Island Books [formerly of Devon]
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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Methuen, [1905] 8vo., Second Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 11 coloured plates, free endpapers very lightly browned; original green cloth, upper board with frame border enclosing title all in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With prize bookplate on front paste-down. Classic study of the Yarmouth area first published in 1904 and now very hard to find in any edition. (Book ref. 26019)
Simon & Schuster, [1992] 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, buff endpapers, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of King George V's own Sandringham company of the Norfolk Regiment, formed from volunteers among the workers on the Royal estate in Norfolk. Sent into battle at Gallipoli, the whole battalion simply disappeared. Already very scarce in this condition. (Book ref. 25882)
Frederick Muller, [1967] 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous plates, small mark on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 'He was about the best infantry brigade commander I knew' (Montgomery of Alamein). SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. (Book ref. 25405)
Folio Society, 2014 8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spread and 7 coloured plates; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case. (Book ref. 25116)
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Henry Williamson Society, [Longstanton, 1995] 8vo., Limited Edition [First Edition thus], with portrait frontispiece, and several illustrations (a number full-page) by Loates; grey cloth, red morocco back lettered in gilt gilt edges, grey endpapers, a fine copy in cloth slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 50 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY LOETITIA WILLIAMSON AND THE FIVE SHALLOWFORD CHILDREN (MARGARET BREAM, BILL WILLIAMSON, JOHN WILLIAMSON, ROBERT WILLIMSON AND RICHARD WILLIAMSON) AND BOUND BY BRIGNELL OF CAMBRIDGE (THIS COPY NO. 42). Collects forty-eight essays by Williamson written for The Eastern Daily Press between 1941 and 1944. It is effectively, therefore, a continuation of the story of the Norfolk farm. (Book ref. 25089)
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Henry Williamson Society, [Longstanton, 2004] 8vo., Limited Edition [First Edition thus], with portrait frontispiece, and photographs and illustrations in the text; terracotta cloth, blue morocco back, cream endpapers, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 30 NUMBERED COPIES BOUND BY BRIGNELL OF CAMBRIDGE (THIS COPY NO. 13). Collects forty-nine pieces. (Book ref. 25015)
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Clarendon Press, Oxford, [1968] 5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and a large folding map; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrappers. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The set comprises Vol. I: 1758-1781; Vol. II: 1782-87; Vol. III: 1788-92; Vol. IV: 1793-1796; Vol. V: 1797-1802. Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. This is the first complete re-issue. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671. (Book ref. 23062)
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Clarendon Press, Oxford, [1968] 5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and a large folding map; black cloth, gilt backs, a bright, clean set in dustwrappers, the latter moderately sunned at fronts and backstrips. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The set comprises Vol. I: 1758-1781; Vol. II: 1782-87; Vol. III: 1788-92; Vol. IV: 1793-1796; Vol. V: 1797-1802. Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. This is the first complete re-issue. Complete sets as scarce, especially in this condition. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671. (Book ref. 21946)
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Printed for J, Millan, Bookseller, near Whitehall. 1768 4to., Second and Best Edition, on laid paper, with 45 fine engraved plates of drill movements, 7 engraved plans (3 folding) of manoeuvres and 5 folding tables of drill sequences; strongly bound in contemporary speckled full calf, back gilt with five raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt to a floral design, morocco label gilt, gilt doublures, speckled edges, some light spotting on endpapers, hinges cracked (but binding entirely sound) else a splendid, bright, fresh and most unusually clean copy. With the fine eighteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Viscount Townshend's eldest son George Townshend, Baron de Ferrers of Chartley, Baron Bourchier & Loveyn. A manuscript press-mark in a contemporary hand is also present on front paste-down.With the Advertisement leaf, dedication to the Earl of Shaftesbury and all plates and plans as called for.The 'Manual Exercise, with Explanations, as ordered by His Majesty' (Printed for J, Millan, 1770) appears here for the first time as a small octavo bound in at rear. It is a near fine copy on laid paper, uncut and unopened.A highly regarded military manual, first issued in 1759, whose influence extended far beyond the boundaries of Norfolk and indeed of Great Britain. An adaptation of this considerably enlarged issue for use by the militia of Massachusetts Bay was published in Boston later in 1768, and editions for the militias of Connecticut and New Hampshire appeared in 1769 and 1771 (see Sabin 104749-55).Colonel William Windham (1717-1761) spent much of his life on the Continent and served for a time as an officer in one of Queen Maria Theresa's regiments of hussars. Upon his return to England he supported vigorously Pitt's scheme for a national militia in 1756, and aided the Marquis of Townshend in forming the Norfolk militia in 1757.Viscount Townshend (1724-1807) joined the Army in 1745, served at Culloden the following year and received Montcalm's surrender of Quebec in 1759.George Townshend (1753-1811), the author's eldest son, was created Earl of Leicester in 1784 and in 1807 succeeded his father as 2nd Marquis Townshend.THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONAL FAMILY COPY, IN REMARKABLY CLEAN, BRIGHT AND FRESH STATE WITH BROAD TEXT MARGINS AND ONLY THE MOST NEGLIGIBLE AGE-STAINING. THE PLATES, IN PARTICULAR, ARE A MAGNIFICENTLY PRESERVED SUITE OF ENGRAVINGS.Rare; ESTC lists six copies, at least two of which are apparently imperfect. (Book ref. 6018)
Clive Holloway, [1986] 8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps, page edges browning slightly as usual; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of Williamson's evocative account of two years as a working farmer. This edition is a much-needed re-issue of the second text of 1941, augmented by delightful (and original) woodcut illustrations by Wormell and a helpful introduction by Williamson's son Richard. The print size has been enlarged and some lines repositioned to compensate. Already elusive in its own right. Matthews A27/1986 (p.113). (Book ref. 10657)
[Sanctuary Press], 1987 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Scarce (Book ref. 11362)
Robert Hale, [1951] 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 48 plates and a large folding map; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. Darroch & Taylor 591 (Book ref. 16925)
[Norfolk Archaeology, 1901] 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 2 large maps coloured in outline on japon (one double-page, one folding); red wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, backstrip in black passe-partout, a near fine copy. Extracted from Norfolk Archaeology, 14, pp.135-152 (1901). Extremely scarce. Bonser 2378; Darroch & Taylor 1694. (Book ref. 15289)
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G & W Nicol, 1834 2 vols., 4to., First Edition, with 8 plates (one folding), 14 illustrations in the text and 2 pedigrees; original cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean copy. Scarce. Anderson, p. 278. (Book ref. 15433)
[Privately Printed, 1972] 8vo., with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly creased at edges else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1960. (Book ref. 20349)
The Holy Boys. A History of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and the Royal East Anglian Regiment 1685-2010
Pen & Sword, [Barnsley, 2010] 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Contains many rare photographs drawn from the regimental museum. (Book ref. 16694)
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Payne Jennings, Ashstead, [1892] Sm. 4to., Second Edition, with a frontispiece and 98 fine plates [all complete], title very lightly spotted; original pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, red edges, chocolate endpapers, joints lightly rubbed, top and fore-edge faded, upper joint just starting (but binding entirely sound) else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With the two leaves of advertisements at rear (the first for Great Eastern Railway; the second for the publisher's catalogue). Despite the title-page only 99 plates (including the frontispiece) are called for. This glorious photographic depiction of Broadland was first published in 1891; a third edition (apparently rather more common) appeared in 1897. Very scarce, especially in this condition. Darroch & Taylor 334 (recording only the third edition); not in Steward. (Book ref. 10239)
Norfolk Windmills Trust, 1977 8vo., First Edition, with plates and photographs in the text; original brown wrappers, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE (Book ref. 20587)
Rounce & Wortley, Holt, 1937 8vo., First Edition, with 2 illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper cloth gilt, gilt back, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Extremely scarce. A second edition was published in 1950. Darroch & Taylor, 3916. (Book ref. 13338)
Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, [1978] 4to., First Paperback Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and pictorial endpapers; original wrappers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Includes detailed engine register and bibliography. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. (Book ref. 15973)