Skipton, The Craven Herald & Didsbury, E.J. Morten, 1973. Large 8vo. Full green morocco with gilt titles to spine. A reprint of the 1878 (3rd and best) edition, and published as a limited and numbered edition, this being number 15, one of very few bound in leather without dustwrappers. Portrait..... More
London, Nichols and Son, 1805. 4to. Probably contemporary half calf, over marbled boards. t.e.g. With portrait frontispiece, 36 engraved plates (laid down on linen) and 18 folding pedigrees as called for, lacking only Clitheroe Castle, which was never bound into this edition. With some interesting early pencil annotations to pages..... More
Leeds, Joseph Dodgson, & London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878. Full tan pebble-grained cloth, with gilt titles. At sometime recased, with the original spine laid down and new endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, hand coloured half-title and two-colour title page, together with numerous plates and lithographs. Fold out pedigrees, maps, floorplans etc...... More
London, John Heywood & Others, 1904. Thick 4to. Green buckram with printed title to cover and gilt title to spine. With photographs and drawings throughout. Spine faded and inner hinges cracked but firm. A good copy. pp. xix, 639, xx-xxxii. More
Otley, William Walker, No Date. Decorated red cloth gilt. t.e.g. Not dated, but c.1890. With nine plates. Folding map of Wharfedale fro Harewood to Langstrothdale Chase to rear. With an armorial bookplate of Armytage impaling Fawkes, so probably the copy of Sir George Armytage Bt. (1842-1918), and his wife Ellen..... More
London, Frederick Warne, 1929. Tall 8vo. Green cloth with gilt tiles to cover and spine. t.e.g. and other edges uncut. The large paper edition, limited to 250 copies, this being 182, signed by the author and the artist. With twelve plates in colour behind titled tissue-guards and 74 line illustrations..... More
Otley, William Walker & Sons , 1946. Dark blue cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine. In very good, price-clipped dustwrapper. The standard work on the archaeology of Wharfedale from Addingham to Otley. Numerous photographs, maps and diagrams. A very good copy. pp. 173 plus preliminaries and index. More
Leeds, Thoresby Society, 1928. Handsomely bound in half dark blue morocco, with blue grained cloth boards. Contrasting gilt-lettered labels. Lacks the folding plan. A very good copy. pp. xvi, 196. Frontispiece from a mezzotint after Girtin. Architectural drawings and 61 photographic plates of the Priory and its environs. More
Bradford, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1904. Blue cloth with printed titles to cover and spine. The most comprehensive history of the villages south of Bradford. Some light spotting to edges, but a very good and bright copy. pp. xliv, 522 plus adverts. Photographic illustrations and engravings etc. More
London, Elliot Stock, 1902. Brown cloth with printed illustration to front cover and gilt titles to cover and spine. All edges uncut, and top edge unopened. Library number rubbed off from lower portion of spine, but no other marking. A very good copy. pp. 532 plus adverts (4). Photographs, pedigrees..... More
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1837. Probably in the original stamped green cloth, with gilt titles to spines. With the signature of Susan Balt (?), dated 1838, to each half-title. Mary Comerford was born in Cork in 1776 and married Thomas Boddington, a West India merchant, in..... More
London, Folio Society, 1990. Decorated blue and green cloth gilt. In good, illustrated slipcase, spotted to rear and one side panel The 'Blue Train' has a small spot to the spine, and '4.50' has a few small marks to the spine and lower hinge. Still a very good set. pp..... More
Cononley, Kiln Hill, 2015. Folio. Softback in illustrated card wraps. With photographs of estate maps and the original manuscripts. Leaflet relating to Tudor Cononley stapled to titlepage. A very good copy. pp. 72. More
Published by the Author, 1999. Folio. Plain spiral-bound card covers, with window cut into front showing the title on the first page. Printed on one side of each leaf only. A comprehensive history. Covers a little marked, but a good copy. pp. 99, [iii]. More
Published by the Author, 2005. Folio. Plain spiral-bound card covers, and printed on one side of each leaf only. A comprehensive history from the middle ages onwards. Signed by the author. Covers a little marked, but a good copy. pp. 25. More
New York and London, Abbeville Press, 2007. Large folio (c.17 x 12 inches). red cloth gilt. In very good slipcase. Lavishly illustrated. A very good copy. pp. 496. A very heavy book that will require extra postage. More
London, George Routledge & Sons and Manchester, Lynch Conway Gent, 1872. Large 8vo. Publisher's green cloth gilt. The second volume was published in 1876. Engraved frontispieces and other plates, vignettes and cuts, with pedigrees (some folding), all as called for. At sometime recased, with the original spines laid down. New..... More
London, Folio Society, 1996. Decorated orange cloth gilt. In good slipcase. With illustrations by Aafke Brouwer. A few small marks to the spine, otherwise a very good copy. pp. 270. More
London, Folio Society, 1999. Quarter green cloth with gilt-lettered 'labels' to spine. In very good slipcase. Introduction by Juliet McMaster and illustrated by Llewellyn Thomas. A very good copy. pp. xix, 176. More
London, Folio Society, 1998. Quarter blue cloth with gilt-lettered 'labels' to spine. In very good slipcase. Introduction by P.D. Edwards and illustrated by Rod Waters. A very good copy. pp. xv, 98. More
London, Folio Society, 1998. Quarter blue cloth with gilt lettered 'labels' to spine. In good slipcase. With illustrations by Alexy Pendle. A very good copy. pp. xxii, 510. More
London, Cassell and Co., 1894. 4to (c.13 x 10 inches). Stamped maroon cloth gilt. a.e.g. Illustrated throughout. The covers rather stained worn and rubbed, and the boards to Vol. III a little bowed. Endpapers spotted. Still a sound set, generally good internally. pp. viii,152; viii, 152; viii, 152. More
Otley, Wm. Walker & Leeds, Joseph Dodgson, 1885. Original green cloth with ornate gilt decoration and titling to front cover and spine, and decoratively stamped to rear cover. t.e.g. Frontispiece and numerous plates and text illustrations. Early dedication to half-title. Endpapers spotted, a few marks to titlepage and two pages..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. Dark blue cloth gilt. According to Cyril Falls (War Books, 1930) 'His account is frank, his criticism full-blooded, his comments shrewd'. Folding map to frontispiece. Two bookplates to endpapers. Split to cloth at hinge to front cover, and wear to head of spine. A good..... More