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Batsford publications by series

British art & building * British battles * British heritage * British towns & cities * Burke's England * Face of Britain * European countries * Miscellaneous * Pilgrims library * How To series
Bibliography
Bibliographical Society * Bibliography * Bookbinding * Bookplates * National Book League * Printing & Typography * Publishing Houses
British Library/Museum Publications
British Library/Museum Publications
English Church Architecture
English church architecture
Fine Bindings
Fine Bindings
Folio Society
Folio Society
Literature
Literature
Local History & Topography: Counties
Bedfordshire * Berkshire * Buckinghamshire * Cambridgeshire * Channel Islands * Cheshire * Cornwall & Isles of Scilly * County Durham * Derbyshire * Devonshire * Dorsetshire * Essex * Gloucestershire * Hampshire & Isle of Wight * Herefordshire * Hertfordshire * Huntingdonshire * Kent * Lancashire & Isle of Man * Leicestershire * Lincolnshire * London * Middlesex * Monmouthshire * Norfolk * Northamptonshire * Northumberland * Oxfordshire * Rutland * Shropshire * Somersetshire * Staffordshire * Suffolk * Surrey * Sussex * Warwickshire * Wiltshire * Worcestershire * Yorkshire * Ireland * Scotland * Wales
Local History & Topography: Sectors
Canals * Countryside authors * English civil war * General topography * London guilds & livery companies * Pevsner * Railways * Roads
Local History & Topography: Series
Antiquarys books * Companion series * County books * Highways & Byways * Pevsner * Portrait series * Regional series * Shell guides * Victoria County Histories
Military
American civil war * Aviation * Awards, decorations, roh * Boer War * Espionage & pow * Holocaust & war crimes * Jacobite risings * Napoleonic wars * Manuals * Post-WWII * To 1914 * Uniforms & weaponry * Unit histories * WWI * WWII
Modern First Editions
Modern first editions
Naval
Anatomy of the Ship * Ensign * Man o’War * Maritime * Navies of WWII * Post-1945 * Shipping Line Histories * Sea Battles in Close-Up * to 1914 * Warship magazine * Warship Profiles * WW1 * WWII
Palaeography
Palaeography
Sale Catalogues
All catalogues * Bloomsbury * Bonhams * Christie’s * Phillips * Sotheby’s
Specialist Authors (search on surname)
H E Bates * John Betjeman * Winston Churchill * William Cobbett * Thomas Hardy * Richard Jefferies * John le Carre * James Lees-Milne * John Moore * H.V. Morton * Vita Sackville-West * Siegfried Sassoon * Edward Thomas * Henry Williamson
Sports & Pastimes
Angling * Cookery & gastronomy * Gardening & horticulture
Trade Catalogues
All catalogues * Kraus * Maggs * Quaritch * Robinson

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