Clent Books (Est.1977)
FEA, Allan SECRET CHAMBERS AND HIDING-PLACES. The Historic, Romantic and Legendary Stories and Traditions about Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, etc , London: S.H. Bousfield, 1901.First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.. Quarter-leather rebound. Gilt top edge. Spine has five raised bands. Half-title page has ½" tear at front edge. Frontispiece has tiny piece missing and tiny tear at front edge. Very small piece missing at bottom front edge of page 33. Title-page has tiny piece missing near top of inside edge. With foxing on some of the pages. Some pages are rough-cut at front and bottom edges. A good tight copy which has been attractively rebound. 317pp. With frontispiece and 80 black-and-white illustrations. Contents: A Great Deviser of 'Priest's Holes' - Hindlip Hall - Priest-Hunting at Braddocks - The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators - Harvington, Ufton and Ingatestone - Compton Winyates, Salford Prior, Sawston, Oxburgh, Parham, Paxhill, etc - King-Hunting: Boscobel, Moseley, Trent and Heale - Cavalier -Hunting, etc - James II Escapes - James II's (cont'd): Ham House and 'Abdication House' - Mysterious Rooms, Deadly Pits, etc - Hiding-Places in Jacobite Dwellings and in Scottish Castles and Mansions - Concealed Doors, Subterranean Passages, etc - Miniature Hiding-Holes for Valuables, etc - Hiding-Places of Smugglers and Thieves - The Scottish Hiding-Places of Prince Charles Edward. (8¾"h x 6"w) (22cms x 15cms) approx. (Book ref. 7567) £87.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Clent Books (Est.1977) , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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