE SIEGE OF LEEDS

CASTLE. By Edwin Harris. Ilkley The Scholar Press. No date but c.1980. 8vo. 5 x 7.75 inches. [xii] + 240 pp. + [12]. Illustrated by 7 plates, including frontispiece. In printed card wrappers. Printed address label on first free endpaper. Undated facsimile reprint by the Scholar Press of the this novel, originally published by Edwin Harris and Sons, Printers, Eastgate, Rochester, 1906. [ref: 21748 ] £12

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849. LEEDS, C.S. CHATS ABOUT GILLINGHAM. AN OUTLINE OF ITS

PAST AND PRESENT HISTORY. Gillingham: Parrett & Neves, 1906 First Edition, Tall 8vo., [12] + 247 + (4) pp. with photo illustrations throughout. Bound in full morocco gilt, with the alms of the town on the upper board in gilt, a little worn on extremities but a very good copy. A good example of this scarce history, the subscribers list printed at the rear of the volume accounts for 230 copies it it likely only a few more than this number were printed. The work is scarce. [ref: 18434 ] £175 ENGLAND AND WALES IN 1835.

850. LEIGH, SAMUEL. LEIGH’S NEW POCKET ROAD-BOOK OF

ENGLAND AND WALES: Containing an Account of all the direct and Cross-Roads; together with a Description of every remarkable Place: its Curiosities, Manufactures, Commerce, Population, and principal Inns; to which are added Pleasure Tours to the most picturesque Parts of the Country. The whole forming a complete Guide to every Object worthy of the Attention of Travellers. Fifth Edition, carefully revised. Printed for Leigh and Son, 421, Strand, (removed from 18.), London. 1835 12mo. 3.75 x 5.75 inches. Engraved table serving as frontis. + iv + engraved title + 55 county maps + 498 pp., including 10 pp. advertisemenst. Illustrated by engraved table and title, Leigh’s New Atlas of England and Wales to 55 hand-coloured county maps. There is no general map of England and Wales included in this copy. Bound in green morocco, gilt. Extremities worn, sometime rather crudely rebacked, preserving the original spine. Occasional light foxing but otherwise a good copy. The New Pocket Road-Book was first published by Samuel Leigh in 1825 and was issued until the tenth edition of 1842-43. The fifth edition of 1835 contained one hundred more pages than the first and this version also added the fifty-five maps of Leigh’s New Atlas, first published in 1820, with maps engraved by Sidney Hall. The Road-Book contains 247 routes, followed by sections on cross-roads and six pleasure tours. These list not only 249

obvious scenic attractions, but also the mills and iron works of the industrial East Midlands and North. A scarce volume; COPAC lists this fifth edition as being held by only four UK libraries: the British Library, Leeds, Manchester and the National Library of Scotland. [ref: 20962 ] £250 851. LETTS, SON & CO. LETTS’S CYCLING MAP OF FIFTY MILES

ROUND LONDON From the Ordnance Survey, Sixth Edition, May 1887, Ninth Thousand.[Extending from Bicester to Harwich and Portsmouth to Dover, including the entire coast of Kent]. Mason & Payne, 41 Cornhill, London, E.C. 1887 Coloured lithographic map, 30 x 23.5 inches, dissected and laid on to linen. Preserved within the original cloth-covered boards with gilt title and Penny-farthing illustration to upper board, with advertising labels inside upper board and on map end fold. A very good example. Hyde 179 (2a). [ref: 21477 ] £200 852. LEWIS, ARTHUR D. THE KENT COAST. (The County Coast series) T.Fisher Unwin. 1911 A interesting picture of the Kent coast at the eve of the first world war; included is a chapter on H.G. Wells and Spade House, and the 'Wells Coast.' [ref: 19026 ] £25

FIRST EDITION OF LEWIS’S HISTORY OF THANET. 853. LEWIS, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES, AS WELL ECCLESIASTICAL AS CIVIL, OF THE ISLE OF THANET, IN KENT. For the Author, London. 1723 First edition. 4to. 140 pp. + 103 pp. with 2 copper-engraved maps and 5 copper-engraved plates and other illustrations in the text. Contemporary panelled calf, spine tooled in gilt. A fine, unsophisticated copy. One of only 150 copies published at 10/6. Lewis, (1675-1746) who was variously Curate of Acrise, Hawkinge and Saltwood, later expanded this work in the second edition of 1736. This is much the scarcest of the two editions. [ref: 19668 ] £450

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EXTRA ILLUSTRATED LARGE PAPER COPY 854. LEWIS, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES, AS WELL ECCLESIASTICAL AS CIVIL, OF THE ISLE OF THANET, IN KENT and A COLLECTION OF PAPERS, RECORDS, ETC. REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF TENET. Second editon with additions. For the Author and for Joseph Ames, and Peter Thompson; and sold by J. Osborn, at the Golden Ball in Pater-noster Row. 1736 Large 4to. viii + 204 pp. + 124 with 4 copper-engraved maps and 21 copperengraved plates and other plates in the text. Bound in full straight-grained crimson morocco, the spine in compartments with raised bands with a single gilt line on the bands and elaborate tooling in blind in the compartments. Boards panelled with a diamond intersecting the square and elaborate blind tooling and an armorial crest in a blind-tooled lozenge in the center. Extremities slightly rubbed and corners bumped, but a fine example. A very attractive large-paper copy of the second and best edition of Lewis’s Thanet, one of the greatest of the eighteenth century histories of the Kentish regions, with some valuable extra material inserted. The extra illustrations are :A large folding map of Thanet by S. Parker (published in Harris’s History of Kent 1719) bound in bef ore the title. Three hand-coloured etched plates from the extremely rare ‘Six Views in Kent, in colours, by Amelia Noel’ published in 1797. These are loosely inserted into the front of the volume. The binding is impressive and is a rare example of a Staggemeier attributed binding. An old penciled note on the front free endpaper to this effect and comparison with other examples of his work support the attribution. L. Staggemeier came from Germany but was working in London on his own in Villiers Street by about 1793. By 1799 he was in partnership with Samuel Welcher, and in their heyday they were one of the most prolific of the West End binderies, producing ‘extra’ quality work. They seem to have separated about 1810 and had disappeared from the Directories by 1820. [ref: 16213 ] £850

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EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY. 855. LEWIS, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL OF THE ISLE OF TENET IN KENT. London: Printed in the year 1723 Large folio, 10 x 15 inches, within which are skilfully let in the leaves of the quarto first edition with additional illustrations. viii + 140 pp. + 103 pp. with the 8 plates of the first edition and 13 additional plates (see list below). A previous owner, in an old hand, has added 4 sides of neat manuscript index. Bound in later half-calf over marbled boards with spine in compartments, decorated gilt, raised bands, and a contrasting leather title label, gilt. The additional plates are as follows and include six of the twenty-four rare Walker views: Buck’s View of Richborough from the North-West, 1735; Stukely’s double view of Portus Rutupiae from Sandwich, and South-West view of Richborough Castle, 1722; The Gentleman’s Magazine illustration of The Palace of Ford, with Salmeston Grange, and Minster Church and Manor House, 1811; Walker’s Thorn Farm in Minster, 1812; A Plan of Ramsgate Harbour from Smeaton’s Historical Report, 1791; Stockdale’s View of St. Lawrence Church, 1810, from his Etchings of Antiquities in the County of Kent, of which only 250 copies were published; A View of Broadstairs, engraved from a drawing by Nixon, showing the famous archway; Walker’s Stone House, nr Broadstairs, 1812; Walker’s Helicon Dale, nr Ramsgate, 1812; Sewell’s view of King’s Gate, near Margate, Kent, from the European Magazine, 1787; Walker’s view of Kingsgate; his view of Joss Stairs, Kingsgate; and of Kingsgate from the Sands, all 1812. The aquatints by George Walker were published in his Twenty-Four Picturesque Views of the Isle of Thanet. Letting-in involves cutting a hole in a larger, heavier leaf, that is slightly smaller than the leaf of the work to be mounted, and pasting the smaller leaf over the aperture, thus exposing both sides of the leaf, much in the manner of a pane of glass in a window frame. [ref: 20135 ] £1000 856. LEWISHAM - DUNCAN, LELAND. HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH

OF LEWISHAM, WITH AN ITINERARY. WITH CHAPTERS ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT BY W.H. GRIFFIN, AND ON THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES BY A.W. HISCOX, SOMETIME MAYOR OF THE BOROUGH. Charles North, The Blackheath Press. 1908 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. xvi + 173 pp. with 73 b/w illustrations including frontis. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. 252

The standard history of that part of London which used to be Kent. [ref: 20190 ] £65 857. LEWISHAM ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. THE PROCEEDINGS OF

THE LEWISHAM ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY FOR 1908-1912. Printed for the Society by Charles North, The Blackheath Press, London, S.E. 1913 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xxvii + 32 99. Illustrated by [three] plates, one serving as frontispiece. Title page in red and black. Half-title. Bound in original cloth, gilt. Ink inscription, dated 1924, on first free endpaper. Fine clean condition throughout. The preliminaries are concerned with the routine business of the Society, lists of officers and members, reports, list of publications, etc. The one article, Odds and Ends of Lewisham History, is by Leland L. Duncan. It includes sections on the tower of the parish church, two accounts of household possessions, based on probate inventories of 1529 and 1576 and the bounds of the Manor of Lewisham, etc. [ref: 20265 ] £25 BOTH SMUGGLER AND CUSTOMS OFFICER

858. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF GABRIEL TOMKYNS, Who

was executed at Bedford on Friday, March 23, 1749-50, for robbing the Chester Mail. Containing, I, His Parentage, Education, and excessive Love of Pleasure in his Youth... II, His debauching a young Woman of a good Family, whom he soon slighted III, His Enlargement from that Prison, and being admitted a Riding Officer of the Customs; his Intrigues with the Kent and Sussex Smugglers... IV, His Adventures in this Course of Life: Robbing the Chester Mail July 2, 1746... V, His Trial... To which are added, The Lives, Transactions, Trial, Behaviour, Confession, and dying speeches of Thomas Munns and John Hall, alias Rich, who were executed at Chelmsford in Essex, on Friday, April 6, 1750, for robbing the Yarmouth Mail, and hang’d in Chains on Haslewood Common. London Printed and sold by T. Wynn in the Old-Baily: and sold at the Pamphlet-shops. No date, but 1750. Pamphlet sewn as issued. 8vo . 4.5 x 7.25 inches. 24 pp. Decorated with headpiece vignette and initial. A very good example. A lively account of the life of one of the lesser-known rogues of the eighteenth century, written soon after his execution, by someone who claimed to have known him for thirty-seven years. Gib Tomkyns (as he was known), smuggler turned informer and Customs Riding Officer, turned smuggler again as well as confidence trickster and highwayman. He was born at Burwash, East Sussex. The young Tomkyns joined the Mayfield Gang, being arrested in 1721, 1724 and 1729, often persuading the authorities to release him in exchange for informing on fellow smugglers, including a wealthy London tea dealer. Eventually the government issued him a warrant as a Riding Officer and he used his knowledge of the Sussex smugglers to seize many cargoes. With his official salary ‘and the Hush-Money he received from the Smugglers (besides what he got by his private Trade in that wicked

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Practice),’ he was receiving an income of £600 per annum. However, he became haughty and insolent, squandering his income on high living ‘and took to Drinking hot Gin Flip, and other mean Liquors.’ After leaving the customs service in 1741, he fell on hard times, being slighted by his former associates, and was forced to earn a living by becoming ‘a Walking Smuggler,’ carrying tea into London in his greatcoat pockets, being assisted by ‘an impudent, pert, young Hussey’ on horseback, ‘the Daughter of a Charcoal-Burner near Godstone-Quarry...they agreed so well together, that they made but one Bed when in London, and before the Girl was 14 Years of age, she was delivered of a Son at one Mother Bunce’s, who kept a Bawdy House in Sheer-Lane near Temple-Bar.’ Many more roguish adventures are recounted, including his confidence tricks which gained the silver tankard and a valuable trunk from a coach, his seizure by a smuggling gang on a Flushing cutter and rescue by a sloop of war just as he was going to be thrown overboard, his frauds with counterfeit bank notes, and even the theft of all the whores’ finery from a bawdy house near Covent Garden. The author is inclined to diversion, narrating the activities of other rogues, including members of the Hawkhurst Gang. Tomkyns was executed in late March 1750 and the pamphlet is listed in the May monthly catalogue of the London Magazine for that year. Written in a robust style and full of picturesque anecdotes, this is an is exceptionally rare pamphlet and is not in ESTC; COPAC records only one copy, held by the National Trust, and none are listed in WorldCat. Smugglers’ Britain. East Sussex gangs (web site). [ref: 21274 ] £850 859. LINDLEY, KENNETH COASTLINE Written and illustrated by

Kenneth Lindley Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 178-202, Great Portland St., London W1. 1967 First edition. 4to. 6.75 x 9.75 inches. 159 pp. Illustrated with black and white drawings by author, photographs and reproductions of engravings, etc. Bound in original yellow cloth with pictorial design continuing across boards and spine. Pictorial coloured dust wrapper with watercolour of Edward Ardizzone on front and spine. Blue and black pictorial endpapers. A little wear at extremities, small section missing from lower edge of front inside wrapper and some foxing to edges. Otherwise fine clean copy. An illustrated survey of coastal features and attractions. It includes chapters on ports and resorts, bungalows, piers, beach objects, forgotten industries, lighthouses, creeks and inlets, caravans, signs and notices, souvenirs, etc. Kenneth Arthur Lindley (born 1928) is a well known artist and illustrator who has also published several other books on the coast, including Seaside Architecture (1973). Edward Ardizzone (1900-79), who painted the watercolour drawing of Southend featured on the wrapper, was a famous author and illustrator of children’s books. [ref: 20206 ] £25

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WATERCOLOUR VIEW OF LOST FOLKESTONE STREET 860. LIVENS, HORACE MANN DOVER STREET Partially obscured signature and date, 1908 Pencil and watercolour wash on grey/brown paper, approximately 11.5 x 15 inches, mounted and framed to museum conservation standard. The view seen is looking down Dover Street towards the harbour, with the distinctive building known today as Shangri-La at the end of The Bayle Parade in the distance. Dover Street is known today as the residential area Harbour Way, but in 1908 was lined with Georgian town houses, some shops and at least one pub. This area of Folkestone was completely demolished in the slum clearances after the First World War, and remained undeveloped until the post-war development of council housing. This scene is typical of Livens’ expressive depiction of slanting sunlight dramatically highlighting buildings, leaving unpainted tinted paper for areas of dark shadow. Two small figures recede at the foot of the hill and another closer to the viewer emerges from a doorway on the left. A dressed mannequin can be seen in the glazed bay window of a dress shop on the right. This painting and another were purchased together, when a number of Levins’ pictures were sold at auction quite recently. Although Levins is not a household name, his paintings are represented in the Tate Gallery, the British Museum, the Government Art Collection, the VandA, the National Museum of Wales, the Honeywood Museum Carshalton, City of Bradford Museum, Brighton Museum, the National Gallery of Canada and the Royal Borough of Kensington Collection. [ref: 20926 ] £1550

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WATERCOLOUR VIEW OF LOST FOLKESTONE STREET 861. LIVENS, HORACE MANN LITTLE FENCHURCH STREET Signed and dated, H M Livens 08. 1908 Pencil and watercolour wash on grey/brown paper, approximately 12 x 15 inches, mounted and framed to museum conservation standard. The view seen is looking west up Fenchurch Street, which is known today as St Michael’s Street, from the point where it joined Dover Street, now known as Harbour Way. The building in the centre of the picture is the George III public house, which was open until 1961, when it was demolished and replaced with modern housing. This part of Folkestone is practically unrecognisable today, even to a local, so dramatic are the changes to the once close-knit fishermen’s quarter where streets had evolved unplanned and remained unchanged since the 18th century. Most artists, if they came to Folkestone at all, painted the picturesque harbour or clifftop views. Livens has been drawn to the seedier, picaresque subject of the tumble-down side streets. A woman animates the scene, trotting along the pavement in a large hat, ankle-length skirt, and bright blue blouse. The chief interest in the picture lies in the dramatic depiction of sunlight falling across the facade of the pub, whilst we, the viewer, peer upwards from the gloom of the narrow, huddled buildings below. The genius lies in Livens’ technique of leaving the dark paper unpainted to depict areas of shadow, including the shape of a tall chimney which lies outside of our view to the left. [ref: 20925 ] £1550 862. LLOYD, DAVID. W. HISTORIC TOWNS OF SOUTH EAST

ENGLAND. Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1987 4to. 160 pp. Photo illustrated throughout. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy. An alphabetical guide to the more interesting towns of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire. Well-illustrated. [ref: 7996 ] £10 CIVIL WAR PAMPHLET 863. THE LONG PARLIAMENT. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT. CONCERNING THE LATE REBELLIOUS INSURRECTION IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. WHEREBY A COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED FOR THE SAID COUNTY,

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FORTHWITH TO SEIZE UPON ALL THE ARMES AND HORSES, AND IMPRISON THE PERSONS OF ALL THOSE THAT APPEARED IN, OR GIVEN ANY ASSISTANCE TO THAT INSURRECTION, AND REBELLION; OR HAVE WILLINGLY RELIEVED ANY OF THE SAID REBELS, WITH ARMES, AMMUNITION, MONEY OR OTHERWISE. August 19. Printed for John Wright, in the Old Bailey, 1643 Small 4to. Title (within woodcut typographic border ) + 5 pp. Bound in quarter morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine and manuscript label on upper board. The paper of the pamphlet is uniformly browned as usual. Verso of title page is stamped ‘British Museum sale duplicate 1787’ this records that this example was disposed of by the British Museum in one of their celebrated duplicate sales. A very good example of an extremely rare item. During the first year of the Civil War there were several unsuccessful attempts to organize revolts in Kent and a serious outbreak of violence took place in July 1643. The immediate cause of this uprising was the strong feeling aroused in the county by the attempt to make the people take the Covenant to support the forces raised in defense of Parliament following the discovery of the royalist plot of Edmund Waller in May 1643. The minister of Ightham refused to administer the Covanant and was consequently arrested despite his parishioners’ attempts to assist him. This incident set off the disturbances. Sevenoaks became a centre of armed resistance and armed groups also gathered at Aylesford and near Faversham. Roads from the county to London and to Surrey were secured, Chatham dockyard was threatened and much of the county was in an unsettled state. Negotiations were opened between the County Committee and the rebels but before definite results had been achieved, Parliament sent troops into the county. The rebels in Sevenoaks-Tonbridge area where subdued. Rebel reinforcements from Aylesford got as far as Yalding but submitted there to the Parliamentary forces and pockets of resistance in other parts of were also suppressed. [ref: 17952 ] £650 864. LOXTON, HOWARD. PILGRIMAGE TO CANTERBURY.

An interesting account of the Becket murder and the pilgrimages which were to follow. Who were the pilgrims, where did they come from, and what routes did they travel? [ref: 15604 ] £15 865. LUGARD, CECIL E. (Compiled by) SEASALTER. BOROUGH,

MANOR AND PARISH. Printed by Elvy Bros., “Whitstable Times” Office. No date but c.1930 v + 35 pp. + 3 b/w illustrations, 2 full-page, including a drawing by R.H. Goodsall (of Kentish Patchwork fame) of the proposed reconstruction of Old Seasalter Church. Original printed buff card wrappers. Wrapper a trifle dusty otherwise a near fine example. Valuable reference for local historians focussing on the Parish and Church records. Scarce.

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SCARCE NOVEL OF THE SOUTH DOWNS 866. LUSHINGTON, ELLEN E. STORM AND CALM ON THE DOWNS By Ellen E. Lushington, Author of ‘Westfield Village,’ and ‘A Land and Sea Story.’ Walter Smith, London and Frederick Bunyard, Maidstone 1884 8vo. [viii] + 391pp. Original brown cloth with embossed decoration in black, gilt Water stains on rear boards Some brown staining and small holes in last twelve pages and rear end papers. Ink inscription on half title Scarce novel of the South Downs by Ellen E. Lushington (1817-after 1881): ‘It was with a desire to represent some of the scenery of the South Downs, and to recall some of their associations, that this story was commenced.’ [ref: 19055 ] £35 867. LYDD - DUNCAN, LELAND L. Edited by ARTHUR FINN

MOMUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN THE CHURCHYARD AND CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS’ LYDD, KENT. Kent Archæological Society 1927 First Edition. ix + 68 pp. Original green card wrappers. Spine repaired, some foxing, otherwise a good copy. [ref: 18719 ] £20

STANDARD HISTORY 868. LYON, REV. JOHN. THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND PORT OF DOVER, AND OF DOVER CASTLE; WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE CINQUE PORTS. Dover, Printed for the Author, by Ledger and Shaw and sold by them, and all the Booksellers in the County of Kent; and by Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown, 39, Paternoster Row, London. 1813 + 1814 First Edition, 2 volumes. 4to. 11.5 x 9 inches. Volume One [xii] + xlviii + 366 pp , Volume two, [viii] + 390 pp. illustrated with 18 copper

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engraved plates, 8 of which are folding. Quarter bound in contrasting cloth, lettered on the spines. An attractive copy, internally clean with the folding plates in much better than usual condition, with only a few closed tears and slight offsetting. The first volume gives an account of Dover town and port from the time of Julius Caesar to publication, and the Second volume is devoted to the History of the Castle and the Customal of the Cinque Ports. Lyon (1734 - 1814) was minister of St. Mary the Virgin for forty=five years, and devoted his academic life to local research. Apart from anti-liberal pamphlets published during the French Revolution this was his only publication. It remains the most important antiquarian history of the town and port of Dover. The subscribers list accounts for 203 copies, so it is probable that no more than 250 copies were printed. [ref: 21020 ] £200 PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HARVEY 869. MACARDELL, JAMES. WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D. OBIT 1657. ÆTAT 79. FROM A PRIVATE PLATE BY MACARDELL. Published by Messrs., Chas. J Sawyer Ltd. Grafton House London W. n.d. but c.1925 Black mezzotint, 10 x 13 inches. A very good example. Attractive mezzotint portrait of the pioneer of medicine, Dr. William Harvey. The artist James MacArdell was born Dublin in 1729 and died in London in 1765. He worked primarily as a mezzotinter. This plate was published around 1930, in London, by Messrs. Charles J. Sawyer, Ltd. from the original eighteenth century plate which survived in a private collection. Impressions from this plate taken in the eighteenth century were very rare. When the original plate was discovered in the 1920s, a small number of impressions were taken from it by Sawyer, a London bookseller. These are now very scarce. [ref: 16944 ] £250 870. MACDOUGALL, PHILIP. CHATHAM DOCKYARD IN OLD

PHOTOGRAPHS Alan Sutton, Gloucester 1994 8vo.128 pp. Original laminated card wrappers. A very good example. A thorough history of the great dockyard, in photographs. [ref: 18063 ] £12 871. MACDOUGALL, PHILIP. CHATHAM PAST Phillimore, Chichester. 1999

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4to. 129 pp. with many good illustrations from old documents, prints etc., as well as photographs. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper. A very good example. A thorough history of the town, now out of print. [ref: 17301 ] £14 872. MACDOUGALL, PHILIP. OLD CHATHAM . A SECOND

PICTUREBOOK. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1984 48 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. Original laminated card wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18663 ] £10 873. MACDOUGALL, PHILIP. THE STORY OF THE HOO PENINSULA. John Hallewell Publications, 172 High Street, Rochester. 1980 First Edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xi, 212 pp.+ [3] pp. Illustrated by black and white photographs. Half-title, four appendixes and index. Original blue cloth, gilt, spine a little sunned. A good copy in spine-faded pictorial dust wrapper. Has become quite scarce. Kent Bibliography Supplement [ref: 20207 ] £30

874. MACDOUGALL, PHILLIP. CHATHAM BUILT WARSHIPS SINCE

1860. Maritime Books, Liskeard, Cornwall. 1982 8vo. 112 pp. illustrated throughout with photos and drawings. Pictorial card covers. A very good copy. A complete list with an illustration of nearly every ship. [ref: 15590 ] £10 875. MCINTOSH, K.H. (Edited by) CHISLET AND WESTBERE.

Villages of the Stour Lathe. With articles on Upstreet, Hersden, Sturry and Fordwich. K.H. McIntosh, Ramsgate. 1979 164 pp., with b/w photographic illustrations and folding map by Roger Higham. Printed card wrappers. Good. [ref: 13691 ] £5 876. McNAY, MICHAEL. PORTRAIT OF A KENTISH VILLAGE. EAST

MALLING 827 - 1978. Gollancz. 1980 First Edition, 8vo. 9.5 x 6 inches, 144 pp. with maps and photo illustrations throughout. Original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. A very good copy. A good modern history, now out of print. [ref: 20881 ] £15 KENTISH MIRACLE

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877. MAIDSTONE: THE KENTISH MIRACLE; OR, A SEASONABLE

WARNING TO ALL SINNERS. Shewing the wonderful relation of one Mary Moor whose husband died some time ago, and left her with two children, who was reduced to great want. How she wandered about the Country asking relief and went two days without food. How the devil appeared to her, and the many offers he made to her to deny Christ and enter into his service, and how she confuted Satan by her powerful arguments; and she came to a fountain of water where she fell on her knees prayed to Almighty God that he would give that virtue to the water that it might refresh and satisfy her children's hunger. Likewise an account how an angel appeared to her and relieved her, also declared many things that shall happen very speedily. Shewing likewise what strange and surprizing accidents shall happen by means of an approaching war, and concerning a dreadful earthquake, &c. No place or date but c.1750 Small pamphlet, approximately 3.5 x 6 inches. 8 pp. with a decorative headpiece and the Royal Coat-of-Arms George I as a tailpiece. A trifle dusty and fore edges a little creased, but a very good example of a rare item. This item closely resembles the pamphlet entitled ‘A Strange and Wonderful Relation’ (see list under Maidstone) in which a shepherd has a visitation from an Angel who warns of God’s dire retribution on the world’s sinners should they not repent, including war, earthquakes, storms and ‘distemper among horned cattle’. Rare. [ref: 18109 ] £250

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MAIDSTONE - [ALLCHIN, J.H.] [MAIDSTONE] MUSEUM, PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND BENTLIF ART GALLERY. REPORT OF THE CURATOR AND LIBRARIAN. From November 1st, 1908, to October 31st, 1910. With an Appendix, being a report on the Annual Conference of The Museums Association in Maidstone, 1909, and York, 1910. Walter Ruck, Maidstone. 1911 93 pp. + 4 b/w plates. Original printed paper wrappers. A comprehensive report on the activities of the Museum, Library and Gallery including latest acquisitions, exhibitions, loans, exchanges, visitor numbers, etc. Scarce. [ref: 18101 ] £40 879. MAIDSTONE - AMPREY, A.S. (Edited by) A GUIDE TO THE

BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE. Compiled by Order of the Mayor and Corporation. Printed and published by Walter Ruck, Maidstone, 1919 Second edition, oblong 8vo., 7.25 x 5.75 inches. [10] adverts + 116 pp. + [2] adverts. with numerous b/w photographic illustrations. Original printed boards. Hinges a little loose, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce Maidstone guide with interesting advertisements. [ref: 19729 ] £85

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880. MAIDSTONE - BARTLETT, W. Artist, and H. ADLARD,

Engraver. MAIDSTONE FROM THE WATER. ORIGINAL HANDCOLOURED, ENGRAVED VIEWS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY SHEPHERD AND OTHERS PUBLISHED. London. 1829 Hand-coloured steel engraving, 6 x 4 inches approx. Mounted in conservation materials. These well-known views show, in detail, Kent in the early nineteenth century. They were published to illustrate Ireland's History of Kent (and Virtue's Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain). [ref: 17051 ] £25 881. MAIDSTONE - GILBERT, WALTER B. MEMORIALS OF THE

COLLEGIATE AND PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, IN THE KING’S TOWN AND PARISH OF MAIDSTONE, TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF INCUMBENTS, CHURCHWARDENS AND OTHER OFFICERS, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME. Wescomb and Smith, Maidstone, 1866 Small 8vo. 230 pp. Original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt. A trifle rubbed at extremities otherwise a very good copy. [ref: 19707 ] £60 882. MAIDSTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF MAIDSTONE AND

NEIGHBOURHOOD. 1964. Kelly's Directories. 1964 8vo. xii + A8b + 514 pp. Lacking the map. Original printed cloth. Clean copy. [ref: 17611 ] £25 883. MAIDSTONE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. MEMORIES OF

MAIDSTONE. KENT COUNTY LIBRARY 1987 76 pp. 4 pp of illustrations Original pictorial card covers A very good copy. A fascinating window on to a variety of experiences. Local people offer an insight into life in Maidstone from the early part of the last century, varying from schools, tramways, to the workhouse etc. [ref: 18353 ] £10 884. MAIDSTONE ELECTORS REGISTER. THE REGISTER OF

ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, Between the Thirtieth day of November, 1851, and the First day of December, 1852. Printed by Smith and Son, 10 Week Street, Maidstone. 1851 Folio. 28 pp. Preserved in original paper wrappers, on which is the title page.

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The first 8 pages are a list of Freemen (536), the remainder are ‘A List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members for the Borough of Maidstone, in respect of Property occupied within the Parish of Maidstone ....’ This contains a further 1751 names. Registers like these became statutory in the 1830s and were published frequently, but do not survive in any numbers. [ref: 16849 ] £45 885. MAIDSTONE ELECTORS REGISTER. THE REGISTER OF

ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, Between the thirtieth day of November 1855, and the first day of December 1856. Maidstone: Wickham and Son, Printers, Week Street. 1855 Folio. 32 pp. Preserved in original paper wrappers, on which is the title page. The first 8 pages are a list of Freemen (471), the remainder are ‘A List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members for the Borough of Maidstone, in respect of Property occupied within the Parish of Maidstone, .....’ This contains a further 1789 names. Registers like these became statutory in the 1830s and were published frequently, but they do not survive in any numbers. [ref: 16851 ] £45 886. MAIDSTONE ELECTORS REGISTER. THE REGISTER OF

ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, During the year 1870. Maidstone: Printed by W.H. Vale, King Street. 1869 Folio. 62 pp. Preserved in original paper wrappers, on which is the title page. The first 10 pages are a list of Freemen (371), the remainder are ‘A List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members for the Borough of Maidstone, in respect of Property occupied within the Parish of Maidstone, .....’. This contains a further 3357 names. Registers like these became statutory in the 1830s and were published frequently, but they do not survive in any numbers. [ref: 16852 ] £65 887. MAIDSTONE ELECTORS REGISTER. THE REGISTER OF

ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, During the year 1872. Maidstone: Printed by W.H. Vale, King Street. 1871 Folio. 64 pp. Preserved in original paper wrappers, on which is the title page. The first 10 pages are a list of Freemen (371), the remainder are ‘A List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members for the Borough of Maidstone, in respect of Property occupied within the Parish of Maidstone, .....’. This contains a further 3473 names. Registers like these became statutory in the 1830s and were published frequently, but they do not survive in any numbers. [ref: 16853 ] £65

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888. MAIS, S.P.B. SOUTHERN RAMBLES - KENT. British Railways, Southern Region, London 1950 12mo. 200 pp. Endpaper maps and illustrations throughout. Original pictorial card wrappers. A little bumped and front endpaper map dampstained, otherwise a good example. Attractive pocket-sized companion for the Southern Region in the last days of steam. [ref: 18181 ] £10 889. MAJOR, ALAN. A NEW DICTIONARY OF KENT DIALECT. Meresborough Books. 1981 8vo. 148 pp. with diagrams. Original laminated hardcover. Spine slightly faded, but a very good copy. Augmented and expanded edition of Parish and Shaw’s dialect dictionary published in 1888. This new edition has now become quite hard to find. [ref: 17203 ] £20

890. MAJOR, ALAN. WHO’S BURIED WHERE IN KENT. The Last

Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, Notable, Curious and Eccentric. Meresborough Books. 1990 128 pp. with b/w illustration. Original pictorial card wrappers. A mint copy. [ref: 16938 ] £10 891. MALLING - FIELDING, Rev. C. H. MEMORIES OF MALLING

AND ITS VALLEY; WITH A FAUNA AND FLORA OF KENT. Henry C.H. Oliver, West Malling, Kent. 1893 Tall 8vo. xiv + 291 pp. with illustrations throughout and a coloured folding map. Original blue cloth, gilt. A trifle rubbed at the extremities otherwise a very good copy. Although there has been a reprint of this work this first issue is a far superior production. [ref: 18096 ] £85 PRESENTATION COPY OF SHAKESPEARE SOURCE.

892. MANNINGHAM, JOHN, edited by BRUCE, JOHN. DIARY OF

JOHN MANNINGHAM, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, AND OF BRADBOURNE, KENT, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, 1602-1603. Edited from the original manuscript by John Bruce, Esq., and presented to the Camden Society by William Tite, Esq., M.P.,

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F.R.S., F.S.A., President of the Society. (Camden Society, old ser., 99, 1868). Printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons, Westminster. 1868 8vo. 7 x 8.5 inches. frontis. + [iv] + xx + 188 pp. Illustrated by pasted in facsimile lithograph as frontispiece. Bound in half-morocco over red cloth, gilt. Extremities worn. Paste-downs a little cockled. title page detached at top. Occasional foxing. Presentation inscription to E. W. Brayley, F.R.S., Librarian of the London Institution, from William Tite, 1869 on first free endpaper. This Camden Society volume prints British Museum Harleian Manuscript 5353. It covers the years 1602-April 1603 and is therefore an important source for the death of Queen Elizabeth; the diarist receiving first hand information from Dr Parry, her chaplain on duty: ‘This morning about three at clocke hir Majestie departed this lyfe, mildly like a lambe, easily like a ripe apple from the tree...’ and the proclamation of James I the next morning. As a student at the Middle Temple, Manningham was ideally placed to gather material for his diary, which is replete with news, gossip, rumours, aphorisms legal comments, extracts from books, long notes on sermons and recipes, etc. He describes his enjoyment of the first recorded performance of Twelfth Night (which he compares to The Comedy of Errors) at Candlemas on 2 February 1602, in the hall of the Middle Temple. He also includes an amusing anecdote on Shakespeare, which is worth quoting in full: ‘Vpon a tyme when Burbidge played Richard III, there was a citizen grone soe farr in liking with him, that before shee went from the play shee appointed him to come that night vnto hir, by the name of Richard the Third. Shakespeare ouerhearing their conclusion went before, was intertained and at his game ere Burbidge came. Then message being brought that Richard the Third was at the dore, Shakespeare caused returne to be made that William the Conqueror was before Richard the Third. Shakespeare’s name William.’ John Manningham (c.1575-1622) was the son of Robert Manningham of Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire. He was later formally adopted and made the heir of his kinsman, Richard Manningham, from whom, in 1611, he inherited the manor house of Bradbourne, East Malling, Kent; the diary notes occasional visits to Bradbourne, Godmersham and Canterbury. John Bruce, FSA (1802-69) was a founder of the Camden Society in 1838, served as its treasurer and edited many of its early publications in addition to those of other societies and volumes of the state papers. William Tite (1798-1873) was chiefly renowned as an architect (he designed the Royal Exchange and numerous main line railway stations and served as president of the RIBA) but was also an antiquary (elected FSA 1839) and a book collector. Edward William Brayley, FRS (1801/2-1870), to whom this book was presented by Tite, was a writer and lecturer on science, who served as Joint Librarian, later Principal Librarian to the London Institution, 1834-70. DNB. [ref: 20910 ] £150 893. MANSFIELD, F.A. HISTORY OF GRAVESEND IN THE COUNTY

OF KENT. Rochester Press. 1981 8vo. 160 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and artwork. Interesting and broad history of Gravesend from Middle Ages to present times. 265

[ref: 18179 ] £12 GRAVESEND ARCHIVE 894. MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GRAVESEND IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY. A large quantity of legal documents, leases, indentures, wills, rent books, insurance policies and receipts, maps and plans, auction particulars etc., relating to property in Gravesend and Milton. 1800 - 1930 Vellum deeds, bound rent and account books manuscript and printed plans and drawings, printed letterheads and insurance documents, share certificates, etc. The condition is mostly very good, some a little dusty and grubby, mostly folded. A fascinating archive from an estate agent or similar, some of the more interesting items are :A manuscript plan, dated June 1820 and signed by Edward Mawley, Architect ‘A Freehold Estate at Gravesend property of Mr Charles Mawley’. The plan shows a crescent of villas adjacent to Gravesend Church, pen and ink with watercolour wash. A manuscript plan and elevation of a proposed villa dated 1829 showing a delightful Georgian house. A manuscript ‘Plan of freehold estate property of Charles Mawley, 1831’. at Gravesend depicting four blocks of land, houses etc. between Princess Street, Church Street, Bath Street and New Road, intersected by Wakefield Street and Kempthorne Street. Signed by John Brown, Surveyor, London 1831. Pen and ink with watercolour wash. A lithographic ‘Plan of the Gravesend Freehold Investment Company at Milton next Gravesend, Kent’. depicting plots for disposal. Hand coloured. A number of printed share certificates for the Gravesend and Milton Diamond Steam Boat Company, 1837. Manuscript cheques and/or promissory notes with embossed duty stamps, various banks and dates 1830 -1860. Five bound account books of various sizes, detailing collection of rents and amounts spent on properties and with tradesmen etc. Between 1828 and 1842. Property belonging to William Curd, Mrs Mary Martin, James Turtle in account with William Glover. A large quantity of handsomely printed fire insurance policies completed by hand, issued by County Fire Office and others. Many of the documents relate to the family of Umfreville, notably Samuel, but also to a number of other local families. [ref: 12086 ] £950

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895. MANUSCRIPT HANDOVER INVENTORY OF KENT INNS,

1913. C. Hebden Phillips and Son, Hotel Valuers, Dover Contents: ‘Mill House,’ Canterbury, ‘Two Sawyers,’ Canterbury, ‘George and Dragon,’ Ewell, Dover, ‘City Arms’, Canterbury. 1913 (and 1964) Oblong 8vo. 7.25 x 4.5 inches. [180] pp., with 91 + [1] numbered pages, (with 4 blank pages). Ink and pencil manuscript entries in ruled account book, sold by Pettitt and Cox, Account Book Makers, Wholesale Stationers, 22 and 23, Frith Street, Soho, London, W. (label on front paste-down). Bound in crimson morocco, blind stamped borders and gilt title on boards, with brass latch. Marbled endpapers. Paper label on front paste-down lists contents in red ink (blue biro for 1964 entry) and pencil date, 1913. Some scuffing of boards and slight wear to extremities. Lower hinges starting to crack and spine reinforced with cloth tape. Otherwise very good condition, with clean, legible interior. Manuscript inventories of four Kent inns (three in Canterbury and one at Ewell, Dover), recorded October to November 1913. There is an additional brief record for the George and Dragon, Ewell, in 1964. These are handover inventories made on the occasion of a change of tenancy, recording names of the incoming and outgoing licensees and the initials of the valuers acting for them. They are principally concerning with recording the details of the furnishing and fittings, including glasses, and stock is entered only as a total at the end. The fixtures are recorded in minute detail for every room and, as these were all inns offering accommodation, included the contents of bedrooms and listed food preparation utensils in the larders and sculleries. A scarce surviving document and a valuable source of information on the licensed trade in the year 1913. Kelly’s Directory of Kent, 1903, 1907. [ref: 20939 ] £200 896. MANUSCRIPT INVENTORY. MANUSCRIPT HANDOVER

INVENTORY OF KENT PUBLIC HOUSES, 1900. Contents: ‘Leather Bottle’ Sholden, ‘Mechanics Arms’ Folkestone, ‘Castle’ Sandgate, ‘Deal Cutter’ Dover,

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‘Rose and Crown’ Canterbury, ‘Harbour’ Folkestone, ‘Old Commercial Quay’ Dover, ‘Clarendon’ Dover (stock). 1900 Oblong 8vo. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. 98 numbered leaves [200] pp. (with 12 blank pages). Red and black ink and pencil manuscript entries in ruled account book sold by Estates Gazette, 6, St Bride Street, London (label on rear paste-down). Bound in quarter vellum with marbled endpapers and edges. Folding pocket on front paste-down. Extremities a little worn and edges faded; p.98 partly removed. Otherwise fine condition. Manuscript inventories of eight East Kent pubs, recorded January to December 1900. The first seven entries are handover inventories made on change of tenancy, recording the names of the outgoing and incoming licensees and of the two valuers acting for them (and sometimes signed by the outgoing valuer). The inventories principally list the details of the furniture and fittings, although there is a brief entry for stock in some cases. The fixtures are recorded in minute detail for every room. A scarce surviving document and a valuable source of information on the licensed trade in 1900. More Tales from the Taproom, 2004. Kelly’s Directory of Kent, 1903. [ref: 20860 ] £200 897. MARCH, EDGAR J. SPRITSAIL BARGES OF THAMES AND

MEDWAY. Percival Marshall, London. 1948 First edition. 4to. 304 pp. with photo illustrations throughout and several drawings. Original bright blue cloth, gilt. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. An excellent book, the standard work on the subject. Scarce in this condition. [ref: 20805 ] £120 898. MARCH, EDGAR J. SPRITSAIL BARGES OF THAMES AND

MEDWAY. By Edgar J. March, Associate of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. A New Edition. Newton Abbot David and Charles. 1981 New Edition. 7.5 x 10 inches. 4to. xiv + 234 pp. Half title. Illustrated by 32 pp, of 64 numbered plates and by numerous drawings and diagrams, including 3 plans, throughout. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. An excellent book, the standard work on the subject. Includes history, construction, How to make miniature models and results of sailing matches. First published in 1948, with new edition 1970 (reprinted 1981), which is also now quite scarce. We have another similar copy, at the same price. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20806 ] £60 899. MARGARY, IVAN D. ROMAN WAYS IN THE WEALD. Illustrated

with maps, diagrams, and photographs. London Phoenix House. 1948 First edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 287 pp. + [1]. Half-title.

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Illustrated by 15 black and white plates, including frontispiece, 120 pages of plans, diagrams and strip road maps in text, by a large folding plan and by maps on both endpapers. Bound in original cloth, gilt in pictorial green dust wrapper. Inscription on half-title. Occasional foxing, but otherwise good condition. First edition of the standard work on the subject. A copiously illustrated book which traces the routes of the Roman roads which ran from London to the south coast and the east-west trackways which interconnected with them. A pioneering work of field archaeology which greatly extended knowledge of communications in the Weald, an area important to the Romans for its iron industry. We have a second copy, ex-library with the usual stamps, for £20. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21171 ] £30 900. MARGATE. THE ALBUM OF MARGATE VIEWS. Wm. Z., London. n.d. but c.1899 Oblong concertina type view-book of glazed lithos, containing 21 images. Printed in Germany. Original printed boards, gilt. A very good, clean copy. This type of view book originates in Germany and is an example of the curious mixture of photograph and drawing which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. [ref: 17382 ] £40 901. MARGATE. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF MARGATE AND

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Printed in Bavaria, No date but c.1870 Oblong view-book containing 17 tinted images. Original printed boards, rather worn and with a slight water stain in the sky of a few images but a good copy. The photographs are credited to :- Perkins, Son & Venemore Lee-London S.E. or G.E. Houghton, Margate. [ref: 18202 ] £25 902. MARGATE - [BARHAM, REV. R.H.] INGOLDSBY, THOMAS.

MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE. A LEGEND OF JARVIS’S JETTY. Pictured by Ernest M. Jessop Eyre and Spottiswoode, Gt. New St., London. No date but c.1880s Large folio. 10 x 15 inches approx. [2] Titles + 18 pp. of coloured lithographs printed on recto only. Original pictorial paper-covered bevelled boards. Slight wear at extremities and fore-edges. As usual the gutta-percha binding has disintegrated, so recased, otherwise a very good copy.

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A tale in verse of a visit to Margate by Mr. Simpkinson, whose generosity towards a tearful boy on the pier is rewarded by the boy absconding with his belongings. [ref: 17469 ] £100 903. MARGATE - GRITTEN, A. J. CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS,

PAMPHLETS AND EXCERPTS DEALING WITH MARGATE, THE ISLE OF THANET AND THE COUNTY OF KENT IN THE LOCAL COLLECTION OF THE BOROUGH OF MARGATE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Borough of Margate. 1934 166 pp. indexed catalogue. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. This invaluable catalogue was issued in a small edition and does not appear on the market very often. Essential reference for the Thanet collector. [ref: 17625 ] £40

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904. MARGATE - KIDD, WILLIAM. THE PICTURESQUE POCKET

COMPANION TO MARGATE, RAMSGATE, BROADSTAIRS, AND PARTS ADJACENT; ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD BY G.W. BONNER. William Kidd, 228, Regent Street; London, 1831 12mo. iv + 215 pp. + 1 advert + 12 pp. catalogue. Illustrated with charming wood-engravings throughout. Over 120 views including head and tail-pieces. Quarter-bound with new red morocco spine, lettered in gilt, over the original moiré cloth, with the original paper label on upper board. A contemporary inscription in ink states that ‘F. Witby (?) gave this book to me Geo Bonner Artist of Oswestry Son of the within named G.W. Bonner’ A little worn at the corners, otherwise a very good copy. This is a very good example of the steam packet guide, designed to fit the pocket of the traveller and describe the journey from London Bridge down the Thames to Thanet. Then, all aspects of the isle are described and illustrated with great detail; the wood engravings by Bonner are particularly charming and skilful. The preface states that since the advent of steam packets visitors had increased from an average of 20,000 per season to 98,128 in 1830. [ref: 21726 ] £250

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COMPANION TO MARGATE, RAMSGATE, BROADSTAIRS, AND PARTS ADJACENT; ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD BY G.W. BONNER. William Kidd, 228, Regent Street; London, 1831 12mo. iv + 215 pp. + 1 advert + 12 pp. catalogue. Illustrated with charming wood-engravings throughout. Over 120 views including head and tail-pieces. Bound in the original dark red quarter-morocco, spine lettered in gilt, over the original cloth, with the original paper label to upper board. Corners bumped and hinges a little weak. The rear board has an odd inverted balloon-shaped mark that may be the result of an object left standing on the book; an inverted jug perhaps? This aside, a very good copy. This is a very good example of the steam packet guide, designed to fit the pocket of the traveller and describe the journey from London Bridge down the Thames to Thanet. Then, all aspects of the island are described and illustrated with great detail; the wood engravings by Bonner are particularly charming and skilful. The preface states that since the advent of steam packets visitors had increased from an average of 20,000 per season to 98,128 in 1830. [ref: 21727 ] £200 906. MARGATE - WARD, LOCK AND CO. A PICTORIAL AND

DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO MARGATE, BROADSTAIRS, RAMSGATE, HERNE BAY, CANTERBURY AND NORTH EAST KENT. MAP OF THE DISTRICT AND PLANS OF MARGATE, RAMSGATE, BROADSTAIRS, CANTERBURY AND HERNE BAY. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS. Ward, Lock & Co. 1921-22 Seventh Edition, revised. [16] adverts + viii + 12 + ix to xxiv + 40 + 12 + 32 + 24 + 32 pp. + [4] index + 80 pp. adverts with maps and photo illustration throughout. Original red pictorial cloth. Cover faded and spine fragile otherwise a very good copy. Universally popular guides now becoming more difficult to find. The large folding maps of the towns are an invaluable record. [ref: 18154 ] £20 RARE KENTISH PLAY 907. A MARINE OFFICER. [BURN, MAJORGENERAL ANDREW.] WHO FARES BEST, THE CHRISTIAN OR THE MAN OF THE WORLD? or The Advantages of a Life of Real Piety to a Life of Fashionable Dissipation. Price one shilling stitched.

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Printed by T. Bensley, for James Mathews, No. 18, Strand. 1789 8vo. Half-title + v + 62 pp. Some foxing but a neat copy. Bound in marbled paper wrappers. A play in the form of a discourse between the man of the world, Horatio and the Christian Eugenio. Despite its moral tone the play is interesting for its depiction of ‘Fashionable Dissipation’ and modes and manners of the day. Profits were for the benefit of the church in Strood. On the half-title is an ink inscription, ‘Mr Cox July 11 Chatham’ Not in the Kent Bibliography [ref: 16933 ] £150 908. MARKHAM, GERVASE. THE INRICHMENT OF THE WEALD OF

KENT, OR, A DIRECTION TO THE HUSBANDMAN, FOR THE TRUE ORDERING, MANURING, AND INRICHING OF ALL THE GROUNDS WITIHN THE WEALDS OF KENT, AND SUSSEX; AND MAY GENERALLY SERVE FOR ALL THE GROUNDS IN ENGLAND OF THAT NATURE; AS 1. Shewing the nature of Wealdish Ground, comparing it with the Soyl of the Shires at Large. 2. Declaring what the Marle is, and the several sorts thereof, and where it is usually found. 3. The profitable use of Marle, and other rich manuring, as well in each sort of Arable Land, as also for the increase of Corn and Pasture through

the Kingdome. Painfully gathered for the good of this Island, by a Man of great Eminence and Worth; But Revised, enlarged, and corrected with the consent and by conference with the first Author. By G.M. Printed by J. Streater for George Sawbridge, Dwelling on Clarken-well-Green. 1668 4to. (4) + 19 pp. Full old calf, rebacked and lettered gilt. This is a very attractive example. Gervase Markham (1568-1637) descended from a Nottinghamshire gentry family, appears to have begun writing after he settled in London in 1593, although he had to retire to the country and live as a tenant farmer for several years after the fall of Essex (to whose faction he belonged) in 1601. His output of poetry and drama was extensive and it is speculated that he may have been the Rival Poet of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (with whom he shared a patron in Southampton). His non-literary works included military training, domestic economy, veterinary medicine and horsemanship, in addition to husbandry. Markham has been frequently accused of plagiarism but in the Inrichment he does at least acknowledge the input of the original author. To some extent the blame lies with publishers who reissued his work in different forms. This came to a climax in 1617, when five different books on horses, all by Markham, were on the market at

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the same time. He was forced to sign an agreement with the Stationers’ Company: ‘I... do promise hereafter never to write any more book or books to be printed of the diseases or Cure of any Cattle, as Horse, Oxe, Cowe, Sheepe, Swine, Goates etc.’ (quoted in DNB). The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent was first published in 1625 but is better known as one of the six constituent parts (five by Markham) of the popular ‘A Way to get Wealth’, published in fifteen editions, 1631-1684, as a compendium of agricultural practice. As a consequence, although separately paginated, the work has a continuous register with the other parts of the thirteenth edition of 1676. After describing the nature of the Weald and its ‘dens’, the larger part of the text is concerned with farming on the different Wealden soil types and especially with the use of chalky marl as a soil improvement agency. The final part investigates various remedies against what Markham considers to be the nuisance to the husbandman caused by moles: ‘That if you take green Leeks Garlick or Onions, and chopping them grosly, thrust it in the holes, the very fume or savour thereof will so astonish and amaze the Moals, that they will presently forsake the Earth, and falling into a Trance, you may take them up with your hands.’ This important early text was to be reprinted at least six times in his compendium publications. [ref: 17482 ] £175 ORIGINAL ALBUMEN TYPE PHOTOGRAPHS 909. MARTIN, CHARLES WYKEHAM. THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF LEEDS CASTLE, KENT. Nichols and Sons, Parlament Street, Westminster: 1869 Folio. x + 210 + xxxvi pp. with 8 original photographic plates, vignette illustrations in the text and a full page handcoloured plan. Original red cloth gilt, spine neatly repaired. but a very good copy. Important not only as the only detailed history and description of the castle, with much genealogical information on its occupiers from Domesday to Wykeham Martin, but also as an example of early photographic book illustration using Albumen prints. An albumen print was produced on a thin piece of paper that was coated with albumen (egg whites) and salt, floated in silver nitrate, and then mounted on card or to form the plates in a book as here. The Maidstone photographer J. Cruttenden printed and mounted each image by hand. [ref: 19835 ] £300 910. MARTIN, W. STANLEY, and B. PRESCOTT ROW. KENT'S

CAPITAL. A HANDBOOK TO MAIDSTONE ON THE MEDWAY AND GUIDE TO THE DISTRICT. The Homeland Association’s Handbooks No.6 Maidstone, Walter Ruck, [1898] First Edition, [16] + 146 pp. + [32] pp. of adverts with photo illustrations. Original red cloth gilt, the hardcover binding, this copy is without the folding map but has the plan of Maidstone.

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Scarce late Victorian guide to Maidstone with some fine advert of shop fronts etc. [ref: 17923 ] £65 911. MATE, MAVIS E. TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS

1450-1550 THE EXPERIENCE OF KENT, SURREY, AND SUSSEX. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. 2006 8vo. viii + 261 pp. Original chocolate cloth with contrasting title to upper board and gilt to spine. As new. An academic work by an expert on the period, however due to its limited appeal very few were published. [ref: 18876 ] £65 912. MAXWELL, DONALD. ADVENTURES AMONG CHURCHES.

The Faith Press, London. 1928 First Edition, 4to. [vi] + 135 pp. illustrated with 24 fine full-page studies in pen and ink, each accompanied by a short essay. Ex-library copy with only one stamp on the rear of the title page, otherwise unmarked. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, rather faded, otherwise a very good example apart from some sporadic foxing. This is the first of a pair of volumes that Maxwell produced at the height of his powers and I think they contain some of his best work in black and white. Nine of the drawings are from Kent, including the Romney Marsh churches of Brookland and Fairfield. [ref: 21150 ] £30 913. MAXWELL, DONALD. UNKNOWN KENT. Being a series of

unmethodical Explorations of the County illustrated in line and colour by the Author. (The County Series). London John Lane The Bodley Head Limited. 1930. Third printing, 4to, 9 x 7 inches. xv + [i] + 210 pp. + 6 pp. publisher’s advertisements. Half title. Illustrated by 24 colour plates, including frontispiece, and title page vignette and many other original illustrations in the text by the author. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with county shield on front boards, and spine, gilt. Spine and boards faded otherwise a very good copy. Maxwell’s highly distinctive and attractive illustrations add an extra dimension to the erudite charm of this book. First published 1921. We have a second similar copy, with 1931 gift inscription on first free endpaper. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21145 ] £25 914. MAXWELL, DONALD. UNKNOWN SUSSEX BEING A SERIES OF

UNMETHODICAL EXPLORATIONS OF THE COUNTY ILLUSTRATED IN LINE AND COLOUR BY THE AUTHOR. John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1923

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First Edition, 4to. 207 pp. with 21 colour plates and many other original illustrations by the author. Original cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded, a good copy. A nice example of Maxwell’s ‘Unknown’ series of county books. [ref: 17283 ] £45 915. MAYCOCK, ALAN. SAINT MARY’S ABBEY. WEST MALLING. Printed by W.J. Mackay, Chatham. 1953 23 pp., + 6 b/w photographic illustrations and numerous pencil sketches to the text. Original grey cloth, gilt. A fine copy in glassine dust wrapper. An interesting and informative little book describing the history and the fabric of St. Mary’s Abbey. [ref: 15681 ] £10 916. MEASOM, GEORGE. THE OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO

THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY AND ALL ITS BRANCHES. W.H.Smith and Son, 1853 but reprinted Countryside Books. 1987 8vo. viii + 104 pp. with numerous illustrations to the text. Laminated pictorial boards, slight chip but a fine copy. A facsimile of the guide originally published in 1853. George Measom wrote guide books for many of the great railway companies, all containing considerable detail about the places encountered en route. The original guide commands a three-figure sum, but this is an affordable alternative. [ref: 17913 ] £25 917. MEASOM, GEORGE. THE OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO

THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY, AND ITS BRANCHES: INCLUDING THE NORTH KENT AND GREENWICH LINES. Embellished with two hundred engravings and a map. [Together with]: THE OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE NORTHERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE. WITH SIX DAYS IN PARIS. Embellished with one hundred engravings and a map. [Both by] George Measom. London. Published under the Authority of the Directors, by W. H. Smith and Son, 186, Strand; Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co., Paternoster-Row. [1858] 2 volumes, bound in one. 8vo. 5x 7.5 inches. First work, [xxii] + 324 pp. with folding map. Second work, [x] + 164 pp. + [2(inc. Index)] + 110 pp. advertisements + [8] pp. advertisements and one folding advertisement. Date from author’s preface. Illustrated by folding map of south east England, (right end replaced with facsimile); with wood engravings throughout, including vignettes and advertisements. Lacks

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folding map of Paris in second work. Bound in later maroon cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. Fine clean interior. Good copy of this rare combination guide, first published in 1853. In his preface, George Measom makes much of the success of his guides; how they have become companions for travellers to the towns along the line and the commercial opportunities which advertising will bring them. The descriptions of the towns are very good, as are the numerous woodengravings and the often illustrated 110 pages of advertisements. Very scarce, we have handled only one example of this combination of guides before, but a later edition (1863). Ottley 7284. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 21052 ] £200 918. MEATES, LIEUT. COL. LULLINGSTONE ROMAN VILLA Heinemann, London. 1955 168 pp. with 47 b/w plates and 14 figures to the text. Original purple cloth, gilt. A very good copy in dustwrapper which is slightly chipped at head of spine with a small closed tear. The original account of the excavation, vividly described. ***We have another copy lacking dustwrapper at£10*** [ref: 17397 ] £15 919. MEATES, LIEUT. COL. THE ROMAN VILLA AT LULLINGSTONE,

KENT. VOL. I. THE SITE. Kent Archæological Society. 1979 4to. 219 pp. with 30 b/w plates and 35 figures to the text, some folding. Blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dustwrapper. [ref: 13326 ] £12 920. MEDWAY - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF THE MEDWAY TOWNS

ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM, STROOD, RAINHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's Directories. 1974 1134 pp. with the folding map. Original printed wrappers. [ref: 18169 ] £20 921. MEDWAY - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF THE MEDWAY TOWNS

ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM, STROOD, RAINHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's Directories. 1974 1134 pp. with the folding map. Original printed boards [ref: 18171 ] £25 922. MEE, ARTHUR. THE KING'S ENGLAND. KENT. THE GATEWAY

TO ENGLAND AND ITS GREAT POSSESSIONS Hodder & Stoughton. Tenth impression, 1961 508 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust wrapper. Ever popular companion to the county, part of the King’s England series. [ref: 19613 ] £10

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923. MELLING, E.(Ed). KENTISH SOURCES. III ASPECTS OF

AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY. A collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. K.C.C. 1961 8vo.150 pp. with illustrations. Original paper wrappers. One of Miss Melling’s useful handbooks. [ref: 17299 ] £12 924. MELLING, ELIZABETH. HISTORY OF KENT COUNTY COUNCIL,

1889-1974. Prepared for the County Council by Elizabeth Melling, B.A. Assistant County Archivist. With a Foreword by Robert Leigh-Pemberton, D.l., J.P. Chairman of the Kent County Council, 1972-75. Kent County Council, Maidstone. 1975 4to. 8.5 x 12 inches. [2] + vi + 182 pp. Illustrated with [56] black and white pages of plates, with 89 numbered images and county coat of arms on title page. Endpaper maps of administrative areas, 1901, post 1965. Half-title. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, with pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy. Expansive narrative history of the County Council, prior to local government reorganisation in 1974, now out of print. Six appendices on sources and bibliography, financial information, lists of chairmen, members and officers and table of dates. Kent Bibliography Supplement. [ref: 20742 ] £20 925. MELLING, ELIZABETH. (ED). CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. A

collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. KENTISH SOURCES. VI Maidstone Kent County Council 1969. 8vo, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 294 pp. with illustrations. Specially bound in full calf in antique style, for presentation to Elizabeth Melling to mark 20 years working for the county archives. In fine condition. This volume was nicely bound in full leather for presentation to the author by her colleagues at the Kent Archives. Loosely inserted is a mock antique dedication from them. A example. [ref: 21348 ] £60 926. MELLING, ELIZABETH (Editor) KENTISH SOURCES I. SOME

ROADS AND BRIDGES . A collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Kent County Council 1959 8vo. viii + 63pp. with illustrations. Small neat bookplate inside front wrapper. Original paper wrappers. [ref: 21137 ] £10

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PRESENTATION COPY 927. MELLING, ELIZABETH (Editor) KENTISH SOURCES I. SOME ROADS AND BRIDGES bound with II. KENT AND THE CIVIL WAR. A collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Kent County Council 1959 and 1960 8vo. 5½ x 8½ inches. viii + 63pp. and xii + 61 pp. with illustrations. Calligraphic inscription on first blank prelim ‘ To Elizabeth Melling on the completion of ten years service in the Kent Archives Office, with the best wishes of all her colleagues.’ Specially bound in blue half-morocco over grey cloth and preserved in a grey cloth-covered slip-case. Spine slightly faded and cloth a little mottled but not unattractively so. Elizabeth Melling did much important work for Kent County Archives and published a series of books in the Kent Sources series as well as a History of Kent County Council, a Guide to the Kent County Archives Office, Studies in modern Kentish history and ‘Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake and the Cobtree Estate, Maidstone’. [ref: 21326 ] £50 928. MELLING, ELIZABETH (Editor). KENTISH SOURCES II. KENT

AND THE CIVIL WAR. A collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office illustrating opinions and events in Kent in the mid-seventeenth century. Kent County Council. 1960 8vo. xii + 61 pp. with illustrations. Small neat bookplate inside front wrapper. Original paper wrappers. A very useful work now long out of print. [ref: 18998 ] £12 929. MELLING, ELIZABETH (Editor) KENTISH SOURCES II. KENT

AND THE CIVIL WAR. A collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office illustrating opinions and events in Kent in the mid-seventeenth century. Maidstone K.C.C., 1960 8vo. 61 pp. with illustrations. Original paper wrappers. A very useful work now long out of print. [ref: 18057 ] £12 930. MELLING, ELIZABETH (Editor) SOME KENTISH HOUSES. A

COLLECTION OF EXAMPLES FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES IN THE KENT ARCHIVES OFFICE, FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. ILLUSTRATED BY A. M. OAKLEY. KENTISH SOURCES V. Maidstone. K.C.C. 1965 Oblong 8vo. 7.5 x 10 inches, vii + 80 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy.

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'Presents the Timber-framed and early stone and brick houses in which yeoman, trader, parson and cottager dwelt.’ [ref: 19671 ] £20 931. MELVILLE, JOY and LEWIS-JOHNSON, ANGELA. (Compiled

by). HYTHE. The Archive Photographs Series. Chalford Publishing Co., Trowbridge. 1995 128 pp. Illustrated throughout. Pictorial soft cover. A very good copy. [ref: 13115 ] £10

932. MILLER, BARBARA MACKAY. MORE PICTURES OF RAINHAM. Meresborough Books, Rainham, 1987 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print.

[ref: 19717 ] £10 933. MILLER, BARBARA MACKAY. A PICTURE BOOK OF OLD

RAINHAM. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1982 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18638 ] £10 GRAVESEND IN 1870 S 934. MILLER, WILLIAM. JOTTINGS OF KENT Being a Series of Historical, Ecclesiastical, Topographical, and Statistical Sketches by William Miller, of H.M. India Office. Second Edition. Gravesend: Thomas Hall, 4a, Windmill Street, London. Whitaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane, Ludgate Hill. 1864 Third edition. 8vo. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. viii + 176 pp. + [2] advertisements. [3]. Bound in original red cloth, with blind-stamped borders enclosing decoration and gilt-blocked decorated title on front boards with gilt decorated spine title with old library number faintly visible. Extremities a little worn. Front free endpaper has the stamp of St Augustine’s Abbey Library Ramsgate. A very good example The author states in his preface that this edition has been ‘extensively revised’ - indeed this little book, first published in 1864, had originally appeared in the Gravesend Free Press (established 1855). The coverage of Gravesend itself, ‘our favourite summer resort,’ is much more extensive than any other entry. The surrounding settlements are dealt with in detail but there are chapters on many other towns of north and east Kent. An attractive and useful account of north and east Kent in the 1870s. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21053 ] £100 GREAT CIVIL ENGINEER IN BOTH UK

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935. MILLINGTON, JOHN. SEVENOAKS [TURNPIKE] TRUST -

SPECIFICATION OF THE PARTICULARS OF EXCAVATION AND SUNDRY WORK TO BE PERFORMED NEAR SEVENOAKS KENT. John Millington Civil Engineer and Surveyor 6 Leigh Street, Burton Crescent, London. 4th. Febry 1822. 1822 Manuscript, tied with tape. Folio. 16.25 x 13 inches. 5 leaves. The plans and sections mentioned in the text have not survived with this document. Originally folded in four, with some griming on title fold. Small tears on right hand edge, not affecting legibility. Some browning and extremities worn but otherwise in fine condition in dark legible script An engineering specification, detailing the excavations and earthworks required to improve the turnpike road in the area of White Hart Hill, where the road from Sevenoaks Town crosses the common in the direction of Tonbridge. This was the southern extremity of the Farnborough to Sevenoaks (Riverhill) turnpike, originally established in 1749, following the passage of the 1748 Act. The Specification has been drawn up by John Millington of London, the engineer appointed by the Trustees, to instruct a contractor who is to commence work in the spring and complete it by 1st August 1822. The contractor is to give financial securities for the performance of the work and is to be paid in instalments, any disputes between the two parties to be resolved by arbitration. The greater part of the Specification is a detailed technical account of the works to be carried out. The works were contiguous to those being carried out at the same time by the Tonbridge Trust which was responsible for the the southwards continuation of the road and it is suggested that the two trusts co-operate on the disposal and reuse of excavated soil. The new line of the road required the lodges and gate of Milton Lombard to be removed and rebuilt, at the Trust’s expense, in a new location and his boundary to be planted with ‘a quickset hedge consisting of 2 rows of young healthy quicks and to fence the same on the inside with rough split oak posts and rails...’ The contractor is ‘to find and provide all Labour Carts, Horses, Barrows Planks Screens and Tools of every description’ He is also required to protect passing vehicles and cattle, by fencing the excavation and by stationing ‘2 careful watchmen’ at each end of it, to ‘be provided with Lanthorns and lights from dusk until day light to direct passengers into the proper track and prevent danger...’ A valuable account of the engineering side of turnpike road construction. In spite of this new work in 1822, the line of the road to the south of Sevenoaks continued to cause concern to the Trust and, following two Acts passed in the mid-1830s, it was again planned to realign the road, taking land from Whitehart Farm, in 1852. John Millington (1779-1868) was born at Hammersmith and practised law before turning to civil engineering and being associated with the road-maker, McAdam in his construction work. He was a fellow of the Society of Arts (later Royal) and lectured at the Royal Institution and was briefly appointed to teach engineering at the newly founded University College, London. A dispute over his salary led him to emigrate, firstly to Mexico, where he oversaw silver mining, and later to the USA, where he held the chair of chemistry and natural philosophy at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1836-48 and was a professor at the new University of Mississippi, 1848-53. [ref: 20340 ] £350 280

936. MINSTER - KENT, V. MINSTER IN THANET. No date but c.1965 Unpublished typescript, 15 pp. + 18 b/w photographs, 7.5 x 10 inches, tippedin, with 2 hand-drawn maps, and 11 ink illustrations tipped-in to the text. Neat amateur binding of blue cloth with title to upper board. The text deals largely with the church of St. Mary in Minster and is very well-illustrated with drawings and photographs, each of which is captioned. [ref: 18262 ] £45 937. MIRAMS, MICHAEL DAVID. OLD MARGATE. [In old postcards

and photographs] Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1984 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18648 ] £10 938. MITCHELL, VIC AND KEITH SMITH. THE EAST KENT LIGHT

RAILWAY. Country Railway Routes series. Middleton Press, Midhurst. 1989 First Edition 4to. 96 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original hardback illustrated and laminated boards. A very good copy. A very good photographic record of the line in its former glory. Now out of print. [ref: 19192 ] £25 939. MITCHELL, VIC. and SMITH, KEITH. ROMNEYRAIL. A very good photographic record of the famous miniature railway. [ref: 18449 ] £20

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940. MOCKETT, JOHN. MOCKETT'S JOURNAL. A COLLECTION OF

INTERESTING MATTERS, RELATING TO REMARKABLE PERSONAGES, ANCIENT BUILDINGS, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, ETC., BEGINNING FROM THE YEAR 50. ALSO, PARTICULARS OF VARIOUS CHURCHES; ORIGIN OF THE RECULVERS; PAROCHIAL MATTERS RELATING TO ST. PETER’S, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON AGRICULTURE (THE RESULT OF FORTY YEARS EXPERIENCE); AND THE PRICES OF CORN, CATTLE, AND LABOUR, FOR MANY HUNDRED YEARS. Collected from manuscripts of the author’s ancestors, together with those of his own, during the last fifty years. Interspersed with Tours to Cambridge, Norfolk, Hampshire, Berkshire, Devonshire, and France. Canterbury: Kentish Observer General Printing Office. Sold by G. Barnes, King’s Arms Library; and all booksellers. 1836

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First edition. 8vo.. 6 x 9 inches. xvi + 328 pp. Half-title. Bound in dark green cloth, with original paper label. Extremities worn with some staining and foxing. Most of the top of title page removed. Author’s signature pasted to half-title and inscription of William Sherwood Mockett St. Peter’s Isle of Thanet, the Author’s Great-Grandson, on front paste-down in addition to presentation inscription to The Viscount Northcliffe, from WSM. Loosely inserted a letter on Times headed paper, dated 19/10/1922, to Sir George Sutton, owner of Amalgamated Press Company, an old friend, and administrator of Northcliffe’s estate. This refers to the book and what was to be done with it. John Mockett (1775-1848?) of Hopeville Farm, St Peter’s compiled this fascinating and compelling series of observations, stories and anecdotes on many Kentish towns and villages (especially on Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Margate). The coverage is vast, from murder and shipwreck, to the introduction of cabbages into England. It provides valuable information on farming conditions and prices, including an account of the 1830 Swing riots, which broke out in East Kent, with the burning of ricks and stacks and the destruction of threshing machines. Mockett also describes tours made to Norfolk, Cambridge, Hants and Berks and two to Devon. In 1814 he embarked with a party from Dover on a ten day tour of Northern France - Calais, Boulogne and St Omer, after first celebrating the peace with a feast and entertainment in his ‘new brick-built barn.’ As usual he makes detailed observations, frequently unfavourable, on life and farming in this region, and returned ‘Perfectly satisfied with the superior advantages England enjoys over France.’ Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), founder of the Daily Mail and owner of The Times, had a country home at Elmwood, in the parish of St Peter’s (it was shelled by a German warship in 1917 in an attempt to assassinate him) and hence, as the enclosed letter relates, ‘The Chief much liked Mockett’s Journal.’ When Northcliffe lost his own copy, W. S. Mockett sent him this volume as a replacement. [ref: 20851 ] £300 941. MORAN, JAMES. HENRY GEORGE . PRINTER, BOOKSELLER,

STATIONER, AND BOOKBINDER, WESTERHAM 1830-c.1846 Westerham Press 1972 First Edition. 12 mo. 55 pp. plus 12pp.of facsimiles of George’s publications including The Old Oak Chair illustrated by Cruikshank & the Westerham Journal. Black and white illustrations by Streatfield and Cruishank. Original binding, brown cloth with title label to upper cover. An interesting account of various aspects of the book trade including a chapter on George’s purchases at the Strawberry Hill sale of 1842. [ref: 19174 ] £25 KENT 1695 942. MORDEN, ROBERT. KENT.

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An uncoloured example of the first edition on thick paper, [ref: 18298 ] £250

943. MORDEN, ROBERT. KENT. London, 1708 Uncoloured copper engraved map.6.5 x 8 inches. A fine example with good margins. Commonly referred to as ‘Miniature Morden’s’ this map was published as part of ‘Fifty Six New and Accurate Maps of Great Britain’ published in conjunction with Herman Moll in 1708. [ref: 17996 ] £125 944. MORDEN, ROBERT. KENT.

London, 1695, but c. [1753] Copper engraved map - coloured by hand. Traces of old folds. A fine example. Morden’s maps were issued in four editions of Gibson’s Camden without alteration and the thin paper of the late editions is the only way of distinguishing them, apart from the generally lighter impressions due to the plates becoming worn, which are not easy to see without direct comparison. [ref: 18297 ] £200 945. MORRIS, RICHARD, OBE MERCHANTS MEDICINE AND

TRAFALGAR THE HISTORY OF THE HARVEY FAMILY The Alderton Press, Loughton 2007 First Edition. Large 8vo. 10 x 7 inches. 235 pp. With numerous illustrations throughout. Bound in original cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. Mint - as new. The only history of the Harvey family, with its many famous, and not so famous members. Much new research was undertaken by the author who discovered important new material. The book is now out of print, although we still have a few copies in stock at the original price. [ref: 20933 ] £18 VICTORIAN KENT

946. MOULE, THOMAS. KENT.

London. n.d. but c.1845 Steel engraved map, finely coloured by hand. Map 8 x 10.5 inches, frame 14.5 x 16.5 inches. Attractively mounted to conservation standard. Certainly the last decorative engraved map of the county. After this period maps appeared as more functional objects, but here we have three charming inset views of Greenwich, Rochester, and Dover; and four Kentish coats of arms framed in wreaths of hops surrounding the detailed map of the county. [ref: 16425 ] £125 MOWLL, JOHN H. ROYAL VISITORS AT DOVER. Dover. 1937 72 pp. with photo illustration. Original dark blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy. 947.

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An account of every Royal visit from Henry VIII onward. [ref: 21316 ] £30 948. MUDGE, WILLIAM. A MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT DRAWN

FROM THE TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY TAKEN BY ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE BOARD OF ORDNANCE, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF LT. COLONEL Wm. MUDGE, ROY’l. ART’y. F.R.S. REDUCED FROM THE LARGE MAP IN FOUR SHEETS, By a Scale of One Inch to two Statute Miles. NEW EDITION. London. Published by Ja’s Wyld, Geographer to Her Majesty. 5 Charing Cross East. 1841 Hand-coloured engraved map, 24 x 36 inches approximately, dissected and laid on to linen Preserved in original paper-covered slip case with leather title label, gilt. Some slight wear to folds but a fine example. Another issue, of the reduced scale Mudge Ordnance Survey map from the edition of 1801, which had established itself as the pre-eminent map of the county. The high price of the four-sheet map, and its size, called for smaller, less expensive issues. Rare. [ref: 20469 ] £300 MUGGLETONIAN TRACT

949. MUGGLETON, LODOWICK. A TRUE INTERPRETATION OF THE

WITCH OF ENDOR Spoken of in 1 Sam. XXVII. begin. at the 11th Verse. Shewing, 1. How She and all other Witches do beget or produce that Familiar Spirit they deal with, and what a Familiar Spirit is, and how those Voices are procured, and Shapes appear unto them, whereby the Ignorant and Unbelieving People are deceived by them. 2. It is clearly made appear in this treatise, that no Spirit can be raised without its Body, neither can any Spirit assume any Body after Death; For if the Spirit doth walk, the Body must walk also. 3. An interpretation of all those Scriptures, that doth seem as if Spirits might go out of Men’s Bodies when they die, and subsist in some Place or other without Bodies. Lastly, Several other Things needful for the Mind of Man to know which whoever doth understand, it will be great Satisfaction. By Lodowick Muggleton, Penman hereof, and the last chosen Witness unto that EverBlessed Body of Christ Jesus Glorified, to be the only Wife, very True God alone, Everlasting Father, and Creator of both Worlds, and al that were made in them. The Third Edition. Printed by Subscription 1724, reprinted London: 1793 8vo. 4 x 6 inches. [iv] + 58 pp. A-G4, [H]-[H3]. Sewn without binding as issued, Some exterior griming but generally clean . Lodowick Muggleton (1609-1698), the religious thinker who gave his name to Muggletonianism, was a journeyman tailor of the City of London. At the time of the great surge of radical religious groups, including the Ranters, in the early years of the English republic in 1650-51, he and his cousin John Reeve proclaimed themselves to be the Two Witnesses of the Book of Revelation; their task was to fulfill the Third Commission of God, following those of the Old and New Testaments. After Reeve's death in 1658, Muggleton assumed the role of the sect's leader and began to publish and 284

travel to meet other believers; one of these, a Kentish woman, became his third wife. Muggleton's anti-trinitarian views and vehement opposition to Quakers led to his trial for blasphemy during the term of office of a Quaker Lord Mayor. In 1676 he was fined and sentenced to the pillory and his books were ceremonially burnt by the common hangman. His autobiography, The Acts of the Witnesses, appeared in 1699. The Witch of Endor was first published in 1669. again in 1724 and was reprinted as the third edition in 1793 (with only three copies recorded by E.S.T.C.) ESTC T91030 DNB [ref: 19411 ] £150 950. MUNRO, A.G. and PRESCOTT ROW. ROCHESTER AND

CHATHAM WITH PEN AND CAMERA. Containing a Chapter on the Architecture of the Cathedral by Rev. Greville M. Livett, M.A. T. Oldroyd, Rochester and The St. Bride’s Press Ltd., London. 1901 Second edition. xii (adverts) + frontis + 136 pp. + xxxii (adverts) with numerous b/w illustrations and folding map in rear pocket. Original olive cloth, gilt. One leaf has been (neatly) mutilated with some loss of text otherwise a very good copy. Published under the auspices of the Homeland Association, this is Homelands Handbook No. 9. In addition to that in the text, there is abundant information to be gleaned from the delightful advertisements. [ref: 15669 ] £35 951. MURRAY, W.J.C. ROMNEY MARSH. Robert Hale Ltd. 1953 228 pp. with map and illustrations. Original cloth, gilt in dustwrapper. The only easily available book on the Marsh. [ref: 18722 ] £10 952. MURRAY, W.J.C. ROMNEY MARSH. Robert Hale, 1973 First Edition. 8vo. 220 pp. with map and illustrations. Original cloth, gilt in dustwrapper. The only easily available book on the Marsh. [ref: 13103 ] £10 953. NEALE, JOHNSON. THE MUTINY AT THE NORE, AND THE

MUTINY AT SPITHEAD. By Johnson Neale, Esq., Author of ‘Cavendish.’ etc. London William Tegg 1869 Small 8vo. 4 x 6 inches. xii + 415 pp. + [1]. Half title. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece. Bound in original cloth, gilt with title vignette of naval weapons and anchor on front board within decorative borders, gilt. Extremities worn and lower half of front board rubbed, otherwise good condition. Early ink signature on first free endpaper. A detailed account of the Nore and Spithead mutinies of 1797, which reprints many original documents in the text. The author’s full name was William Johnstoun Nelson Neale (1812-93). He joined the navy in 1824 and was

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present at the battle of Navarino Bay in 1827 before entering the legal profession in 1833. He wrote a number of novels of naval life, including the Crimean War. The first edition of this title was published in 1842. Kent Bibliography. www.historicnavalfiction.com [ref: 21725 ] £80 954. NEAME, ALAN. THE HOLY MAID OF KENT. The life of Elizabeth

Barton, 1506-1534 Hodder and Stoughton, 1971 8vo., 390 pp. with illustrations, maps and tables. Original gilt cloth, slight staining to boards and spine loose, lacks half title. Library stamps on back of title page. Dust wrapper slightly frayed and torn at edges. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Generally a respectable copy. The only full length study of Elizabeth Barton executed in 1534 for opposing the royal will of King Henry VIII. Was she ‘a lunatic, a dupe, an imposter, or a saint?’ [ref: 19718 ] £20 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR COACHING SCENE

955. NEWHOUSE, CHARLES B. THE COAST ROAD.

Unsigned and undated but c.1830 Original watercolour, 16 x 11 inches approx., depicting a stagecoach crossing open heath and passing a crossroad with its signpost. The coach is well-loaded with six outside passengers in addition to the driver and guard. In the far distance a hunt is in progress with the hounds hotly pursued by the huntsmen. The signpost cannot be read but atop the post is a rectangle containing the initials CBN. The door of the coach shows the route but only London is distinct enough to be readable; nonetheless, the title ‘The Coast Road’ appeared on the old backing, and it is highly likely that this is one of a number of coaches that connected London and Dover. Additionally on the side of the coach can be made out Fetter Lane, London, and Hatchet[t’s], Piccad[illy]. There was likely a coaching inn in Fetter Lane, and certainly there was one in Piccadilly called Hatchett’s. Charles B. Newhouse, 1805-1877, was widely known for his coaching scenes and numerous prints were published based on his work.. [ref: 19976 ] £450 956. NEWMAN, JOHN. NORTH EAST AND EAST KENT. (The Buildings

of England, BE 39). Harmondsworth Penguin Books. 1969 First edition. Small 8vo. 4.5 x 7.25 inches. 529 pp. + [3]. Half title. Illustrated with 105 black and white photographs, maps and drawings in text. Decorated with publisher’s device on half title. Bound in original black cloth, gilt in pictorial dust wrapper. Slight wear to edges of wrapper but otherwise a good copy. Part of Pevsner's famous survey. We have two other similar copies. Kent Bibliography [ref: 20100 ] £20

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957. NEWMAN, JOHN. WEST KENT AND THE WEALD. (The Buildings

of England Series). Penguin Books. 1969 First Edition 645 pp. with 100 photo plates. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Pevsner's famous survey. [ref: 16668 ] £20 WITH A LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR 958. NEWMAN, JOHN. WEST KENT AND THE WEALD. (The Buildings

of England). Harmondsworth Penguin Books. 1976 Second Edition. Small 8vo., 7.5 x 4.5 inches. 671 pp. + [2] . Half title. with 100 photo plates. Illustrated with 100 black and white photographic plates, map and drawings in text Decorated with publisher’s device on half title. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Loosely inserted in this copy is a manuscript letter from the author. Part of Pevsner's famous survey. First published 1969. We have another copy of this edition, Wrapper price clipped and worn, with some loss of image at base. Signature on front pastedown, £20. [ref: 20464 ] £45 959. NICOLSON, NIGEL. KENT PHOTOGRAPHS BY PATRICK

SUTHERLAND. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1988 First Edition, 4to. 160 pp. colour illustrated throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Signed copy. [ref: 19665 ] £30

960. NINETEENTH CENTURY CRANBROOK BILLHEAD. GEO.

WATERS, PRINTER, BOOK-BINDER, STATIONER, AND LIBRARIAN, TO THE CRANBROOK DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. Account Books of every description, Magazines, Reviews, and all other Publications procured on the shortest Notice. Westminster Life and British Fire Office. Cranbrook, July 1st, 1839 Printed billhead, 7.5 x 4.5 inches, on white paper, with a variety of styles of typeface (presumably to demonstrate the versatility of the printing side of the business). Illuminated with a woodcut illustration of books, quill pens, inkwell, etc. Completed in manuscript ink. Very clean. Signs of old folds and manuscript in ink has faded slightly, otherwise as given to customer. The receipt is made out to the ‘Committee of Millhouse School’ for the printing of a number of different circulars and handbills, etc., and is marked Settled and signed Geo. Waters. A deduction by way of discount has been made from the total ‘on account of Charity’, suggesting that the school was a worthy but impecunious establishment. [ref: 20202 ] £25

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961. NINETEENTH CENTURY CRANBROOK BILLHEAD. STAMP

OFFICE & CIRCULATING LIBRARY. BOUGHT OF J.T. DENNETT, PRINTER, BOOK AND MUSIC SELLER, STATIONER, AND BINDER. New Music, Magazines, Reviews, and all other Publications procured Weekly at the London Prices. Copper plate printing and other Cards Engraved. - London Newspapers supplied. Agent to the Kent Fire and Life Office. Cranbrook, 4th June 1835 Printed billhead, 7 x 5.5 inches, on white paper, with a variety of styles of typeface (presumably to demonstrate the versatility of the printing side of the business). Completed in manuscript ink. Very clean with one tiny closed tear to top left corner. Signs of old folds and manuscript in ink has faded slightly, otherwise as given to customer. The receipt is made out to Mr. Munn for a copy of the West Kent Poll Book that cost six shillings, and is marked Pd [Paid], and signed J.T. Dennett. A further note seems to refer to something, perhaps a loan, due in January or February 1838, which is also inscribed on the reverse. Mr. Dennett went on to become a Director of the London & County Bank, Cranbrook branch in 1847. [ref: 20200 ] £25 962. NINETEENTH CENTURY CRANBROOK CHEQUES. LONDON

& COUNTY BANK, CRANBROOK [KENT] BRANCH. Two cheques from the account of Cranbrook Gas Company. Printed by Charles Skipper & East, London. 1873 Two used cheques, 7 x 3 inches, printed in shades of lilac, without counterfoils. Signs of old folds and spike holes but otherwise very good. The cheques are made out to different payees; a Mr. George Dadson and Mr. and Mrs. Beken, and are countersigned on the reverse by Geo. Dadson and Wm. Beken. The cheques are signed by three directors of the Cranbrook Gas Company, J.T. Dennett (who was also a bookseller in Cranbrook), W.B. Sharpe, and Edwin Hills. [ref: 20199 ] £10 963. NINETEENTH CENTURY PERIODICAL. THE THANET FIGARO.

Volume 1, Number 1, Saturday, June 2, 1877. One Penny. Printed for the Proprietors by Messrs. Clement Smith & Company, at their Works, Cursiter Street, London, E.C., and publishedby them at their Temporary Offices, No. 26, Queen Street, Ramsgate. 1877 Folio, 9.5 x 12 inches, 16 pp. with masthead design showing Ramsgate beach and railway station. The leaves are all separate with some slight wear to edges. According to the front page ‘The Thanet Figaro’ ...will be a paper of light reading, intended to interest equally Residents and Visitors in Thanet. Contains a full-page advertisement for The Granville, St Lawrence-on-Sea with a woodcut of the buildings seen from the cliff. and a number of other local advertisements. [ref: 20198 ] £45

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964. NORTH KENT. HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH :

PICTURES AND MEMORIES OF 100 YEARS 1894 - 1994. H.K.and S.D. Parish Council. 1994 Oblong, 9.5 x 8.25 inches. 176 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Original pictorial glossy card wrappers. Near mint. A thorough and interesting history of the parish over a century. Scarce. [ref: 18201 ] £25 GOODWIN SANDS 965. NUNN, CAPT. W. A LARGE DRAUGHT OF THE DOWNES, SHOWING THE SANDS, SHOALS, DEPTHS OF WATER AND ANCHORAGE, WITH ALL THE LEADING MARKS TO AVOID THE DANGERS THEREIN. Sold by Wm. Mount and T. Page on Tower Hill. London. No date but c.1745 Hand-coloured copper-engraved sea chart 17 x 22 inches. Mounted in conservation materials. A very good example with good margins. One of the definitive maps of the Goodwins, the plate shows the coast from Dover to Margate, showing the Stour estuary and the sand banks of the Downs and Goodwin Sands. A detailed map on both sea and land, with many points of coastal reference including a gallows on the cliff near Deal. Decorated with a cartouche and compass scale and a compass rose, rhumb lines, etc. [ref: 18292 ] £350 DOVER VIA SANDWICH AND DEAL 966. OGILBY, JOHN. THE ROAD FROM CHELMSFORD IN ESSEX TO MALDON, RA[Y]LEIGH IN ESSEX AND GRAVESEND IN KENT With the branch from Canterbury, to Deal by Sandwich and thence to Dover. (London ) n.d. but 1675 Hand-coloured, copper-engraving, 12.5 x 16.5 inches, with decorative cartouche. Wide margins, a very good copy with attractive colouring. Published in ‘Britannia’, John Ogilby’s famous strip road maps were the first engraved sheets to map England’s roads. They combine a decorative title cartouche with the detailed and practical arrangement of sections or strips, in this case six strips from Chelmsford in the lower left corner of the map, through Rayleigh and Billericay, Gravesend, and on to Canterbury and Dover. [ref: 20644 ] £275 LONDON TO HYTHE 967. OGILBY, JOHN. THE ROAD FROM LONDON TO HITH IN KENT

INCLUDING THE ROAD BY MAIDSTONE. (London ) n.d. but 1675 Uncoloured copper-engraving, 12.5 x 16.5 inches, with decorative cartouche. Some old repairs in the wide margins, not effecting the map, otherwise a very good copy Published in ‘Britannia’, John Ogilby’s famous strip road maps were the first engraved sheets to map England’s roads. They combine a decorative title cartouche with the detailed and practical arrangement of sections or strips,

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in this case six strips from London in the lower left corner of the map, through Rochester and Canterbury to Dover. [ref: 18299 ] £275 LONDON TO RYE 968. OGILBY, JOHN. THE ROAD FROM LONDON TO RYE IN SUSSEX. (London ) n.d. but 1675 Hand-coloured, copper-engraving, 12.5 x 16.5 inches, with decorative cartouche. Wide margins, a very good copy with attractive colouring. Published in ‘Britannia’, John Ogilby’s famous strip road maps were the first engraved sheets to map England’s roads. They combine a decorative title cartouche with the detailed and practical arrangement of sections or strips, in this case six strips from London in the lower left corner of the map, through Lewisham and Bromley, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and on via Lamberhurst to Rye. [ref: 20643 ] £275 OGILBY’S COUNTY MAP 1672

969. OGILBY, JOHN. ENGRAVED BY F[RANCIS] LAMB. A NEW

MAP OF KENT. ACTUALLY SURVEY’D AND DELENIATED BY HIS MAJESTIES COSMOGRAPHER JOHN OGILBY ESQ. London. [1672] Large copper-engraved map, 16.75 x 21.5 inches to edge, in original handcolour, within ruled inner and outer borders, between which the orientations, North, South, East and West, are found. Upper left oval dedication panel ‘To his Grace, the most Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, by divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury; Primate of all England and Metropolitan, & one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council, his munificent Patron, &c. This new Map of the County of Kent ... ‘, with adjacent Mitre and coat of arms of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Lower left 'A Table of Explanation' and 'A Scale of English Miles' [1-12] [Approx. scale 1 inch to 3 miles] with 'F.Lamb. Sculp at lower edge.' Lower right title cartouche 'A NEW MAP OF KENT Actually Survey'd and deleniated (sic) by His Majefties Cofmographer JOHN OGILBY Efq'. Trimmed tight to outer border and laid on to board . Some foxing along one fold and occasionally along lower edge. A little timestained but intact and undamaged. A fine hand-coloured map of Kent, divided into the five lathes and further divided into hundreds. Symbols are used to indicate the sees, deaneries, shire towns, corporations, market, fair and post towns, Cinque Ports, country houses, parish churches, etc. The City of London is shown at the top left and the estuary and lower reaches of the Thames are shown in some detail with the channels, shoals and banks indicated. The map is dedicated to Archbishop [1663-1677] Gilbert Sheldon, who financed the establishment of the Sheldonian Museum at Oxford, where he was Chancellor. Philip Lea’s map of 1693 was based on this map. Burgess 19. (BL 3055[37] /H Hall/Bart) [ref: 20606 ] £1650 970. OGLEY, BOB. IN THE WAKE OF THE HURRICANE, OCTOBER 16

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Froglets Publications, Westerham. 1988 Oblong 4to. 136 pp. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photos. Original black cloth in dust wrapper. The well-known memorial volume. [ref: 14947 ] £10 971. OGLEY, BOB. KENT - A CHRONICLE OF THE CENTURY VOLUME

One: 1900-1924. Froglets Publications 1997 4to. 200 pp. illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Original cloth gilt in original dust wrapper. Very good copy. The second volume of Ogley’s Chronicles traces the history of Kent through the Great Strike, the Depression, the rise of the Third Reich and its aftermath. Year by year, the chapters describe the news, scandals, dramas and the characters both famous and local who featured in them. [ref: 21160 ] £ 972. OGLEY, BOB. THE KENT WEATHER BOOK. Froglets Publications, Westerham. 1991 4to. 160 pp. with b/w photo illustration throughout. Original pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. Dealing predominantly with extremes of weather from the twentieth century, the author nonetheless commences with weather in 55 B.C., when Caesar’s fleet was swept back to the coast of Gaul by gales. A collection of remarkable and interesting photographs illustrates an informative text. [ref: 16675 ] £12

973. OLIVER, DAVID R. LATE MEDIEVAL THANET AND THE CINQUE

PORTS. David Oliver, Broadstairs. 1997 Limited edition. 133 of 750. xii + 72 pp. with numerous illustrations to the text. Blue-green cloth, gilt. As new. With chapters on King and Country [Thanet’s military service to the monarch]; Undeclared War, [Piracy and Crime at sea]; Administration; The Church; The Land; Judicial Proceedings; and The People of Thanet, this book gives chronological outline of the relationship with the crown. An interesting resource. [ref: 21318 ] £30 974. OPPITZ, LESLIE. TRAMWAYS REMEMBERED SOUTH AND

SOUTH EAST ENGLAND. Countryside Books. 1988 4to. 144 pp. with line illustrations throughout. Original cloth, gilt in dustwrapper. A very good copy. An excellent survey of all the tramways of the region. [ref: 10879 ] £15

975. ORDNANCE SURVEY. THE OLD SERIES ORDNANCE SURVEY

MAPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. VOLUME 1. KENT, ESSEX, E. SUSSEX AND S. SUFFOLK. SCALE : 1 INCH TO 1 MILE.

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Introduction by J.B. Harley and Yolande O’Donoghue. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent. 1975 Folio. xl + 48 double-page reproduction plates. Bound in original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. A little worn on extremities but a very good copy. A most useful reprint of the earliest states of the 4-sheet Mudge map of Kent (1801) and the 8 sheets of the first issue of the Ordnance Survey map of 1819. The introduction explains how the first ‘modern map’ of Kent came about, and is also very useful in its listing of points of identification for the early issues of these maps, something of a bibliographical minefield. This book was the first part of a project aimed at reproducing the whole of the first O/S maps for England and Wales in 10 volumes. Long out of print and has become very hard to find. [ref: 21750 ] £95.00 DYMCHURCH TO FOLKESTONE

976. ORDNANCE SURVEY. [ORDNANCE MAP OF DYMCHURCH TO

FOLKESTONE.] Scale six inches to one mile. Kent. Sheet. LXXIV. N.W. Third edition, 1908. Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office. 1908 50 x 60 inches. Uncoloured engraved map, dissected and laid on to linen in 28 panels. Limp marbled paper covers with label of Edward Stanford, Geographer, to upper cover. A well-used map, rather scuffed and grubby and having suffered several punctures. None of this affects the readability and usefulness. Surveyed in 1871. Revised in 1906. Heliozincographed from 1/2500. Covers the coastal region from Dymchurch in the West to Folkestone in the East and inland from Sellindge across to Hawkinge and Crete Road East, showing the main SER line and the Sandling Branch. [ref: 19691 ] £125 ROMNEY MARSH WITH DUNGENESS 977. ORDNANCE SURVEY. [ORDNANCE MAP OF PART OF ROMNEY

MARSH.] Scale six inches to one mile. Kent. Sheet. LXXXI. Second edition, 1899. Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office. 1899 39 x 51 inches. Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and laid on to linen. Bound in limp black boards. Slight wear and staining consistent with age, but generally fine condition. Surveyed in 1871. Revised in 1896-97. Heliozincographed from 1/2500. Covers the parishes of St Mary in the Marsh, Blackmanstone (part), Ivychurch, Hope Old and New Romney, St Martin’s New Romney, Brenzett (part), Midley and Lydd, including the whole of the Dungeness peninsula as far west as Lydd Camp. The edge of the coastline has been coloured blue and the areas of the parishes of New Romney, St Martin’s New Romney and Hope, pink. Maps such as this were produced, usually to order, and centred

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around a point, selected by the client, who, in this case, may have been New Romney Municipal Borough Council. [ref: 19643 ] £135 MAIDSTONE 978. ORDNANCE SURVEY. ORDNANCE MAP OF THE COUNTRY AROUND MAIDSTONE. Scale one inch to one mile. Engraved at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. Surveyed in 1865-69 Revised in 1893 and Published by Colonel J.Farquharson, C.B., R.E., Director General, 1896 Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and laid on to linen. Housed in a worn but complete cloth-covered slip-case, labelled Edward Stanford, Ordnance Map of the Country around Maidstone. The label and the cloth of the upper cover of the slip-case have been damp at some point and the original red cloth is faded but complete. The slip-case has proved its utility as the map is in fine condition within. Neat Victorian address stamp on reverse of map, not affecting map. Major roads, railways, wood and county boundaries are hand coloured. Maps such as this were produced, usually to order, centred around a point selected by the client and Stanford’s would use sheets from the appropriate O/S maps and provide extras like hand-colouring and linen quality, etc. [ref: 19158 ] £120 979. ORWIN, C.S. AND S. WILLIAMS. A HISTORY OF WYE CHURCH

AND WYE COLLEGE. ILLUSTRATED BY C. WINCKWORTH ALLEN AND RALPH HOUGHTON Kentish Express, Ashford, 1913 First edition, 8vo., 235 pp. illustrated with photographs and plans. Original cloth, gilt spine slightly faded. Blind stamp of public library on upper board but this copy has not been used and is free from stamps etc. A very good example. Scarce history of Wye and the College. [ref: 19731 ] £65

980. OSLER, ANTHONY. WHE’RE YER FOR? The Recollections of Capt.

Harold Smy, Sailing Bargemaster. Illustrated by Angus Stirling. Chaffcutter Books, Ware. 2006 56 pp. with pencil sketch illustrations. Original pictorial laminated card wrappers. A very good copy [ref: 20801 ] £10

981. OSWALD, ARTHUR. COUNTRY HOUSES OF KENT. With 208

Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. London Country Life Ltd. 1933 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches. xvi + 75 pp. + [1]. Half-title. Illustrated by folding map and 208 numbered black and white photographs and drawings on 60 plates, including frontispiece and additional drawings in text. Bound in original cloth, gilt, front boards and spine with borders and white horse. Extremities worn and upper spine joint starting to crack. Very good interior.

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982. OULTON, W.C. A PICTURE OF MARGATE, AND ITS VICINITY. By

W.C. Oulton, Esq. Author of the Traveller’s Guide, Etc., Etc. Illustrated with a Map and Twenty Views, Engraved by J.J.Shury, from Drawings by Captain G. Varlo, R.M. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, Paternoster Row. 1820 First Edition, half title + engraved map + engraved title-page + letterpress title-page + preface [ii] + 5-124 pp. + [1 pp. list of plates] , illustrated with 19 engraved views (the engraved title-page has a plate of St Johns Church which forms the 20th plate). In this copy the unnumbered list of plates is bound at the end, instead of after the letterpress title-page, as in some copies, which accounts for the pagination of the prelims (vi), when only [iv] are present. This example is complete in every way. Bound in contemporary half calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Occasional foxing marks as usual, and a slight damp stain occasionally affecting the lower margin of the plates, though the images are unaffected. An attractive copy of this, now very scarce, item. Fine early 19th century view book and descriptive guide of the town and harbour of Margate, here described in accurate detail, giving probably the best record of the town at this time. Steam boats with hordes of visitors are depicted, and the thoroughfares and bathing establishments of the town, as well as more prosaic edifices such Cobb’s Brewery and The Prevention Post, windmills, etc., etc. A charming guide which depicts the town in words and fine engraved views. [ref: 20302 ] £350 983. OGILBY IMPROVED OWEN, JOHN, and EMANUEL BOWEN. A MAP OF KENT. [Printed for Carington Bowles, in St. Paul’s Church Yard.] No date but c.1750 Small engraved handcoloured County Map 5 x 7.5 inches. Framed and glazed in conservation materials, overall size 9.5 x 12 inches. A very good example. From, BRITANNIA DEPICTA, OR OGILBY IMPROV'D. OWEN AND OWEN’S FAMOUS ROAD-BOOK-CUM-ATLAS. [REF: 18325 ] £95 984. OYLER, THOMAS H. LYDD AND ITS CHURCH. KENTISH EXPRESS, ASHFORD. 1894 52 pp. with illustrations in the text including two brasses. Original cloth, gilt.

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This was F.W. Cock’s copy with his signature on the front paste-down endpaper and some marginal additions and corrections in his neat hand. ***we have another unsigned copy at £40*** [REF: 15453 ] £50 985. OYLER, THOMAS H. LYDD AND ITS CHURCH. KENTISH EXPRESS, ASHFORD. 1894 52 pp. with illustrations in the text including two brasses. Original cloth, gilt. Fine copy of this scarce book. [REF: 14405 ] £40 986. PRESENTATION COPY PAIN, E.C. DEAL AND THE DOWNS IN THE WAR OF LIBERATION. 1939 - 1945. Deal T.F. Pain and Sons. [1945] 8vo, 9 x 6 inches. 174 pp. with folding map and 28 photo illustrations. On the front free endpaper there is a dedication from E. C. Pain. Original cloth, gilt, preserved in the original dustwrapper which is slightly chipped at the head of the spine, otherwise very well preserved. Scarce record of the town of Deal and of the Goodwin Sands during the second world war - well illustrated. [Stock ID: 21308 ] £100

PAIN, EDWARD CHARLES. HISTORY OF DEAL (1914 - 1953). By E. C. Pain Author of ‘The Last of Our Luggers’ and ‘Deal and the Downs in the War of Liberation.’ Deal. Printed and Published by T.F.Pain and Sons, Ltd., Deal and Sandwich. 1953 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. vii + [i] +148 pp. Illustrated by 42 plates and by photographs and drawings, etc. in text. Bound in original cloth, gilt. A near mint copy, preserved by the original dustwrapper, slightly chipped on rear panel. Scarce modern history of Deal encompassing the two World Wars - intended as an update to complete Laker's history, first published in 1917. [Stock ID: 21312 ] £100 987.

988. PAIN, EDWARD CHARLES. HISTORY OF DEAL (1914 - 1953). By

E. C. Pain Author of ‘The Last of Our Luggers’ and ‘Deal and the Downs in the War of Liberation.’ Deal: Printed and Published by T.F.Pain and Sons, Ltd., Deal and Sandwich. 1953 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. vii + [i] +148 pp. Illustrated by [42] plates and by photographs and drawings, etc. in text. Bound in original cloth, gilt. Spine faded but a good copy. Scarce modern history of Deal encompassing the two World Wars - intended as an update to complete Laker's history, first published in 1917 (second enlarged edition, [Stock ID: 16113 ] £85

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989. PARISH, W.D. AND W.F. SHAW. A DICTIONARY OF THE

KENTISH DIALECT AND PROVINCIALISMS IN USE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. W.E. Goulden. The Athenaeum Canterbury and Hamilton, Adams and Co. London 1887 First edition. 8vo.194 pp. Bound in the original publisher’s cloth, gilt. A very good example. Scarce Kentish dialect dictionary full of curiosities, viz. Bishop's Finger, ‘A guide post; so called, because it shows the right way, but does not go therein.’ [Stock ID: 18677 ] £100 990. PARISH, W.D. AND W.F. SHAW. A DICTIONARY OF THE

KENTISH DIALECT AND PROVINCIALISMS IN USE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. Farncombe & Co., Lewes : 1888 xxvi + 194 pp. Contemporary cloth gilt, a little worn on spine but a clean sound copy. Scarce Kentish dialect dictionary full of curiosities, viz. Bishop's Finger, A guide post; so called, because it shows the right way, but does not go therein. [Stock ID: 18678 ] £100

TURNPIKE ROADS. BILLS. 991. PARLIAMENTARY BILL. A BILL [WITH THE AMENDMENTS] TO EXPLAIN, AMEND, AND REDUCE INTO ONE ACT OF PARLIAMENT, THE GENERAL LAWS NOW IN BEING, FOR REGULATING THE TURNPIKE ROADS OF THIS KINGDOM; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. [Title given by Elliston-Erwood]: Bill (part only) that became 13 Geo III c 84 and repealed by 3 Geo IV c 126 General Turnpike Act. 1773 Folio. 8.5 x 13.5 inches. pp.13 to 43 only. Title on verso of p.43. Disbound in paper wrappers, with hand-written title label. Tears and missing sections in margins, not affecting text; some staining, especially of title, but otherwise fine condition. Individual acts of Parliament were required to establish turnpike trusts for specific roads, but it was also found necessary to pass more general acts from time to time to regulate the powers and responsibilities of the trusts in the light of experience. This bill, which led to the 1773 General Turnpike Act, followed the first Turnpike Act of 1663 and another general act of 1766 (repealed by the 1773 Act). Perhaps the most significant of the financial provisions proposed here are the farming of tolls by auction and the enforcement of subscriptions by persons who have agreed to advance funds to allow a road to be constructed or repaired. This had already become the established method of financing turnpikes. The bill was passed into law as the General Turnpike Act of 1773 and remained in effect until the 1823 Act came into force. [Stock ID: 20890 ] £20

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992. PARR, HENRY. NEW WHEELS IN OLD RUTS. . Illustrated by

F.W.R. Adams. T. Fisher Unwin, London 1896 8vo.197 pp. with numerous line drawings to text. Original pictorial red cloth. Edges untrimmed. A little worn but a very good copy. A humorous account of a walking tour through Kent. [Stock ID: 18544 ] £25 993. PARRETT, W. J. SITTINGBOURNE, MILTON, AND DISTRICT

DIRECTORY. Including the following Parishes:- Bapchild; Bobbing; Borden; Bredgar; Doddington; Elmley; Frinsted; Halstow (Lower); Hartlip; Iwade; Kingsdown; Lynsted; Milsted; Milton; Murston; Newington; Newnham; Norton; Rainham; Rodmersham; Sittingbourne; Stockbury; Teynham; Tong; Tunstall; Upchurch; Wormshill. 1908. Reprinted 1980. Sittingbourne Printed and published by W. J. Parrett, Ltd., at the East Kent Gazette Office, 17 and 19, High Street. 1980 8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. xxiv + 376 pp. with advertisements in text. Illustrated by numerous black and white photographs. Bound in red cloth, printed in black, including advertisements on boards and endpapers. Fine condition. A facsimile version of the 1908 edition by the original printers. [Stock ID: 21666 ] £30 994. PAUL, S.F. FURTHER HISTORY OF THE GOSPEL STANDARD

BAPTISTS VOLUME 5. SOME SURREY AND KENT CHURCHES. Published by the author. 1966 8vo. 5 x 8 inches. 329 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations. Bound in the original pale blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy. [Stock ID: 20096 ] £20 995. PAYNE, FRANCINE. JOYCE GREEN AND THE RIVER

HOSPITALS. Francine Payne/DWS Print Services. 2001 136 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations. Softback. Original pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. The story of Joyce Green, Orchard and Long Reach hospitals on the Dartford marshes, which were built as isolation hospitals dealing principally with smallpox cases. [Stock ID: 17218 ] £15 996. PEARSON, SARAH. THE MEDIEVAL HOUSES OF KENT: AN

HISTORICAL ANALYSIS. London Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. HMSO. 1994 4to. 8.75 x 11 inches. x + 196 pp. Half-title. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, plans, sections and maps, with a folding map of parishes at end. Original laminated pictorial card wrappers as issued. Slight wear to extremities but otherwise a very good copy. One of three volumes resulting from a project to survey some 450 houses in sixty parishes. A useful reference work, now out of print. [Stock ID: 21167 ] £85

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997. PEARSON, SARAH, P.S. BARNWELL, and A.T. ADAMS. A

GAZETTEER OF MEDIEVAL HOUSES IN KENT London Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. HMSO. 1994 4to. 8.5 x 11 inches. xiii + 145 pp. + [1] With plans and diagrams throughout and a folding map. Half-title. Illustrated with plans and sections throughout, with a folding map of parishes at end. Original pictorial laminated card wrappers as issued. A very good copy One of three volumes resulting from a project to survey some 450 houses in sixty parishes. A useful reference work, now out of print. [Stock ID: 21169 ] £35 998. PEDDIE, JOHN. CONQUEST : THE ROMAN INVASION OF

BRITAIN. Bramley Books, Godalming. 1998 xvi + 214 pp. with 70 illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine in like, unclipped wrapper. An assemblage of written accounts and archaeological evidence which has been expertly combined into the story of the Claudian conquest of Britain [Stock ID: 17412 ] £20 999. PENN, ROGER. PORTRAIT OF THE RIVER MEDWAY. Robert

Hale. 1981 192 pp. with map and illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper, a very good copy. A good modern account of the Medway. [Stock ID: 15495 ] £15

PERKINS, D.R.J. RAMSGATE AND THANET LIFE IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS Alan Sutton, Gloucester 1989 8vo.159 pp. Card covers fine copy. Photographic histoy of Ramsgate and Thanet from the advent of the camera into the 1970s. [Stock ID: 18029 ] £10 1000.

PERKINS, W. TURNER. POPULAR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO SOUTH EASTERN AND CHATHAM COAST RESORTS. London McCorquodale and Co. Limited, 41 Coleman Street, E.C. 1903 8vo. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. [6] + 305 pp. + [1], includes [5] pp. advertisements at beginning and end (with other advertisements in text). This guide does not appear to have been issued with a title page as the pictorial cover has the title and price (see also Cambridge copy in COPAC). The introduction is signed and dated by W. T. Perkins on behalf of the Managing Committee. Illustrated by coloured folding map serving as frontispiece, numerous black and white and sepia tinted photographs, sketches, maps and plans in text and by decorative whole page chapter headings and tailpiece vignettes. Bound in coloured pictorial paper boards with linen spine containing advertisement. Front and rear hinges later reinforced. Extremities worn and boards creased and faded. Small tape repair 1001.

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to lower edge of one fold of map, tape now removed, small tear at top of p.278 and stain at foot of p.117-8; otherwise a fine clean interior. An attractively illustrated guide to all the the coastal resorts served by the recently merged South Eastern and Chatham Railway from Hastings and St. Leonards via Rye and Winchelsea, Hythe, Folkestone, Dover and the Thanet towns to Herne Bay, Whitstable and Sheppey, etc. Boulogne, Calais and Ostend are also included. Among the numerous topics of illustration are the Whitstable oyster industry, a bird’s eye view and plan of Dover Harbour, and maps of the Channel routes. The Railway also describes and promotes its services from Folkestone, with its new pier and first turbine steamer, ‘Queen,’ due in service that year. A very scarce item; COPAC lists only the Cambridge copy and there are two in Kent libraries (with one copy apiece of the later, 1905 and 1907, editions). Not traced in Ottley. [Stock ID: 21051 ] £80 PHILIP, ALEX. J. A HISTORY OF GRAVESEND & ITS SURROUNDINGS FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES Published by the Author, Wraysbury, Bucks. 1954 4to. i-x + 214 pp. with numerous illustrations. Green cloth with gilt spine. A very good copy. Published by subscription, (143 subscribers are listed) it is unlikely that more than 200 were printed and, given the number of libraries listed, it is easy to understand why it has become difficult to find. [Stock ID: 16766 ] £60 KENT MARRIAGE REGISTER TRANSCRIPTS PHILLIMORE, W.P.W. and RICHARD JOHN FYNMORE. KENT PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Two volumes. Edited by W.P.W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L. and Richard John Fynmore of Sandgate. London: Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124 Chancery Lane 1910 8vo. Vol.1. [viii] + 152 pp. [4], B-L4; Vol.2. [viii] + 152 pp. [4], B-K4, L-L8. Original cloth, gilt. Some foxing, especially Vol.I, and one lower edge tear. Ink inscription on half-title of Vol.I. Vol.I. Marriages at Lamberhurst section, has been extensively annotated and corrected at various dates, in pencil, black and red ink and white correcting fluid with further corrections appearing on a three page ink manuscript insertion. Occasional light pencil notes appear elsewhere in the volume. Phillimore’s Parish Register series, Vol.110 and Vol. 151. Limited edition of 150, initialled by editor on reverse of title page. The parishes included are Vol.1, Penshurst, Eynsford, Charlton in Dover, Westerham and Lamberhurst; Vol. 2, Halstead, West Farleigh, Willesborough, Newington, Staplehurst and Wichling. [Stock ID: 19474 ] £175 1002.

PHILLIPS, CHARLES J. KENTISH HOMES VISITED BY THE STAFF AND NURSES OF THE ONTARIO MILITARY HOSPITAL ORPINGTON, KENT, IN 1916. Privately Printed, 1917. 4to. 88 pp. with 18 plates. Original. cloth, gilt. A very good copy. 1003.

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Rare account of some fourteen visits to country homes in Kent during the First World War by this Canadian Hospital. The houses included Knole, Penshurst, Montreal and Mereworth. [Stock ID: 19389 ] £90 PHILP, BRIAN. EXCAVATIONS AT FAVERSHAM, 1965. THE ROYAL ABBEY, ROMAN VILLA, AND BELGIAC FARMSTEAD. K.A.S. 1968 4to. 92 pp. with folding plates and illus. Original cloth . A good copy, dust wrapper worn at extremities. First report on the excavations. [Stock ID: 19722 ] £25 1004.

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PHILP, BRIAN. EXCAVATIONS IN THE DARENTH VALLEY, KENT. THE DETAILED REPORTS ON THE DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION OF A COMPLETE IRON AGE FARMSTEAD SITE AT FARNINGHAM HILL ....SITES AT DARENTH .... OTFORD. Alan Sutton, Stroud. 1984 4to. 225 pp. with folding plates and illustrations and microfiche in rear pocket. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A mint copy. [Stock ID: 17501 ] £20

PHILP, BRIAN. EXCAVATIONS IN WEST KENT. 1960 1970. THE DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION OF PREHISTORIC ROMAN, SAXON, AND MEDIEVAL SITES MAINLY IN THE BROMLEY AREA AND IN THE DARENTH VALLEY. Headley Bros. 1973 4to. 242 pp. with folding plates and illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. [Stock ID: 15532 ] £20 1006.

HUMOROUS SKETCHES BY PHIZ 1007. PHIZ. SKETCHES OF THE SEASIDE AND THE COUNTRY. Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), the famous Victorian illustrator, adopted the pseudonym of Phiz soon after he began collaborating with Charles Dickens in illustrating the serial publication of Pickwick Papers from 1836. It may have been chosen to harmonize with Boz, already selected by Dickens for himself, but there is also a possible reference to physiognomy, because of his ability in drawing faces. Phiz went on to illustrate another ten novels by Dickens before their working relationship ended. In his long career, he produced illustrations for many other writer’s works and for periodicals, including Punch and The Illustrated London News from 1844-61. [Stock ID: 19408 ] £60

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PIGOT & Co. PIGOT AND CO.’S ROYAL NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTIES OF KENT, SURREY AND SUSSEX . Pigot, (1839), but reprinted 1993 Roy. 8vo. 282 pp. with three folding maps. Bound in paper wrappers a very good copy. Facsimile reprint of one of the most sought after directories of the county. Each town is listed alphabetically, introduced by a short description with population and statistical information, and then follows a list of Gentry, Clergy, Traders, Shops &c. Invaluable as a guide to the economic growth of the County at the time of the Industrial Revolution. This edition, now out of print, was limited to 1500 copies and is become quite scarce. [Stock ID: 18535 ] £35 1008.

DIRECTORY OF KENT AND 10 HOME COUNTIES PIGOT & Co. ROYAL NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTIES OF BEDFORD, CAMBRIDGE, ESSEX, HERTS, HUNTINGDON, KENT, MIDDLESEX, NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, SURREY AND SUSSEX. COMPRISING CLASSIFIED LISTS OF ALL PERSONS IN TRADE, AND OF THE NOBILITY, GENTRY AND CLERGY, RESIDENT IN THE TOWNS AND PRINCIPAL VILLAGES IN THE ABOVE COUNTYS. AN ACCOUNT OF EVERY MODE OF CONVEYANCE BY RAILWAY, ROAD AND WATER; POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS Etc. TO WHICH IS ADDED A CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF LONDON AND ITS SUBURBS; WITH AN EXTENSIVE CONVEYANCE GUIDE, INCLUDING VALUABLE INFORMATION CONNECTED WITH RAILWAYS. LISTS AND LOCALITIES OF ALL PUBLICK BUILDINGS, INSTITUTIONS, SOCIETIES, Etc; LONDON AND PROVINCIAL BANKERS AND NEWSPAPERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Pigot and Co. 59, Fleet Street. London. 1839 Royal 8vo. viii + pp.9-719 of the counties, and London 266 pp. + [84] + [32] + 102 pp. adverts. LACKING THE MAPS AS USUAL. Bound in original diced roan, rubbed and worn, but strong and sturdy. A very good copy. Lacking the maps of the counties. One of the most sought-after directories of South East England and London. Each town is listed alphabetically, introduced by a short description with population and statistical information, and then followed by a list of Gentry, Clergy, Traders, Shops &c. Invaluable as a guide to the economic growth of the County at the time of the Industrial Revolution. The lists of Railways and other conveyances are very interesting, as are the details of financial and other institutions. The 100 pages of advertisements are a joy, many with illustrations of shops, products and other fascinating information. The text is complete but the maps are missing as usual. A fine and rare directory. [Stock ID: 17250 ] £550 1009.

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PINNOCK, WILLIAM. THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF KENT WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, ETC AND A NEAT MAP OF THE COUNTY. Printed for Pinnock and Maunder by Davidson, London. [c.1822] 12mo. 3.5 x 5.75 inches. pp.3-90 Illustrated folding map of Kent, engraved by Neele and Son., 352 Strand. (Published by G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane, 1821), serving as frontispiece. Lacks title page. Rebound in quarter cloth, gilt over marbled boards. Stain on inner margin of map and tear at top of p 85-6, not affecting legibility of text. Recent ink inscription on inner margin, p.45. Otherwise fine condition. A scarce account of Kent, arranged in the format of a catechism. After two preliminary sections on the county in general there are chapters on Dover and Canterbury, with the other towns being described along the principal routes. Rochester and Maidstone are given their own headings. Following a final, biographical chapter, is a statistical table of the principal towns, and lists of fairs and of gentlemen’s seats. It was published soon after 1821 in Pinnock’s County Catechism series (William Pinnock, 1782-1843). Although lacking a title page, this copy does include the engraved map, which is frequently missing. [Stock ID: 20712 ] £85 1010.

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PIPER, JOHN. ROMNEY MARSH. Penguin Books, 1950. First Edition, 35 pp. and 16 colour plates and other illustrations by John Piper. Original patterned boards in similar unclipped dust wrapper. A fine copy. Typical Piper style. A minor classic issued in the King Penguin series. [Stock ID: 21104 ] £30

PITBLADO, LAURENCE O. THE ROMAN INVASIONS. A Saga of the Caledonian Race. The Britain into which Caesar adventured in 55 B.C. Allen and Unwin. 1935 160 pp. + 4 folding maps and 8 illustrations and maps in the text. Original blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. The landscape into which the Romans came in the first century B.C. was a different one to that we see today. The North Sea then extended far into the eastern midlands and Scotland was an island. This work deals with how this affected the way in which the Romans subdued and occupied most of Britain. [Stock ID: 17209 ] £25 1012.

PLANCHÉ, J.R. A CORNER OF KENT; OR SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF ASH-NEXT-SANDWICH, ITS HISTORICAL SITES AND EXISTING ANTIQUITIES. Robert Hardwicke, London. 1864

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xxiii + 413 pp. with 13 lithographic plates, and wood engravings in text. Recent quarter-calf over marbled boards with raised bands and contrasting title label, gilt embellishment and date to spine. A scarce item. A fine copy of this definitive account of the history of Ash. James Robinson Planché (27 February 1796 – 30 May 1880) was a British dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms. Over a period of approximately 60 years he wrote, adapted, or collaborated on 176 plays in a wide range of genres. Planché was responsible for introducing historically accurate costume into nineteenth century British theatre, and subsequently became an acknowledged expert on historical costume, publishing a number of works on the topic. Planché's interest in historical costume led to other antiquarian research, including heraldry and genealogy In both fields he became an acknowledged expert. Ash was lucky to have such a distinguished author with an interest in the Village. [Stock ID: 17155 ] £175 PLANCHÉ, J.R. A CORNER OF KENT; OR SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF ASH-NEXT-SANDWICH, ITS HISTORICAL SITES AND EXISTING ANTIQUITIES. Robert Hardwicke, London. 1864 xxiii + 413 pp. with 13 lithographic plates, and wood engravings in text. Bound in the original green cloth, gilt; which has been neatly re-cased and the endpapers have been renewed. A very good example, occasional foxing on the litho plates as usual, but a cleaner than average. A scarce item. A fine copy of this definitive account of the history of Ash. James Robinson Planché (27 February 1796 – 30 May 1880) was a British dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms. Over a period of approximately 60 years he wrote, adapted, or collaborated on 176 plays in a wide range of genres. Planché was responsible for introducing historically accurate costume into nineteenth century British theatre, and subsequently became an acknowledged expert on historical costume, publishing a number of works on the topic. Planché's interest in historical costume led to other antiquarian research, including heraldry and genealogy. In both fields he became an acknowledged expert. Ash was lucky to have such a distinguished author with an interest in the Village. [Stock ID: 20436 ] £150 1014.

PLATTS, BERYL. A HISTORY OF GREENWICH. David and Charles, Newton Abbot. 1973 First Edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 9 inches. 231 pp. Illustrated by black and white photographs. Original pale blue cloth, gilt in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy. The first modern one volume history of Greenwich. [Stock ID: 20205 ] £20 1015.

POLICE CONSTABULARY FORCE. [CHADWICK, EDWIN AND CHARLES ROWAN], AND POSTS BETWEEN LONDON AND PARIS. [WILLIAM F. COWPER] FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO INQUIRE AS TO THE BEST MEANS OF ESTABLISHING AN EFFICIENT CONSTABULARY FORCE, IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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TOGETHER WITH REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON POSTAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND PARIS. W. Clowes, London: 1839 and 1850 Folio. vi + 255 pp. and xxii + 299 pp. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. Contrasting title label, lettered gilt. A trifle worn at extremities but a very good copy. POLICE :Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), one of the nineteenth century's great reformers, and Charles Rowan, chief commissioner of the new Metropolitan Police, conducted this inquiry into the means of improving police protection and getting at the ‘removable antecedents of crime.’ It was Chadwick who also conducted the groundbreaking inquiry (PMM 313) into sanitary conditions in 1842 which led to tremendous advances in public health reform. POST :‘Select Committee appointed to ascertain the most expeditious and least expensive mode of postal communication between London and Paris and the Northern parts of Europe’... (p.iii). The report comments on the lateness of mails between London and Boulogne via Folkestone, this route having temporarily replaced the Dover to Calais route. The two routes and respective harbour facilities are then compared. The Committee concluded that the Boulogne route remained the most expensive and stated that ‘risk of serious accident to the packets is greater .... [and] that Calais could not well be superceded’ (p.v). The Committee recommended that trains from Dover to London be accelerated and noted delays in day mails from Paris. Proceedings include a fuller draft report. 36 witnesses appeared before the Committee on 10 days of evidence session held between March and May 1850. 1,861 questions related to the mails, their organisation, times and procedures involved and overall efficiency (of railways and steam packets). These questions were put to British and French postal officials, railway and ship workers associated with the mail service. A further 275 questions were put to Parliamentary clerks, newspaper proprietors and officials connected with the printing of Parliamentary papers (including Henry Hansard). These largely related to the procedures linked to the aforementioned breach of privilege. Appendices (110 pages) include correspondence, documents and statistics relating to the Paris to London mail service. [ref: 16055 ] £300 1017. PORTEUS, GEOFF. THE BOOK OF DARTFORD. Barracuda Books Ltd., Buckingham. 1979 4to. 148 pp. with photographic illustration throughout. Original cloth, gilt, in price-clipped dust wrapper. A very good copy. A historical account from earliest times to late 20th century, with some 200 illustrations. This volume was produced as a limited and a general edition, this being an example of the latter. [ref: 16768 ] £15

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PORTEUS, GEOFF. DARTFORD COUNTRY. THE STORY OF THE HUNDRED OF AXSTANE. Baron. 1992 4to. 132pp. with photo illustration throughout. Laminated illustrated boards. Small dent to front cover, otherwise as new. A reprint of the book published in 1985 by Barracuda Books. This reprint seems to be identical to the first edition, apart from the binding. [ref: 16770 ] £15 1018.

PRATT, ANNE. THE FLOWERING PLANTS, GRASSES, SEDGES & FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND THEIR ALLIES THE CLUB MOSSES, PEPPERWORTS AND HORSETAILS. A NEW EDITION REVISED BY EDWARD STEP, F.L.S. ILLUSTRATED WITH THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN COLOURED PLATES FIGURING UPWARDS OF 1500 SPECIES. Frederick Warne and Co. London 1899 Large 8vo. Four volumes, illustrated with 315 superb coloured plates. This edition was thoroughly revised upon scientific lines by Edward Step, bringing it into line with the science of the day, forty years after it was first issued. Bound in publisher’s original green half-morocco over cloth, spine with raised bands and contrasting title lables. A little worn at extremities but sound and quite a smart-looking set. The endpapers of each volume are slightly foxed and this sometimes affects the title pages but is nowhere serious. Internally clean and crisp. Although not solely devoted to Kent flora, Anne Pratt lived in Dover for much of the time she was working on these volumes and the descriptions often use Kentish examples of local names for wildflowers and traditional use for herbs and medicinal properties as used in Kent. All the descriptions are interesting giving locations and much folklore and an abundance of local names and traditions associated with each plant, and even its appearances in literature. All of Anne Pratt’s books are well-composed, with handsome, accurate, coloured illustrations. The reason for the success of her works must be shared with the printers William Dickes & Company, who produced the thousands of blocks required for colour printing using the Baxter process (combining a lithographic key plate that printed the main features of the design, followed by colour applied through a succession of wood blocks). The quality of the colour printing is not quite as good in this edition as it was in the 1860s, as this popular work was often reprinted and the plates became worn. Hoever, without actually having an original edition to hand for comparison, one would not be immediately aware of this. This edition represents the most complete and reasonably priced of all the issues. [ref: 18714 ] £350 1019.

STANDARD HISTORY OF CHATHAM 1020. PRESNAIL, JAMES. CHATHAM: THE STORY OF A DOCKYARD TOWN AND THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE BRITISH NAVY. Medway Borough Council. 1976 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. Frontis. + 283 pp. Illustrated with 20 black and white plates, including 5 maps. Original blue cloth, gilt, with arms on front boards. Lacks dust wrapper but otherwise a fine copy.

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1022. PRICE, ANN V. THAMES SAILING BARGES AT LEIGH. Privately printed [1984] Folio. Reproduced from typescript, 59 pp. + [3] appendix with a number of b/w illustrations. Bound in original comb-bound pictorial card wrappers, which are protected by self-adhesive transparent film. A very good copy. Leigh-on-sea, on the Essex side of the Thames estuary, was a busy port for sailing barges and this little book gives a good idea of the comings and goings. [ref: 20825 ] £12

PUGH, CHRISTINE and GEOFFREY E. HUTCHINGS. STOCKBURY: A REGIONAL STUDY IN NORTH-EAST KENT. The Hill Farm, Stockbury, Kent. 1928 4to. 72 pp. with 2 folding maps and 3 other plates or tables. Original green cloth, gilt. An ex-library copy with evidence of labels, otherwise very good. Stockbury lies between Maidstone and Sittingbourne and this work looks at the Geography, Geology, Vegetation and Fauna of the village and district. [ref: 18089 ] £28 1023.

PUTNAM, BERTHA HAYES. KENT RECORDS - KENT KEEPERS OF THE PEACE, 1316-17. Edited by Bertha Hayes Putnam, Ph.D., Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Issued to Subscribers to the Records Branch. (Kent Records. Volume XIII). Ashford Kent Archaeological Society. Records Branch. 1933 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. lvii + 146 pp. Series half-title. Main text in Latin. Illustrated with two plates. Original blue cloth, gilt., with Society’s device on front boards. Some foxing, especially on edges, otherwise a fine copy. This collection prints the Kent Sessions of the Peace, 1316-17 from the Assize Rolls and the Gaol Delivery Roll of 1317. The lack of order and violence in the county, reflects a more general lawlessness throughout the country, following Edward II’s defeat at Bannockburn in 1314 and the severe harvest failures of 1315-17 in northern Europe. The consequent Great Famine ended 1024.

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the almost continuous period of early medieval population growth from about 1050 and was accompanied by a marked increase in popular disorder and criminal activity. [ref: 21175 ] £30 PYATT, EDWARD C. CHALKWAYS OF SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND. David and Charles. n.d. but [1973] First Edition 8vo. 190 pp. with maps and photo illustration. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Walking guide to the long distance footpaths from Salisbury Plain to the North Downs Way. [ref: 15040 ] £15 1025.

THE WEST KENT’S NEWSPAPER THE QUEEN’S OWN ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT. THE QUEEN’S OWN GAZETTE. A monthly record of regimental doings of The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, nos 572-583, JanuaryDecember 1923. [The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment] The Barracks, Maidstone 1923 4to. 8.5 x 11 inches. pp. 4557-4790 [233 pp]. Illustrated with one plate and black and white photographs, cartoons, etc. in text and by regimental badges at head of titles. Bound in recent black half morocco, gilt, old boards stained and worn. Fine inside. A bound set of The Queen’s Own Gazette for 1923 which provides a fascinating record of an era when Kent had two county regiments. It has news of the regiment’s five battalions, and their respective companies, sergeants and corporals messes, etc. (the 1st Battalion being then based at Poona). There are lists of officers, reports of sporting activities and accounts of visits made to the recent battlefields and their war cemeteries in France and Flanders. Occasional articles deal with the question of amputations (‘The end of the wooden leg’) and provide interesting statistics (i.e. the numbers of war medals issued). There is an obituary, illustrated by a plate, for the regiment’s former colonel, Major-General Sir Edmund Leach (18361922), who first saw service in the Crimea. The Regiment was formed in 1881 from a union of two units, from one of which, the 50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment of Foot, it took part of its title. In 1961 it amalgamated with The Buffs (The Royal East Kent Regiment) to form The Queen’s Own Buffs, the Royal Kent Regiment. Copies of this newspaper (published with its predecessors, 1876-1961) outside the British Library set, are now very scarce. Because it includes so many names it is a valuable source for those researching the history of the Regiment. [ref: 20285 ] £200 1026.

QUINEY, ANTHONY. KENT HOUSES. English Domestic Architecture. Woodbridge Antique Collectors’ Club. 1993 1027.

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Kent Bibliography [ref: 21718 ] £12 RAINHAM. THE PARISH MAGAZINE, 1867-1870. Edited by J. Erskine Clarke, MA. St Andrew’s, Litchurch, Derby. London: Bell & Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden. 1867-1868 Three volumes. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.4 inches. First Volume contains Vol.IX. [parts] 412, 1867. Vol.X. [parts] 1-12, 1868. + [84] pp. Second Volume contains, another Vol.X complete, bound with Vol.XI [parts] 1-12, 1869. + [98] pp. Third Volume contains Vol.XII, [parts] 1-12, 1870. + [48] pp. Each part of 24 pp. separately paginated, except parts 12 of 20 pp. Rainham and Newington Parish Notes section at end of each volume unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings, decorated borders to title page and decorated initials. First two volumes bound in uniform dark blue cloth, gilt. Spines faded otherwise very good. Third volume bound in half-leather over marbled boards. A little worn at extremities otherwise very good. The Parish Magazine was nationally distributed, issued in twelve monthly parts (n.b.1867 lacks parts 1-4), with a contents list for each year, and here bound with the parish magazine for Rainham. The national magazine includes several articles in series such as Godly Laymen of the English Church, Glimpses at Early Church History, Plain Words about the Communion Service, Grey’s Old Court, Placida, the Christian Martyr, Sketches of the Holy Apostles and Life among the Esquimaux as well as a series of short sermons, several stories in parts, poetry and articles on contemporary subjects of interest. There are superb engravings of trades, among them a milkman, water-cress girl, baked potato sellers, omnibus conductor, postman, fireman and parcels delivery man. The Rainham magazine also includes the parish register entries for other parishes of the North Kent Marshes, Halstow and Newington. There are reports and accounts for the National School, the Blanket Society, the 1029.

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Clothing and Coal Club, the Sunday School Treat and the Church Missionary Society, etc., along with letters, poetry, obituaries and newsworthy local happenings of a more secular nature; also a series of articles on church bells and the church calendar. [ref: 19421 ] £135 RAMSGATE. 32 VIEWS OF RAMSGATE AND DISTRICT. Callcut and Beavis, 77 Great Eastern Street, London. No date but c.1900 Oblong view-book with 24 plates of photographs. A near fine copy The views are Ramsgate Harbour, New Road, Royal Crescent, The Waterfall, Granville Gardens, St. Georges Church, Inner Harbour, The Beach, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral (interior), Herne Bay, The Clock Tower - Herne Bay, Old Herne Church, The Reculvers, Margate, The Parade - Margate, Victoria Clock Tower - Margate, Margate Harbour from the Pier, The Jetty - Margate, St. John’s Church Margate, St. John’s Church (interior) - Margate, The Fort - Margate, The Jetty (another view) - Margate, Newgate Gap - Margate, The Fort Margate, Cliftonville, The College - Margate, Kingsgate, North Foreland, Broadstairs, York Gate - Broadstairs, and Westgate-on-Sea. [ref: 16314 ] £35 1030.

RAMSGATE - CLAYSON, ALLAN. WISH YOU WERE HERE. Coleridge’s Holidays at Ramsgate. A. and C. Clayson. 2001 xiv + 121 pp., including 6 full-page coloured plates and numerous b/w illustrations to the text. Red cloth, gilt to spine, in dust wrapper. New. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, famed author of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, spent many weeks in Ramsgate during the later part of his life. This book, based on his notes and letters written whilst there, gives an insight into his life and the resort. [ref: 15282 ] £20 1031.

RAMSGATE HARBOUR. RETURN TO AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, DATED 12 MARCH 1877; - FOR, COPY ‘OF REPORT OF A COMMITTEE REQUESTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE TO ENQUIRE INTO THE MANAGEMENT OF RAMSGATE HARBOUR AND ITS PROPERTY; TOGETHER WITH CORRESPONDENCE THEREON, AND ON THE PRESENT INCOME AND EXPENDITURE OF THE HARBOUR.’ Board of Trade, 12 March 1877. Edward Stanhope. (Sir Charles Adderley). (97). Ordered by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 1877 Folio. 8.5 x 13 inches. 14 pp. Disbound pamphlet. Some light spotting; otherwise fine condition. Library stamps of Vredespalais and 2e Kamer der Staten-General, Den Haag, on title page. This report on the management of Ramsgate Harbour includes a copy of the 1877-78 accounts and a list of its house property, stores, warehouses, etc., and their annual rentals. There is some interesting discussion over the 1032.

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provision of a harbour police force and the employment and crewing of the Harbour steam tugs. [ref: 20775 ] £85 RAMSGATE HARBOUR. CUBITT, SIR WILLIAM. RETURN TO AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, DATED 2 MAY 1856; - FOR, COPY ‘OF THE LAST REPORT OF SIR WILLIAM CUBITT, ON RAMSGATE HARBOUR, RECENTLY SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.’ Board of Trade, 5 May 1856. Edgar S. Bowring, Registrar. (Mr. Deedes) (203). [Running title:] Report of Sir W. Cubitt on Ramsgate Harbour. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed. 1856 Folio. 8.5 x 13.5 inches. 6 pp. Illustrated by two folding lithographic plates, including coloured plan. Disbound pamphlet. Extremities a little worn, otherwise fine condition. Library stamps of Palais de la Paix, La Hay, on title page. A report on the work in progress since 1853 and further remedial work required on the decaying eastern Pier and Pier Head of Ramsgate Harbour. Appendix B is a fine lithograph of the existing pier and the work so far carried out. Two further appendices, C and D, set out the costs of wages and material expended 1850-55. Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861), civil engineer, began his career as a millwright in Norfolk and, as chief engineer to the South Eastern Railway, was responsible for constructing the difficult stretch along the foot of the cliffs between Folkestone and Dover. The construction of Ramsgate Harbour began in 1749, under an act of Parliament, following the destruction of the previous harbour in the storm of 1748. DNB. [ref: 20774 ] £145 1033.

RAVENSDALE, JACK IN THE STEPS OF CHAUCER’S PILGRIMS From Southwark to Canterbury from the air and on foot. Aerial photography by Aerfoto. London: Guild Publishing 1989 Small 4to. 144 pp. illustrated with 31 colour photographs in plates and black and white photographs and maps in text. Bound in cloth gilt in coloured dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste-down. First published by Souvenir Press Ltd. A guide to the landscape traversed by the pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales from Southwark to Canterbury by a medieval landscape historian. [ref: 19219 ] £15 1034.

REDMANS RURAL DIRECTORY OF SOUTH EAST KENT. Comprising Alphabetical Directories of Householders and Commercial Establishments ..... and also Advertisers Index, Advertisers Trade and Professional Directory, Postal, Borough and Rural District Councils Information, and a Map of the Area. Redmans, Ashford. 1966 First edition. 224 pp. + folding map + lxxxiii adverts. Complete with original bookmark. Original laminated printed yellow card wrappers. A fine copy of a scarce item. 1035.

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This directory covers the rural towns and villages but excludes Ashford, Folkestone and Hythe, presumably because they were already catered for by Kelly’s. [ref: 19544 ] £65 REDSHAW, C. J. (Ed). THE INVICTA MAGAZINE FOR THE HOMES AND PEOPLE OF KENT. Dartford; Snowden Brothers. 1908-1913 3 volumes (All Published). Royal 8vo., 384 + 256 + 256 pp. Original cloth gilt. A well-bound, clean set only slightly rubbed. A complete set of this fascinating, well-illustrated and invaluable work of reference, covering almost every aspect of Kentish life and history. Sets are now scarce. [ref: 15195 ] £125 1036.

RICHARD-HUGH PERKS. SPRITS’L. A PORTRAIT OF SAILING BARGES AND SAILORMEN. Written in collaboration with Patricia O’Driscoll and Alan Cordell. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press, 1975 4to. 167 pp. illustrated throughout. Original brown cloth, gilt. A very good copy in a clipped dust wrapper. Very well illustrated account. [ref: 20811 ] £15 1037.

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RICHARDSON, CHRISTOPHER T. FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY PERTAINING TO THE VILL, OR WILLE, OR LIBERTY, OF RAMSGATE. Ramsgate: Published for the Author by Messrs Fuller. 1885. First Issue. 212 pp. + iii list of subscribers, with large folding lithograph view of Ramsgate in 1791. Bound in publisher’s cloth, gilt.. Very minor wear at head and tail of spine and extremities, otherwise a very good copy. A useful work, the subscribers list notes 93 copies. Includes Notes on the Streets and Inns, the Harbour, a Chronology of Events and Names of Ships’ Masters etc. [ref: 17227 ] £120 1039.

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ROAKE, MARGARET and JOHN WHYMAN. (Editors). ESSAYS IN KENTISH HISTORY. Frank Cass. 1973 8vo. x + 301 pp. with illustrations, maps, diagrams and tables. Original cloth gilt in dustwrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Contains twenty three articles reprinted from Archaeologia Cantiana. [ref: 19031 ] £25 1040.

ROAKE, MARGARET, Editor. RELIGIOUS WORSHIP IN KENT. The Census of 1851. Edited by Margaret Roake. (Kent Records. Volume XXVII). Maidstone Kent Archaeological Society. 1999 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. lii + 460 pp. Series title. Illustrated by frontispiece and 8 plates and 7 maps in text. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with the Society’s device on front board, in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine condition. Inserted are a Review from Southern History, 2000 and an article on the Census from Daily Telegraph, 2001. The 1851 Religious Census into the resources available for religious worship was a landmark survey, with no comparable enquiry on a national scale ever carried out again. This reprint of the Home Office papers records the results for 1,003 places of worship in Kent (including a few just over the Sussex border), from over 440 parishes, arranged according to Census registration districts. Just under half are Church of England institutions, and the rest the various nonconformist congregations. Appendices include the summary totals from the parliamentary papers and a Daily News Survey of religious attendance covering Kentish London, 1902-03. An impressive survey of religious worship in the middle of the nineteenth century. [ref: 21203 ] £40 1041.

1042. ROBERTS, A.W. COASTING BARGE MASTER. Edward Arnold and Co., London. 1949 192 pp. with illustrations by Archie White. Original blue cloth in a dust wrapper. A good copy. [ref: 20794 ] £20 1043.

ROBERTS, BOB. BREEZE FOR A BARGEMAN. Second

edition. Lavenham Terence Dalton Limited. 1990 4to. 6.75 x 8.75 inches. vii +[1] + 136 pp. Half-title. Illustrated with black and white photographs in text. In coloured pictorial card wrappers. Very slight wear to extremities and ink inscription inside front cover; otherwise in fine condition. An account of a sailing life, both in distant waters and in trawling and sailing barges off the eastern counties and in the Thames estuary, including the Kent coast. First edition published 1981. [ref: 21132 ] £12 1044.

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Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. 1973 Reprint of 1960 edition. 137 pp. with photographic and drawn illustrations. Bound in the original blue cloth. Some spotting to prelims and title otherwise a very good copy in a like dust wrapper. [ref: 20792 ] £12 ROBERTS, GEORGE. THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND IN PAST CENTURIES; ILLUSTRATED IN REGARD TO THEIR HABITS, MUNICIPAL BYE-LAWS, CIVIL PROGRESS, ETC., FROM THE RESEARCHES OF GEORGE ROBERTS. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, and Roberts. London. 1856 First Edition, 8vo. xvi + 572 illustrated with wood engravings in the text. Bound in the original brown cloth as issued, a little rubbed on extremities but a good copy. A mass of useful information, chapters on Witchcraft, Victualling of Ships, Pirates and Turks in the Channel, Beacons, Prices of Food, Value of Timber, Election Trickery, Gypsies, Crime and Punishments, Smuggling, and much else to do with the organisation of society and modes and manners. Scarce ‘Social History’ was a new science at this time and we have only handled one copy of this work before. [ref: 19135 ] £200 1045.

RAILWAY POSTER ROBERTS, N. CRAMER. DUNGENESS BY THE ROMNEY, HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH RAILWAY. THE WORLD’S SMALLEST PUBLIC RAILWAY. Vincent Brooks, Day and Sons Ltd. Lith. London WC2. No date but 1928 Large railway advertising poster, 26.5 x 41 inches, original colour-printed lithograph. Conservation mounted on to linen and expertly framed in a 2-inch solid oak frame using conservation backing etc. This charming period piece of railway poster art is a romantic depiction of the sun setting behind the old Dungeness lighthouse at the end of the peninsula, whilst an elegant liner passes by on a becalmed sea. The image is depicted in bold primary colours with exciting modern typography - a classic of its era. 1046.

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SIGNED COPY. 1047. ROBERTSON, BRUCE. Compiled and edited by EPICS OF AVIATION ARCHAEOLOGY. Patrick Stephens, Cambridge. 1978 8vo. 156 pp. with b/w illustration. Original pale blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. This copy was presented to the Kent Aviation Historical Research Society and bears the bookplate of historian David Collyer. Inscribed ‘To Kent Aviation Historical Research Society with compliments and thanks’, it is signed by a number of people including Bruce Robertson, Kent authors Roy Humphreys, Philip MacDougall, Geoffrey Williams and R.S. Brooks and Ray Munday. [ref: 18417 ] £18 ROBINSON, THOMAS. THE COMMON LAW OF KENT: OR, THE CUSTOMS OF GAVELKIND. WITH AN APPENDIX CONCERNING BOROUGH-ENGLISH. London Printed by His Majesty’s Law Printers For P. Uriel, Inner Temple Lane. 1788 Second Edition, 8vo. 6 x 9.5 inches, xx + 300 pp. + [15] Recent quarter calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and contrasting leather title label, gilt. An extremely fresh, crisp copy. Perhaps the most lucid of the books on Gavelkind, it became the standard work on the subject, passing through three editions by 1822. First published 1744. [ref: 21067 ] £200 1048.

ROBINSON, THOMAS. THE COMMON LAW OF KENT: OR, THE CUSTOMS OF GAVELKIND. WITH AN APPENDIX CONCERNING BOROUGH-ENGLISH. London Printed by His Majesty’s Law Printers For P. Uriel, Inner Temple Lane. 1788 Second Edition, 8vo. 6 x 9.5 inches, xx + 300 pp. + [15] + [1] errata Original full calf, re-spined with original spine laid on in a workmanlike fashion. Internally a very clean copy. Perhaps the most lucid of the books on Gavelkind, it became the standard work on the subject, passing through three editions by 1822. First published 1744. [ref: 21622 ] £175 1049.

ROCHESTER - BUCKLAND, W.E. KENT RECORDS. THE PARISH REGISTER AND RECORDS IN THE DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER: A SUMMARY OF INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS COMMITTEE OF THE ROCHESTER DIOCESAN CONFERENCE. Mitchell Hughes & Clarke, London. 1912 125 pp. Original cloth, gilt. An extremely useful reprint of the parish registers of Rochester diocese. Difficult to find. 1050.

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[ref: 18155 ] £45 ROCHESTER - BUCKLAND, W.E. KENT RECORDS. THE PARISH REGISTER AND RECORDS IN THE DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER: A SUMMARY OF INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS COMMITTEE OF THE ROCHESTER DIOCESAN CONFERENCE. With an introduction by W. E. Buckland, M.A., Vicar of East Malling, Hon. Secretary for Parochial Records. (Kent Records. Volume I). Ashford Kent Archaeological Society. 1912 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. xii + [i] + 125 pp.+ [1]. Title page in black and red. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with the Society’s device on the front board. Extremities a little worn and slight foxing, otherwise fine condition. An extremely useful inventory of the parish registers of Rochester diocese, with an introduction on the registers and other parish records of the diocese. The first published volume of Kent Records, retrospectively numbered Volume I, after the regular publication of records began. Difficult to find. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21177 ] £45 1051.

SIGNED COPY. 1052. ROCHESTER - HARRIS, EDWIN. RESTORATION HOUSE; OR, ROCHESTER IN THE TIME OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Edwin Harris, Rochester. 1904 224 pp. + [7] pp. catalogue + 10 b/w plates. Original red quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Cloth dampstained and rubbed and a small chip from spine but a good copy of a scarce title. . The Restoration House is an Elizabethan Mansion situated in Crow Lane, Rochester and one of the finest such houses in the country. Harris’ account is fictionalised but based on local history during the time of Cromwell. Copious notes at the end give further detail on each chapter. The list of subscribers at the rear gives 216 names so perhaps 500 would have been published. This copy is inscribed on a blank prelim ‘Presented to my old friend M. Ashdown. With the Compliments of The Author Edwin Harris 151 Eastgate Rochester June 4th 1927.’ Scarce. [ref: 18257 ] £80 ROCHESTER - KELLY'S. bDIRECTORY OF ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 1953. Kelly's Directories. 1953 8vo. xvi + 22 + 802 pp. + [2] pp. Lacking folding map. Original printed boards. Ex-library (reference), but a good copy. [ref: 18163 ] £30 1053.

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ROCHESTER - KELLY'S. cDIRECTORY OF ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 1963. Kelly's Directories. 1963 8vo. xvi + 8 + 1004 pp. + [2]. Original printed boards. Spine repaired and complete. [ref: 18162 ] £30 1054.

ROCHESTER - KELLY'S. cDIRECTORY OF ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 1963. Kelly's Directories. 1963 8vo. xvi + 8 + 1004pp. + [2] Lacking the folding map. Original printed boards. [ref: 18165 ] £25 1055.

ROCHESTER - KELLY'S. dDIRECTORY OF ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 1967. Kelly's Directories. 1967 8vo. xvi + 8 + 1064 pp. + [2] pp. Original printed boards. Lacking the folding map. [ref: 18161 ] £25 1056.

ROCHESTER - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 1951. Kelly's Directories. 1951 8vo. xvi + 22 + 852 pp. + [2] pp. Original printed boards. Ex-library (reference), a good copy. [ref: 18164 ] £30 1057.

ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM. A BOUND VOLUME OF ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATING TO ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM. 1. An Act for....providing an additional Workhouse for...Chatham...Relief, Government, and Employment of the Poor. 1802. 2. An Act for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting and Watching the Streets and Lanes of Chatham. 1772. 3. An Act to expand an Act for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting and Watching the Streets and Lanes of Chatham, and to extend the Provisions....to parts of the High Street situated in St. Margarets and Gillingham 1776. 4. An Act for the recovery of Small Debts within Rochester, Strood, Findsbury, Cobham, Shorne, Higham, Cliffe, Cooling, High Halstow, Chalk, Hoo, Burham, Wouldham, Halling, Cuxstone, Chatham and Gillingham and the Ville of Sheerness, 1817.

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5. An Act for enlarging the Powers for the recovery of Small Debts within Rochester, Strood, an d several other places in Kent. 1808. 6. An Act for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting and Watching the Streets and Lanes of St. Nicholas within the City of Rochester and the parish of Strood and for making a road through Star Lane to Chatham Hill, 1769. 8. An Act to incorporate a Company for lighting with Gas the City of Rochester and the Town of Chatham and Strood...1825. 9. An Act for....providing a new Workhouse for...Strood, Government, and Employment of the Poor. 1812. 10. An Act for better assessing the Poor of St. Nicholas in the City of Rochester 1809. Various publishers... 1769-1825 Folio. Approximately 300 pages, printed and manuscript. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, skilfully re-backed, red morocco label on the upper board, with the contents lettered in gilt. With an extensive manuscript index bound in at the front with interleaving after each act for manuscript summaries of cases and opinions, some of which amount to several pages, others remaining blank. The text is also littered with manuscript notes in a clear, neat hand. [ref: 16066 ] £300 ROCHESTER POLL BOOK. THE POLL FOR TWO MEMBERS TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. IN THE SIXTH PARLIAMENT OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA, TAKEN ON SATURDAY, THE 30TH APRIL, 1859, INCLUDING THE WHOLE OF THE REGISTERED ELECTORS, WITH AN INDEX SHEWING FREEMEN AND ELECTORS. Compiled from Messrs. Martin & Kinglake’s Private Poll Book, by George Colvill, Secretary to the Rochester Liberal Association. Candidates: Philip Wykeham Martin, Esq. John Alexander Kinglake, Serjeant-at-Law. George Henry Money, Esq., George Mitchell. Caddel and Son, Gazette Office, Rochester. 1859 8vo. 46 pp. interleaved throughout with blanks. Contemporary white buckram, gilt. A trifle dusty with some old ink stains, bumped at corners with an unobtrusive blind stamp o n the margin of the title page, otherwise a very good, clean copy. This example was at some time part of Rochester Public Library’s reserve stock, remaining there unused. Comprising half-title, title page with nomination, polling and declaration information to verso; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence, for each of the polling stations; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 1164 in all; a list of the unpolled Freemen and Electors of the City of Rochester; a Statement of the Poll at each Polling place, Cross and Single votes, the State of the Poll during the day and the Grand Total of votes cast; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the revolution in the year 1688, with the names of candidates and number of votes cast at each election. Very scarce. [ref: 15961 ] £175 1059.

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ROCHESTER POLL BOOK. THE POLL OF THE ELECTORS FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER. TAKEN ON MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF JULY, 1802, BEFORE SAMUEL BAKER, ESQ. MAYOR. CANDIDATES. SIR W. SIDNEY SMITH, Kt., GEORGE SMITH ESQ., JAMES HULKES, ESQ., JAMES ROPER HEAD, ESQ. To Which is Added An Index and an Alphabetical List of the Voters, Arranged Under the Places, or Parishes, Where They Reside: ....... From the Press of W. Epps. Rochester. 1802 8vo. 38 + [1] pp. with blank interleaving throughout and several blank leaves to front and rear. Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt, skilfully rebacked, with the City of Rochester’s coat of arms stamped in gilt on the upper board and another coat of arms on the rear board. An unobtrusive blind stamp on the margin of the title page, two or three pages lightly browned and the extremities a trifle bumped and worn otherwise a very good, clean copy in an attractive armorial binding. Comprising title page; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence; a Statement of the Poll; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 594 in all; a List of the Electors of Rochester, who voted at this Election, ... showing for whom each person voted; a General Abstract of the Whole Poll; a list of the Freemen of Rochester who did not vote at the Election; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the accession of George the Third, with the names of candidates and number of votes taken at each election. A useful and fascinating reference and historical document. Very scarce. [ref: 15962 ] £285 1060.

ROCHESTER POLL BOOK. THE POLL OF THE ELECTORS FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER. TAKEN ON TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1807, AND THE THREE FOLLOWING DAYS, BEFORE RICHARD THOMPSON, ESQ. MAYOR. CANDIDATES. SIR T.B. THOMPSOM, Bart., JOHN CALCRAFT ESQ., SIR THOMAS TRIGGE K.B. To Which is Added An Index and an Alphabetical List of the Voters, Arranged Under the Places, or Parishes, Where They Reside: ....... From the Press of W. Epps. 1807 8vo. 40 pp. with blank interleaving throughout. Preserved in nineteenth century blue sugar-paper wrappers, on which we have printed a copy of the title page. This example was at some time part of Rochester Public Library’s reserve stock, remaining there unused. Without any stamps. Only very occasional foxing, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Comprising title page; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence, for each of the four

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days of voting; a Statement of each day’s poll; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 640 in all; a List of the Electors of Rochester, who voted at this Election, ... showing for whom each person voted; a General Abstract of the Whole Poll; a list of the unpolled Freemen of the City of Rochester; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the revolution in the year 1688, with the names of candidates and number of votes cast at each election. A useful and fascinating reference and historical document. One printed footnote refers to an individual having been ‘Expunged by order of the Mayor, having received relief within three months’. Very scarce. [ref: 15959 ] £175 ROCHESTER POLL BOOK. THE POLL OF THE ELECTORS FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER. TAKEN BEFORE SAMUEL SIDDEN, ESQ. MAYOR, ON MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1826, AND FIVE FOLLOWING DAYS. CANDIDATES. The Hon. Henry Dundas, Ralph Bernal, Esq. and Major General William Armstrong. To Which is Added An Alphabetical List of the Voters, Their Profession, &c. From the Press of Wm. Epps., Rochester. 1826 Small square 8vo. 39 pp . with blank interleaving throughout and several blank leaves at front and back. Original half-calf, gilt, worn on extremities, skillfully rebacked, some foxing marks and the odd ink blot, but a very good copy. This copy has a neat, nearly invisible, embossed stamp of Rochester Library to title page. A useful and fascinating reference and historical document. Comprising title page; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence, for each of the six days of voting; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 840 in all; a Statement of each day’s poll; a list of the unpolled Freemen of the City of Rochester; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the revolution in the year 1688, with the names of candidates and number of votes cast at each election. Marginal notes and observations throughout including the occasional ‘dead’ marked against an individual’s name. One printed footnote refers to an individual having been objected to as a voter ‘on account of having received parochial Relief’. Scarce. [ref: 15953 ] £175 1062.

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ROCHESTER POLL BOOK. THE POLL OF THE ELECTORS FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER. ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1835, AND THE FOLLOWING DAY. JOHN BATTEN, ESQUIRE, MAYOR, RETURNING OFFICER. CANDIDATES, RALPH BERNAL AND THOMAS TWISDEN HODGES, ESQUIRES; AND LORD CHARLES WELLESLEY. To Which is Added An Index and an Alphabetical List of the Voters, and a List of the Unpolled Freemen and Electors... Rochester: Printed and Sold by S. Caddel, and G.H. Vidion; and J. and W.H. Sweet, Strood. 1835 8vo. 33 + [5] pp. Preserved in nineteenth century blue sugar-paper wrappers, on which we have printed a copy of the title page. This example was at some time part of Rochester Public Library’s reserve stock, remaining there unused. Apart from an unobtrusive blind stamp on the margin of the title page it is a very good, clean copy. Comprising title page; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence, for each of the four days of voting at each of the polling places; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 870 in all; a Statement of each day’s poll; a List of the unpolled Freemen and Electors; a list of Persons Disqualified from Voting,...; a list of Voters who have died since the Election; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the revolution in the year 1688, with the names of candidates and number of votes taken at each contested election. A useful and fascinating reference and historical document, scarce. [ref: 15960 ] £145 1063.

SIGNED COPY 1064. ROCKETT, SAM. IT'S COLD IN THE CHANNEL. Hutchinson, 1956 First Edition, 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 191 pp. with photo illustration. Original turquoise cloth, gilt. A very good copy in a dust wrapper. Presentation copy from the author to Ted Huntley, dated August 13th 1956 on front paste-down endpaper. Very good account of channel swimming by the famous Folkestone swimmer. It remains one of the best works on the subject. [ref: 20836 ] £45 ROCQUE, JOHN. KENT. Rocque and Sayer 1753 Hand-coloured engraved map. 6.5 x 8 inches A very good example. This map with its inset view of Dover castle was published in 1753, in English and French, by John Rocque and Robert Sayer in ‘The Small British Atlas’, which contained fifty four maps. Although unsigned the maps are 1065.

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distinguished by the shading round the county borders giving the counties the appearance of islands. [ref: 17997 ] £85 1066. RODGER, JENNI. CRANBROOK A PICTORIAL HISTORY. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1983 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18654 ] £10

RODGER, JENNI. SMARDEN A PICTORIAL HISTORY. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1982 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18653 ] £10 1067.

ROGERS, P.G. THE SIXTH TRUMPETER. THE STORY OF JEZREEL AND HIS TOWER. O.U.P. 1963 First Edition. 154 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper. a very good copy. The story of the strange religious sect which set up in Chatham and Gillingham in the late 1880s, and its ill-fated building project. *A signed presentation copy. [ref: 19535 ] £25 1068.

DEAL AND WALMER IN FINE WATERCOLOURS ROGET, JOHN. SKETCHES OF DEAL, WALMER, AND SANDWICH. Longmans, Green and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta 1911 First Edition, 4to. 63 pp. with 32 coloured plates and 8 black and white illustrations after original watercolours by the author. Original cloth gilt, a clean fresh copy. A very good copy of this rare and beautifully illustrated book - certainly the finest pictorial record of turn-of-the-century Deal and Walmer. The artist has a world-wide reputation for his famous Thesaurus but his work as a watercolourist is known of solely through this book. [ref: 21284 ] £275 1069.

ROLLASON, D.W. THE MILDRITH LEGEND. A STUDY IN EARLY MEDIEVAL HAGIOGRAPH.Y (Studies in the early history of Britain). Leicester University Press 1982 8vo. xii + 171 pp. two illustrations and map. Original cloth. Fine condition in dust wrapper. Small bookplate on front paste down. An account of the legend of St. Mildrith, abbess of Minster-in-Thanet, as it developed in the independent Kingdom of Kent and later in tenth and eleventh century England as a preoccupation with the nature and sanctity of 1070.

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ROMNEY MARSH - FIRTH, DR. F.M. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ROMNEY MARSH. Meresborough Books. 1984. 8vo. 127 pp. with maps and photo illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Well-written and comprehensive modern natural history of the Marsh. [ref: 17318 ] £20 1072.

ROMNEY MARSH - FORBES, DUNCAN. THE FIFTH CONTINENT. THE STORY OF ROMNEY MARSH AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. Hythe, Shearwater Press. 1984 192 pp. with maps and photo illustration. Original cloth. A very good copy in a spine faded dust wrapper. Good account of Romney Marsh, its towns and villages and its history. [ref: 12651 ] £20 1073.

ROMNEY MARSH - HADDEN-PARKES, MRS. ERMENGARDE. A STORY OF ROMNEY MARSH IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY London: Eliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, E.C. 1893 8vo. 247 pp. + 8 monochrome plates. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Bound in the original stone-grey printed cloth with gilt titles to spine, and title, author and design to upper board in brown. Spine worn at head and tail and small split to front hinge. Some wear to extremities. A good copy. [ref: 20382 ] £75

ROMNEY MARSH - INGRAMS, RICHARD AND FAY GODWIN. ROMNEY MARSH AND THE ROYAL MILITARY CANAL. Wildwood House. 1980 First Edition, 192 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. 1074.

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ROPER, ANNE. THE GIFT OF THE SEA- ROMNEY MARSH. Birlings, Ashford, 1984 First Edition. 208 pp. with colour and other illustration throughout. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Now out of print. [ref: 17932 ] £15 1076.

ROWLANDSON, THOMAS. AFTER SWEET MEAT COMES SOUR SAUCE or CORPORAL CASEY GOT INTO THE WRONG BOX. Nov. 30th by Thomas Tegg, No 111 Cheapside. 1810 Plate measures 12.5 x 9 inches, preserved within a conservation mount, narrowly trimmed with loss of heading ‘Tegg’s caricatures No 24’ above the image, but imprint intact. Original hand-coloured etched caricature. Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) is perhaps the most well-known of the Georgian caricaturists. In this scene, a comely wench kneels at the foot of a bed, one hand holding the lid of a strong box containing her lover, the corporal, on whom she bestows a kiss before closing the lid. At the window, 1077.

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the head of an enraged older man, presumably her cuckolded husband, peers, scowling, over the window sill. [ref: 20297 ] ÂŁ400 ROWLANDSON, THOMAS. PROGRESS OF GALLANTRY OR STOLEN KISSES SWEETEST. Thos. Tegg. No 111. Cheapside. No date but c.1814 Folio, 14 inches by 10 inches to edge of plate, with ample margins. Original hand-coloured etched caricature. Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) is perhaps the most widely known of the Georgian caricaturists. His ability to produce highly entertaining and often bawdy satires on the modes and manners of his day has made him world famous. Marked number 279, this print comes from the early years of a fruitful relationship with the publisher Thomas Tegg, which lasted 12 years between 1807 and 1819. During this time Rowlandson produced many images which were designed to be funny on the day, pinned up on the tavern wall and then discarded. This accounts for the rarity of these large etchings. The subject of Progress of Gallantry is loaded with sexual innuendo leaving little to the imagination but a great deal to interpretation. Five figures stand on the quayside. In the forefront stands an old seaman with a telescope to his eye, a leering expression on his face as he looks out to sea at whatever has captured his interest. Meanwhile, the old tar's wife, with a parasol, kisses a young officer, while a toothless old man, dressed in black, shivers in the wind as he gazes out to sea. Behind him stands a soldier with his bayonet pointing skywards. A pile of cannonballs lies behind this diverse group and there is, seated on the edge of the quay, a girl into whose eyes a black sailor gazes. Here we have youth and age engaged in amorous activities. The old men are transfixed by what they can see offshore, as is the soldier with the bayonet, the couples are engrossed in each other. Love is not the theme however, phallic symbols abound in the shape of cannon barrels and telescopes, vying with each other in size as they point out to sea, and in the case of the cannon, from decidedly ambiguous vantage points. Rowlandson at his best, poking fun at love and sexual desire. [ref: 20295 ] ÂŁ600 1078.

ROWLANDSON, THOMAS. SUMMER AMUSEMENT AT MARGATE, OR A PEEP AT THE MERMAIDS Price one shilling coloured. London Thos. Tegg. No 111. Cheapside. No date but, 1st September 1813 Folio, approximately 14 by 10 inches to edge of plate, with ample margins. Original hand-coloured etched caricature. Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) is perhaps the most widely known of the Georgian caricaturists. His ability to produce highly entertaining and often bawdy satires on the modes and manners of his day 1079.

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has made him world famous. Marked number 211, this print comes from the early years of his fruitful relationship with the publisher Thomas Tegg, which lasted 12 years between 1807 and 1819. During this time Rowlandson produced many images which were designed to be funny on the day, pinned up on the tavern wall and then discarded. This accounts for the rarity of these large etchings. The subject of ‘Summer Amusement at Margate’ is loaded with sexual innuendo leaving little to the imagination but a great deal to interpretation. In the forefront stand five old men on the Cliffside before the Circulating Library, each with a telescope to his eye, and a leering and lecherous expression as they looks out to a sea filled with naked ladies bathing. Meanwhile, one of the viewers’ wives has discovered her husband and sets about him with a parasol. Rowlandson at his best, poking fun at love and sexual desire. BM12144 [ref: 21383 ] £650 1080. RUSSELL, WILLIAM. THE HISTORY OF MAIDSTONE. John Hallewell Publications, Rochester 1978 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches, 423 pp. with 22 plates. Original cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. A very good copy. Reprint, in a limited edition of 1000 copies, of the standard 19th century history of the County town, first published in 1881. [ref: 21143 ] £20

RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK. BETWIXT THE FORELANDS. New and cheaper edition [second edition]. London Sampson, Low, Marston and Company Limited, St Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. [c.1890]. 8vo. 5 x 7 inches. xi + [i] + + 330 pp. with 25 wood-engraved illustrations. Half title. Illustrated with 14 wood engraved plates, including frontispiece and 11 woodcuts in text. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Endpapers a little mottled but otherwise a fine clean copy. Scarce history of the coast from Ramsgate to Dover and the Goodwin Sands in the form of historical essays from the earliest times to the author’s own day. They include, naval battles, smuggling, lifeboats, wrecks, shipping and craft and a host of other events which have happend 'Twixt the Forelands'. From the pen of one of the greatest of Victorian sea story writers, and a champion of reform in the merchant service (1844-1911). We have only seen one copy of the first issue which appeard in pictorial cloth in 1889, it was seldom reprinted unlike his sea yarns. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21298 ] £85 1081.

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Contains: Origin and Early growth. A Century of Turbulence, 1200 to 1300. Supporting the Angevin Empire, 1300 to 1453. Decline in the Expanding World, 1453 to 1588. Survival Problems and a New Harbour, 1720 to 1788. Defence in the Napoleonic War, 1788 to 1815. Conflicts of Interest, 1800 to 1845. Aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, 1845 to 1875. Pre-war Tranquility, 1875 to 1914. Dark Days, 1914 to 1939. Total War, 1939 to 1945. Trial and Error, 1945 to 1962. Hopes Revived, 1962 to 1974. Appendices: A Pamphlet of 1677. Extracts from ‘The Report of John Smeaton Upon the Harbour of Rye’ (1763). Extracts From the Report of Alexander Sutherland on a Proposed ‘Canal Through the Weald of Kent’ (1801). List of Harbourmasters. [ref: 19410 ] £35 ROYALIST PROPAGANDA NEWSBOOKS, 1642-44. [RYVES, BRUNO]. MERCURIUS RUSTICUS: OR, THE COUNTRIES COMPLAINT OF THE SACRILEDGES, PROPHANATIONS, AND PLUNDERINGS, COMMITTED BY THE SCHISMATIQUES ON THE CATHEDRALL CHURCHES OF THIS KINGDOME. Mercurius Rusticus, I-XVIII, 1642-43, I-IV, 1642-43, V (after Querela). [Bound with] Querela Cantabrigiensis: Or, A Remonstrance By way of Apologie. For the banished Members of the late flourishing University of Cambridge. By some of the said Sufferers. (Oxoniae,1646.); [Bound with] Mercurius Belgicus: Or, A briefe Chronologie of the Battails, Sieges, Conflicts, and other most remarkable passages from the beginning of this Rebellion, to the 25. of March, 1646... (Printed 1646.). Oxford, Printed in the Yeare, 1646 8vo. 3.75 x 5.75 ins. [14] + 223 pp. + [1] + [12] + 34 pp. + [6] + [48] pp. This copy lacking the engraved title page (‘the barbarous out-rages’) which is supplied in facsimile. Includes preface at beginning, preface to the second series of Mercurius Rusticus (I-IV), with a catalogue of cathedrals; preface to the Querela with index to it and the Mercurius Rusticus; preface to Mercurius Belgicus and Chronologie; this section lacking the additional 16 page ‘Catalogue of the Persons of Quality slain on both sides’. In Mercurius Rusticus V, D1 has been replaced by an exquisitely hand-written leaf, simulating a printed page. Bound in Victorian blind-stamped decorated calf, spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with red morocco label and marbled endpapers. Faded red edges. Extremities worn. Lower corners of pages to H6, clipped. Tears and ink stains to preface; browning and ink and water stains in text. Ownership inscriptions of William Jame(e)son on reverse of title and margins and also of Elizabeth Guest on margins (with prayer on verso of Querela title-page), both 1695. Other names, comments, etc., elsewhere and drawings of birds on reverse of title. The 1646 single-volume edition of the royalist newsbook, Mercurius Rusticus first issued in parts, May 1643 - March 1644, reprinted with additional material. These newsbooks, which first appeared in late 1641, are regarded as the forerunners of the English newspaper. The royalist Mercurius Aulicus, was issued in the royalist headquarters of Oxford from January 1643, as an answer to the London newsbooks, and it inspired many similar publications. (Raymond lists about 70 Mercurius titles alone). Mercurius Rusticus was published anonymously from May 1643, but is attributed to Bruno Ryves 1083.

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(c.1596-1677), a royal chaplain and Vicar of Stanwell, Middlesex. After he joined the royal army, his living was sequestered, hence his recourse to journalism; (after the Restoration, he became successively dean of Chichester and of Windsor). The first series of Rusticus (I-XVIII) details the plundering of royalist households. It includes the ‘outrages of Colonell Sandyes in his perambulation of Kent,’ as Colonel Edwin Sandys, of Northbourne, was securing the county for parliament in 1642. In a raid by Sandys on the house of the absent dean of Canterbury, his wife is immodestly treated, her cabinet broken open and her son sent to Dover Castle; later the Dean himself is arrested, ‘with their Swords drawn,’at Gravesend. A cleric of Laudian persuasion, Ryves emphasised the despoliation of cathedrals, like Canterbury, Rochester and Chichester, described in the second series of Rusticus (parts I-IV). The ‘Rebells’ first attempt of this kind was ‘on the Cathedrall Church of Canterbury, under the conduct of Colonel Sandys,’ in which the soldiers, ‘Giant-like, began to fight with God himselfe, overthrew the Communion Table...defaced the goodly Screen...violated the Monuments...spoyled the Organs, brake downe the ancient Railes and Seats...forced open the Cupboards of the Singing-men, rent some of their Surplices, Gownes and Bibles...mangled all our Service-books and Books of Common-Prayer; bestrowing the pavement with the leaves thereof...’ (N5). Subsequently, as Ryves relates, the Colonel himself is mortally wounded in Prince Rupert’s first cavalry charge of the war, at the skirmish of Powick Bridge, near Worcester, in September 1642 (but living long enough to engage in a exchange of tracts on his alleged renunciation of the parliamentary cause). The Querela, concerning the sufferings of the University of Cambridge under Cromwell’s soldiers, is attributed to John Barwick (1612-64), a fellow of St. John’s College, and Dean of St. Pauls after the Restoration. To this 1646 edition of the Rusticus, is added the Mercurius Belgicus or ‘Chronologie’ of events from December 1641-March 1645, ‘a candid and impartiall Epitomie of an unnaturall Warre, Subjects banding against their lawfull Prince, Brother against Brother, and Father against Sonne.’ Scarce copy of a lively work of royalist propaganda. ESTC R203457 Thomason Tracts E.1099 (1)-(3). Raymond, Invention of the Newspaper (1996) DNB. [ref: 20439 ] £300 FIRST EDITION IN WRAPPER. 1084. SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA. THE EDWARDIANS. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf the Hogarth Press, Tavistock Square, [London]. 1930 First edition. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. 349 pp. + [1]. Illustrated by Hogarth Press roundel on title page. Half-title. Bound in original orange cloth, gilt with buff pictorial dust wrapper. Some wear on spine and staining, extending to lower front board. Wrapper has small chips and splits at head of spine with minor water stain extending to back. Top edge darkened with small stains. Faded ownership inscription on first free endpaper. Otherwise a fine copy with clean interior. A fine copy of Vita Sackville-West’s second novel, published by her Bloomsbury collaborators, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press (established 1917) and complete in dust wrapper. Many of Vita’s books

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SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA. THE GARDEN. Decorations by Broom Lynne. Michael Joseph. 1946 First Edition, 135 pp. with decorations, edges uncut. Limited edition numbered 667 of 750 printed, signed and numbered by the author. Original buckram with gilt titles to upper board and spine. Attractive bookplate on front paste-down otherwise a near fine copy in an acetate protective cover. [ref: 19498 ] £350 1086.

SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA. IN YOUR GARDEN AGAIN Michael Joseph. 1953 First Edition. 178 + [1] pp. iIllustrated with photographic plates. Original cloth in price clipped dust jacket. A fine clean copy in a near mint dust wrapper. This is very good copy of the first edition, the second of her classic gardening books. [ref: 19490 ] £45 1087.

1088. SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA. KNOLE AND THE SACKVILLES. Heinemann, London. 1922 First edition. xvi + 231 pp. with frontis and 18 other b/w illustrations. Original pictorial cloth. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, etc. Wear to extremities and 3-4 cm mark to upper board. A good reading copy. [ref: 18622 ] £85

SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA. THE LAND. William Heinemann Ltd. 1955 8vo. 107 pp. Original gilt boards with dust wrapper First published 1927 poetry in the pastoral tradition. Woodcut by George Plank. [ref: 18072 ] £20 1089.

SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA. ORCHARD AND VINEYARD. John Lane. The Bodley Head . 1921 8vo. 101 pp. + [2] adverts. Text unopened. 1090.

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SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA., Edited By Philippa Nicolson. V. SACKVILLE-WEST’S GARDEN BOOK A Collection taken from, In Your Garden, In Your Garden Again, More For your Garden, Even More For your Garden, By Philippa Nicolson. Michael Joseph. London, 1968 Second Impression of the First Edition, 8vo. 6 x 9 inches, 250 pp. With illustrations throughout. Bound in the original cloth, gilt in good condition in the original dust wrapper. The essence of Vita Sackville-West’s four gardening books here in one volume. [ref: 20979 ] £20 1091.

DECORATIVE MANUSCRIPT MAP 1092. SANDGATE. MANUSCRIPT DEED. RELEASE TO USES OF A COTTAGE OR TENEMENT AND LAND AT SANDGATE IN THE PARISH OF CHERITION. MRS. ANN JEFFREY AND OTHERS RELEASE THE PROPERTY TO THE Rev. R.G. GREENE 7 March, 1840 Four large (2 x 3 feet), vellum membranes, joined. The first has a large and fine calligraphic sUPERSCRIPTION - ‘RAWDON GRIFFITHS GREEN’ below which is a ‘MAP TO WHICH THE ABOVE WRITTEN INDENTURE REFERS’. A finely-drawn, coloured ink and watercolour, manuscript map, roughly 20 x 12 inches, showing the position of the property, the highways, roads and paths, together with the names of adjoining landowners. Below this are the seals and signatures of the eight people involved in this contract. ANN JEFFERY; W. BATEMAN; JEFFERY CULLEN; B. MINTER; R.G. GREENE AND RALPH THO. BROCKMAN. Traces of old folds and the outside a little dusty, otherwise very fresh and clean, all seals in good order. One parcel of land would seem to be situated on the north side of the present Sandgate High Street and the corner of what is now [Military Hill] (then Road from Sandgate to Cherition commonly called Bugg’s Hill). The position would appear to be what is now the Village Green. The other dwelling or possibly a shop is facing, ‘Street or Lane in Sandgate called The Back Lane’ Either side of the plot are strips marked with owners names including Cyrus Robert Purday who was the owner of the Circulating Library in Sandgate and publisher of several guides to Sandgate. Behind these shops is a long strip called ‘Garden Ground’ running behind the shops in Back Lane all the way to ‘Buggs Hill’’. Behind this Garden Ground is a Large Meadow or Pasture running from the garden ground at the rear of the shops in Back Lane to below the cliffs which are marked ’Land of Her Majesty’s Master General and Board of Ordnance or one of them commonly called Shorn Cliff’. [ref: 17162 ] £250

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Charles Reynolds and Co London, n.d. but c. 1890 Folding lithographic panorama 21 x 3½ inches, now mounted and framed in conservation materials, overall size 28 x 10 inches.. Traces of old folds, otherwise in very good condition. Extensive view from the Coastgard Station on the left to Radnor Cliff on the right. Originating in Germany, this type of view was published in small concertina-folded view books without text. It is an example of the curious mixture of photograph and hand-drawn lithograph which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895, when photography finally prevailed. [ref: 20579 ] £110 1094. SANDGATE VIEW. THE EPISCOPAL CHAPEL, SANDGATE. Published by the Misses Purday, Sandgate. Lithographed by J. Newman, 48, Watling Street, London. No date but c.1845 Hand-coloured lithograph mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 17.5 x 15 inches approx. Printed surface within inner margin, 14 x 11 inches. It depicts the chapel viewed from the northwest with sheep grazing in the foreground and a horse-drawn carriage ascending Military Road on the right, with the High Street and sea visible beyond; in the background is Martello Tower no. 4 at the end of the Leas. Good condition apart from an inch and a half, old closed tear in the lower margin and some slight loss of surface near, and slightly affecting, a few letters in the title. Rare lithographic view of the Episcopal Chapel at Sandgate, built in the Palladian style, with cupola on top. The Earl of Darnley built the ‘Episcopal Chapel’ on a plot of land from his adjoining estate and it was consecrated on 8 May 1822. Sandgate was developing rapidly at that time and a larger church was required. The earlier building was demolished in 1848 and a new, more commodious church, St. Paul’s, was completed the following year. Thomas Purday was established as a bookseller and owner of the circulating library at Sandgate as early as 1816. He published a Sandgate, Folkestone and Hythe Guide in the 1840s and passed his business on to his daughters, Sarah and Mary Ann, who reissued the guide wth their own imprint about 1846. It is possible that the view of the Chapel was issued as a consequence of its impending demolition and replacement. [ref: 20164 ] £350 1095. SANDGATE VIEW. NEW SCHOOLS, SANDGATE. c.1870 Hand-coloured steel engraving mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 8 x 7.5 inches approx.. Engraved surface including margin, 4.5 x 3.5 inches. View of the recently built Sandgate Schools with a carriage, mounted figures and pedestrians on the road in the foreground. Sandgate’s new National Schools were built in 1866 [ref: 20145 ] £20

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provoked the Emp.r: by the Divorce of Q: Cath.: Q: Eliz: A: D: 1588 on her Progress into Kent to take care of the Defence of the Coast lodged in this Castle. Saml. and Nathl. Buck delin. et Sculpt. 1735. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck. 1735 Lightly hand-coloured etched and engraved on copper and mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 22 x 15.5 inches approx. Engraved surface including inner margin, 14.25 x 7.75 inches. Early manuscript inscription added in ink at foot of print: Sandgate Castle is near Folkstone. The classic view of Sandgate Castle, seen largely as built by Henry VIII, and before its remodelling to include a Martello tower, after 1805. The Buck Brothers were renowned for their accuracy and travelled around England between 1724-38 completing sets of prints for the regions, commonly known as Buck’s Antiquities or Views. [ref: 20161 ] £100 SANDGATE VIEW. 1097. SANDGATE Drawn and engraved by J. Jeakes 1816 Aquatint in original hand-colour, mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Painted surface including inner margin, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. View from neighbourhood of Martello tower no. 4, with foreground figures, the post-Napoleonic Castle and distant view of other towers on the heights and along Hythe Bay in the background. This rare view appeared originally in Five Views of Hythe, Sandgate, and Folkestone by J. Jeakes (1816) and is derived from an earlier view that first appeared in The Little Sea Torch; or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots, by J.T. Serres (1801). A larger version was drawn, etched and published by Wm. Findlater, aquatinted by R.and D. Havell, in 1812 under the title of ‘Sandgate in Kent, with Romney Marsh in the distance’. This smaller version is simplified, but shows similar figures, while prominent red ensigns have been added to the flagpoles. Abbey [ref: 20154 ] £225 SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by S. Prout. Pub: by Rodwell and Martin. 46, New Bond St. Jan. 1823. Printed by C. Hullmandel. 1823 Hand-coloured lithograph mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 22 x 15.5 inches approx. Printed surface within inner margin, 13 x 10 inches. Dramatic view of a two-masted sailing ship wrecked off Sandgate Castle. There is a rescue boat alongside the wreck and rescuers on the shore heave on a line to the beach. In the foreground are rocks and the ship’s rudder, which has carried away. This plate was originally issued as part of Hullmandel and Harding’s Britannia Delineata: Comprising Views of the Antiquities, Remarkable Buildings Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Kent (1822). It was the first of a series proposed to illustrate every county but, because of its high cost, it was a publishing failure and only Kent was ever issued. [ref: 20165 ] £300 1098.

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SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE. Edward Churton, 1847 Hand-coloured wood engraving mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 9 x 8 inches. Engraved surface including margin, 5.5 x 3.75 inches. Figures and sheep in the foreground overlook Sandgate High Street, including the post-Napoleonic Castle and old chapel . Sailing vessels dot the sea in Hythe Bay. This illustration originally appeared as the frontispiece of ‘Sandgate: A Poem’ (1847), believed to have been written by Prudence Hogg, the wife of the Recorder of Folkestone, Mr Dinsdale. The sixty page book included a number of unusual views of the Folkestone area. [ref: 20147 ] £20 1099.

SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE AND SHORNCLIFFE CAMP Newman, no date but c.1840 Hand-coloured steel engraving mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 8.5 x 7.5 inches approx. Window, 4.75 x 3.75 inches. Figures in the foreground look down over Sandgate from the Leas. The view ranges from Hythe bay to the post-Napoleonic Castle and new church with the barrack blocks of Shorncliffe Camp and Martello towers on the heights in the background. [ref: 20144 ] £20 1100.

SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE CASTLE Tomkins del. Eastgate sc. Pub. Jan 1, 1801, by Edw. Harding 98 Pall Mall. 1801 Hand-coloured steel engraving mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 11 x 10 inches approx. Engraved surface, including margin, 7 x 5.75 inches. A view of the original Sandgate Castle, little changed from the time of Henry VIII, shortly before the interior was converted into a Martello tower, to match those under construction in its neighbourhood from 1805 onwards. There are two foreground figures looking out to sea where a small naval vessel flies the blue ensign. It is interesting that the Castle still flies the old union flag without the additional red stripe that signified the union of Britain and Ireland, which came into existence on 1st January, the first day of the new century, and the publication date of this print. It appears in book form in A Journey from London to the Isle of Wight, Vol. II, From Dover to the Isle of Wight, by Thomas Pennant (1801). Upcott [ref: 20155 ] £60 1101.

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SANDGATE, FROM THE EAST Newman and Co. Litho: 48 Watling St., London. Published by Jenner, Sandgate. c.1850 Large tinted lithograph, in all likelihood, hand-coloured at the time of issue (certainly not modern). Mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 18 x 15.5 inches approx. Image, including inner margin, 14.25 x 11.25 inches. Wide view from below Martello tower no.4 with foreground figures, overlooking Sandgate Hill and the High Street with the post-Napoleonic Castle and the new St. Paul’s church; a line of Martello towers, starting from No.5, is visible on the heights. Messrs. Jenner and Co. Sandgate was an adaptable business, which was linked in some way with both the Purday printing and publishing concern, and with Tiffen’s circulating library of Hythe (and later of Folkestone), and who also issued a Sandgate guide of their own. Jenner’s was on the north side of Sandgate High Street, just past Military Road going towards Hythe 1105.

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SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE FROM THE LEAS. J.T. Serres, 1801 Hand-coloured aquatint mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 10 x 6 inches. Window, 5.75 x 1.5 inches. View from adjacent to Martello tower no. 4, which is part-illustrated, with foreground figures, the post-Napoleonic Castle, the old chapel and distant view of other towers on the heights and Hythe Bay and Romney Marsh in the distance. This is a view which first appeared in The Little Sea Torch; or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots, by J.T. Serres (1801). A larger version was drawn, etched and published by Wm. Findlater, aquatinted by R.and D. Havell, in 1812 under the title of ‘Sandgate in Kent’. [ref: 20141 ] £20 1106.

SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE FROM THE LOWER ROAD. Engraved by J. Newman, 48 Watling Street. c.1850 Hand-coloured steel engraving mounted in conversation materials ready for framing. Engraved surface including margin, 6.75 x 4.25 inches. Engraved by J. Newman 48, Watling Street. A perspective from Lower Sandgate Road with figures in the foreground, sheep and a horsedrawn vehicle with a view over Sandgate showing the post-Napoleonic Castle, new church and Martello tower no.6 on the heights; boats are drawn up on the foreshore and other sailing craft and a steamship appear at sea. In the background is Hythe Bay, fringed with Martello towers and a windmill. [ref: 20151 ] £35 1107.

SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE FROM THE SEA. Rock And Co., London No. 800. [Rock And Co., London] No. 800.No date but c.1850 Hand-coloured steel engraving, mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 8.25 x 7.5 inches approx. Window 4.5 x 3.5 inches. The view shows small sailing craft in foreground, the post-Napoleonic Castle, new church with Martello towers on the heights beyond and the new houses on Radnor Cliff to the right. [ref: 20140 ] £20 1108.

SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE, FROM THE SEA Newman and Co. Litho: 48, Watling St. London. Published by Jenner, Sandgate. Newman and Co.Litho 48, Watling Street, London. c.1850 Large tinted lithograph, in all likelihood, hand-coloured at the time of issue (certainly not modern). Mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing. Image, including inner margin, 14.25 x 10.25 inches. View from the sea with rowing boat and passengers in the foreground, looking over to the 1109.

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foreshore (with bathing machines drawn up), the houses of the High Street, the post-Napoleonic Castle and new church; Martello towers, Nos.4, 5 and 6 are visible on the heights behind. Messers Jenner and Co. Sandgate was an adaptable concern, linked in some way with both the Purday printing and publishing concern and with Tiffen’s circulating library of Hythe and, later, of Folkestone. Jenner’s was on the north side of Sandgate High Street, just past Military Road going towards Hythe and later ran a wine merchant’s business, supplying to the Shorncliffe garrison (see the two receipt books of Jenners from 1860-62, 20131). [ref: 20163 ] £450 SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE IN KENT, WITH ROMNEY MARSH IN THE DISTANCE Drawn and etched by Wm. Findlater. Aquatinted by R. and D. Havell. Published July 1st. 1812, by W. Findlater, 7 Bolton Row, Piccadilly. 1812 Hand-coloured aquatint mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 22 x 15.5 inches approx. Window 18.5 x 11.25 inches. View from next to Martello tower No.4 on the Leas, which is shown manned, with foreground figures. including off duty soldiers, overlooking the High Street and Military Road and the post-Napoleonic Castle. Details include horse-drawn vehicles, boats and bathing machines drawn up on the foreshore and sailing vessels offshore. Rows of Martello towers line the heights and the coast of Romney Marsh is seen across Hythe Bay, with the hills of the old shoreline in the background. Several original vertical fold lines are visible. This is derived from a view which first appeared in The Little Sea Torch; or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots, by J. T. Serres (1801). [ref: 20160 ] £750 1110.

1111. SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE, KENT Drawn by G. Rowe. Printed and Published by G. Wooll, Printseller, 5, High Street, Hastings. No date but 1830 Hand-coloured lithograph mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 13 x 11 inches approx. Engraved surface including inner margin, 9 x 6.5 inches. View of Sandgate from the east, with the postNapoleonic Castle, old chapel and buildings at the foot of Sandgate Hill and in the High Street beyond; distant view of Martello towers on the heights and along the shore of Hythe Bay. From G. Rowe’s ‘Illustrations of Hastings and its Vicinity’ . Abbey [ref: 20157 ] £250 1112. SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE, LOOKING SOUTH. Engraved by J.

Newman, 48 Watling Street. Pub. by S. and M. Purday, Sandgate. No date but c.1840 Hand-coloured steel engraving mounted in conservation material suitable for framing, overall size 10.5 x 9 inches approx. Engraved surface, including margin, 6.75 x 4.75 inches. Sandgate, including the post-Napoleonic Castle, old chapel and foreshore with sailing craft and a steamship at sea and Martello

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tower no. 4 on the Leas to the east. Date added in ink after title: June 23 1852. This print was published and sold by the Sandgate bookseller, Purday, who published local guidebooks to Folkestone, Sandgate and Hythe, using these views. S. and M. were the initials of the sisters, Sarah and Mary Ann Purday, who tok over the running of the business from their father, Thomas. [ref: 20150 ] £35 1113. SANDGATE VIEW. SANDGATE [PANORAMA]. G. J. Knox, Del. E

Walker, Lith. Day and Son, Lithrs. to the Queen. No date but c.1850 Tinted oblong lithograph mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 26 x 11 inches approx. Printed surface within inner margin, 22.25 x 7 inches. Panoramic view of Sandgate from the east, with numerous figures and sheep in the foreground. The view stretches from Hythe Bay, with sailing vessels inshore, to the crests of the Downs inland, and includes the post-Napoleonic Castle, the High Street and new church, Military Road, and Sandgate Hill to the junction with Coolinge Lane, and has Martello towers nos.5 and 6 on the heights in the middle ground. Traces of original folds. A fine example. [ref: 20166 ] £750

1114.SANDWICH - ANDERSON, ARTHUR HENRY . SANDWICH ,

KENT. AN APPRECIATION OF AN ANCIENT BOROUGH, AND A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ITS MOST INTERESTING FEATURES. Homeland Association. No date but c.1923 Ninth Edition, 32 pp.+ xxxv adverts. Illustrated with black and white photographs and plan of town Bound in Original printed wrappers with art nouveau design, neat bookplate, and presentation stamp to title page. A nice copy. An interesting volume from the Homeland Handy Guides series, this being No 3 official town Guide c.1923, highlighting places of interest and the history of this important town . [ref: 18920 ] £40 1115. SANDWICH - BENTWICH, MARGARET. HISTORY OF

SANDWICH IN KENT. Deal, T.F. Pain & Sons, 1971. 168 pp., + (4) pp. with illus. Original cloth in dustwrapper, boards faded. *Limited edition of 500 copies - signed by the Author. The only modern history of the town. [ref: 18034 ] £25 1116.SANDWICH - DAWSON, ROBERT, Lieut. R.E. SANDWICH.

(FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY). BOUNDARY COMMISSION MAP. House of Commons, n.d. but 1831 Lithographic map, 13 x 8 inches, with contemporary hand-colouring. A fine example with attractive colouring.

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These maps were produced from the Ordnance Survey maps, in this instance on a scale of 4 inches to one mile, to redefine the Municipal Borough boundaries. Where previously the boundary had been defined by the bank of the Stour it now ran along the centre of the river. [ref: 16831 ] £40 1117. SANDWICH HANDBOOK. THE ANCIENT TOWN AND PORT OF

SANDWICH. OFFICIAL HANDBOOK. Published by the Sandwich Corporation in Conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce. No date but c.1955 Booklet. 39 pp. with b/w illustration. Original coloured pictorial card wrappers. A near mint copy of an attractive post-war guide. [ref: 18468 ] £12 SANDWICH HANDBOOK. Edited by C.P. NEILSON. THE ANCIENT TOWN AND PORT OF SANDWICH. OFFICIAL HANDBOOK. Published by the Sandwich Corporation in Conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce. No date but c.1927 77 pp. with b/w illustration. Original pictorial card wrappers. A little foxing to first gathering otherwise a good copy. The illustrations show a wonderfully uncluttered street scene with none of the traffic congestion encountered today. [ref: 19802 ] £20 1118.

1119.SANDYS, CHARLES. CONSUETUDINES KANCIAE: A HISTORY

OF GAVELKIND AND OTHER REMARKABLE CUSTOMS IN THE COUNTY OF KENT John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho Square, London. 1851 xvi + 352 pp. + 12 + 12 adverts, with folding geanealogy of the Sons of Woden (browned as is usual), and two folding facsimile documents. Original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt. Repair to spine, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce 19th century account of Gavelkind and other Saxon, Jutish and early Kentish matters including language. Only 184 copies are accounted for in the list of subscribers which gives an idea of the print run. [ref: 17226 ] £100 MANUSCRIPT TITHE MAP SARR NEAR SANDWICH. PLAN OF THE PARISH OF ST. GYLES OTHERWISE SARR IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. We the undersigned Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales do hereby certify this to be a copy of the map and plan referred to in the apportionment of the Kent

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Charge in lieu of tithes in the Parish of St. Gyles otherwise called Sarr in the County of Kent. As witness our hands signed William Blamire and T W Buller. Signed G H Whalley, Assistant Tithe Commissioner. [Signed with initials] E.J.W. 23/3/43 Surveyor’s signature abraded and so far not traced. [John ???man]. 1843 Finely drawn manuscript tithe map, 25 x 18.75 ins. Ink and colour wash on paper, mounted and laid on linen. Some surface dirt and slight discolouring, later pencilling of names, with occasional additions in pencil. A very attractive mid-19th century Kentish tithe map of the parish now known as Sarre. An interesting feature of the map is that it shows an intricate network of water-filled ditches fed by the River Stour, which were presumably water-meadows. The scale is given at 6 chains to the inch. The fields are numbered and the owners’ names have been pencilled on to the map in a later hand. We have obtained a copy of the tithe schedule dated 1841, and most of the information on ownership is the same. From this list we know the uses of each field, i.e. its cultivation (marsh, arable, pasture etc). It also identifies all the buildings on the map, with ownership and use. Using Google Earth, it can be seen that the modern field patterns remain remarkably consistent, the most obvious change being the arc of the railway which cuts across the lower right hand quadrant of the map and the addition of new housing developments. The windmill still stands (in working order), with the nearby turnpike cottage still standing on the Rams gate-Canterbury A253. It is truly remarkable that so little has changed in the more than 170 years that have passed since the map was made. The Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 set up the Tithe Commission headed by three Commissioners sitting in London, William Blamire (1790-1862), Captain Thomas Wentworth Buller, RN, (1792-1852) and the Rev. Richard Jones. By 1841 G.H. Whalley was an Assistant Commissioner. The Act allowed the substitution of a money payment - the tithe rent-charge - for payment in kind. The first tasks of the Commissioners were to find out where commutation had already taken place, and also to establish the boundaries of every unit in which tithes were paid separately. This unit was known as a tithe district to distinguish it from a parish or township. This map would appear to be a result of these enquiries. [ref: 20446 ] £750 1121. SATTIN, D.L. BARGE BUILDING AND BARGE BUILDERS OF THE

SWALE. Rainham Meresborough Books, 17 Station Road, Rainham, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 7RS. 1990 8vo. 6 x 8.5 inches. 130 pp. Illustrated by black and white photographs, drawings and facsimiles in text. Bound in pictorial laminated boards. Small neat ink inscription on front paste-down; otherwise fine condition. A detailed history of barge building on the Swale, including a description of the construction process. Donald Sattin became an apprentice shipwright in Alfred Marconi White’s barge building yard at Conyer in 1936, eventually becoming foreman shipwright of the yard. [ref: 21125 ] £20

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SATTIN, D.L. JUST OFF THE SWALE. THE STORY OF THE BARGE BUILDING VILLAGE OF CONYER. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JEREMY NESHAM. Meresborough Books. 1978 [12] + 140 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original illustrated boards. A very good copy. A very good history of this boat-building village and the barges they constructed, now out of print. [ref: 10889 ] £25 1122.

KENTISH SAINT. SAWYER, MINNIE. THE STORY OF ST. MILDRED OF THANET. A Saint of Saxon Times. By Minnie Sawyer. Edited with Preface by The Rev. T. E. Egan, O.S.B. Abbot of St Augustine’s, Ramsgate. St. Anselm's Society, 3, Dyer’s Buildings, Holborn, London. 1912 First edition. 8vo. 5 x 7.5 inches. xxxv + [i] +188 pp. Illustrated by six plates, including coloured map. Bound in original blue cloth, with pictorial front board. Lacks first free endpaper. Extremities worn and some spotting. Bookplate. The life and legends of St Mildred of Thanet (d.732). She was an Anglo Saxon princess, sent to France for her religious education and who, after many experiences that have become part of her legend, fled back to Thanet, via Flanders, landing at Ebbsfleet. She rejoined her mother, St. Ermenburga (herself a Kentish princess), who had founded the Abbey of Minster-in Thanet, about 670, and later succeeded her as Abbess. Devotion to her remained strong in the Thanet area. A second edition was published about 1920. [ref: 20678 ] £30 1123.

1124. THE OYSTER & DREDGERS OF WHITSTABLE. Joseph Collard, 1902 92 pp. with map and photo illustrations. Bound in original green wrappers. Standard book on the Kentish oyster fishery. Scarce. [ref: 18965 ] £85

SCARLETT, BERNARD. SHIPMINDER. THE STORY OF HER MAJESTY’S COASTGUARD. Pelham Books. 1971 207 pp., with photo illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy. A good history of the service from the foundation to 1970. [ref: 8823 ] £18 1125.

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PRESENTATION COPY SCOTT, BENJAMIN J. THE NORMAN BALLIOLS IN ENGLAND COMPILED IN PART FROM MR.WENTWORTH HUYSHE’S HAROLD AND THE BALLIOLS. With illustrations and additional matter, including introductory and concluding chapters and a pedigree. Privately Printed. 1914 Large 8vo., xix + 476 pp., with numerous illustrations and folding pedigrees. Finely printed on hand-made paper with deckle edges. Original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed on extremities but a very good copy. Presentation copy to Hugh Scott with a letter from the author inserted. Numerous annotations and extra material added to the chapter on the Scotts. The Kent connection here is with the Scotts of Scot’s Hall. There is a chapter on them and the book relates to the ancestry of this ancient family. Very scarce. [ref: 16511 ] £145 1126.

SCOTT, RIVERS. THE GATEWAY OF ENGLAND. The story of Dover Harbour. Dover Dover Harbour Board, 1965 Second edition revised. 4to. 7.25 x 9.75 inches. 48 pp. + [55]. Illustrated by sepia endpapers and blue vignettes, by photographs in text and by 54 black and white photographs, including map, at end. Original coloured pictorial wrappers. Very good condition. First published in 1956, to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Dover Harbour Board. An interesting look at the history of the Board and its state in the early sixties, with some fine photographs of the docks and ships. [ref: 21027] £12 1127.

SCOTT-JAMES, ANN. SISSINGHURST. THE MAKING OF A GARDEN. Michael Joseph. 1975 Third impression. 159 pp. with colour and black and white photos. Original cloth gilt, in dustwrapper. A very good copy. The first edition. Still one of the best books on Sissinghurst. [ref: 19518] £20 1128.

SELBY, ELIZABETH. TEYNHAM MANOR AND HUNDRED (798-1935). Meresborough Books. 1935 4to 10 x 7.5 inches xv +126 pp. including frontispiece, plus 9 pp. of photographic illustration and 4 maps. Original blue buckram, gilt. A fine copy. Containing much information on the history and social history of Teynham, Lynsted and Doddington with appendices on the Reeve’s Account (c.1346), Subsidy Rolls and Churchwardens’ Accounts. The scarce original edition which was produced in very small numbers. 1129.

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[ref: 21656] £65 1130. SELLER, JOHN. KENT. Francis Grose. 1787 Hand-coloured copper engraved map with letterpress description below. A very good example. Published by Grose in his ‘Antiquities of England and Wales’ [ref: 17999] £65 1131. SEVENOAKS - DINES, H.G. and A. M. INST, and S. BUCHAN,

and C.A. HOLMES, and C. R. BRISTOW. GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND SEVENOAKS AND TUNBRIDGE. HMSO. 1969 xii + 183 pp. with maps and photos. Original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. A mint copy. Part of the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of G.B. series. Now only published in paperback. [ref: 16823] £30

SEVENOAKS - DINES, H.G. and A. M. INST, and S. BUCHAN, and C.A. HOLMES, and C. R. BRISTOW. GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND SEVENOAKS AND TUNBRIDGE. HMSO. 1982 xii + 183 pp. with maps and photos. Original printed card wrappers. A mint copy. Part of the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of G.B. series. Now only published in paperback. [ref: 19527] £20 1132.

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SEVENOAKS - DUNLOP, JOHN. THE PLEASANT TOWN OF SEVENOAKS. A HISTORY. Caxton and Holesdale Press, Sevenoaks. 1965 Second Impression. 238 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Useful modern history, well compiled, also covers the large houses and land owners of the locality. [ref: 15701 ] £25

SHEARS, W.S. WILLIAM NASH OF ST. PAUL’S CRAY PAPERMAKERS The Batchworth Press, London. Published for private circulation, 1950 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. frontis. + ix + [i] + 177 pp. + [1]. Illustrated by 27 plates, two in colour and two sketches at foot of text. Original blue cloth, gilt, with detached dust wrapper inset. Top corners bumped and some stains and scratches to boards and spine, otherwise fine condition. 1963 inscription on first free endpaper. 1134.

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Interesting history of this North Kent paper mill printed for private circulation. It includes the War Diary, August 1940 - April 1945. The mill was heavily damaged in the air raid of 19th-20th March 1941. [ref: 20557 ] £20 SHEERNESS. THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO SHEERNESS AND THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY. Printed and published by Walter Cole Limited. No date but 1949. Booklet. 5 x 7.25 inches. [iv] + 28 pp. + [12] adverts, with a number of b/w photo illustrations. Lacking wrappers and upper half damp-stained. [ref: 21659 ] £30 1135.

SHELTON, HAROLD KENTISH RAMBLES By Harold Shelton, M.A. (Oxon). President, Out of Doors Fellowship: President, London Antiquaries Society; Author of ‘Upland Rambles in Surrey and Sussex;’ ‘The Tourist’s Handbook,’ etc. Editor, ‘The World Book,’ ‘Geography and Man,’ etc. Lecturer in British Antiquities at the City Literary Institute. Sidcup: Kentish District Times Co., Ltd. 1939 Small 8vo. 64 pp. [pp.1-2 not provided]. Bound in original stiff card pictorial boards, with illustration (of oast house). Some wear on spine and boards and tape on front hinges. Small neat bookplate inside front cover. Collection of rambles reprinted from the Kentish Times Kent Bibliography [ref: 19212 ] £10 1136.

SHEPHERD, G. & GASTINEAU, H. A TREASURY OF KENT PRINTS. A SERIES OF VIEWS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY SHEPHERD AND GASTINEAU, &c. Arthur J. Cassell Ltd. 31 Broadway, Sheerness, Kent. 1972 Oblong 8vo., (6) + 124 pages of plates. Original cloth. in dust wrapper, a good copy This is the only facsimile of the whole series of views, first published in 1829 in Ireland's History of Kent and Vertue's Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain. The reproduction is quite good, and this book is the only inexpensive way of obtaining these well-known views. [ref: 15969 ] £10 1137.

SHEPPEY - DALY, AUGUSTUS A. THE HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY FROM THE ROMAN OCCUPATION TO THE REIGN OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII. WITH 90 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES PROCTER. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1904 First edition. 297 pp. with 90 illustrations by J. James Proctor. Bound in original paper wrappers as issued, rebacked in cloth, otherwise a near fine copy. The scarce first edition of this history and guide. Combines charming illustrations and thorough text and remains one of the best published volumes on the island’s history.

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[ref: 18877 ] £85 SHERLOCK, D. and H. WOODS, ST. AUGUSTINE’S ABBEY: REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS, 1960-78 (Monograph series of the Kent Archaeological Society) Kent Archaeological Society. 1988 xxxi + 366 pp. + 3 coloured plates and 52 b/w plates with numerous figures to the text and several folding ground plans. Blue cloth gilt with slight fraying to top of spine, otherwise fine in dust wrapper. [ref: 18989 ] £25 1139.

SHERWOOD, TIM. THE STEAMBOAT REVOLUTION. London’s first steamships. Brimscombe Port Tempus Publishing Limited, The Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, GL5 2QG. 2007 128 pp. Half-title. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings in text. In coloured pictorial card wrappers. In fine condition. An account of the introduction of steam navigation into the port of London. This book looks at sea-going steamboats operating between 1815-1860 serving routes from London to Gravesend, Margate, Ramsgate, Edinburgh, Dublin and the Continental services to Germany, Holland, Belgium and France. [ref: 21133 ] £12 1140.

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Painted by W. Biscombe Gardner. London A. and C. Black, Soho Square. 1907 First Edition. 4to. 6.75 x 9.25 inches. x + 240 pp. Half title. with 2 folding maps and 73 coloured plates by W. Biscombe Gardner. Illustrated by 73 coloured plates, inc luding front ispiece, folding plan and map and a ground plan. Bound in original decorated green cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. A nice example of this attractive Black's Colour book. The hop design embossed on the boards combines with the charming colour plates to form a very nice book. This first issue is far better than the later reprint in all respects. [ref: 15940 ] £85 1142. SHORE, W. TEIGNMOUTH. KENT. A. and C. Black. London. 1924 4to. 238 pp. with 3 maps and 32 coloured plates by W. Biscombe Gardner. Original decorated cloth, gilt. A nice example of this attractive Black's Colour book.

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[ref: 11286 ] £30 [SHRUBSOLE, WILLIAM and DENNE, SAMUEL, edited by FISHER, THOMAS]. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ROCHESTER AND ITS ENVIRONS: To which is added, a Description of the Towns, Villages, Gentlemen’s Seats, and Ancient Buildings, Situate on, or near the Road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover. Embellished with Copper-Plates Rochester Printed and sold by T. Fisher. Sold also by S. Crowder, Bookseller, in Pater-Noster Row, London. 1772 First edition. 12mo. 4.75 x 7.5 inches. xiv + 353 pp. + [1] errata. Irregularities in pagination as described by ESTC. List of subscribers. Illustrated by folding engraved plan of Rochester and 5 other copper-engraved plates. Recent halfcalf over marbled boards with contrasting title label, gilt. Fore-edge margin of one and a half leaves neatly excised with no loss of text, otherwise a very good copy. This work was said to have been started by William Shrubsole (1729-1797), an independent minister and mast maker of Sheerness, born in Sandwich. It was, however, substantially written and completed by Samuel Denne (1730-1799). He was educated at King’s School, Canterbury and Cambridge and was appointed vicar of Wilmington and Darenth, near Dartford, in 1767. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1783. An enlarged second edition was published by W. Wildash, Mr Fisher’s successor as bookseller in Rochester, in 1817. ESTC T63426. Smith, p.275. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 19706 ] £200 1143.

[SHRUBSOLE, WILLIAM and DENNE, SAMUEL, edited by WILDASH,W.]. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ROCHESTER AND ITS ENVIRONS: To which is added, a Description of the Towns, Villages, Gentlemen’s Seats, and Ancient Buildings, Situate on, or near the Road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover. Second Edition with considerable additions and improvements. Embellished with Engravings. Rochester Printed and sold by W. Wildash; Sold also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, PaternosterRow, London; and all Booksellers. 1817 Second edition. 8vo. 8.5 x 5 inches, xvii + 419 pp. List of subscribers. Illustrated by a folding engraved plan of Rochester and 4 other copper-engraved plates. 1144.

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Recent quarter calf over marbled boards with contrasting title label, gilt. Map offset on to title page but a very good copy. This edition of The History of Rochester (first edited and published by Thomas Fisher in 1772), has been considerably revised by W. Wildash, Fisher’s successor as bookseller in Rochester. According to the editor’s advertisement, ‘The ingenious compiler of the greater part of it, at least, was the Rev. Samuel Denne.’ It was also said to have been started by William Shrubsole (1729-1797), an independent minister and mistaker of Sheerness, born in Sandwich. Denne (1730-1799) was educated at King’s School, Canterbury and Cambridge and was appointed vicar of Wilmington and Darenth, near Dartford, in 1767. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1783. This second edition is supplied with a new map and enlarged by an additional sixty-five pages, bringing it up to date. A further edition was published in 1833. Smith, p.276. [ref: 21071 ] £200 SILLITOE, ALAN and FAY GODWIN. THE SAXON SHORE WAY FROM GRAVESEND TO RYE. Hutchinson. 1983 First Edition. 192 pp. with photo illustration throughout. This is the cheaper paperback edition, issued simultaneously with the hardback. Fay Godwin's fine evocative photographs combine with Alan Sillitoe’s interesting text to make this a sought-after volume. [ref: 18733 ] £25 1145.

SIGNED BY GODWIN 1146. SILLITOE, ALAN and FAY GODWIN. THE SAXON SHORE WAY FROM GRAVESEND TO RYE. Hutchinson. 1983 First Edition. 8vo 8 x 7 inches, 192 pp. with photo illustration throughout. Bound in original cloth gilt, in the original dust wrapper. A very good copy. Fay Godwin's fine evocative photographs combine with Alan Sillitoe’s interesting text to make this a sought-after volume. This copy is signed by the photographer on the title page. [ref: 21084 ] £40 SIMPER, ROBERT. RIVER MEDWAY AND THE SWALE. Vol. 7 English Estuaries Series. Creekside Publishing. 1998 Folio. 92 pp. with b/w photo illustrations throughout. Original pictorial laminated boards. A near fine copy. A comprehensive look at all activities on the Medway and Swale throughout the twentieth century. [ref: 20813 ] £20 1147.

SIMSON, J. EMINENT MEN OF KENT. Elliot Stock. 1893 178 pp. with engraved frontis. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Slight wear to extremities otherwise a good copy. 1148.

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A useful reference work. [ref: 18514 ] £25 SKINNER, DON. OLD TONBRIDGE. A selection of postcards first published between 1900 and 1930. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1981 48 pp. illustrated throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18633 ] £10 1149.

SLADE, W.J. OUT OF APPLEDORE. Edited and prefaced by Basil Greenhill. Conway Maritime Press, London. 1972 Ex-library copy with usual markings. 124 pp. with b/w photo illustration. Grey library binding in dust wrapper. A good reading copy. Reminiscences of a Devon coasting seaman. [ref: 20799 ] £8 1150.

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OF SMARDEN, KENT. Ipswich, Ipswich, Privately Printed. 1886 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches, xv + 329 pp. with frontis and a number of illustrations in the text. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded otherwise a very good copy of this scarce book. Companion work to Haslewood’s Antiquities of Smarden, this work is primarily concerned with people and genealogy and is fully indexed. A privately printed limited issue, the subscribers list accounts for 184 copies, so it may be that, as with his other works, it was limited to 202 copies. [ref: 21082 ] £185 SMITH, C. A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. DIVIDED INTO LATHES Etc. Printed for C. Smith No 172 Strand January 6th 1821 A further, revision of this map first issued in 1804. Original hand-coloured engraved map 17 x 20 inches, dissected and laid on to linen and preserved in a slip case. A very good example of a coloured map with fine wide margins. Nice example of this turn-of-the-century Kentish map from Smith’s ‘New English Atlas’. The maps were drawn by J. Tomkins and engraved by H. Vincent . [ref: 20908 ] £200 1152.

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SMITH, C. & SON’S. SMITH’S MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON. Cover title:MAP OF TWENTY FIVE MILES ROUND LONDON. London. Printed for C. Smith 63 Charing Cross Road. No date but c.1898. Large, uncoloured, folding map, dissected and laid on to linen, 32 x 24 inches, showing from Stoke Mandeville to Chelmsford and from Farnham to Marden. Preserved within the original chocolate cloth-covered boards with printed paper title labels to upper board. A near fine copy.

Hyde 59 (5) [ref: 21552 ] £200 1155. SMITH, C. LESLIE W. STORIES OF FAVERSHAM Faversham: Privately Published, 1974. 8vo., 521 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth gilt. An extremely interisting collection of essays on all aspects of Faversham history, legend and topography. This copy is signed by the author. [ref: 19756 ] £30 1156. SMITH, C. LESLIE W. STORIES OF THE ISLE OF THANET Faversham: Privately Published, 1981 Second Edition. 257 pp., with photo illustrations. Original cloth gilt An extremely interesting collection of essays on all aspects of Thanet history, legend and topography. [ref: 19713 ] £30

SMITH, CHARLES ROACH and F.W. FAIRHOLT. THE ANTIQUITIES OF RICHBOROUGH, RECULVER, AND LYMNE, IN KENT. John Russell Smith. 1850 4to. 272 pp. with coloured frontispiece, nine plates, and illustrations in the text throughout. Original blind stamped cloth, worn at extremities, small water stain to the corner of four plates not affecting image, otherwise a good copy. A good example of this text by the well-known archaeological pioneer. The first recorded digs at these important sites. [ref: 18923 ] £125 1157.

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RARE REPORT ON LYMPNE. SMITH, CHARLES ROACH and JAMES ELLIOTT, JUN. REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS MADE ON THE SITE OF THE ROMAN CASTRUM AT LYMNE, IN KENT, IN 1850 ..... WITH NOTES ON THE ORIGINAL PLAN OF THE CASTRUM, AND ON THE ANCIENT STATE OF ROMNEY MARSHES ... Printed for the Subscribers to the Excavations, London, 1852 4to. viii + 45 pp. + [5] list of subscribers + etched folding frontis + 10 etched plates, by W.H. Brooke, H.W. Rolfe, R. Windle and others, one of which is hand-coloured, and numerous wood-engraved plans and illustrations to the text. Original printed paper wrappers, spine repaired. A little worn at extremities and somewhat timestained but a very good copy. The front bears the neatly inked name of ‘Stephen Steele Esq`re’ and the signature of ‘C[harles] Roach Smith’, so possibly a gift from the author. Another hand has inscribed H. Lemmon, and a further hand at the bottom has written ‘Supplement to The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lymne.’ This report was produced for the Subscribers to the Lymne excavation and more than two years after Smith’s work The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver and Lymne. It is more fully illustrated, with specially produced plates, and more descriptive of the excavations than the section on Lympne in that work. The report has additional notes by James Elliott Jnr., a principal subscriber to the dig, who had made previous excavations in the area. The subscribers to the Lymne dig appear in the order in which they subscribed and with the amount of their subscription. Interestingly, neither of the names on the cover appears in the list of subscribers in the ‘Report’ or that in the ‘Antiquities’. The list of Lymne subscribers amounts to 109 names so perhaps 120 copies were produced, of which this is a rare survivor. [ref: 19647 ] £250 1158.

SMITH, C.S. A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. DIVIDED INTO LATHES Etc. Printed for C. S. Smith No 172 Strand January 6th 1804 Original hand-coloured engraved map 17 x 20 inches. Trace of an old fold, but a very good example with fine wide margins. Nice example of this turn-of-the-century Kentish map from Smith’s ‘New English Atlas’. The maps were drawn by J. Tomkins and engraved by H. Vincent . [ref: 18301 ] £250 1159.

SMITH, C.S. A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. Divided into Lathes &c. London: Printed for C. Smith, No.172 Strand, January 6th.1804, corrected to 1818 Third edition. Hand-coloured folding engraved map, 19 x 21 inches, dissected and laid on to linen. Preserved in the original card slip-case with printed label and neat contemporary inscription. Good example of this pre-railway Kentish travelling map from Smith’s New English Atlas. The maps were drawn by J. Tomkins and engraved by H.Vincent. 1160.

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[ref: 19160 ] £250 1161.SMITH, F.F. A HISTORY OF ROCHESTER

The C.E. Daniel Co., Graham House, Tudor St, London E.C.4. 1928 First Edition. Fat 8vo. xv + 523 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth gilt, spine repaired and slightly faded, but a good copy. Still a standard work on Rochester, though more commonly found in the 1970's reprint, this is a good copy of the earlier edition and has the bookplate of Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis, who was created Baron only the year before this book was published. [ref: 17306 ] £45 1162. SMITH, F.F. A HISTORY OF ROCHESTER John Hallewell Publications. 1928 edition reprinted. 1976 8vo. xvi + 523pp. with 60 b/w illustrations Original red cloth, pictorial dust wrapper, worn at extremities, otherwise a nice copy. This edition, which was limited to 1,000 copies, is an authoritative history of this ancient city ‘Commencing with the Roman occupation, it contains full particulars about the Cathedral, Castle, Corporation Records, Bridges, and all matters of past and present interest, with sixty illustrations, so as to form a general history’. [ref: 18944 ] £25

SMITH, F.F. ROCHESTER IN PARLIAMENT 1295-1933. INCLUDING THE CHATHAM AND GILLINGHAM DIVISIONS OF ROCHESTER. ALSO THE BOROUGH OF CHATHAM FROM JUNE 1832 TO 1918 Simpkin Marshall. 1933 190 pp. Original cloth gilt. A good copy from the Law Society's Library with some neat stamps. With a presentation letter from Smith to the Library and an inscription. A scarce title. [ref: 10896 ] £40 1163.

PRESENTATION COPY 1164. SMITH, GERARD EDWARDS. A CATALOGUE OF THE RARE OR REMARKABLE PHAENOGAMOUS PLANTS, COLLECTED IN SOUTH KENT : WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES AND OBSERVATIONS. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, Paternoster Row, London: 1829 First Edition. 8vo. viii + 78 pp. illustrated with 5 fine hand-coloured plates including Early Spider Orchids and Bee Orchids. Original green half-morocco. Spine in compartments tooled in gilt with contrasting title label. Rebacked, retaining the original spine. Corners a little rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. This copy is inscri bed to ‘Ward Hunt Painter, with the author’s kind regard, January 1877’ and a botanical note in his hand on page 18. G. E. Smith lived in Sandgate and compiled this detailed list of

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SMITH, MARY. A CENTURY OF ELHAM PHOTOGRAPHS. Photographs compiled by Mary Smith. [s.l.] Printed by Trevor Hobbs. [1989] 4to. 8 x 10 inches. 47 + [1] pp. Illustrated by numerous sepia photographs, which are continued on both endpapers. Plain card boards, with pictorial wrappers, supplying imprint. Slight tear to foot of front wrapper, which has slight signs of wear; otherwise in fine condition. A scarce compilation of Elham photographs, attractively reproduced in sepia tone. The author’s introduction and epilogue are in old Kent dialect. [ref: 21062 ] £20 1166.

SMITH, R.A.L. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL PRIORY. A STUDY IN MONASTIC ADMINISTRATION. Cambridge University Press. 1943 8vo. 237 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth gilt, spine faded, otherwise a very good copy. A clear, objective account of the farming and finances of one of the greatest of the English Monasteries. A very useful text, always in demand. [ref: 18750 ] £25 1167.

SMITH, VICTOR T.C. THE LATER NINETEENTHCENTURY LAND DEFENCES OF CHATHAM. Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. 1976 Offprint from Post-Medieval Archaeology Vol. 10. pp.104-117 with 2 figures to the text and 5 b/w illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers. A very good copy. A consideration of the Land Defences built to protect the Royal Navy Dockyard. 1168.

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[ref: 18667 ] £10 SMITHERS, DAVID WALDRON. JANE AUSTEN IN KENT. Westerham Hurtwood Publications. 1981 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches 133 pp. with illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper, a very good copy. Thorough work on Jane Austen’s many Kentish connections, Sevenoaks, Godmersham and East Kent, Dartford, Etc. [ref: 21213 ] £12 1169.

1170. SMITHERS, D.W. CASTLES IN KENT John Hallewell Publications, Chatham. 1980 4to. 144 pp. with illustrations throughout. A very good copy in dust wrapper. A useful, quick-reference book. [ref: 15416 ] £15 1171. SMUGGLING. SMUGGLING AND SMUGGLERS IN SUSSEX. THE

GENUINE HISTORY OF THE UNPARALLELED MURDERS OF MR. WILLIAM GALLEY, AND MR. DANIEL CHATER, BY FOURTEEN NOTORIOUS SMUGGLERS, WITH THE TRIALS AND EXECUTION OF SEVEN OF THE CRIMINALS AT CHICHESTER, 1748-9. Brighton : W. J. Smith. No date but c.1880 263 pp. with frontispiece and other illustrations. Modern half-morocco, gilt, over marbled boards in Victorian style. A very good example in a very attractive binding. This reprint of the famous narrative, first printed in the eighteenth century, has the virtue of having several articles concerning smuggling added. The events described have obvious connections with smuggling in Kent. [ref: 19115 ] £125 MISSENT FISH AND UNPAID TOLLS. ROCHESTER C .1860SOLICITOR’S COPY LETTER BOOK, ROCHESTER, 1859 AGENTS AND GENERAL LETTER BOOK. COMMENCING 19TH OCT. 1859 ENDING 31ST DECEMBER 1861. Mr. Webb Hayward Solicitor Rochester 19 October 1859. 1859 Lined copy letter book, with manuscript entries. [23] p. index (1 page blank) + 309 p. + [16] p. blank. [6] registered letter receipts tipped in. Bound in vellum, marbled boards and edges. Extremities worn, especially at top of spine. Ink titles. Clean interior in several legible copperplate hands. The outgoing letters of a busy Rochester solicitor, amounting to some 1,200 separate entries over a period of two years and ten weeks. In the 1878 directory, William Webb Hayward of 196 High Street, Rochester, was also Clerk of the Peace, and to the trustees of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and registrar of the county court, etc. The new letter book opens with the acrimonious dissolution of Esell and Hayward: ‘Mr. Esell has excluded me from the offices and he has all the Books and Accounts’ and ‘has treated me in a very cruel manner depriving me of a position worth £7,000 to me and putting his own relations in my place and refusing to return to me the £4,000 I paid him when I went into partnership.’ He was also pursuing the 1172.

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Postmaster General over a letter, misdirected ‘to another party thereby doing me a serious injury and inducing the commencement of legal proceedings against me.’ Hayward acts on behalf of the Commissioners of Paving, etc., Rochester and Strood and writes to Samuel Smiles (1812-1904, author of Self-Help and Lives of the Engineers), Secretary of the South Eastern Railway about water dripping from a bridge over Strood High Street. He also acts for a client, who is claiming damages from the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, as goods, sent from Chatham to Canterbury, arrived late and caused financial loss. Another failed delivery was the case of the ‘fish missent’ by Messrs. Pickford from London to Stroud in Gloucestershire (instead of Strood), for which loss the client claimed £5.5.6. Mr Aveling was written to in December 1861, ‘the men in charge of your engine having refused to pay the Toll [at Strood] yesterday’, Hayward also observing that the weight of the locomotive was not ‘legibly conspicuously affixed thereon,’ (the toll depended on the weight). Thomas Aveling (182482), the pioneer of steam traction engines, had just established his main works in Strood, having developed his first self-moving engine in 1859. Hayward was involved in several maritime cases. In 1860, a ship named The Guard, belonging to Frederick Fussell of Rochester, coal merchant, ran aground at the mouth of the Tees, and was salvaged by a shipbuilder, inevitably resulting in a dispute over conflicting claims and costs. Inland waters close to home also claimed his attention. The brig Tanner of Whitby ‘was with her cargo seriously injured...owing to the defective and improper Moorings in the River Medway.’ Hayward acted for the owner against Rochester Corporation and the case became complicated when he discovered that the city had borrowed diving apparatus from the Royal Engineers to survey the moorings, ‘notwithstanding Captn. Mann’s denial I am in a position to prove that the request for the loan was made by the Water Bailiff’s son to the Sapper who referred him to the Sergeant who referred him to the Officer who gave permission.’ Hayward complained of Captain Mann’s conduct to the War Office. He also communicated with the Secretary of State for War on another matter involving the Royal Engineers at Chatham. A local builder, Mr Alfred Stump of Brompton had been unable to obtain payment of his outstanding account for constructing their new Mess House. Captain Casey, R.E. of the Ordnance Survey office, Southampton, received a complaint from Hayward on behalf of a farmer of Smolledge, near Chatham, whose field of peas has been damaged by a survey team. Along with his corporate clients and the usual conveyancing (including the sale of a windmill at Cliff) and probate work, Hayward was concerned in breach of promise and bastardy matters and also took the cases of many smaller litigants: a woman injured by the ‘furious’ driving of a grocer’s cart, a Mr Trott annoyed by observations on his honesty made by a butcher on the train from London and a Miss Siburn offended by the remarks of another woman (in this case Hayward writes to her husband ‘on the subject of the language made use of by your wife towards her without any foundation or provocation,’ demanding an immediate apology and payment of 5s. expenses to avoid legal proceedings). Making enquiries on behalf of solicitors in Bath, he advises them that a debtor, Dr. Bigg ‘has recently Married a lady with at least £300 a year private property.’ A fascinating window on the detail of everyday life in the Medway towns around 1860 Kelly’s Kent Directory, 1878. Porter, Industrial Medway. 352

[ref: 20960 ] £350 SOMERVELL, D. C. A HISTORY OF TONBRIDGE SCHOOL Faber & Faber 1947 150 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper. A good copy, inscribed to Elizabeth Melling on front free endpaper. A very good history of the school up to the second world war. [ref: 21191 ] £15 1173.

SOUTH EASTERN UNION OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. A SURVEY AND RECORD OF WOOLWICH AND WEST KENT. Combining descriptions and records, brought up-to-date, of the Geology, Botany, Zoology, Archaeology and Industries of the district, with a brief Photographic Commentary, in commemoration of the 12th Annual Congress, 1907, of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. General Editors: C. H. Grinling. T.A. Ingram,. Polkinghorne,. Labour Representation Printing Co., Ltd. (T.U.) 8, New Road, Woolwich. 1909 8vo. 6 x 8.5 inches. viii + 526 pp. Illustrated by text figure. Cover title: Woolwich Surveys. Bound in original patterned grey cloth, titled in black. Exlibrary copy with white class mark on lower spine, Borough of Chatham Reference Library armorial bookplate on front paste down, rubber stamp on title page and occasionally elsewhere, accession number on verso of title. Ownership inscription, dated 1909, and occasional ink notes and corrections in text. Printed inset: Woolwich Surveys, 1909. [Appeal for corrections, suggestions, etc]. A comprehensive survey and list of the geology, botany, zoology, archaeology and industries of Woolwich and the surrounding area of north west Kent, issued to mark the Woolwich Congress of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies in 1907. The natural history sections list species occurring and cover flowering and non-flowering plants, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, insects and molluscs. There is an account of the ancient churches in tabular form and description of all ‘the scientific industries’ (i.e. engineering, chemical, military and shipbuilding, etc.). The various sections have separately named editors being Charles Herbert Grinling, Bennett Corcyra Polkinghorne and Thomas Allan Ingram. Grinling, a curate from Nottinghamshire who settled in Woolwich, produced several other books on the area and its industries but is best known for his works on railways, especially his History of the Great Northern Railway. [ref: 20178 ] £75 1174.

SPEECHES BY CHARLES II AND SPEAKER IN PARLIAMENT OF 1661 HIS MAJESTIE’S GRACIOUS SPEECH TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, ON MONDAY, JULY 8. 1661. TOGETHER WITH THE SPEECH OF SIR EDWARD TURNER, KT. SPEAKER OF THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS. London: Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the King’s most Excellent Majesty. At the King’s Printing-House in Black-Fryers. 1661 Folio pamphlet. 7.5 x 11 inches. [2], 2, 5-14 + [2] pp. Text and register continuous despite pagination. A, B-D2. Illustrated with royal arms on both 1175.

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title pages. Disbound with sewn wrappers Slight damage at lower page edge of title and some, probably original, internal creasing Title of King’s speech repeated at head of text. Separate title page for ‘The speech of Sr Edw. Turner, Kt. Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, Delivered on Monday the Eighth day of July, 1661 at the Passing the Bill for Confirmation of the Act of Oblivion, etc.’ Title repeated at head of text with variant spelling. At foot of title: Cum privilegio. Imprint repeated in colophon on separate page at end. The King’s speech refers to the passing of the money bill, granting revenue for the government from the customs and excise duties, and his ‘Assent to this other very good Bill that accompanies it,’ which may refer to the Act of Oblivion. The various acts of indemnity, pardon and oblivion of 1660 had extended the royal pardon, saving only a certain number of regicides who were executed, to those who had served the cause of parliament. The new Cavalier Parliament of 1661 confirmed various of the bills of the previous year. The King appears to be pleased with his parliament and hopes that they will be ready for Adjournment until the winter by the twentieth of the month. He refers to his Declaration from Breda and ends by expressing his great satisfaction at the course of events: ‘God hath wrought a wonderful Miracle in setling Us as he hath done’ and is conscious of the Parliament’s ‘extraordinary affection’ to him. The Speaker delivers an obsequious oration, referring to the oblivion and revenue bills: ‘ We know great Sir, that money is both the Sinews of War, and Bond of Peace; we have therefore taken care of Your Majesties Revenue,’ concluding by humbly presenting the monarch, on behalf of the Commons, with ‘An Act for a free and voluntary Present.’ Sir Edward Turner (1616/17-1676) served in several protectorate parliaments but was excluded in 1656. He was re-elected on the eve of the Restoration, to which he gave great support, expediting a £100,000 loan to the king through his links with city financiers. He was involved in drafting the Bill of Indemnity and Oblivion and he prosecuted during the trials of the regicides. He was elected Speaker when the new parliament met in May 1661: ‘his addresses in parliament to the king were characterized by their florid tone and adulatory, if not slavish nature.’ Turner was later satirized for his graft and hypocrisy by Andrew Marvell. An interesting pamphlet which gives a flavour of proceedings in the early Restoration parliaments. ESTC notes nine copies in US libraries. ESTC R13945 (State B). Wing C 3043. DNB [ref: 19486 ] £100 SPEED’S KENT 1616 1176. SPEED, JOHN. KENT WITH HER CITIES AND EARLES DESCRIBED AND OBSERVED. No place or date but London [1616] Hand-coloured copper-engraving, 15 x 20 inches. Mounted in conservation materials double-sided to show the text in Latin on verso. Framed and double glazed in a suitable moulding. A fine, strong impression, from the second issue which had no publisher’s imprint, the centre fold retains the original guard and there are no repairs or restorations. The colouring, which has some

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age but is not original, is particularly attractive. A fine example of the second edition identifiable by the Latin text on verso. John Speed's justly renowned map of the county from the second edition of his great early 17th century atlas of the British Isles. His survey was based on the earlier work of Philip Symonson with the addition of his own embellishments, and separate plans of Canterbury and Rochester. The beauty of the 17th century engraving is particularly evident in such a strong impression. One of the most attractive and decorative maps of Kent, from the early Latin issue. [ref: 18013 ] £1500 SPEED’S KENT 1627 1177.SPEED, JOHN. KENT WITH HER CITIES AND EARLES

DESCRIBED AND OBSERVED. No place or date but London [1627] Hand-coloured copper-engraving, 15 x 20 inches. A fine, strong impression, the centre fold has been strengthened on verso with some minor repairs evident. The colouring, which has some age but is not original, is very attractive. A fine example with English text on verso. John Speed's justly renowned map of the county from the second edition of his great early 17th century atlas of the British Isles. His survey was based on the earlier work of Philip Symonson with the addition of his own embellishments, and separate plans of Canterbury and Rochester. One of the most attractive and decorative maps of Kent. [ref: 20710 ] £850 SPEED’S MAP 1676 1178. SPEED, JOHN. KENT WITH HER CITIES AND EARLES DESCRIBED AND OBSERVED. Performed by Iohn Speede and Are to be sold by Tho: Bassett in Fleetstreet and Ric: Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard, [London]. [1676] Hand-coloured copper-engraving, 15 x 20 inches. Mounted in conservation materials, double-sided to show the Latin text on verso. Framed and double glazed in a suitable moulding. John Speed's justly renowned map of the county from the second edition of his great early 17th century atlas of the British Isles. His survey was based on the earlier work of Philip Symonson with the addition of his own embellishments, and separate plans of Canterbury and Rochester. The beauty of the 17th century engraving is particularly evident in such a strong impression. One of the most attractive and decorative maps of Kent, from the rare Latin issue. There are slight variations in the abbreviations of the names as described by Burgess. Chubb, 37. Skelton, 92. Burgess, 9/viii. BL Maps C 7 e 6 [ref: 20634 ] £850 SPELLING, R.S. ROLVENDEN REFLECTIONS. A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF A VILLAGE IN THE WEALD OF KENT. Published by the author. 1985 48 pp with b/w illustration throughout.. Original laminated pictorial card wrappers. A mint example.Useful history. [ref: 18670 ] £10 1179.

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SPELLING, R.S. TENTERDEN A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF A MARKET TOWN IN THE WEALD OF KENT. Published by the author. 1985 52 pp with b/w illustration throughout.. Original laminated pictorial card wrappers. A mint example. Useful history. [ref: 18671 ] £10 1180.

SPENCE, KEITH. THE COMPANION GUIDE TO KENT AND SUSSEX Collins. 1973 First Edition. 480 pp., illustrated throughout. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A good copy. The first issue of this very good guide book. [ref: 14943 ] £12 1181.

ST. MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR OF ST. MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE. October 1851 Original monochrome wash sketch, image approx. 10 x 6 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing, overall size 14.5 x 11 inches. Depiction of the village of St. Margaret’s at Cliff, as viewed from a pasture to the the north-east, with the church dominating the background. Titled in pencil ‘Taken from the Curfew Field. St. Margaret’s at Cliff, nr Dover, October 1851.’ [ref: 20218 ] £120 1182.

STAFFORD, F. and YATES, N. THE LATER KENTISH SEASIDE (1840-1974) KENTISH SOURCES IX Maidstone Alan Sutton for Kent Archives. 1985 194 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original printed wrappers, Economic and social history. [ref: 18040 ] £12 1183.

STANDEN, MARY. PEMBURY IN THE PAST. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1984 48 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. Original laminated pictorial wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18661 ] £10 1184.

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STANFIELD, CLARKSON. R.A. STANFIELD’S COAST SCENERY. A SERIES OF VIEWS IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL, FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS TAKEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK BY CLARKSON STANFIELD, ESQ. R.A. Smith, Elder & Co. 1836 viii +128 pp. illustrated with 40 highly-finished steelengraved views including the vignette on the titlepage. Finely bound in the publisher’s original full morocco. Pictorial embossed gilt with all edges gilt. A fine copy, but the plates are affected with foxing here and there, and roughly 10 are quite badly foxed. An attractive copy of this steel engraved view-book, in the fine embossed gilt publisher’s binding with decorative lozenge on the boards of Neptune’s trident surrounded with fish and seaweed, the spine decorated with anchors and shells, all in gilt. The engravings are the productions of one of the pre-eminent marine painters of the Nineteenth century. Despite the foxing this is one of the nicest examples of this work we have seen. [ref: 17374 ] £200 1185.

STANLEY, ARTHUR P. HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY. THE LANDING OF AUGUSTINE, THE MURDER OF BECKET, EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE, BECKET'S SHRINE. John Murray. 1875 Seventh Edition, 304 pp. with a folding plan and wood-engravings in the text. Contemporary full leather binding by Bickers, with stamped decoration. Very slightly rubbed at extremities otherwise a very good copy. Standard work, we have other copies in cloth at more modest prices. [ref: 17891 ] £30 1186.

RARE DEAL PILOTS JOURNAL STANTON, WILLIAM. THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM STANTON PILOT, OF DEAL. Introduction by Aston H. Long. Portsmouth and London W.H. Barrell, Ltd., 114 High St., and Simpkin Marshall Ltd. Stationers Hall Court, E.C. 1929 4to. 7x 8.5 inches. [x] + 130 pp. + [2]. Illustrated with half tones in text, including frontispiece, based on drawings by the editor. Bound in original navy cloth, decorated with attractive period vignette on front board. Extremities a little worn but otherwise a fine clean copy. Rare journal, published in a limited edition, of the Deal Pilot, William Henry Stanton (1803-c.1878), covering the period 1811 - 1867. A fascinating insight into the hard world of pilotage and smuggling off Deal and the Downs. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21299 ] £140 1187.

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STAPLEHURST PARISH REGISTER 1188. STAPLEHURST - CHAMBERLAIN, JAMES SLADE FFOSTER. THE REGISTERS OF STAPLEHURST, 1558-1596, WITH INTRODUCTION [BOUND WITH] THE REGISTERS OF STAPLEHURST, 1596-1653, WITH INTRODUCTION. Canterbury: Gibbs and Sons, Printers, Palace Street 1910, 1913 8vo. 6.75 x 8.75 inches. [ii] + ii + 127 pp.; [iii] + 154 pp. Inserted is the Staplehurst Register, by J.S. FF. Chamberlain, M.A. Stapled article. 283-299 pp. and illustrated with three photographic plates, an offprint from unspecified journal. Bound in later red cloth, gilt. Light rust impressions from staples of inset on front endpaper. Occasional light foxing and page edge abrasions with tear to 1596-1553 registers, pp. 27-28. A few pencil ticks are also present. The first volume is a transcript of the old paper register, with additional material from the parchment register, and the second volume is a transcript from the parchment register, with additional material from a duplicate paper register. Thomas Cromwell had ordered that registers should be kept by churches in 1538 but in 1597 it was ordered that a fair copy of the entries, but only from Queen Elizabeth’s accession in 1558, should be made into a parchment book. In many parishes the old paper registers going back to 1538, and containing much additional information, were lost or destroyed. Fortunately those for Staplehurst survived. The Reverend Chamberlain also published a transcript of the earliest registers as ‘The Old Register of Staplehurst, 1538-1558’ (1907). The article inset gives some extracts, with commentary, from the paper registers, including entries for the period, 1538-1558. Both volumes are indexed. [ref: 19471 ] £145 STATHAM, REV. S.P.H. THE HISTORY OF THE CASTLE, TOWN AND PORT OF DOVER. London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1899. 8vo, 8 x 5.5 inches. 462 pp. with folding plates and photo illustrations. Original cloth, gilt, a very good copy. Late 19th century history of Dover which remains a standard source book. [ref: 21310 ] £75 1189.

STEAD, RICHARD. (Editor). BYGONE KENT. Edited by Richard Stead, B.A., F.R.H.S. (Bygone England Series). Canterbury H. J. Goulden; Hull: William Andrew & Co, The Hull Press; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., Limited. 1892 First Edition, limited to 750 copies. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. [x] + 267 pp. + [1] + [16] pp. publisher’s advertisements. Illustrated with wood engravings, 1190.

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including frontispiece. Decorated by publisher’s device on verso of title. Bound in original blue cloth,gilt, with bevelled edges Extremities worn, but otherwise a sound copy. Ink inscriptions on front pastedown and first free endpaper. An interesting collection of essays on the history of the county, with subjects including Kentish Place-names, Ruined Chapels and Chantries of Kent, Lyminge Church, William Lambarde, Kentish Dialects, Greenwich Fair and Smuggling and Huguenot homes in Kent. [ref: 21673 ] £40 1191.STEAD, RICHARD. (Editor). BYGONE KENT. EP Publishing. 1972 8vo. [x] + 267pp. illustrated with engravings. Original cloth, gilt, in priceclipped dust wrapper. Rear of dust wrapper has small tears and repairs, otherwise a good copy. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. First published 1892. Varied collection of essays on many aspects of Kentish history, including placenames, dialects, smuggling, Huguenots, William Lambarde, the Peasants’ Revolt, St. Augustine and aspects of Canterbury, Dover, Lyminge, Eltham, Greenwich, etc. [ref: 19043 ] £15

STEPHENSON, JOHN. A SURVEY OF THE EAST SWALE FROM THE BUOYS OF THE NARROWS AND SPANIARD. By John Stephenson. A Master in the Royal Navy. London Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street. 1786 Copper engraved sea chart, 28 x 20 inches. ‘A Scale of One Nautic League or Three Miles.’ Mounted, framed and glazed Hand coloured sea chart, originally folded in centre. Fine condition. A scarce chart of the eastern part of the Swale estuary on the north Kent coast. It indicates the parishes of Reculver, Hearn, Swale Cliffe, Whitstable, Sea Salter, Graveney, Faversham, Ore or Oare and the Isle of Sheppey parishes of Hartey and Leysdon. The map shows the times of high water, depth in fathoms, types of shorelines, sand and mud banks, anchorages the positions of buoys, and a few notable seamarks. etc. It includes sailing directions for the East Swale. [ref: 21769 ] £435 1192.

STOCKMAN, FLIGHT-LIETENANT ROCKY. Edited by THE HISTORY OF RAF MANSTON 1916 - 1986. [ref: 18409 ] £12 1193.

PRESENTATION COPY 1194. STOWTING - BRENT, JOHN. AN ACCOUNT OF RESEARCHES IN AN ANGLOSAXON CEMETERY AT STOWTING, IN KENT During the Autumn of 1866. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by John Brent, Esq., F.S.A. Printed by J.B.Nichols and Sons, London; c

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Large 4to. [ii] + 12 pp. Illustrated with one full page lithographic plate. Bound in are two offprints by John Brent from the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, both of which are reports of the last year’s progress in archaeology in East Kent March 23, 1871 (Proc.S.A.L. 2S. v.124), 6 pp. April 29, 1875 (Proc.S.A.L. 2S. vi.375), 7 pp, illustrated with engravings. Three page epistle in French from author, dated Canterbury 19 November 1872, also bound in. Contemporary green quarter-morocco, spine stamped J. Brent in gilt, with marbled boards and endpapers. An interesting bound collection of the author’s accounts of archaeological excavations in East Kent with a presentation letter. This copy is inscribed and signed and was clearly a gift to a French colleague M. Henri ...... as is witnessed by the accompanying letter, which has what appears to be a response from the recipient on the last page. We have not seen a copy of this paper before. Rare. [ref: 19122 ] £300 STRAKER, ERNEST. WEALDEN IRON. A MONOGRAPH ON THE FORMER IRONWORKS IN THE COUNTIES OF SUSSEX, SURREY AND KENT. Augustus M. Kelley, New York. 1969. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. xiv + 487 pp. with maps, plans and illustrations throughout. Original cloth with dust wrapper. A very good copy. Reprint of the scarce and standard title. Printed in Great Britain for publication in the United States. [ref: 21136 ] £40 1195.

STRANGE, F.G. ST. CLAIR. THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SEA BATHING HOSPITAL MARGATE 1791 - 1991 With a chapter on the League of Friends of the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital by P.B.Wright, FRSC and A Note on the Chapel by T.G. Thomas, FRCS. Meresborough Books. 1991 8vo., 216 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white. Lacking front free endpaper (see notes below). Original laminated illustrated boards. A very good copy. The first full history of the famous Hospital. In this copy, loosely inserted, is a handwritten letter from Christina Foyle commenting on her 6 month say at the hospital when she was 7 years old, sending the book to unknown recipients Hermione and Vivian. Presumably she had bought the book secondhand and removed the front free endpaper, no doubt to remove the previous owner’s name. [ref: 20849 ] £25 1196.

STURRY. [VARIOUS AUTHORS]. STURRY THE CHANGING SCENE. K.H. Mcintosh. 1972 8vo.112pp.Original cloth. gilt. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings throughout and folding map to rear. Various authors add to the parish history of Sturry. [ref: 17970 ] £12 1197.

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MANUSCRIPT ESTATE MAP 1198. SUNDRIDGE. MANUSCRIPT ESTATE MAP. CHAINS FARM, BOREHILL, DILLAWAY, AND COX’S LANDS IN THE PARISH OF SUNDRICH IN KENT. BELONGING TO CHARLES POLLHILL OF CHIPSTED Esq. PURCHASED BY LORD AMHURST 1817. Anonymous manuscript estate map 1817 or earlier. 1817 Manuscript Estate map, on vellum, pen and ink and watercolour wash. 19 x 30 inches. Title within decorative watercoloured Rococo cartouche, surmounted by an eagle; table of reference in the form a scroll; scale of chains and compass rose. Traces of old folds but a fine unfaded example example. The detailed map shows the area between the B2042 Chiddingstone to Sevenoaks road and Borehill Lane, now a footpath, with Idehill to the north, the whole extending about a mile north-south and a half-mile east west. Detailed field boundaries, with field sizes, contain houses, depicted in plan or elevation, and barns, ponds, shaws, gardens, woods, stiles, gates and yards are delineated. Owners of adjacent fields are also indicated. In total 35 fields, 6 woods and shaws, a hop garden and 11 other small enclosures, along with 3 ponds, are depicted. Charles Polhill lived between 1725 - 1805 and the map refers to land belonging to him. It is reasonable to infer that the map was drawn during his lifetime, thus making the latest date for its creation 1805 - certainly the Rococo style was an eighteenth century fashion so most likely the map dates from the late eighteenth century. The reference to Lord Amherst and his purchase of the land are later annotations, probably contemporary with that purchase. [ref: 21096 ] £1500 SWAIN, ERIC. WILLIAM TWOPENY IN KENT Winston Publications Sittingbourne Kent 1986 Square 8vo. 122 pp. Illustrated throughout.. Original glossy laminated pictorial boards. Study of the draughtsman William Twopeny and his drawings of buildings and antiquities in Kent. [ref: 17965 ] £12 1199.

SWALE - [JORDAN, D. and J.A.VISGAR.] ANNALS OF A FISHING VILLAGE. DRAWN FROM THE NOTES OF 'A SON OF THE MARSHES' EDITED BY J.A.OWEN William Blackwood and Sons, 1891. |First Edition, 8vo., viii + [1] + 289 pp. + 24 pp. advertisements at end. Illustrated with six plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Light wear to cloth boards.

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An interesting snapshot of life in the north Kent marshes as it was a hundred years ago, the manners and customs of the marshmen are well described and even the dialect is recorded. The tale centers around Milton Regis, or Marshton as it is disguised. Very scarce. [ref: 19056 ] £95 1201. SWANN, EDWARD. AN ARTIST IN OLD CANTERBURY. Charles Skilton 1970 Small 4to. illustrated with 16 plates and accompanying leaves of text. Cloth gilt in price clipped dust wrapper, chipped and torn at top and bottom. Front boards slightly warped. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. [ref: 19064 ] £00.00

SWIMMING. SWIMMING TIMES. Vol. XXI, No.1, July 1943Vol. XXII, No. 10, December 1945 (Vol. XXII, No. 2, February 1945 is missing from this copy). Hon Editor: Capt. B. W. Cummins, 4, Waddon Pk. Ave., Croydon; Wartime Editor (later Hon. Sub-Editor): Miss Janet BassettLowke, 18, Albion Place, Northampton. [Croydon] Swimming Times 1943-45. Bound periodical. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 268 pp. + 323 pp. (pp. 37-68 not included). Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Bound in red cloth, gilt. Each issue of some 20-30 pages, includes the front and back paper wrappers and advertisements, printed in several colours. In fine condition. Despite the necessary economies of wartime publishing, this journal of swimming news and events, remained attractively produced and wellillustrated, including numerous charming period advertisements. Very scarce. [ref: 21343 ] £85 1202.

SWIMMING. SWIMMING TIMES. Vol. XXIII, No.1, February 1946- Vol. XXIIV No. 12, December 1947. Hon Editor: Capt. B. W.Times Cummins, 4, Waddon Pk. Ave., Croydon; Hon. Sub-Editor: Miss Janet Bassett-Lowke, 18, Albion Place, Northampton, later Mrs E.C. Dicks, 32, Booth Lane, Weston Favell, Northampton. [Croydon] Swimming Times 19456-47 Bound periodical. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 319 pp. + [1] + 392 pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Bound in red cloth, gilt. Each issue of some 30-40 pages, includes the front and back paper wrappers and advertisements, printed in several colours. In fine condition. Despite the necessary economies of wartime, and immediate post-war publishing, this journal of swimming news and events, remained attractively produced and well illustrated, including numerous charming period advertisements. The later issues are starting to look forward to the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Very scarce. [ref: 21344 ] £85 1203.

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SYDENHAM - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF SYDENHAM AND FOREST HILL. Kelly's Directories. 1926 8vo. A3-A40 + 340 pp. From the General Index to the Private Residents and Commercial Directory. All sections are complete but the last few leaves of the Professional and Trades section at the rear are missing. No map present. Later hard binding in burgundy cloth with gilt titles. Lacking original wrappers. Generally browned otherwise a very good copy. Massive works of reference, Kelly's directories are now in demand with those being published before 1939 being very scarce. [ref: 19567 ] £85 1204.

SYMONSON, BUT SOMEWHAT WORN. 1205. SYMONSON, PHILIP. A NEW DESCRIPTION OF KENT. DIVIDED INTO FYVE LATHES THEREOF : AND SUBDIVIDED INTO BAYLYWICKES; AND HUNDREDES; WITH THE PARISH CHURCHES CONTEYNED WITHIN EVERY OF THE SAME HUNDREDES. ALL WHICH, FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDINGE, ARE DISTINGUISHED WITH VARYETYE OF COLOURES. COMPREHENDING AS WELL THE CITIES; THE USUALL MARKET TOWNES; AND THE PORTES, WITH THEIR MEMBERS LYING IN KENT: AS ALSO SUCH OF THE HOWSES OF THE NOBYLITIE AND GENTRYE AS THE PLOTT COULDE CONVENIENTLY RECEAVE. WHERIN MOREOVER THE NATURE OF THE SOYLE (WHETHER PLAYNE, HYLLYE ,OR WOODDYE) IS MORE DILIGENTLYE OBSERVED : AND THE TRACTES OF RYVERS, RYLLES AND CREEKES AND THE TRENDINGE OF THE SEA-SHORE BE MORE NATURALLY DESCRIBED THEN HERETOFORE IT HATH BEN DONE. BY THE TRAVAYLE OF PHIL: SYMONSON OF ROCHESTER GENT. Printed and Sold by J. Overton at Ye White Horse neare St. Pilchers Church. [London] . No date but c.1665-1680 Large coloured copper-engraved map, 30 x 20 inches, printed on two sheets joined. Title in elaborate cartouche with scale of English Myles, Tables of Lathes and Hundreds, Cities, Ports and Franchises. The sea is dotted with ships and a sea-monster. All within a decorative scalloped and scaled border. The map is time-stained and worn but which still retains its original handcoloured lathe borders, seashore and river, tinting to the views and cartouche and washes on high ground and tables. The map retains borders and margins on three sides. The top is trimmed to just outside the border, which has suffered slight loss. Repaired tear adjacent to join with slight loss and some damage from creasing. Traces of old folds. The tables appear to have been wiped with a damp cloth and some of the information is difficult, and in one or two instances impossible to read. However, the map detail is still easily legible. A rare opportunity to purchase at a substantial discount one of the most important Kent maps. This map comprises the county of Kent in its entirety, with parts of Middlesex (including the City of London), parts of Essex, Surrey and Sussex. Philip Symonson’s map of Kent, the first engraved map of the county and

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only the second English printed map to show roads was first published in 1595 and only one complete copy of that issue is known. This map went through a number of iterations and this is the seventh state of the map as published by Overton who took it over from Stent. Overton added two views; Dover Castle and Towne from ye Landside, and Rye, by W. Hollar and Sir Anthony Van Dyke. The scale is half an inch (13mm) to one mile, the largest scale that had been used for a printed county map at this date. To accommodate the size, the map was printed from two plates on two sheets and then joined together. The scale allowed for great detail, all the churches are accurately depicted with a spire or square tower. It is also the first county map to show latitude and longitude, based on the Azores meridian. [ref: 20619 ] £850 SYMS, JAMES ANTONY. KENT COUNTRY CHURCHES. A PERSONAL EXPLORATION. Rainham Meresborough Books. 1986 8vo. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. viii + 214 + [1] pp. Illustrated with map and drawings by the author. Original pictorial card wrappers. 1206.

First published privately by the author in 1984. First book in the series of three. [ref: 21024 ] £10 SYMS, JAMES ANTONY. KENT COUNTRY CHURCHES CONCLUDED. The end of an account. Rainham Meresborough Books. 1989 8vo. 5.25 x 8.75 inches. 190 pp. + [1] pp. Illustrated with map and drawings by the author. Original pictorial card wrappers. Third and final book in the series. [ref: 18074 ] £10 1207.

SYMS, JAMES ANTONY. KENT COUNTRY CHURCHES CONTINUED. An undiminished infatuation. Rainham Meresborough Books. 1987 8vo. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. 250 pp. + [6] pp. Illustrated with map and drawings by the author. Original pictorial card wrappers. Second book in the series of three. [ref: 18073 ] £10 1208.

SHOPS AND STREETS OF GRAVESEND, 1839 TALLIS, JOHN. GRAVESEND STREET VIEWS. [London] [John Tallis, 15, St. John’s Lane, St. John’s Gate]. [n.d. but 1839] Oblong single sheet, previously folded. 17.5 x 5.5 inches. Four strip views of both sides of Gravesend High Street, with names of businesses. At one end an engraving of the Falcon Hotel, at the other a street plan of the town centre, signed E. A. Sergeant, del. In his study of the London Street views by John Tallis, Jackson, referencing Gravesend Library, mentions the Gravesend Street Views as having been published in July 1839: ‘It was a charming little production which, in 1209.

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addition to the text, contained three plates of exactly the same size and format as those of London, each with four elevations bounded by a view and a map.’’ (p.17). It would therefore appear that this single sheet, of the High Street, is an extract from the complete work of four plates. We have not been able to trace any other copies of the Gravesend Street Views, although the Kent Bibliography lists a comprehensive gazetteer of Gravesend with its environs: being a complete guide for visitors on pleasure or business, to which is added a general directory of Gravesend (published by Tallis in 1839; copy in Gravesend Library), which may be related to it. John Tallis ( 817-1876) was a cartographic publisher, best known for his London Street Views. [ref: 21566 ] £200 TANNER, NORMAN. Edited by. KENT HERESY PROCEEDINGS 1511-12. KENT RECORDS VOLUME XXVI. Kent Archaeological Society, Maidstone. 1997 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. xxvi + 129 pp. Bound in original dark blue cloth, gilt. A mint copy. [ref: 20092 ] £25 1210.

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12. (Kent Records. Volume XXVI). Maidstone Kent Archaeological Society. 1997 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xxvi + 129 pp. + [1]. Series title. Text in Latin and English. Illustrated by frontispiece and map in text. Bound in original dark blue cloth, gilt, with Society’s device on front boards, in laminated coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Mint condition. Inset: Review from the Bibliothèque de L’École des Chartres, 137, 1999. Thirty two extracts from the register of Archbishop Warham of Canterbury, containing the proceedings of fifty three defendants accused of the practice of Lollardy. The documents record the abjurations of those tried and the penances and punishments imposed upon them. The five who refused to abjure were handed over to the secular arm and could in theory have been burnt as obdurate heretics. An informative and evocative account of religious dissent in England on the eve of the Reformation, recording the beliefs of the defendants in their own words, the abjuration sections being in the vernacular. [ref: 21202 ] £25 TAYLOR, ALAN F., EAMONN D. ROONEY and CHARLES E. WHITNEY. Collected by FOLKESTONE IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. Alan Sutton, Stroud. 1990 8vo. 159 pp. Original laminated card covers. A very good copy signed by Alan Taylor. Out of print and always in demand. [ref: 21278 ] £15 1212.

TAYLOR, FRANK. A HISTORY OF FAVERSHAM AND OARE CREEKS AND THE FAVERSHAM NAVIGATION. Chaffcutter Books, Ware. 2002 1213.

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Folio. 8 x 11.5 inches. 82 pp. with numerous b/w photo illustrations. Bound in original laminated pictorial card wrappers. A fine copy.[ref: 20842 ] £20 SIGNED COPY TEMPLE, PETER. ENGLISH CHANNEL. WITH PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY KEITH BAYNES. Hodder and Stoughton. 1952 4to. 224 pp. with 12 colour plates and b/w illustrations. Original pictorial cloth in a very good dustwrapper. A very good copy. A charming sea journey from west to east, visiting both sides of the Channel, well-written by an engaging character who managed to spend time with some of the more interesting people to be met with in each port. This copy is signed by Peter Temple on the title page. [ref: 14519 ] £30 1214.

SURVEY OF TENTERDEN TENTERDEN - FREDERICK MACMANUS AND PARTNERS. TENTERDEN EXPLORED. AN ARCHITECTURAL AND TOWNSCAPE ANALYSIS. Frederick MacManus and Partners, Chartered Architects & Planning Consultants. George Cullen, Townscape Consultant. Maidstone: Kent County Council 1967 Oblong folio. 12.5 x 8.25 inches. [ii] + 117 pp. Extensively illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. Copy no?1235, stamped on back. Stapled, illustrated card wrappers, with plastic overlay bearing title in red. Ex-library copy with bookplate inside front wrapper, and stamps, etc. on title and rear of title. Study commissioned jointly by Kent County Council and the Borough Council of Tenterden to analyse the architectural character of the town ‘and to suggest how it might be conserved while allowing the town to continue to serve contemporary needs.’ A brief historical section with maps is followed by an architectural appraisal of the buildings and a visual analysis of the townscape. This consultants’ study, with its numerous street scenes populated by 1960s cars, is now possessed of a certain period charm itself. Kent Bibliography [ref: 19480 ] £40 1215.

FOLKESTONE - TAYLOR, ALAN F. FOLKESTONE THROUGH TIME Chalford, Strood: Amberley Publishing, 2009 8vo., 6.5 x 9.25 inches, 96 pp. Illustrated throughout in sepia and colour. Original boards. Mint condition. Signed by author on title page. This book uses more than 180 comparative photographs, old and new, to illustrate the many changes that have occurred to the fabric of Folkestone over the past century. With introduction and captions. An attractively presented old and new survey of the town from a prolific local historian. [ref: 19679 ] £13 1216.

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THAMES BARGE SAILING CLUB. THE GOLDEN CHAFFCUTTER. Fifty years of the Thames Barge Sailing Club 19481988. London Thames Barge Sailing Club c/o National Maritime Museum Greenwich, SE10 9NF. 1998 Oblong 8vo. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. 144 pp. Half-title. Illustrated by black and white photographs, drawings and facsimiles in text. In coloured pictorial wrappers, later covered in clear plastic. Fine condition. ‘This book was compiled by the present Hon. Secretary [i.e. D. G. Wood]. A chronological account of the Club’s activities, with its officers listed in an appendix. [ref: 21130 ] £10 1217.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF DR. COOK THAMES ESTUARY - ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 3 - HUNDRED OF HOO SHERENESS - THAMES ESTUARY. London. 1769 Copper engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. This example is dissected and laid on to linen and preserved within the original 18th century slip case, which has section 3 from the index map cut and pasted on to the upper side. Below this is pasted an old label inscribed ‘Part of Dury and Andrews’s Survey of Kent 1769. The only specimen I have seen in this form. F.W. Cook. 1918’. A large area of this map is the Thames estuary, but this is dotted with sand banks and ships. The town of Sheerness is on the right at the bottom of this sheet with the mouth of the Medway separating the Isle of Sheppy and the The Isle of Grean [sic], and most of the Hundred of Hoo. [ref: 19569 ] £150 1218.

PRIVATELY PRINTED BROADSIDE THOMAS, Mrs. WILD FLOWER ALPHABET. TO MY LITTLE DAUGHTER MARY. Mrs Thomas, Eyhorne House, [Hollingborne, Kent] March 1849 Two Folio broadside sheets, letterpress printed on one side only. The first appears to be a proof for the second one, as a quotation is supplied in manuscript at the head of this sheet and on the second the quote is typeset. The quotation is by Bernardin de St. Pierre - “Les Prairies seront votre école, les fleurs vos Alphabets, et Flore votre Institutrice.“ Below the title are twenty-six verses of charming poetry, each verse representing a letter of the alphabet - Arum, Buttercup, Cowslip and so on. In fine condition apart from one having been removed from an album, therefore remains of old glue on verso. I have not been able the find anything definite on the history of this private press. These two printed broadsides are very well-handled so it is very hard to think of them as sole productions. 1219.

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BY STEAMER TO MARGATE, 1935. THOMPSON, A. G. THE THAMES AND ALL THAT. A History of the River, by A. G. Thompson. 1824-1935 [cover subtitle]. London The General Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 15 Trinity Square, E.C.3. n.d. but [1935] Oblong 8vo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 80 pp. Illustrated by 24 pp. black and white plates, 7 pp. coloured maps and by photographs, drawings, map and illustrated advertisements in text. An attractively illustrated account of the resorts served by the General Steam Navigation Company from Tower Pier. This promotional brochure includes descriptions, departure times and fares of the three Eagle steamers, Royal Eagle, Crested Eagle and Golden Eagle, which sailed to Southend and Clacton, Margate and Ramsgate. There is also a survey of the London riverside, of the new Ford Works at Dagenham and of the Kent shore to Gravesend. [ref: 21129 ] £25 1220.

ORIGINAL PHOTOGRSPHS THOMPSON, STEPHEN. OLD ENGLISH HOMES A SUMMERS’S SKETCH BOOK THE ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings 188, Fleet Street 1876 Small folio. viii + 215 pp. illustrated with 24 ‘Woodbury type’ mounted real photographs. Bound in the original publisher’s elaborate green decorated cloth, blocked in gilt and black, on thick bevelled boards, all edges gilt. Extremities a trifle worn but a fine example. The contents are: Ightham Mote (4), Hever Castle (1) Penshurst Place (6), Knole (8), Hampden House (3) and Stoke Poges (2). The images are a mixture of interiors and exteriors with fine views of the houses and some of the villages associated with them. [ref: 18553 ] £275 1221.

THORNTON, E.C.B. THAMES COAST PLEASURE STEAMERS. T. Stephenson and Sons, Prescot, Lancs., 1972 Oblong 4to., 7 x 9 inches approx., iv + 49 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations. Original coloured printed card wrappers. Wrapper a little yellowed and marked, otherwise a very good copy. Forty-nine pages may not seem much but the oblong format gives space for a comprehensive and informative study of the subject. Well-written and illustrated. [ref: 19689 ] £20 1222.

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TIFFIN, ALFRED W. THE GOUDHURST CORONATION BOOK. A RECORD OF CELEBRATIONS IN GOUDHURST AND KILNDOWN (KENT) ON MAY 12th, 1937 THE CORONATION OF THIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE VI. AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. DIRECTORY, REMINISCENCES AND LOCAL LORE. The Courier Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. 1937 896 pp. with numerous illustrations throughout. Bound in the original gold-decorated blue cloth boards. A clean bright copy. The rare, companion volume to the much sought-after Jubilee Book. We also have a second copy, the binding showing some wear and tear and the gilt not so bright as the example above (but internally clean and sound). This is offered at the reduced price of £200. [ref: 20369 ] £250 1223.

DEAL PRINTED MUGGLETONIAN TRACT. TOMKINSON, THOMAS. A PRACTICAL DISCOURSE, UPON THE EPISTLE, BY JUDE. Originally Written by Thomas Tomkinson, Gent. Being a copy of a manuscript left with Thomas Tomkinson, Jun. His Grandson. [Second part entitled] The Mystery of Faith, by Thomas Tomkinson, Copied by Samuel Morris Baily, May 1823. Deal: Printed for James May, and Joseph Gandar, by J.B. Underdown. 1823 Small 4to. 5.75 x 9.25 inches. [8] + 215 pp + [1]. Illustrated by head- and tail-piece vignettes. The Mystery of Faith has separate half-title but pagination and register continuous. In original, blue, sugar paper wrappers. Pages partly uncut and edges deckled. Wrappers partly eroded on spine, otherwise a fine crisp copy. Rare Deal printed Muggletonian Tract. We have previously sold The Harmony of the Three Commissions by Tomkinson, a James May printing of 1822. ‘Tomkinson's most important work from the sect's perspective was ‘A Practical Discourse upon the General Epistle by Jude.’ This was probably the last book Tomkinson wrote and he did so at the request of William Hall, a Derbyshire Muggletonian. Although only a short work of 25 verses, the Epistle of Jude was of disproportionate significance to Muggletonians. Its darkly poetic language seemed to give scriptural support to important Muggletonian ideas.’ The Muggletonians were a sect founded about 1651 by Lodowicke Muggleton and John Reeve. The belief of the sect rested on the personal inspiration of the founders, who claimed to be the 'two witnesses' of Rev. 3-6. Despite the informal nature of the sect (having no ministers nor meeting houses and non-proselytizing) it continued in Kent well into the nineteenth century. Believed extinct, it was by chance discovered that at least one Muggletonian was alive at Matfield, Kent, in the mid 1970s. Muggletonian theology was mostly circulated in manuscript form among believers. Thomas Tomkinson (1631-1710) was one of the early 1224.

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Muggletonians. Born at Ilam, near Dovedale, Staffordshire he converted after a revelatory experience in 1662, meeting Lodowicke Muggleton in London the same year. [ref: 20677 ] £90 1225. TOWNSEND, WILLIAM. BRITISH CITIES : CANTERBURY. Batsford. 1950 88 pp. with photographic illustration. Original cloth. Fine in dustwrapper. Nice example of Batsford’s 'Face of Britain' series with the wrapper designed by Brian Cook. [ref: 10899 ] £15 TRADE CARD. JOHN COULTER, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT. HIGH STREET CHATHAM. Office 79 and 81 High St., Chatham. Bonded and Export Warehouse, 3,7,8, and 10 High St. Chatham. Telegraphic address Coulter. Chatham. No place or date but c.1890 Engraved Trade Card, or Show Card, 10 x 6.5 inches, printed on card, with three vignette views of Coulter’s Offices and Shop; the Bonded Warehouse and an interior view of their Bottling Cellars, all worked with elaborate lettering into an elegant show card. Slight browning to edges but otherwise in fine condition. A large Trade Card cum Bill Head or Show Card. Removed from an unknown printer’s guard book, where a copy of each previous job was retained to show prospective clients. A fine example of late nineteenth century trade engraving and typography. [ref: 12852 ] £45 1226.

TREANOR, REV. THOMAS STANLEY. THE CRY FROM THE SEA AND THE ANSWER FROM THE SHORE. London Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, and 65 St. Paul’s Churchyard [1898] First Edition 8vo 8 x 5.5 inches 256 pp. With engraved Frontispiece, photographic vignette on the title page and 25 illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, gilt a clean, bright copy. A fine copy of the rarest of the Treanor trilogy on the Goodwins and the Life-boatmen ‘The Heroes of the Goodwin Sands’ and ‘The Log of a Sky Pilot’ were much reprinted whereas this seems to have been the only edition of this title. We have another similar copy in a darker blue binding, with advertisements at the end. [ref: 21134 ] £125 1227.

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photographic vignette on the title page and 25 illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, gilt a clean, bright copy. A fine copy of the rarest of the Treanor trilogy on the Goodwins and the Lifeboatmen ‘The Heroes of the Goodwin Sands’ and ‘The Log of a Sky Pilot’ were much reprinted whereas this seems to have been the only edition of this title. This copy is a slight binding variation on others we have handled, the background cloth is a darker blue and the title lettering on the upper board is in yellow and red as opposed to gilt and red. The authors name on the upper board is in black instead of gilt as it is on the spine and the publishers device is also black. These variations are just that, there is no precedent known. [ref: 21330 ] £125 TREANOR, REV. THOMAS STANLEY. HEROES OF THE GOODWIN SANDS. By the Rev. Thomas Treanor, M.A. Chaplain, Mission to Seamen, Deal and the Downs. London Religious Tract Society. 56 Paternoster Row, 65 St Paul’s Churchyard and 164 Piccadilly. 1892 First Edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. 255 pp. + [1]. Illustrated with 24 plates, including frontispiece, half tones, and woodcuts in text. Bound in original pictorial blue cloth, gilt. Some wear to extremities but a good copy. The first edition of the classic book on the Goodwins by the Rev, Thomas Stanley Treanor (1873-1910). It gives an account of the Deal boatmen and their luggers and rescues from ships wrecked on the Goodwin Sands by the crews of the Deal lifeboats, and was the first volume of a trilogy on this subject. [ref: 20898 ] £60 1228.

TREANOR, REV. THOMAS STANLEY. HEROES OF THE GOODWIN SANDS. Religious Tract Society 1900 Seventh edition. 256 pp. with maps and wood-engraved and half-tone illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. A good copy of the seventh edition of this classic book on the Goodwins. [ref: 17896 ] £40

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the Deal boatmen and their luggers and rescues from ships wrecked on the Goodwin Sands by the crews of the Deal lifeboats, was published in 1892. We have another copy of this edition, bound in blue cloth, with a half title and an inscription on first free endpaper. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21290 ] £35 TUBBS, DOUGLAS BURNELL. KENT PUBS. drawings by Alan F. Turner. London B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1966 8vo. 5x 7.75 inches. 144 pp. Illustrated with drawings in text. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Some foxing on edges but otherwise fine condition. A selection of Kent pubs described, illustrated and arranged by place. The Index of Special Drinks at the end lists brews that have mostly vanished, including many varieties of Fremlins and several examples of the top pressure keg beers - Tavern Keg, Watney’s Red Barrel and Whitbread’s Tankard - whose growing ubiquity helped to bring about the Campaign for Real Ale in the following decade. Kent Bibliography [ref: 21717 ] £5 1231.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS PELTON'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND THE NEIGHBOURING SEATS, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES. [1881] BY J. RADFORD THOMSON, M. A. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JEAN MAULDON, REFERENCE LIBRARIAN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS. Republished by S.R. Publishers Ltd 1970 Small 8vo. xii + 204 pp. Original cloth, gilt, in dustwrapper. Useful working reprint, itself now long out of print. [ref: 18197 ] £15 1232.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS - BRISTOW, C. R. and R. A. BAZLEY. GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND TUNBRIDGE WELLS. Stationery Office, 1972 x + 161 pp. with maps and photos. Original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. A mint copy. Part of Memoirs of the Geological Survey of G.B. series. Now only published in paperback. [ref: 19576 ] £20 1233.

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Tunbridge Wells, Stidolph and Bellamy. 1871 371 pp. with hand-coloured frontispiece and numerous wood-engravings in the text. Co ntemporary green half-morocco, gilt, with contrasting title label. Extremities slightly rubbed otherwise a very good copy. Rare Tunbridge Wells flora. This copy has the bookplate of William Brackett of Tunbridge Wells, founder of the well-known auctioneers and estate agents. [ref: 15309 ] £250 TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE - BRITTON, JOHN. DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND THE CALVERLEY ESTATE; WITH BRIEF NOTICES OF THE PICTURESQUE SCENERY, SEATS, AND NOTICES OF THE ANTIQUITIES IN THE VICINITY. EMBELLISHED WITH MAPS AND PRINTS. Published by the author, Burton Street ; Longman & Co. Paternoster Row; and Rodwell, New Bond Street. Sold by Nash, and Elliott, Tunbridge Wells. 1832 xii + 148 pp. with 3 double-page maps and plans, 10 lithographic plates, and two woodcuts in the text. Original cloth, skilfully rebacked. Original label on the spine. Some foxing and browning but a good copy. Scarce work by the distinguished architect John Britton, designed to promote Decimus Burton's Calverley Estate. [ref: 17904 ] £250 TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND CALVERLY ESTATE 1236. TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE - BRITTON, JOHN. DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND THE CALVERLEY ESTATE; With brief notices of the picturesque scenery, seats, and antiquities in the vicinity. Embellished with Maps and Prints Published by the author, Burton Street ; Longman & Co. Paternoster Row ; and Rodwell, New Bond Street, Sold by Nash, and Elliott, Tunbridge Wells. 1832 8vo. xii + 148 + 4 pp. With 3 double page maps and plans, 9 lithographic plates, and two woodcuts in the text. Bound in the original cloth with paper labels on the upper board and spine. A very good copy. Scarce work by the distinguished architect John Britton, designed to promote Decimus Burton's Calverley Estate. [ref: 19104 ] £250 1235.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS - CAUSTON, PETER. TUNBRIGIALIA. [OR, THE PLEASURES OF TUNBRIDGE] London: 1709 8vo. 12 pp. Title page with wood cut coat-of-arms of seven stars. Latin poem in praise of Tunbridge Wells. Late 19th century paper-covered boards. Manuscript title to upper board on printed paper label with decorative border, lettered Biliotheca Cantiana with a similar bookplate of William John Mercer to the front pastedown. A rare item.

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One of the ‘incunabula’ of Tunbridge Wells books, there being only a handful of prior publications, all of which are virtually unobtainable. Smith notes in Bibliotheca Cantiana that an edition was published, in Latin and English, in 1705 in Tunbridge Wells. That edition is incredibly rare and the present London imprint of four years later is no less scarce. We have never handled a copy previously. [ref: 18314 ] £350 CLIFFORD’S TUNBRIDGE WELLS CLIFFORD, JOHN. THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT & PRESENT STATE OF THAT PLACE. with a particular description of all the Towns, Villages, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Ancient & Modern Seats, Founderies &c. within the circumference of sixteen Miles, with accurate Views of the principal Objects. : Printed and Published by J.Clifford. Tunbridge Wells, May also be had at either of the Libraries, on the parade. Sold also in London by Hamilton Adams & Co., Paternoster Row. 1840 Seventh edition, revised. 12mo. [4] + xi + [1] + 172 pp. a-a6, B-P6. Illustrated with 2 folding maps and fourteen plates, including seven engravings (2 folding) and seven woodcuts. plus title page vignette and dedication. A slip, Tunbridge Wells fares, bound in after p.165. Original yellow printed paper wrappers, sometime respined in yellow card. Wrappers and some lower page corners a little grubby and worn, but preserving the original apperance. One folding plate repaired. A plan of Tunbridge Wells, serving as a frontispiece has the southern Parish and County boundaries hand-coloured in outline. A late edition of Clifford’s guide with the (undated) title page little changed from the early years of the century. It is similar to Goulden 61 but has additional plates and is in paper covers. The Address to the reader is dated January, 1840. The front cover contains the same date and the edition statement with an altered imprint, Sold also by R.Nash and J.Elliott (compare Goulden 62) All these ephemeral guides have become very difficult to find complete. Goulden [ref: 19105 ] £375 1238.

COLBRAN’S NEW GUIDE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE - COLBRAN, JOHN. Edited by JAMES PHIPPEN. COLBRAN’S NEW GUIDE FOR TUNBRIDGE WELLS, Being A Full and Accurate Description of The Wells and Its Neighbourhood, within a Circuit of nearly twenty Miles; Illustrated with Plates, Wood Engravings, etc. of most of the principal Places. Edited by James Phippen.

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Printed and Published by John Colbran, Tunbridge Wells, Kent., and A.H. Bailey and Co., Cornhill, London. 1839 [1840] Small 8vo. Engraved folding map and frontispiece + xiv + 404 pp. + xi , list of subscribers + [i] + 32 pp. advertisements [8], B-2N4. Illustrated with folding coloured map and 14 plates (11 engravings, two folding and one lithograph and two woodcuts) including frontispiece and several woodcuts to the text. p.117 is misnumbered 116. Original green cloth, gilt. A little rubbed at extremities. Front hinges loose and front endpaper detached. Small tear to map. Some staining and occasional light foxing to plates otherwise a very good, clean copy. This is one of the early versions of Colbran’s New Guide (see Goulden, p. 94). The map and title are both dated 1839 and the Advertisements are both dated January 1840. This seems to conform most closely to Goulden 63 but has fourteen inserted plates, including frontispiece, rather than sixteen. Colbran’s guides are a mine of information and difficult to find in good condition. Goulden [ref: 19106 ] £250 SPRANGE, JASPER. THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE Or An account of the ancient & present State of that Place. To which is added a particular description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies &c.&c. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles. Tunbridge Wells: Printed and Sold by J.Sprange, at his Circulating Library. Sold also in London by T. Beecroft Bookseller, Pater Noster Row. 1780 12mo. [4], viii, 48, 45-53, [3], 49-68; 54, vi, 51-52, 55-98, xii, 99-106, vi, 107-178; 14; 16. illustrated with 3 plates, one folding, in addition to frontispiece, title vignette and dedication. Bound in contemporary full calf with contrasting title label, gilt, and gilt decoration to spine. Lacks final blank leaf but has the advertisement from an earlier issue pasted on the rear paste-down endpaper. Front hinge cracking and split at top otherwise a very good copy. First published in 1780, the early issues of this little guide, all dated 1780, have very eccentric pagination and Goulden lists five variants. This issue conforms almost entirely to number three, giving it a date after March 5th but before July 27th 1782. A very attractive Tunbridge Wells guide with a fine collection of wood engravings, paying particular attention to the major country seats, which are described in detail with lists of paintings. Goulden 3, p.99. [ref: 19114 ] £200 - SPRANGE, JASPER. THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE. Or An account of the ancient & present State of that Place. With a particular description of all the Towns, Villages, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Ancient & Modern seats, Founderies &c. within the circumference of sixteen Miles, with accurate Views of the principal Objects.

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Tunbridge Wells: Printed and Sold by J. Sprange. Sold also in London by Rivington’s Booksellers St Pauls Ch Yard.. 1817 12mo. [4] + x x + 332 pp. [2], A-A2,B-B8,C-GG4. illustrated with table and twelve plates, including eight folding, in addition to frontispiece, title vignette and dedication. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Calf is frayed and split at top and bottom of spine with some interior stains opposite some plates. Small, contemporary newspaper cutting tipped in, p.206. Otherwise a fine complete copy. Author’s address is signed J. Sprange. January, 1815. This copy is a reissue of the 1815 edition and is similar to Goulden 27 but has additional plates, even more than Goulden 28, which has only eleven. It has the preface complete and ‘A list of the Lodging Houses’, pp.313-320. The colophon, in the name of Clifford, Printer, is on p.332 only. This suggests an intermediate version between John Clifford, taking over from Jasper Sprange (died 1823), his uncle. A very attractive Tunbridge Wells guide with a fine collection of wood engravings, paying particular attention to the major country seats, which are described in detail with lists of paintings. [ref: 19102 ] £375 TUNBRIDGE WELLS VIEWS - AMSINCK, PAUL. TUNBRIDGE WELLS, AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF ETCHINGS, AND HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS. THE ETCHINGS EXECUTED BY LETITIA BYRNE. London: By William Miller and Edmund Lloyd, 1810 Folio, [12] + 183 pp. with 31 full page engraved plates and 12 vignettes. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, probably by the publisher. Spine in compartments and titles and decoration in gilt with a decorative paper title label to upper board. Mostly found with foxing and browning to text and plates, this copy appears less affected than most. A very good copy. A scarce work which lists 196 subscribed copies, making it likely that only 200 or so copies were produced. The charming illustrations focus on the gentlemen’s seats which abound in the neighbourhood. Sadly, as one of the best view books of this part of the county, a large number of copies of this work have been broken-up for the plates but it is here presented in its complete and original state [ref: 19925 ] £600 1240.

TURNER, GORDON. ASHFORD THE COMING OF THE RAILWAY. Christine Swift. Maidstone: 1984 8vo. [12] + 191 pp. with photo illustrations and end-paper maps. Original cloth gilt, in dustwrapper. A near mint example. Excellent history of Ashford and its relationship with the Railway. Now out of print. [ref: 11197 ] £15 1241.

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TURNOR, REGINALD. KENT. With Wood Engravings by Monica Poole. (Vision of England). London and New York Paul Elek. 1950 4to. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. 128 pp. Half title. Illustrated with 74 black and white photographs, 37 wood engravings, including frontispiece and head and tail piece vignettes and 5 pp. maps. Bound in original terracotta cloth, gilt, in price-clipped dust wrapper. Some foxing, largely confined to fore edge and endpapers, otherwise a good copy. Ink signature and rubber stamp 1951 date on front pastedown. A circular tour of Kent with some delightful woodengravings. [ref: 21720 ] £18 1242.

TURNPIKE ROADS. STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE ON ACCT OF THE HIGHWAYS OF THE PARISH OF DEAL, [1854]. General Statement of the Receipts and Expenditure on account of the Highways of the Parish of Deal...for the Year ending 25th March 1854, as appearing from the Accounts of James Dowers and Vincent Cornwell...Surveyors of Highways...allowed by the Justices at a Special Sessions for the Highways ...at the Guildhall...on the thirtieth Day of March 1854. Settled by William Foote, Esq., for the Law Times Office, 29, Essex-street, Strand, London. 1854 Letterpress form on blue paper with manuscript insertions. 16.25 x 12.75 inches. Folded document, later folded in four at right angle to original fold. Cover title on front fold. Some fraying along centre line fold and browning of later fold edges. Two small edge tears, not affecting legibility, otherwise fine condition and clearly legible manuscript entries. White horse on red stamp, inscribed Gordon Ward, M.D. , F.S.A . on front blank side. The annual account of the Deal Surveyors of Highways, which by the Act of 1849, quoted on the form, was required to be submitted to the Secretary of State (presumably the Home Secretary of the time, Lord Palmerston). This particular copy of the form would have been the one that was retained locally. By the 1835 Highway Act, surveyors of highways had the duty of the upkeep and repair of parish roads. By clause 44 of the Act the surveyors had to submit their yearly accounts to special sessions of the local justices of the peace, who were responsible for the execution of the provisions of the Act. The repair work required to the roads was now funded directly from the rates, although the form still makes provision for work to be performed directly in lieu of rates, an obsolescent concept since the 1835 Act. This Statement shows the rates to be the only source of income of £160/8s/11d, while the main heads of expenditure are manual and team labour and the cost of materials. The £24/5s/0d paid to the Commissioners of Pavement presumably relates to the provision of pedestrian pavements in the town centre. At the same sessions a schedule of the state of repair of the roads was also submitted by the surveyors (according to clause 45 of the Act) and it supplies further details of the work carried out. This particular version of the form, lists the penalties liable for non-compliance of the surveyors duty to submit their accounts, at its foot. Of the two, James Dowers and Vincent Cornwell, it is possible that the latter is the person of that name listed as boot and shoemaker of Lower Street in the 1858 Directory. The parish still had a liability for contributions towards the repair of turnpike roads within its 1243.

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boundaries but in this particular year, the Dover to Sandwich Trust has not required any such payment. A scarce example of the financial statement for Deal parish highways, required by law to be submitted to the local justices and to the government in Whitehall. [ref: 20367 ] £25 TURNPIKE ROADS. DOVER TO SANDWICH. BORO’ OF DEAL RETURN BY SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS OF STATE OF ROADS 30TH MARCH 1854. The Schedule of the Surveyors of the Highways of the Parish of Deal in the Borough of Deal presented with their Accounts to the Magistrates at the Special Sessions held the 30th day of March 1854. Prepared manuscript form with manuscript entries. 15.75 x 12.75 inches. Folded document, later folded in four at right angle to original fold. Cover title on front fold. Some browning and staining of outside, with slight fraying along front fold line, but otherwise fine interior. This schedule is an annual return of the state of the roads in the parish and borough of Deal and the repairs carried out for the year ending 31st March 1854. This was compiled in accordance with clause 45 of the General Highway Act of 1835, which provided for special sessions of the local justices of the peace, to execute the provisions of the Act, ‘And at the special sessions held next after the twenty-fifth day of March...the surveyor...shall verify his accounts, And shall make a return in writing to such special sessions Of the state of all the roads, common highways, bridges, causeways, hedges, ditches, and watercourses...And of all nuisances and encroachments, if any...As well as the extent of the different highways which the said parish is liable to repair, What part thereof has been repaired, And with what materials, At what expense, And what was the amount levied during the time he was surveyor of the said parish.’ The Deal return follows this clause of the Act almost exactly, except that it fails to note the specific cost of the repairs and their materials (here chalk, flints, stones and bricks). Perhaps we may assume that this figure was the same as the total amount levied for the year, £160.8.11. The seven miles of the parish roads still required repairs in some places and this semed to be an ongoing task as resources allowed, but ‘Such as have been repaired are in good repair.’ There had been no complaints over nuisances and no encroachments on the road had been made. The Schedule is signed by the two parish surveyors, James Dowers and Vincent Cornwell and by the four Deal JPs. Of the surveyors, it is possible that Cornwell is the person of that name listed as boot and shoemaker of Lower Street in the 1858 Directory. Of the justices, C. Kingsmill may be connected with Kingsmill and West, auctioneers and appraisers of Beach Street. and George Hammond and William Watt are listed as magistrates in 1858. The turnpike road from Dover to Sandwich went through Deal and the seven miles of parish highways would have included this stretch. The parish still maintained a liability for the upkeep of turnpike roads within its boundaries. A scarce document illustrating the regulatory control exercised by the government over local highways and how this was put into practise by the parish authorities. 1244.

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Foote, The General or Principal Highway Act, 1862. Melville, Directory of Kent, 1858. [ref: 20365 ] £45 TURNPIKE ROADS. DOVER TO SANDWICH. [LETTER CONCERNING ENCROACHMENT OF HIGHWAY ON PROPERTY IN WALMER]. [Later pencil note:] Deal and Walmer T.P. Road. Complaint against surveyors for neglect re encroachments. [Heading on back:] Bridges, JT Esqer 10 July 1837. The Information and complaint of John Thos Bridges Esqu of Cinque Port...Parish of Walmer...taken before me [space left blank] one of her Majestys justices of the Peace in respect of said Cinque Ports. 1837 Manuscript letter. 7.25 x 8.75 inches. Four leaves. Double folded sheet, later folded in three at right angle to original fold. Slight browning on outside of three folds but otherwise in fine crisp condition. Bridges is laying a complaint against the two Surveyors of Highways of the Parish of Walmer (James Leith and William Bushell) for neglect of their duties. Their specific offence has been to tolerate an encroachment of a bank and ditch less than fifteen feet from the centre of the Walmer parish highway leading from Grams’ Lane under Hawks Hill to Lower Walmer at the bottom of the Generals or Rackleton [?] Hill field, belonging to George Leith. Bridges refers to clause 69 of the 1835 General Highway Act, ‘ If any person shall encroach, by making...any building, hedge, ditch, or other fence on any carriageway...within the distance of fifteen feet from the centre thereof, every person so offending shall forfeit, on conviction...any sum not exceeding forty shillings.’ The surveyor is to remove or fill in any such obstruction at the expense of the offender and the justice may, at a special sessions for the highways, seize his goods to meet this cost. Furthermore, Bridges considers that the negligent surveyors, have incurred the penalty imposed by clause 20 of the Act, which states that, ‘If any surveyor...shall neglect his duty...he shall forfeit...any sum not exceeding five pounds.’ As a consequence, the two surveyors may be summoned to answer these charges before two JPs. Overleaf, Bridges excuses himself from coming to Deal on magistrates’ business, ‘but found myself so ill from a violent cold in my head that I was quite fit for nothing and went back to bed again.’ The Mr Backhouse referred to in this letter may be the Rev. Ralph Backhouse listed in the 1840 Directory of Kent. John Thomas Bridges (1805-53) was born at St Nicholas at Wade and was a Justice of the Peace for Kent. He married Harriet Elizabeth Affleck (1807-97) of East Retford, Notts, and in the censuses of 1841 and 1851, they were living at High Street, Walmer with their children, Bridges giving his occupation as county magistrate in 1851. George Leith, the landowner, is likely to the resident of Liverpool House and the neglectful surveyor, James Leith, may indeed be his relative, who lived in Walmer Court. The other surveyor, William Bushell, could be the bricklayer of that name in the 1840 Directory. By the 1835 Act, surveyors of highways, often responsible to parish highway boards, under the jurisdiction of local justices, had the duty of the repair and upkeep of parish roads. They were elected, or re-elected annually, and obviously the burden of office was found to be onerous by some of them, leading to neglect of duty as here, requiring intervention by the justices. The parish still maintained a liability for the 1245.

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upkeep of turnpike roads within its boundaries. Earlier in 1837, Bridges, a trustee of the turnpike from Dover through Deal to Sandwich, had been a signatory to a circular raising concern over a perceived threat to turnpike roads from proposed railways reaching the Kent coast. [ref: 20364 ] £45

RAILWAYS AND TURNPIKE ROADS TURNPIKE ROADS. DOVER TO SANDWICH. [SPECIAL MEETING OF DOVER TO SANDWICH TURNPIKE TRUST CONCERNING PROPOSED RAILWAY]. At a Special Meeting of the Commissioners of the Turnpike Road from Dovor through Deal to Sandwich....in the Guildhall, Deal, on Friday the 13th of January, 1837. Deveson, Printer, Deal. 1837 Letterpress, signed and dated in manuscript. 7.75 x 9 inches. One leaf. Printed on crown paper, originally folded in three. Slight browning along edge of former fold, otherwise fine condition. The calling of this public meeting shows an early concern at the competition offered by the new railways to the established turnpike roads. A railway from London to Dover was suggested as early as 1825 and the South Eastern Railway Act, establishing it, was passed in 1836. At the same time there was a proposal for a North Kent line from London, via the Medway towns to Canterbury with a branch to Deal, although this scheme did not materialise. Clearly with the enthusiasm for railway promotion in Kent so much in the air, the Trust felt there to be a real threat to the financial interests of its investors. It considered that lenders should be granted some form of ‘indemnity’ by Parliament (which had established the Trust in 1797) ‘against the depression...in the value of their Bonds should the proposed ‘Kent Railway’ or any other Railway affecting their Trust be carried into effect.’ Its operating capital was provided from the income generated by farming the gate tolls to private investors. Confidence in the continued future profitability of ‘all Turnpike Investiture, good faith in which has has hitherto effected to the Public admirable and satisfactory despatch,’ was required and this was jeopardised by the possibility of ‘uncalled for and hazardous competitions’ offered by railways. It is not known whether the subcommittee of five appointed ‘to watch the bills’ or other lobbying proposed by the Trust in this document, had any impact on local railway promotion. In the immediate aftermath of its 1837 campaign the Trust’s financial position did deteriorate and the following year, it added two new gates (making a total of six) to the road, in order to increase revenue from tolls. Pigot’s 1840 Directory lists daily coaches to London, Canterbury and Herne Bay, with a twice daily service to Dover and five services to Sandwich, in additon to daily van sercices to Canterbury and Dover, all of these having to traverse the turnpike. Income was still outstripped by the cost of repairs and occasionally the Trust had to collect its own tolls directly as lessees were slow in coming forward. However, by the time that a railway actually began to invade its territory, it had once more become solvent. In the event, the railway from Sandwich terminated at Deal in 1847 and this caused toll collections to fall to about half their previous levels on this stretch of the road. The Deal to Dover section of the turnpike (over which the first 1246.

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locomotive for the 1847 branch had been laboriously hauled) remained viable until the Trust was wound up in 1874, the railway not being extended over this difficult section until 1881. A scarce document concerned with the perceived threat to the turnpike road system from the new railways years before their actual construction. [ref: 20363 ] £45 FARNBOROUGH TO SEVENOAKS TURNPIKE TURNPIKE ROADS. FARNBOROUGH TO SEVENOAKS. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for repairing and widening the Road leading from ...the Town... of Farnborough in the County of Kent, to ...Riverhill, in the Parish of Sevenoaks... Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, London. 1748 Disbound in plastic sleeve. Folio. 7.75 x 12.25 inches. [2] + 131-160 pp. Illustrated with vignette initial at start of main text, which is in black letter. Fine crisp condition. This turnpike Act establishes a trust to improve the eleven mile stretch of road from Farnborough to Riverhill, just south of Sevenoaks, which also formed part of the post road from London to Tunbridge Wells and on to Rye. The preamble states that this highway is, ‘by reason of the great and heavy Carriages frequently passing through the same, greatly in Decay, and the same is become very bad in the Winter Season; and ...is in many places very narrow and incommodious...’ The Act makes detailed provisions for the collection of toll, erection of gates and toll houses, exemptions from toll (e.g.. the carriage of agricultural produce, ‘Lop or Top-wood,’ etc. for local consumption, the transport of fish and on election days), penalties for evasion and for the system of financial administration and accountability required to operate the turnpike system. The amounts due in tolls are specified in various price categories, from passenger coaches (drawn by varying numbers of horses or mares), waggons and carts drawn by horses and oxen, laden or unladen animals not drawing, droves of oxen, cows or neat cattle and of calves, hogs, sheep or lambs. The turnpike surveyors were to co-operate with the parish Surveyors of Highways, employing a ‘Statutework’ labour force. Nearly 140 named trustees, composed of local nobility, gentry, clergy and medical men, were appointed and invested with powers to oversee the administration and operation of the trust. Although ESTC records only one copy (in the US), we do not regard this as a scarce item in the UK. ESTC N52922. [1748 i.e.1749] [ref: 20338 ] £45 1247.

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crossed through). Dated 22nd October 1852. Austen and Holcroft, Sevenoaks. 1852 Manuscript on blue paper, tied with tape, with annotations in several other hands Folio. 10 x 16.75 inches. [28] pages, numbered 1-13. The plans mentioned as drawn in the margin are not included in this draft document. Red stamp with white horse, inscribed Gordon Ward. M.D. F.S.A. Originally folded in four, with foldmarks, a small missing section on former front and back of folded document, not affecting legibility. Extremities worn but otherwise in fine condition. An extensively annotated draft indenture for the conveyance and exchange of land in the vicinity of Knole Park, between the Trustees of the Sevenoaks Turnpike Trust on one hand and Robert Henry Clive and the Earl and Countess of Amherst on the other. In 1822 a specification of the construction work for realigning the road in the area of White Hart Hill was issued, and the Trustees were further authorised by two Acts of the mid-1830s to divert the turnpike road along a new line. By this Indenture the two Treasurers of the Trust, Charles Palmer and Joseph Palmer of Sevenoaks, agree to pay Clive ‘£65.12.6 of lawful British money’ for a piece of land of just over one acre, being part of two fields called Shangden Meadow, or Long Meadow, and Seven Acres, belonging to Whitehart Farm. An insertion at the end grants to Clive in exchange, a ‘part of the Old Road intended to be abandoned’ between Knole Park on the north and Clive’s existing land to the south. The document rehearses at great length the descent of the land sold to the Trust from the Duke of Dorset to his daughter, Mary, then Countess of Plymouth, and later Countess Amherst in 1825. By a family settlement of 1839, Clive (now a relative by marriage) had acquired an interest in the Amherst land in question. William Pitt Amherst, first Earl Amherst (17731857), served as a diplomat at the courts of the two Sicilies and of the Chinese Emperor before his appointment as Governor-General of Bengal in 1823. On his return from India to Knole House, he sometimes occupied himself in local affairs, particularly in promoting road improvements. He married Mary (1792-1864), widow of his stepson the sixth Earl of Plymouth, as his second wife in 1839. She had been born Lady Sackville, one of the daughters of John Frederick, 3rd Duke of Dorset, of Knole House. Robert Henry Clive (17891856) of Oakley Park, Shropshire, who had married Harriet, daughter of Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth in 1819, was a grandson of Clive of India and was MP for Ludlow, 1818-32 and for Shropshire South from 1832. [ref: 20872 ] £50 GREENWICH TO WOOLWICH. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for repairing, widening, and improving the Lower Road leading from the Town of Greenwich to the Town of Woolwich in the County of Kent. [30th May 1818]. [58 GEO. III. c. lxxviii]. [on front board: Georgii III. Regis]. [Act:] Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, London. 1818 and [c. 1920-40] Folio. 7.5 x 12 inches. 1785-1820 pp. 8 pp. typescript with tipped in plate and plans, and hand-written notes. Bound in brown half morocco, gilt, with marbled boards. Elliston Erwood bookplate. Fine condition. 1249.

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Erwood’s bound copy of the Act establishes a trust to improve the Lower Road between Greenwich and Woolwich which is currently ‘unsafe, narrow, incommodious, and out of Repair, and in some Places in a ruinous Condition,’ facilitating access to the ‘Dock-Yard and Arsenals at Woolwich, and the Conveyance of Navy, Ordinance, and other Public Stores to and from the same.’ It appoints some fifty Trustees, many of whom are ex-officio military and naval personnel, e.g the Commanding Royal Engineer and the Master Shipwright at Woolwich, along with individually named local notables, clerics and army officers. The eighty sections of the Act detail the administration of the trust and the activities of its officers. Erwood has assembled some extracts from the minute book for the New Cross Turnpike Trust (1813-20) which examined the proposals for the new act in 1817, but as he notes at the end, decided not to add to its existing road network, which would have linked up to its route in Greenwich. Hence the need to establish a new trust for this short stretch of road. Erwood has also inserted a copy of an 1825 illustration of the Royal Arsenal Gates where the new road ended, and of an 1810 plan of the road, which he has redrawn from Essex Record Office (proposed ferry link from Woolwich to Plaistow, Essex). At the end are his tracings showing the locations of toll gates on the Lower Road. [ref: 20891 ] £75 SOUTHWARK TO DEPTFORD 1250. TURNPIKE ROADS. KENT ROAD TO DEPTFORD. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for making and maintaining a Road from the Kent Road, in the County of Surrey, to Deptford, in the County of Kent; and a Branch therefrom, to Horsleydown, in the County of Surrey. [1st July 1811.]. Bound with, An Act for amending an Act of his present Majesty for making a Road from the Kent Road in the County of Surrey, to Deptford in the County of Kent, and a Branch therefrom to Horsleydown, in the said County of Surrey. [18th July 1812.]. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, London. 1811, 1812. Folio. 8 x 12.75 inches. 1811, [4929], 4930-5000; 1812, [4437], 4438-4444. Illustrated with royal arms at head of titles. Disbound and rebound in later limp brown cloth, with added paper title, The Road from the Kent Road to Deptford, etc. Edges grimed and frayed. Rear pages of both Acts more heavily grimed. 1811 Act formerly folded in two and 1812 Act in four. ‘Whereas the making and maintaining of a Turnpike Road from the Kent Road, at or near a certain House called the Bricklayers’ Arms, in the Parish of Saint George the Martyr, to join the Turnpike Road leading from Rotherhithe to the Lower Town of Deptford, near the Transport Office in Grove Street, in the Parish of Saint Paul’s Deptford, and to pass in a Line...along and Part of Blue Anchor Road, and across the Deptford Lower Road and across the Grand Surrey Canal, through the several Parishes of Saint Paul’s Deptford, Saint Mary Rotherhithe, Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, and Saint George the Martyr...and also...a Turnpike Road from Horsleydown in the Parish of Saint John’s, at the Point of Junction of Charles Street, Fair Street, and Freeschool Street, to join...where such newly intended Road will cross the Blue Anchor Road, and to pass through Dockhead across Neckinjer Road, across Dandy’s Corner near Dandy’s Turnpike, and across Blue Anchor Lane, and through the several Parishes of 383

Saint Mary Rotherhithe, Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, and Saint John’s Southwark...will be a great Benefit...’ Some of these streets and localities no longer exist. The parish of Southwark St John Horsleydown was created from St Olave’s in 1733 and merged into Bermondsey in 1904. The church was destroyed in 1940 and the losses of that era and subsequent rebuilding may account for the absence of Charles, Fair and Free School Streets, all of which still existed in 1891. Dandy’s Corner and Turnpike seem to have disappeared as names but Blue Anchor Lane, Dockhead, Fair Street and Grove Street, Deptford (now Lewisham) still exist. The Neckinger river, which gave its name to the road, now flows underground into the Thames at St Saviour’s Dock, in an area that was formerly the notorious Jacob’s Island, but is now part of the fashionable Shad Thames. The Grand Surrey Canal was constructed in 1801-07 from Rotherhithe to Mitcham. The purpose of the Act was to ‘open a shorter and better Communication...between the Cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark, and the Lower Town of Deptford...’ ‘as the present Roads are very circuitous and inconvenient.’ Traffic to Dover passed along Borough High Street, Church Street and into the Kent Road of this Act, now renamed Tabard Street. The branch to Horsleydown improved the road system south of the Surrey bank The Act also amends various earlier acts which altered the road system in this area and allows for the compulsory acquisition of land required for the improvements and compensation as necessary. It nominates trustees and provides detailed regulations for the administration of the toll collecting, including a surcharge on overweight vehicles (not applicable to the armed forces), rules controlling the passage of night soil, the appointment of watchmen, patrols and night constables the provision of hackney coach stands and the protection of existing corporate rights. A ten page schedule, annexed to the Act, lists the owners and addresses of all properties along the route of the proposed turnpikes. A wide range of further provisions are included in the amending Act of 1812, probably following reaction to the publication of the first Act. These include a prohibition on the taking of gravel from the River Thames. A detailed source for the early nineteenth century road system of Southwark and Deptford. [ref: 20432 ] £65 TURNPIKE ROADS. SEVENOAKS COMMON TO COWDEN PENSHURST AND WATS CROSS TO COWDEN. [NOTICE REQUIRING LISTS OF THOSE ELIGIBLE FOR STATUTE LABOUR TO WORK ON TURNPIKE ROADS IN THE VICINITY OF PENSHURST]. Notice...that the next Meeting of the Trustees for repairing and widening the Road, from Wats Cross to Cowden...the Road...from Sevenoaks Common to Crockhurst Hatch Corner, and from Penshurst Town to Southborough...is appointed to be held at the Leicester Arms, in Penshurst...at which Meeting, the several Surveyors of the Highways in the Parishes and Boroughs of Hillden, Holllanden, Charket, Penshurst Town, Middleward, Hallborough East, Hallborough West, Ashurst, Speldhurst, Bidborough, Southborough West, Hever, Cowden, and Chiddingstone, are hereby required to deliver to the Surveyors of the said roads...true Lists...of the Names of all the

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inhabitasnts and Occupiers of Lands, Tenenements, or Hereditaments...and which...keep Teams or Draughts, or occupy Plough Lands, and are liable to do Team’s Duty, and which of them are Labourers...and also the number of Day’s Work which such Teams or Draughts, or otherwise each Person ought to do on the said Roads...Hereof fail not, under the Penalty of Five Pounds. Dakens, Printer, Tonbridge 1828 Letterpress notice with manuscript insertions and alterations, mounted on later card. 8 x 10 inches. Edges frayed and stained with some missing sections, not affecting legibility. Small hole in centre obscuring part of word, ‘Hatch,’ otherwise fine condition. At this meeting of the Turnpike Trustees for the area centred around Penshurst, the highway surveyors of the fourteen parishes through which the turnpike roads run, are summoned to liaise with the turnpike road surveyors. The parish surveyors are to supply lists of all the local inhabitants who are able to provide team labour (i.e. horses and carts) or ordinary day labour, to repair and widen the turnpike roads. The requirement for statute labour on parish roads dates back to the 1555 Act. The new turnpike trusts were empowered by the acts of parliament which established them, to demand this statute labour as well as additional labour, to be paid at an agreed rate, from those living within a four mile radius of the turnpike roads. Statute duty was abolished by the General Highway Act of 1835 and road repairs were henceforward funded entirely from the rates. The Trusts for the turnpikes in this part of Kent were established 1765-67. Of the ‘Parishes and Boroughs’ listed, Penshurst, Ashurst, Speldhurst. Bidborough, Hever, Cowden and Chiddingstone are ancient parishes and Southborough a later one. Hillden (or Hilden) is a locality north west of Tonbridge, Hollanden a hamlet in the ancient parish of Leigh and Hallborough a locality in Penshurst parish. A scarce record of a turnpike trust calling on parish statute labour to carry out road repairs, seven years before this system was replaced by the 1835 Act. [ref: 20372 ] £40 SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS TURNPIKE ROADS. SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for enlarging the Term ...of...An Act for repairing and amending the Highways leading from Seven Oaks to Woods Gate, and Tunbridge-Wells... And for explaining and making more Effectual the same Act; And for amending ... the Highways leading from Woods-Gate... to Kippings-Cross in the Parish of Brenchly... Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, And by the Assigns of Henry Hills, deceas’d, London. 1724 Disbound, in plastic sleeve. Folio. 7.5 x 11 inches. [2] + 307-312 pp. Illustrated with royal arms on title page and vignette initial at start of main text, which is in black letter. Fine crisp condition. This turnpike act amends the 1709 Act which improved the road between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells via Tonbridge and Woods-Gate and provided for a short extension from Woods-Gate to Kippings-Cross, in the parish of Brenchly (which was later continued on to Lamberhurst and Flimwell in East Sussex). The original act was for a term of fifteen years and this was renewed for a further twenty-one as, ‘by reason of the Natural Clay 1252.

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and deepness of the Soil, and the Difficulty of getting proper Materials for Amendment,’ it had not been effectively repaired during that time. The short mile-and-a-half extension from Woods-Gate was required as that road ‘is very bad, and dangerous to his Majesty’s Subjects passing that Way.’ Tolls and duties were authorised to be collected to ameliorate these roads and any adjoining landowners evading tolls, by allowing passage though their grounds of any ‘ Horse, Cattle, Coach, Calash, Chaise, Caravan, Waggon, Wain, or other Carriage whatsoever,’ would forfeit ten shillings to the toll collector. The Act made provision for maintenance by surveyors to amend, repair or remove and prevent ‘Annoyances...Filfth, Dung, Rubbish, WaterCourses, Drains, or other Nuisances’ on any part of the highway. These surveyors were to co-operate with the parish Surveyors of Highways, employing a ‘Statute-Work’ labour force. Ninety seven named Commissioners, composed of local nobility, gentry and clergymen were appointed, with three additional individuals charged with putting the act into effect, without receiving any profits from the tolls levied. Although ESTC records only four copies (in the US), we do not regard this as a scacre item in the UK. ESTC N50462 [1725 imprint] [ref: 20305 ] £45 SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS 1253. TURNPIKE ROADS. SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for enlarging the Terms and Powers granted by Two Acts of Parliament, For repairing the Roads leading from Seven-oaks to Woodsgate and Tunbridge-wells, and from Woodsgate to Kipping’s-cross in the County of Kent; and also for repairing the Roads from Kipping’s-cross ... to Lamberhurst Pound; and Pullen’s-hill ... and to Flimwell-vent in the County of Sussex. Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, London. 1740 Disbound, in plastic sleeve. Folio. 8 x 12.25 inches. [2] + 247-270 pp. Illustrated with royal arms on title page and vignette initial at start of main text which is in black letter. Fine crisp condition. This turnpike Act amends the 1709 and 1724 Acts, for repairing and improving the road between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge via Woodsgate. It renewed the 1724 Act for a further period of twenty one years and, because this stretch had ‘become so bad and ruinous’, extended the short Kipping’s Cross spur via Pullen’s Hill and Lamberhurst, to Flimwell-vent, in the parish of Ticehurst, just over the Sussex border. The Act made detailed provisions for the collection of tolls, erection of gates, exemptions (‘Fish to be Toll-free’ and no toll on election days), penalties for evasion, erection of milestones and for the system of financial administration and accountability required to operate the turnpike system. The amounts due in tolls are specified in seven categories, including various types of passenger coaches (drawn by more than four or by three or four horses or mares), waggons and carts drawn by horses and oxen, laden or unladen animals not drawing, droves of oxen, cows or neat cattle and of calves, hogs, sheep or lambs. The turnpike surveyors were to cooperate with the parish Surveyors of Highways, employing a ‘Statute Work’ labour force. 108 named trustees, composed of local nobility, gentry and clergymen were appointed and 386

invested with powers to oversee the administration and operation of the trust. Although ESTC records only one copy (in the US), we do not regard this as a scarce item in the UK. ESTC N51785 [ref: 20308 ] £45

MANUSCRIPT TURNPIKE MAP. C . 1843 TURNPIKE ROADS. SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS. THE SEVENOAKS, WOODSGATE, TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND KIPPINGS CROSS, AND THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS - WOODSGATE TURNPIKE ROADS. c.1845. [Pasted to front endpaper: Printed notice of meeting of turnpike Trustees, Tonbridge, 1828}. c.1845 [Notice, 1828] Large square folio. 19.5 x 19 inches (boards). 6 manuscript maps (numbered by Elliston Irwood), in double linen sheets, with hand coloured and lettered plans of turnpike roads running from sheet to sheet. Bound in later brown buckram. Hand labelled on front board by Irwood. Linen maps are stained and show signs of much use, presumably having been employed in the field. The route of the turnpike is shown from just north of the Sevenoaks/Tonbridge boundaries, via Watts Cross and Hildenborough, through Tonbridge Town, and via Quarry Hill, Bounds Corner, Castle Hill, Fairthorne Gate and Southborough to Woodsgate. The final map shows the section from Woodsgate to Kippings Cross. The Turnpike Trust to improve the road between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells via Tunbridge and Woodsgate was established by an Act of 1709, which was enlarged by the subsequent Acts of 1724 (creating also a short extension from Woodsgate to Kippings Cross) and of 1740. The depiction of Tonbridge railway station on map 3 confirms a date after 1842. A scarce example of a turnpike map provided for practical use by the officers of the Trustees. [ref: 20341 ] £350 1254.

WROTHAM TO FOOT’S CRAY 1255. TURNPIKE ROADS. WROTHAM HEATH TO FOOTS CRAY. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for repairing the Road leading from the Royal Oak on Wrotham Heath, to the town of Wrotham...and from thence to the Village of Foot’s Cray... Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, London. 1752 Disbound in plastic sleeve. Folio. 7.75 x 12.25 inches. [2] + 202-203 pp. Illustrated with royal arms on title page and vignette initial at start of main text, which is in black letter. This turnpike Act establishes a trust to improve the twenty mile stretch of road from Wrotham Heath via Wrotham to Foots Cray. The preamble states that this highway ‘is, by reason of the heavy Carriages frequently passing through the same, greatly in Decay; and is very bad and deep in the Winter Season; and in many Places very narrow and incommodious, so that

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Carriages are frequently hindered and delayed in the said Road...’ The Act makes detailed provision for the collection of tolls (and exemptions from payment), the erection of milestones and gates (including side-gates from adjoining roads), the appointment of officers such as surveyors, and their powers, the authority to sell parts of the old road ‘for the best Price that can be got for the same,’ the use of ‘Statute-work’ (part of the parish highway repair system established by the 1555 Act), the penalties for evasion and for the system of financial administration and accountability required to operate the turnpike system. Around one hundred named trustees (some names are partly left blank in the text), composed of local nobility, gentry and clergy were appointed and invested with powers to oversee the administration and operation of the trust. ESTC N52572 [ref: 20431 ] £45 TUTT, W. G. RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SHEERNESS CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED. [Cover title:] Sheerness Cooperative Society Limited. Established 14th December, 1849. A Souvenir of the Society’s Jubilee February, 1900. Shewing its Rise and Progress by W. G. Tutt President. London Co-operative Printing Society Limited, Tudor Street, New Bridge Street, E.C; and at Manchester and Newcastle. 1900 8vo. 5 x 7.25 inches. 99 pp. + [1] pp. Title page in red and black. Illustrated by black and white photographs and drawings; decorated with title page vignettes and publisher’s device at end. Bound in original decorated burgundy cloth, gilt. Extremities a little worn but otherwise a fine copy. An attractive production with photos of the staff and shop etc. Very scarce. and not listed in the Kent Bibliography. COPAC records two copies in the British Library and the Bishopsgate Library. [ref: 21643 ] £35 1256.

TWYSDEN, SIR, ROGER. KENT RECORDS. THE TWYSDEN LIEUTENANCY PAPERS, 1583-1686. Edited with an introduction by Gladys Scott Thomson, M.A., Somerville College, Oxford. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Issued to the Subscribers to the Records Branch, Kent Archaeological Society. (Kent Records. Volume X). Ashford Kent Archaeological Society, Records Branch. 1926 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. xi + [i] + 124 pp + [2]. Serial title page. Illustrated by folding map, serving as frontispiece and by 2 black and white photographic plates. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with the Society’s device on front boards. Slight wear to extremities, otherwise a fine copy. Bookplate of John Avery, F.C.A., Woodford Green, Essex. The great mass of Twysden papers held in the archives of the British Museum, in Kent and in private hands were all examined and rendered here accessible to the general reader. This volume prints the book of Sir Roger Twysden (1597-1672) concerning the Lieutenancy of Kent, 1660-68 and 1257.

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calendars his collection of papers relating to the Lieutenancy,1583-1622. These are largely concerned with the defence of the county, the musters and levies, raised against the threat of invasion, and their arms and equipment. Sir Roger lists the Armada beacons along the Shepway coast from Caldam, Sandgate and Postling to Lydd and the editor has added a facsimile of the ‘Carde of the Beacons’, which appeared in the second edition, 1596, of Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent. There is also a genealogical table of the Twysden family, 1500-1672. [ref: 21176 ] £35 UGLOW, CAPTAIN JIM, MBE. SAILORMAN. A BargeMaster’s Story. Conway Maritime Press, London. 1975 8vo. 163 pp. illustrated with a number of b/w photographs collected by Tony Farnham. Original pale blue cloth. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. The story of a seasoned sailorman and successful racing skipper. [ref: 20817 ] £15 1258.

ULLYETT, HENRY. RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST ROUND FOLKESTONE. With occasional papers on the fauna and flora of the district, to which are added lists of plants, lepidoptera, birds, and land and freshwater shells, by Henry Ullyett, B.Sc., F.R.G.S., Honorary Secretary to the Folkestone Natural History Society. Folkestone J. English, Steam Printer, High Street, and all booksellers. 1880 8vo. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. [vi] + 157 pp. + [1]. Decorated with tailpiece vignettes. Bound in original blocked green cloth. Head of spine a little frayed otherwise a clean, sound copy. Accounts of nature rambles in Folkestone’s countryside and occasional papers on a number of species. It also includes useful lists of plants, butterflies, moths, birds and shells found within six miles of the town. Henry Ullyett (1838-98) was master of St Mary’s School in Dover Road, President of Folkestone Museum and founder of the Folkestone Natural History Society and of art and science classes in the town. Ros McCarthy, Arnold Henry Ullyett site. [ref: 21079 ] £50 1259.

URRY, WILLIAM. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE AND CANTERBURY. Edited with an introduction by Andrew Butcher. London Faber and Faber. 1988 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xl + 184 pp. Half-title. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Paper browned, otherwise good condition. Dr William Urry (1913-1981) was the city and cathedral archivist at Canterbury and left this book in manuscript, which has been edited by Andrew Butcher, University of Kent. His introduction includes an account of William Urry and Canterbury and a section on the biography of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93), with a particular emphasis on his family origins and education in Canterbury, before he moved on to Cambridge and London. Eight appendices include documents relating to his life and background. [ref: 21240 ] £12 1260.

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URRY, WILLIAM. THOMAS BECKET: HIS LAST DAYS Edited with an Introduction by Peter A. Rowe. Stroud Sutton Publishing 1999 4to. 7 x 10 inches. xv + 192 pp. Half-title. Illustrated with black and white photographs and plans in text. Original black cloth, gilt in coloured pictorial dust 1261.

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VAYNES, JULIA H.L. DE. (EDITOR). THE KENTISH GARLAND. With Additional Notes, and Pictorial Illustrations copied from the rare Originals, by J. B. Ebsworth, M.A., F.R.S.A. Hertford, Stephen Austin & Sons, 1882. Limited Edition, only 150 copies printed. 2 vols. Vol.I. xx + 455 pp. Vol.II. xix + 446-950 pp. + v + list of subscribers, with engraved illustrations in the text throughout. Original blue decorated cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed at extremities, spine of volume one snagged but neatly repaired. A very good set. A good set of this most important collection of Kentish ballads, music, poetry and legends, Kent is fortunate to have such a comprehensive collection, culled from the rare broadside ballads and poetry collections, in an indexed and easily accessible form. [ref: 21633 ] £175 1263.

VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY. KENT. Ed. WILLIAM PAGE. Archibald Constable and Company Ltd. and The St. Catherine Press. 1908, 1926 and 1932 1264.

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First Edition. Folio. Three volumes, with maps, plates and illustrations throughout. Volumes I and II finely bound by Sawyer in full red crushed morocco, gilt; with spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt title and Tudor rose and crown decoration in each compartment, and date to base of spines and all edges gilt. Volume III is in original red cloth, with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spine and upper board. Volumes I and II have the bookplate of Annie Cowdray to the front pastedown. The V.C.H. grand scheme projected five volumes for Kent but only three were ever published in 1908, 1926 and 1932. The gestation period of the book clearly defeated Annie Cowdray and she did not manage to have the third volume bound, nonetheless the first two volumes are very attractive and lavishly bound. The work covers the early history, ecclesiastical history, archaeology, natural history, geology, maritime history and many other subjects and remains a very useful work. [ref: 18196 ] £450 1265.

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VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY, KENT. EDITOR WILLIAM Dawsons 1974 Folio. Three volumes, with maps, plates and illustrations throughout. Bound in red cloth gilt. A fine copy in original glassine wrappers. These are the Dawson reprint produced in 1976 and are now out of print. Covering the early history, ecclesiastical history, archaeology, natural history, geology, maritime history and many other subjects it remains a very useful work. For a modern reprint quite high production values were maintained. [ref: 17066 ] £250

VIDLER, L.A. A NEW HISTORY OF RYE. With Fifty Illustrations First published by Combridges-Hove-Sussex-1934. This edition published by Gouldens-Rye-Sussex-1971. 1971 Facsimile reprint of the first edition, 4to. xii + 180 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and illustrations in text. Original cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by Michael Renton. The best Rye history, reprinted with a few corrections and a new dust wrapper. This facsimile reprint did make the book common for a time, but this edition is out of print now and becoming difficult to find; its major virtue being that it is half the price of the early edition. Leopold Amon Vidler (1870-1954) was a native of Rye, Mayor from 1927-28 and founder and first curator of the Rye Museum. The history first appeared in monthly instalments in the Sussex County Magazine, 1933. [ref: 20266 ] £40 1266.

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VINE, FRANCIS T. CAESAR IN KENT. The landing of Julius Caesar and his battles with the ancient Britons with some account of early British trade and enterprise Privately Printed. 1886 Square 8vo. xiii + 242 pp. with title page vignette. Earlier owner’s quarterbinding initialled and titled gilt, and bookplate on front paste down and later bookplate on front endpaper. Presentation statement from the author to G. Payne on the front free endpaper and four page letter to the same, dated 1886, pasted in opposite title page. Sepia photograph of The Marquis Conyngham, to whom the book is dedicated, pasted in opposite the dedication. Occasional ink comments and corrections in the text by Mr Payne, the original owner. Although not in its original printed wrappers, this is a very interesting copy of a presentation volume with inscription and letter from the author. [ref: 19015 ] £80 1267.

1268. VINE, P.A.L. THE ROYAL MILITARY CANAL. David and Charles. 1972 8vo. 239 pp. with maps, plans and illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Standard work on the subject, long out of print and much in demand. [ref: 10650 ] £30

VINE, REV. FRANCIS T. CAESAR IN KENT. THE LANDING OF JULIUS CAESAR AND HIS BATTLES WITH THE ANCIENT BRITONS, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF EARLY BRITISH TRADE AND ENTERPRISE. Elliot Stock, 1887. Second Edition, xiii + 248 pp. with title page vignette and two folding maps Original cloth, gilt. Slight wear to head and tail of spine and spine darkened and boards evenly spotted. Library stamp to front free endpaper. Edges untrimmed. Front inner hinge cracked but holding, otherwise a good copy. Two maps are added to the revised edition of this interesting work. Library stamp to front free endpaper. [ref: 21758 ] £35 1269.

VIRTUE, GEORGE. VIRTUE'S PICTURESQUE BEAUTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN: SERIES OF VIEWS. By the most approved artists, taken expressly for this work, Messrs G. Shepherd, H. Gasteneau, etc. etc. Comprising the Principal Cities and Towns, Public Edifices and Dock Yards; Seats of the Nobilility and Gentry, Hospitals, Churches, Castellated and Monastic Ruins, etc, Accompanied by Historical and Biographical Notices, Combining Every Interesting Object, Ancient and Modern, from an Elaborate Survey, and Original Designs taken upon the spot. Kent. G. Virtue, 1829 1270.

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4to. 11 x 9 inches. Engraved title with steel engraved vignette, full page frontispiece of Canterbury Cathedral, letterpress title opposite the folding engraved map,130 pp. and 126 steel engraved plates, printed two to a page. Unsympathetic recent full-calf gilt, but preserving the original labels. Some occasional foxing, occasionally quite severe, but otherwise a good copy. The principal engraved view book of 19th century Kentish topography. [ref: 19470 ] £325

WALKER, J. AND C. WALKER’S [FOLDING MAP OF] KENT. Printed by J. & C. Walker, n.d. but c.1843 Hand-coloured engraved map, 16 x 13 inches. Dissected and mounted on linen folding into original cloth boards with the original label on the upper board and mileage chart on inner paste-down. A very good example. Nice example of this map of Kent with boundaries of the Lathes, Railways (such as there were at this date, South Eastern to Dover, and Canterbury and Whitstable) and parklands etc. [ref: 15905 ] £65 1271.

WALLENBERG, J.K. KENTISH PLACE NAMES. A TOPOGRAPHICAL AND ETYMOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE PLACE -NAME MATERIAL IN KENTISH CHARTERS DATED BEFORE THE CONQUEST. Uppsala, 1931. First and only edition, 378 pp. Skilfully bound in modern buckram, a near mint copy. The first of the two definitive studies of Kentish Place Names, issued in wrappers only, this has been very well bound in a strong and attractive working binding. This fundamental work has never been reprinted and demand always outstrips supply. Rare. [ref: 21634 ] £165 1272.

WALMER - CURZON, GEORGE NATHANIEL, 1ST MARQUESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON. THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF WALMER CASTLE AND ITS LORDS WARDEN. By The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston K.G. Edited by Stephen Gwynn. London Macmillan and Co. Limited, St. Matrin’s Street. 1927 First Edition. 8vo. 6.5 x 8.25 inches. xv + [i] + 329 pp. + [1]. Half title. Illustrated by 41 photographic plates, including frontispiece and by two text engravings.

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Bound in original decorated cloth, gilt. Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy. Complete history of the Wardens of the Cinque Ports, and the structure and content of the Castle. A very useful work. We have a second copy, rebound in red cloth, with contrasting morocco label, gilt, small neat library stamps at lower edge of each plate and bookplate of David Pilgrim, £30. Kent Bibliography [ref: 16772 ] £35

WALMER - ELVIN, REV. CHARLES S. THE HISTORY OF WALMER AND WALMER CASTLE. Cross & Jackman, Canterbury. 1897 8vo. 151 pp. with photo illustration. Original card wrappers with paper label on upper cover, a little worn on extremities, but a good copy. The first printing of this work was produced by the author in a subscription edition of around 125 copies in 1894. This reissue is also scarce. [ref: 16865 ] £65 1274.

WALSH, RICHARD. KATHLEEN. The Biography of a Sailing Barge. Terence Dalton, Lavenham. 1986 Ex-library copy with the usual markings.190 pp. b/w photo illustration throughout. Blue library binding in dust wrapper. Lacking front free endpaper otherwise a good copy. [ref: 20797 ] £15 1275.

WALTON, ROBIN A. E. OASTS IN KENT 16th-20th CENTURY. THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT. Maidstone: Christine Swift, 45 Scott Street. 1984 First edition. 4to. 10.5 x 8 inches, [12] + 134 pp.+ [3] . Original brown cloth gilt in dust wrapper. A very good clean copy. The standard work on the subject, now out of print. [ref: 19905 ] £35 1276.

WANOSTROCHT, CHARLES. Collected by SANDWICH IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. Alan Sutton. 1993 160 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original glossy paper wrappers. Part of the popular soft-bound ‘Britain in old photographs’ series. [ref: 18012 ] £10 1277.

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WARD, LOCK & CO. GUIDE TO BROADSTAIRS, RAMSGATE, MARGATE, HERNE BAY, CANTERBURY AND NORTH EAST KENT. Ward, Lock and Co. 1950 Eleventh Edition. 8 + 152 pp., + viii pp. adverts with maps and photo illustration. Original red pictorial cloth. Universally popular guides, now becoming more difficult to find. The large folding maps of the towns are an invaluable record. [ref: 7356 ] £15 1278.

WARD, LOCK & CO. A PICTORIAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE, DYMCHURCH, NEW ROMNEY, LITTLESTONE ON SEA, RYE, ETC. Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. but c.1950 176 pp., + 14 pp., adverts with maps and photo illustration. Original red pictorial cloth. Popular guides now becoming more difficult to find. This is one of the first issues after the second world war. [ref: 8722 ] £10 1279.

WARD LOCK AND CO. GUIDE TO FOLKESTONE, HYTHE, AND THE KENT COAST....... Edited by Reginald J.W. Hammond. Ward, Lock & Co. n.d. but c.1953 Second Edition. 192 pp. + 3 folding maps and photo illustrations. Original red pictorial cloth in a slightly worn dust wrapper. An extremely good copy. The ‘Second Edition’ seems to relate to it being the second post-war issue which was probably the last of this series. [ref: 16369 ] £10 1280.

WARD, LOCK AND CO. GUIDES TO THE KENT COAST TOWNS . Ward, Lock and Co. We have a range of the Kentish guides. Please enquire. [ref: 20653 ] £ 1281.

WARD, LOCK AND CO. A PICTORIAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE, DYMCHURCH, NEW ROMNEY, LITTLESTONE ON SEA, ETC. Ward, Lock and Co., 1920 - 21 Sixth edition - Revised. 16 + xx + 80 pp. + 80 pp. adverts with maps and photo illustration. Original red pictorial cloth. Well-thumbed and lacking one district map, one map neatly excised, laid on to linen, and housed in a tippedin envelope. Popular guides now becoming more difficult to find. The folding maps of the towns are an invaluable record. An idiosyncratic copy, apparently the 1282.

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former property of a Folkestone hotelier/boarding house owner. It was presumably lent to guests during their stay, hence the reinforcing of the Folkestone map. [ref: 14300 ] £15 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WARNICKE, RETHA. M. WILLIAM LAMBARDE. Elizabethan Antiquary 1536-1601. Chichester Phillimore. 1973 First Edition. 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches. xv + [i] + 188 pp. Illustrated with four plates, including portrait frontispiece. Bound in original blue cloth in pictorial dust wrapper. A detailed survey of Lambarde’s career and historical writings. This copy is signed by the author and presented to Elizabeth Melling, of Kent Archives thanking her for her help. We have an other copy at £25, with price clipped dust wrapper. [ref: 21159 ] £35 1283.

WARREN, JOHN, Editor. WEALDEN BUILDINGS. Studies in the timber-framed tradition of building in Kent, Sussex and Surrey in tribute to R. T. Mason FSA. Editor: John Warren, M.LITT, RIBA, FRTPI, FSA. Horsham Produced for the Wealden Buildings Study Group by Coach Publishing. 1990 Large 8vo. 6.25 x 9 inches. xi + [i] + 232 pp. Half title with errata slip pasted to verso. Illustrated throughout with map, plans and black and white photographs. Bound in original green cloth, gilt with pictorial dust wrapper. Fine condition. A tribute to Reginald T. Mason, FSA, author of Framed Buildings of the Weald, by members of the Wealden Buildings Study Group. [ref: 21777 ] £20 1284.

WATSON, HILARY. THE BOOK OF MAIDSTONE . KENT’S COUNTY TOWN. Barracuda Books Ltd., Buckingham. 1981 First Edition, 8vo. 144 pp. With illustrations throughout. Original cloth, gilt spine slightly faded, otherwise in near mint condition in the original dust wrapper. A good general and social history of the town.* Signed presentation copy. This volume was produced as a limited edition, this is number 59 of about 350 copies. [ref: 17961 ] £30 1285.

1286. WEBB, ANTHONY. Compiled by. BATTLE OVER KENT. Published by the author. 1990 Extended edition. [28 pp.] with b/w illustration throughout. Original pictorial card wrappers. A mint copy signed and inscribed by the author ‘To Dave with best wishes from Tony Webb’. From the collection of historian David Collyer. [ref: 18453 ] £10

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FIRST BOOK ON CHANNEL SWIMMING 1287. WEBB, MATTHEW. THE ART OF SWIMMING BY CAPTAIN WEBB THE CHANNEL SWIMMER. (EDITED BY A.G. PAYNE). Ward, Lock and Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row. no date but [1875] First Edition, 8vo. 111 pp. + [1] + [4] pp. advertisements. Illustrated with a colour printed frontispiece portrait and three full-page, wood-engraved plates. Bound in decorated blue cloth with a gilt portrait of Webb as part of the design on the cover. This is the earliest published account of Captain Webb’s great swim of August 1875, rushed into print to satisfy the public demand for an account of the event. The book appeared in three different issues: the first bound in blue cloth with a gilt portrait of Webb as part of the cover design, which Thomas in his Bibliography of Swimming dates to 1875; the second is a ‘Yellowback’ paper-covered edition which he is unable to positively date but speculates 1876; and the third version is another hard bound edition, identical to the first in every respect apart from the cloth colour being red, the absence of the coloured frontispiece and a cancel title page with the publisher’s imprint altered. The cheap ‘paperback’ issue of Webb’s book is, due to its ephemeral nature, probably the scarcest of the three issues, Thomas’s speculation is that it was later than the first issue (this may well be wrong as it would seem most likely that the hard bound 2/6d issue would be sold alongside the cheaper 1/issue). The Victorians were clever at marketing, and from the beginning Captain Webb controlled the published records of his swim together with A.G. Payne, who was a respected sports journalist who was a friend of Webb’s and witnessed the swim. They issued a fairly well constructed book giving a short life of Webb, followed by an instruction book on swimming, and a résumé of recent swimming feats, finally the first-hand account (by Payne) of Webb’s first unsuccessful attempt and last of all his successful swim. Webb was one of the first sportsmen to value himself as a ‘brand’ in the way sports celebrities do today. [ref: 20281 ] £375 1288. WEBB, WILLIAM. KENT’S HISTORIC BUILDINGS. Hale. 1977 192 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy. A useful general survey of our castles, abbeys and larger houses together with their history and legends. [ref: 10903 ] £12

WEST, JENNY. THE WINDMILLS OF KENT. Charles Skilton. 1973 4to.126 pp. with diagrams and photo illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper, A very good copy. [ref: 16868 ] £25 1289.

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WEST, JULIE, edited by DEBRETT'S PEOPLE OF KENT. Edited by Julie West. Executive Editor Patricia Ellis. Series Co-ordinator Michelle Jacques. London Debrett’s Peerage Limited. 1990 First edition. 4to. 7.5 x i0 inches. 72 + 205 pp. + [44] pp. Half-title. Illustrated by colour and black and white photographs. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Decorative endpapers. Slight wear to extremities but otherwise fine condition. A list of the county’s notables in 1990, preserved in print. [ref: 21243 ] £20 1290.

WEYDA, RON, with BOB HORLOCK. THE RACING HORLOCKS 1868-1971. A tribute to Chubb Horlock and his family’s Thames Barge racing endeavours. Ron Weyda with Bob Horlock. Design by Mike Fryer. Mistley, Essex R. J. Horlock, Calm Waters, Mistley, Essex, CO11 1HS. 2008 4to. 7x 9.75 inches. [2] + vi + 160 pp. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers, 8 pages of colour plates and black and white photographs, drawings and maps in text. Bound in coloured laminated pictorial boards. Fine condition. An account of the racing history of the Horlock family of Mistley, important operators and owners of sailing barges in the Harwich area from the 1830s until the demise of the trade in the 1950s. Chapter 2 is a detailed survey of the design of the sailing barges, and the rest of the book is largely concerned with describing racing achievements in the estuaries of the Thames and Medway and of the Stour and Blackwater in Essex. Appendices give a systematic survey of of the Horlock race history and an index of the barges. [ref: 21124 ] £40 1291.

KENT CATHOLICS WHATMORE, L.E. RECUSANCY IN KENT: STUDIES AND DOCUMENTS. By Revd. L. E. Whatmore, M.A., F.R. Hist.S. [C.W. Field, 26, High Street, Robertsbridge]. 1973 [Preface dated 19 October 1974] Large 4to. 8.5 x 13.5 inches. [viii] + 63 pp. + [4] pp. Stapled paper wrappers. Duplicated foolscap size typescript and letterpress title page and front wrapper. Slight wear to extremities, otherwise in fine condition. ‘Among the papers of the late Arthur Hussey of Wingham and presented by his wife to the Kent Archaeological Society (bundle 14, Arthur Hussey Mss, Museum, Maidstone) are some 150 quarto sheets concerning Kentish recusants...’ This collection publishes these transcripts with additional material from the now defunct Southwark Record. It includes population statistics for East Kent parishes, 1557-63 and lists of recusants for 1581-93 and 1678. Leonard Elliott Whatmore (1912-82), born in Hastings, was a scholar and Catholic priest who served in the parishes of Polegate and Hailsham, Sussex, 1966-78. As a historian, he was particularly interested in the subjects of recusancy and catholic loyalism. His works also included 1292.

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WHITNEY, CHARLES. BYGONE HYTHE WITH SALTWOOD, SEABROOK AND LYMPNE Phillimore. 1989 4to. [126] pp. With photo illustration throughout. Bound in cloth, gilt, in dustwrapper. A mint example. Well-compiled photographic history, now out of print. [ref: 20259 ] £15 1294.

REPORT ON OYSTER BEDS WHITSTABLE - GREAT BRITAIN. LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. ON OYSTER CULTURE IN RELATION TO DISEASE. Twenty-fourth annual report of The Local Government Board, 1894-95. Supplement in continuation of the Report of the Medical Officer for 1894-95. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. [C.- 8214.]. Half title: Report and papers on the cultivation and storage of oysters and certain other molluscs in relation to the occurrence of disease in man submitted by the Medical Officer of The Local Government Board. Bound with: Supplement in continuation of the Report of the Medical Officer for 1894-95. Inland Sanitary Survey, 1893-95. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. [C.- 8215.]. Half title: Report on the Inland Sanitary Survey, 1893-95; submitted by the Medical Officer of The Local Government Board. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode. London: 1896 8vo. [2] + xxvi + 174 pp. illustrated with 4 photographs, 24 folding maps in colour and black and white and 16 plates. Inland Sanitary Survey, viii + 284 pp. illustrated with one folding coloured map. Bound in green cloth library binding, gilt with original card front covers of two parts preserved. Small library stamps on covers and title pages. Detached cover of Oyster Culture report chipped at edges. Interiors clean. The report was commissioned to determine the extent of the bacterial

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SIGNED COPY WHITSTABLE RAILWAY - HART, BRIAN. THE CANTERBURY AND WHITSTABLE RAILWAY. Wild Swan Publications, 1991 4to. [6] + 186 pp. with photo illustrations throughout. A fine copy in original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. Signed by the Author. 1296.

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The now standard history of this historic branch line, the largest collection of pictures of the line ever published. Only a small number were printed and the book is now scarce. [ref: 19650 ] £60 WIDDOWS, NICK. FERRIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND NORTHERN EUROPE 2000. Ferry Publications, Narberth. 2000 8vo. 223 pp. illustrated throughout in colour. Original laminated pictorial boards. Very small split at head of spine, otherwise fine. A comprehensive look at the ferry operators of the British Isles and Northern Europe with full details of companies, routes and vessels. [ref: 19521 ] £10 1297.

WILKS, GEORGE. THE EARLY HISTORY OF HYTHE. The Early History of Hythe. By George Wilks, Town Clerk. [London] [Printed by McCorquodale]. [1889] 4to. 8.75 x 10.5 inches. 27 + [1] pp. Text in Latin and English. Stiff card wrappers. Title in ink. This was Part I, but no further parts were published. A compilation of early charters and grants, from 732 to 1257, relating to Hythe and Saltwood. At this period the borough of Hythe was part of the manor of Saltwood. The charters are given in full in Latin, including a list of the signatories, followed by an English translation. Other documents include the Domesday entries for the manors of Lyminge and Saltwood and the Right to Wreck. A scarce item; COPAC lists only three copies, all held in London, The Guildhall Library, the Society of Antiquaries and Lambeth Palace. The Kent Bibliography indicates a copy held by Folkestone Public Library. Kent Bibliography. [ref: 21063 ] £45 1298.

1299. WILLIAMSON, J.A. THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. A HISTORY. Collins. 1961 381 pp. with maps and photo illustration throughout. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy of the first edition. The scope of this book is the English shore of the Channel and the activities upon it of nature and man, from the shaping of the coast in ancient times to the making of the modern holiday resorts. [ref: 10904 ] £18

WILLIS, A.J. CHURCH LIFE IN KENT, BEING CHURCH COURT RECORDS OF THE CANTERBURY DIOCESE 1559-1565 London and Chichester Phillimore. 1975 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches, vii + 97 pp. Original cloth with dust wrapper. A very good copy with Kent historian Elizabeth Melling’s ownership signature. Now out of print. [ref: 21140 ] £12 1300.

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Privately Published. 1972. x + 78 pp. with numerous photographic illustrations. Bound in the original illustrated boards, a very good copy. The history of Eastwoods Ltd., Brickmakers and Bargeowners. At the same time it is the story of some of the people of Lower Halstow, Conyer, Rainham etc. Interesting insight into Thames and Medway bargemen. The work was privately printed and the run was quite restricted, hence its scarcity. [ref: 18838 ] £35

WINCHELSEA - COOPER, WILLIAM DURRANT. THE HISTORY OF WINCHELSEA, ONE OF THE ANCIENT TOWNS ADDED TO THE CINQUE PORTS. John Russell Smith, Old Compton Street, Soho. Hastings: Henry Osborne, 55, George Street. 1850 First edition. vii + 264 pp. illustrated with a folding map of Winchelsea and 5 steelengraved plates, (four with double views), 3 tinted lithographs and 2 wood-engraved plates. Original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt. This copy was a reference library copy but seems to have been little used, and is in good condition. Apart from a blind-stamp on the upper cover and signs of stamp removal from front free endpaper, it has survived unscathed. Still a fundamental book on the history of Winchelsea. scarce. [ref: 19509 ] £100 1302.

WINN, CAPTAIN GEORGE. SAILING BARGE MASTER. The Story of a Victorian Bargeman. Chaffcutter Books, Ware. 2009 166 pp. with b/w illustration throughout. Original laminated pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. [ref: 20802 ] £15 1303.

WINN, JEAN. Edited by. RINGWOULD. A SMALL VILLAGE IN KENT. Ringwould History Society. No date but 1999 102 pp. with illustrations. Original coloured pictorial card wrappers. Near fine. [ref: 18471 ] £10 1304.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WINNIFRITH, Rev. A. THE FAIR MAIDS OF KENT, BY A MAN OF KENT. Folkestone. F.J. Parsons. No date but 1921. 1305.

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8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 110 pp. with portrait frontis and 8 other photo illustrations. A presentation copy from the author to Miss Hedgeland, inscribed and dated July 19 1921. Original red cloth, gilt. Spine and top of front board faded, as is usual. A fascinating survey of the famous historical women of Kent. [ref: 21756 ] £30 WINNIFRITH, Rev. A. MEN OF KENT AND KENTISH MEN. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF 680 WORTHIES OF KENT, WRITTEN BY A MAN OF KENT. ByThe Rev. A. Winnifrith, M.A., Oxon., Late Rector of Mariansleigh, Author of ‘Continental Travels,’ ‘Poems,’ etc. Folkestone F. J. Parsons Ltd., Printers, The Bayle. 1913 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 562 pp. with folding map and frontis. portrait and illus. in text. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, with facsimile signature, folding map at end and black and white illustrations in text. Bound in original red cloth gilt, with vignette of county arms on front board. Spine and edges of boards faded and some water stains on front, but a good interior. An important and impressive work of reference unlikely to be surpassed. Includes index of professions and birthplaces at end. Kent Bibliography Supplement. [ref: 21679 ] £40 1306.

WINSTANLEY, MICHAEL J. LIFE IN KENT AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. Dawson, Folkestone 1978 8vo. 236 with photographic illustrations and text figures. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Based on material collected for an oral history project at the University of Kent from August 1974 to August 1977. Sections cover rural life, fishermen and town dwellers with select bibliography. [ref: 19018 ] £15 1307.

WISEMAN, GORDON. HISTORY OF THE WAKERING AND BARLING BARGES. Exton Society for Sailing Barge Research, ‘The Holt,’ Exton, Exeter, EX3 0PN. 1999 8vo. 5.75 x 8 inches. [8] + 63 pp + [1] pp. Illustrated by black and white photographs and maps. In pictorial card wrappers. Slight wear to extremities; otherwise fine condition. This book is an account of the barges serving the brickfields north east of Southend (in the villages of Barling and Great and Little Wakering), which also carried agricultural cargoes. It includes systematic lists of the owners, crews, and of the barges themselves, many being constructed in Kent shipyards. [ref: 21131 ] £12 1308.

WITNEY, KENNETH, Editor. THE SURVEY OF ARCHBISHOP’S PECHAM’S KENTISH MANORS 1283-85. Translated, Edited and with an Introduction by Kenneth Witney. Foreword by Dr Joan Thirsk. (Kent Records. Volume XXVIII).

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Maidstone Kent Archaeological Society. 2000 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. [2] + lxxxiv + [2] + 390 pp. Serial title. Illustrated by frontispiece, two maps and figure in text. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with the Society’s device on front board, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. A comprehensive survey of the Kentish manors of Archbishop Pecham (12791292), carried out in 1283-85 and translated from the Latin of a fifteenth century copy held in Canterbury Cathedral Library. The seventeen manors described are Wingham, Reculver, Westgate, Maidstone, Gillingham, Teynham, Boughton under Blean, Charing, Aldington, Saltwood, Lyminge, Petham, Bishopsbourne, Otford, Wrotham, Northfleet and Bexley and their associated dens in the Weald. They comprised 16-17% of Kent’s total acreage, or 21-22% of the well-settled area. The survey was transcribed and translated with an introduction, by Kenneth Witney (1916-99), a distinguished historian of early medieval Kent and author of The Jutish Forest and The Kingdom Of Kent. It was further checked and proof read by by Dr Joan Thirsk, who also wrote an introduction to the Lambeth Summaries (Appendix D), which supplies an alternative and more succinct survey of the same manors. Witney’s introduction analyses the survey and sets it in its historical context. It covers the farming of the Archbishop’s own demesne lands, including the arable, meadow, pasture, upland woods, the dens, mills and employed manorial staff. The other half of the land of the manors was let out in tenancies and the different types of these, including the particular Kentish custom of gavel kind, are discussed in some depth. The final section analyses the economic condition of the husbandmen. A valuable account of Kentish farming practice and landholding as it it reached its peak of productivity before the disasters of the first half of the fourteenth century. [ref: 21204 ] £35 WITNEY, K.P. THE JUTISH FOREST A STUDY OF THE WEALD OF KENT FROM 450 TO 1380 A.D. University of London, The Athlone Press, 1976 First Edition, 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches xvi + 339 pp. with illustrations in text. Original cloth, gilt, in the scarce dust wrapper. A fine copy. This exemplary work was only issued in a small edition, and has not been, and is unlikely to be reprinted. Much in demand. [ref: 21162 ] £100 1310.

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Phillimore. 1982. First Edition, 4to. 292 pp. with illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper, a good copy Now out of print, the Dark Age in the Kingdom of Kent. A classic study. [ref: 17448 ] £35 1312.

CROSS CHANNEL SWIMMING. WOLFFE, JABEZ. THE TEXT-BOOK OF SWIMMING. By ‘Jappy’ Wolffe. Ewart, Seymour and Co. Ltd., 12, Burleigh Street, Strand, London, W.C. [1910]

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8vo. 4.75 x 7 inches. 90 pp. + [6] pp. advertisements. Illustrated by numerous black and white photographs and other plates. Original pictorial stiff card with unlettered cloth spine. Extremities a little worn but otherwise fine condition. ‘Probably the unluckiest Channel swimmer in history’ (Dover Museum), Wolffe made over twenty attempts on the crossing from 1906-13, failing by only about 100 yards in 1911. Jabez Wolffe (1877-1943) held a number of marathon swimming records as well as being a walker, cyclist and rower, being able to complete a triathlon in these events. Unsuccessful himself, he coached other successful cross Channel swimmers, although he failed with Gertrude Eberle (1906-2003) in her 1925 attempt, after he ordered her to be pulled from the water when she was merely resting. The following year, using a different trainer, she became the first woman to achieve the swim. Chapter IX of this book describes Wolffe’s preparations and his first seven attempts, using ‘Wolffe’s ‘own’ stroke.’ His half-hourly feeds included chicken sandwiches and broth, biscuits and jam, Oxo, chocolate, weak tea and cocoa, which were either handed to him from the boat by his trainer, Brickett, or in the case of rougher seas, passed to him in a watertight vessel attached using a fishing rod. One version of this book (1908) bears the title page imprint of the weekly Health and Strength (whose publications, owned by Ewart Seymour, are listed at the back of the volume). It was reprinted several more times, with a seventh (undated) edition appearing after 1923. Wolffe also published Swimming Short and Long Distance (editions 1926-38). A scarce source on cross Channel swimming; COPAC notes only three copies of the 1908 version and two of this 1910 edition (British Library and Liverpool). [ref: 20856 ] £150 CROSS CHANNEL SWIMMING 1313. WOLFFE, JABEZ. THE TEXTBOOK OF SWIMMING. By Jabez Wolffe. Seventh edition. London Link House, 54 and 55, Fetter Lane. [n.d.] but after 1923 8vo. 5 x 7.25 inches. 79 + [1] pp. advertisements. Half title. Illustrated by numerous black and white photographs and other plates. Original blue pictorial stiff card. Extremities a little worn, but otherwise fine condition. ‘Probably the unluckiest Channel swimmer in history’ (Dover Museum), Wolffe made over twenty attempts on the crossing from 1906-13, failing by only about 100 yards in 1911. Jabez Wolffe (1877-1943) held a number of marathon swimming records as well as being a walker, cyclist and rower, being able to complete a triathlon in these events. Unsuccessful himself, he coached other successful cross Channel swimmers, although he failed with Gertrude Eberle (1906-2003) in her 1925 attempt, after he ordered her to be pulled from the water when she was merely resting. The following year, using a different trainer, she became the first woman to achieve the swim. 405

Chapter IX of this book describes his first seven attempts, Wolffe also published Swimming Short and Long Distance (editions 1926-38). The Textbook is a scarce item, first published around 1908; COPAC records only one copy of the seventh edition (in St. Andrews). The sixth edition appeared in 1922, according to the British Library, so this seventh, and possibly last, must date from a few years later [ref: 21340 ] £75

WOOD, WALTER. NORTH SEA FISHERS AND FIGHTERS. With colour and pencil illustrations by Frank H. Mason and Photographs by the Author. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., 1911 4to. 366 pp. Illustrated with 6 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Bound in the original pictorial decorated cloth, gilt. A very good copy. A handsome production, reminiscent of the best of A. and C. Black’s colour books, documenting the end of sail and the early days of steam. Includes chapters on the Channel and Goodwin Sands etc. [ref: 20900 ] £60 1314.

WOODCOCK, JOE. REMINISCENCES OF OLD CRANBROOK. Meresborough Books, Rainham. 1987 48 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. Original laminated card wrappers. Useful history now out of print. [ref: 18665 ] £10 1315.

WOOD-LEGH, KATHLEEN L. Edited by KENTISH VISITATIONS OF ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM WARHAM AND HIS DEPUTIES, 1511-1512. (Kent Records. Volume XXIV). Maidstone Kent Archaeological Society. 1984 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xvii +[i] + 343 pp. + [1]. Serial title. Text in Latin and English. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with Society’s device on front board, with pictorial dust wrapper. In fine condition. In the English medieval church, visitations by diocesan bishops or their deputies were made at regular intervals to every religious house (seventeen monasteries, priories and collegiate churches are included) or church under their jurisdiction. In the deaneries section (covering the eleven deaneries of the diocese), complaints and defects were noted in the comperta list for each church visited and responses and actions taken, in the following Acta section. An interesting survey of the diocese of Canterbury carried out at 1316.

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the end of the medieval period by William Warham, the last preReformation archbishop (1503-32). Appendix II records his 1511 itinerary, the proceedings for each deanery taking place in a principal church within it. [ref: 21187 ] £20 WOODMAN, FRANCIS. THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. Routledge and Kegan Paul . 1981 4to. xviii + 282 pp. Illustrated throughout. Small neat bookplate on inside of front endplate. Original cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. Fine condition. This has become the standard work on the subject, and is now out of print. [ref: 21386 ] £70 1317.

HISTORY OF THE KING’S SCHOOL WOODRUFF, C.E. & CAPE, H.J. SCHOLA REGIA CANTUARIENSIS : A HISTORY OF CANTERBURY SCHOOL. COMMONLY CALLED THE KINGS SCHOOL. By C.E.Woodruff, M.A., Hon. Librarian to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, Vice-President of the Kent Archaeological Society, and H.J.Cape. M.A., B.Sc., F.R.Hist. Soc., Assistant-Master in the King’s School. Mitchell Hughes & Clarke, London 1908 Royal 8vo., frontis. + xvi + 376 pp. [A-A8], B-X4, Y-BB8. Illustrated with 51 plates, including ground plan of the old school buildings. Original publisher’s deep navy blue buckram, gilt, with heraldic decoration on spine. Top edges gilt. Inscription on front free endpaper. The standard history of the King’s School. A finely produced account, copiously illustrated. [ref: 19173 ] £100 1318.

WOODS, T.P.S. PRELUDE TO CIVIL WAR. 1642. MR. JUSTICE MALET AND THE KENTISH PETITIONS. With an introduction by Ivan Roots. Michael Russell, Salisbury 1980 Large 8vo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. xi + 244 pp. Illustrated with 8 pages of plates and petition reproduced in text. Original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. Fine clean copy. ‘Tom Woods, in providing a fresh and meticulous account of the Kentish petitions of 1642, has made a perceptive contribution to our understanding of the immediate circumstances in which the English Civil War broke out. As a study, too, of a notable lawyer, Sir Thomas Malet, this book illumines much else besides - not least the minutiae of judicial procedure and the conduct of assizes.’ [ref: 19618 ] £25 1319.

WOODWORTH, FRANK. EAST KENT A HISTORY OF EAST KENT ROAD CAR COMPANY LTD.

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Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald. 1991 Folio. 88 pp. with b/w illustration throughout. 75th anniversary souvenir poster loosely inserted. Original pictorial card wrappers. A near fine example. Interesting pictorial history. [ref: 18668 ] £15 WOOLDRIDGE, S.W. and FREDERICK GOLDING. THE WEALD. Collins. 1962 8vo. 276 pp. with maps and photo illustration. Original cloth, gilt, in very good dustwrapper. A fine modern survey of the geology, archaeology, natural history and economic and social history of the Weald, constituting an important volume in the New Naturalist series. [ref: 9019 ] £35 1320.

WORLD WAR II PHOTOGRAPH. MESSERSCHMITT Bf 109 OF JG 26 SHOT DOWN, KENT 1940. [1940] Photograph. 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Original monochrome photograph. Fine condition. The photograph shows a downed German Messerschmitt 109 guarded by two British soldiers. The plane has demolished a small building and come to rest by a domestic building with a hipped roof (with Kent peg tiles), and a chimney. The plane bears the unit marking of JG 26, which was based at airfields in the Pas de Calais until being sent to the Mediterranean theatre for several months in February 1941. The lack of foliage on the trees indicates that the season was winter, and there is a strong probability that this plane was the 109 which crashed at Abbey Farm on the Leeds Castle Estate on 12 December 1940. It was shot down by a Hurricane over Leeds and the pilot, Fw. Rudolf Lindemann, was taken prisoner. The aircraft is recorded as a Bf 109 E-4 (Werk Nr. 3708) with black 2 markings, as carried by the aircraft in the photograph. Jagdgeschwader 26, or JG 26, was perhaps the most formidable and successful German fighter wing that faced the RAF across the Channel, from the Battle of Britain onwards. The identification of this print is not, however, certain and there is still scope for more detailed research. Caldwell, The JG 26 War Diary Volume One 1939-1942. Aircrew Remembrance Society. Luftwaffe Losses. 1940. website. [ref: 20859 ] £60 1321.

WORSSAM, B.C. and others. GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND MAIDSTONE. HMSO. 1963 Part of Memoirs of the Geological Survey of G.B. series. Now only published in paperback. [ref: 16824 ] £30 1322.

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WRIGHT, DAVID. EAST KENT PARISHES: A guide for Genealogists, Local Historians and other Researchers in the Diocese of Canterbury By the author 1991 106 pp. including double-page map of the parish boundaries of East Kent. Original printed card wrappers. A near fine copy. Scarce resource for genealogists and local historians. [ref: 17333 ] £ 15 1323.

WRIGHT, NICHOLAS. THE BUMP. BATTLE OF BRITAIN 40TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION ROYAL AIR FORCE BIGGIN HILL RAF Biggin Hill 1980 Oblong. 76 pp. with b/w illustration throughout. Original colour pictorial card wrappers. An interesting potted history of the famous fighter airfield published to mark the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [ref: 18672 ] £10 1324.

WYE - HUBBARD, G.E. THE OLD BOOK OF WYE BEING A RECORD OF A KENTISH COUNTRY PARISH FROM THE TIME OF HENRY THE EIGHTH TO THAT OF CHARLES THE SECOND. Pilgrim Press Ltd: Derby. 1951 First Edition. 166 pp. + frontis, 2 plates and endpaper maps. Original cloth in a very good dust wrapper. A very good copy. Exemplary study showing just how much information early records contain - if you can interpret them. [ref: 14706 ] £35 1325.

1326. WYLLIE, W.L. AND M.A. LONDON TO THE NORE. London A. and C. Black, Soho Square. 1905 4to. 6.5 x 9 inches. ix + [i] + 259 + [1] + [4] pp. advertisements. Half title. Illustrated with 60 colour plates and black and white title page vignette and 28 head and tailpiece vignettes. Bound in original pictorial brown cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt. Extremities worn and water stain on inside edge of title page; otherwise a very good copy. One of Black’s famous colour books. A very desirable copy of a rare title, packed with Wyllie’s highly evocative paintings of the Thames and its shipping and craft. [ref: 21668 ] £120

YALDING - AUCTION PARTICULARS. YALDING, KENT. WITHIN EASY REACH OF TONBRIDGE, PADDOCK WOOD AND MAIDSTONE MARKETS. PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF THE VALUABLE FREEHOLD HOP AND FRUIT FARMS KNOWN AS CROWPLAIN, GAINHILL AND HILL FARMS IN THE PARISH OF YALDING AND A CAPITAL SMALLHOLDING IN THE PARISH OF NETTLESTEAD, KENT, HAVING A TOTAL AREA OF

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ABOUT 306 ACRES ALL LET AND PRODUCING A RENTAL OF £608 16s. 4d. PER ANN. WHICH MESSRS. FAREBROTHER, ELLIS and CO. WILL SELL BY AUCTION, AT THE ‘ROYAL STAR HOTEL,’ MAIDSTONE, ON THURSDAY, THE 23rd OF OCTOBER, 1913 AT THREE O’CLOCK PRECISELY IN FOUR LOTS. Particulars and Conditions of Sale, with Plans, may be had at the Place of Sale; of Messrs. COWARD AND HAWKSLEY, SONS AND CHANCE, Solicitors, 30, Mincing Lane, E.C.; of Messrs. ELAND, NETTLESHIP AND BUTT, Solicitors ‘Estates Gazette,’ Ltd., 34-35, Kirby Street, E.C. 1913 Large folio. 12 pp. particulars, etc. + 2 large, coloured lithographic folding plans of the Yalding and Nettlestead properties in rear pocket. Heavy paper wrapper with laid paper text block. A trifle dusty externally with occasional light foxing otherwise a very good copy indeed. The number 227 has been neatly written in blue pencil in the top left corner of the front wrapper. Scarce survivor from a pre-first world war sale [ref: 17576 ] £125 YATES, N. AND GIBSON, M. Edited by. TRAFFIC AND POLITICS THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF ROCHESTER BRIDGE AD 43 - 1993. The Boydell Press / Rochester Bridge Trust, 1994 xviii + 390 pp. Well illustrated. Original cloth in dust wrapper, as new. First in the projected 10 volume ‘Kent History Project’ covering aspects of the history of Kent. Very impressive and detailed history of the bridge. [ref: 18933 ] £45 1328.

YATES, NIGEL. Edited by KENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge/Kent County Council. 2001 8vo. 418 pp. + 56 b/w plates and 5 maps, of which 2 are large folding maps, with 11 figures to the text and numerous tables. Original black cloth. As new, in like dust wrapper. This volume, the sixth in the Kent History Project, complements those already published on the economy of Kent and religion and society in Kent. Comprising ten chapters, each chapter begins by evoking a picture of Kent on the eve of the First World War and looks at changes that have taken place between then and the present, with particular attention to the impact of the two World Wars on the county. [ref: 18888 ] £65 1329.

YATES, NIGEL. Edited by. KENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Edited by Nigel Yates. With the assistance of Alan Armstrong, Ian Coulson and Alison Cresswell. (Kent History Project. 6). Woodbridge The Boydell Press/Kent County Council. 2001 8vo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. xxiv + 418 pp. Series half-title. Illustrated by 56 black and white plates, 5 maps, of which 2 are large, folding and 11 figures and 45 tables in text. Bound in original black cloth, gilt As new, in like coloured dust wrapper. 1330.

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