Search Results: Antiques, Art & Collecting from Abbey Antiquarian Books

London: St. Michael/Hamlyn reprint, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. Color illustrations throughout . Quarto boards in dust-jacket 256pp neat inscription on FEP & inner hinge pulled else V.G+

London: Chambers 1st edition, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Color & b/w plates . Small quarto boards in slightly torn dust-jacket 147pp crease to EP else V.G

Oxford: Vivian Ridler, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto 296 x 236mm original panelled red cloth gilt title to spine; viii+56pgs; A clean, tight & bright copy.

Oxford: Charles Batey, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates (85, black & white and colour- photoplates) . Quarto 293 x 235mm original panelled red cloth gilt title to spine; xi+244pgs; A clean, tight & bright copy. The extensively illustrated scholarly articles include Wall-Paintings at Longthorpe Tower, Nothants.; Kells Crosier; Medieval Copper Champleve Enamelled images of Vigin & Child; Anglo-Saxon finds near Rainham, Essex with Study of Glass Drinking Horns; Early Iron-Age Metalwork, known as the Torrs Chamfrein (possibly an ornamental Headpiece for a Horse).

Oxford: John Johnson (1938), 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates (90, some coloured) . Quarto 293 x 235mm original panelled red cloth gilt title to spine; xi+297pgs; A clean, tight & bright copy (corners bumped). Articles include Viroconium (near Wroxeter); Luristan Bronzes; Wall Paintings in Worcestershire; Roof Bosses at Peterborough & Ripon; etc.

Oxford: Charles Batey, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates (36, b&w photoplates). . Quarto 293 x 235mm, original panelled red cloth (hardback) gilt title to spine; viii +219pp. A clean, tight & bright copy (marginal tear & some wrinkling of page 196). Articles include Castle Rushen, Isle of Man; Aeolipiles as Fire-blowers (metal or earthen-ware vessels constructed to display "pyrotechnic" effects when heated, as weapons to frighten or to amuse); "Pictor in Carmine" mythical beasts, chimeras, acephali, etc. in art; Cult of St.Oswald in Northern Italy etc.

Oxford: Charles Batey, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates (66, b&w photoplates) . Quarto 293 x 235mm original panelled red cloth (covers slightly spotted/rubbed) gilt title to spine viii+189pgs; A clean, tight & bright copy. Articles include Christian Antiquities of Tripolitania; Temple at Luxor; Roof Bosses of St.George's Chapel, Windsor (Explained in Heraldic terms); Discoveries at & Topography of the Temple, London; 17th Century Houses in Gt.Yarmouth; etc.

London: Octopus 1st edn, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. Color illustrations (107) from photos by S. Halliday. 287x210mm pictorial boards in dust-jacket *Iconography illustrated from mediaeval glass, woodwork, MSS, murals etc.

New York: Scribner 2nd (and best) edition, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile illustratioms (172) . Large octavo cream gilt pictorial cloth (rebacked |& edged with old spine relaid/some marking due to light color but better than most) Top Edge Gilt xv+383pp newer EPs else V.G

London: Victoria&Albert Mus. H.M.S.O. 3rd impression, 1970. Softcover. Very Good. Plates (72) . Paperback small quarto 250pgs a few signs of use else V.G

London: Gibbons publ. 4th combined edition, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Illustrated throughout. . Paperback 122pp V.G.

London: Longacre Press 1st edition, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated to nearly each opening . Duodecimo pictorial boards 64pp V.G (no jacket issued)

London: Longacre Press 1st edition, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated to nearly each opening . Duodecimo pictorial boards 64pp V.G (no jacket issued)

London: Mayflower books/Arco publications, 1970. Softcover. Very Good. Plates (21) . Paperback (duodecimo) (tips slightly rubbed) 157pp V.G+

London: Country Life 2nd edition 2nd impression, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Color frontis + 275 illustrations . Small octavo cloth in edge torn dust jacket (tips sl.rubbed) 192pp V.G+ in essentially complete jacket. *Wide ranging history of glassware by this expert and arranged by subject and fully cross referenced.

London: Book Club reprint, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated throughout . Octavo boards in dust-jacket 320pgs slight fore-edge yelowing else V.G+ in slightly nicked jacket

London: Country Life, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Drawings (over 800) by Therle Hughes. 16mo boards in dust jacket 351pp V.G+ in V.G+ jacket *One of the handiest guides ever published - clocks, Battersea & Bilston enamels, glass, silver, Brass, coins, Silhouettes, Maps, Fans, Playing cards etc.

London: Macmillan 5th edition, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Mezzotint portrait + 16 reproductions printed in metalic ink . Octavo red gilt pictorial cloth (tips rubbed) Top Edge Gilt liv+464pp EPs slightly foxed & name on FEP else V.G

London: Debrett's Peerage Ltd., 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. Color and b/w illustrations throughout . Octavo boards in dust jacket 272pp Interspersed with adverts for fabrics, dealers, restorers, and life style trends. Also a chapter on collectibles of the future.

London: David & Charles/Hearst Corp. 1st first U.K edition, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. Colour illustrations and patterns. . Quarto linson boards in dust jacket 160pp V.G+ in edge torn and edge creased jacket *From Sock, Fabric Yarn and including Snow Babies, Monkeys, Waking/sleeping, fairytale reversible dolls, international costume dolls etc.