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Adlard (Eleanor) A SHORT HISTORY OF THE POSTLIP MILL WINCHCOMBE. Illusts, 32pp, uncut, original qtr cloth, paper boards, paper label on top board. Produced for Evans, Adlard & Co. Ltd., Reprinted B.A.S. Printers Ltd., Wallop: 1968. £10.00 Agg-Gardner (Rt. Hon. Sir James) SOME PARLIAMENTARY RECOLLECTIONS. With 14 plates, textual illusts, 246pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, few small marks to covers, Ed. J. Burrow, London: (1927) £20.00 * Signed presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper. Agg-Gardner was a Brewery owner, and elected an M.P. for Cheltenham in 1874, he was defeated in 1880. He was re-elected in 1885, stood down in 1885. Stood for the Cheltenham seat again in 1911 and held it until his death in 1928. Allen (Sam), Harris (Jenny), Hawkins (June), and MacCarthy (Audrey) 'A MONUMENT TO HAWKESBURY' A Village Remembered. Plan, photo illusts and line drawings, 68pp, small folio, original printed card covers, small stain to rear cover and few spots to covers. Pennington D & P Ltd., Wotton-under-Edge, 1994. £10.00 Anstis (Ralph) THE STORY OF PARKEND A Forest of Dean Village. Illusts, 88pp, original pictorial wraps, ink note to top margin of title-page. First edition, Forest Bookshop, Coleford: 1982. £12.00 Armstrong (Eric) BILLETED IN STROUD 1939-40. An Evacuee's Account. 158 + 2pp, original pictorial card covers, lower corner of top cover slightly creased. Amberley Publishing, Stroud: 1911. £5.00 Baddeley (W. St. Clair) HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY, AT PAINSWICK. With 11 plates, vii + (1) + 70pp, sm 4to, original buckram, stitching broken, almost loose in case, water stain to top board, internally clean. Exeter: William Pollard and Co. Ltd., 1902. £8.00 Baddeley (W. St. Clair) HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY, AT PAINSWICK. With 11 plates, vii + (1) + 70pp, sm 4to, original buckram. Exeter: William Pollard and Co. Ltd., 1902. £20.00 * Inscription by the author to verso of frontispiece. Baddeley (W.St. Clair) FURTHER EARLY DEEDS, HITHERTO UNPRINTED, RELATING TO ST. PETER'S ABBEY, GLOUCESTER Pages numbered 47-68, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1915. £4.00 Barlow (Jill), editor A CALENDAR OF THE REGISTER OF APPRENTICES OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER 1595 - 1700. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 14. With 12 tables and 2 plates, xxxii + 343pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2001. £8.00 Belcher (Ernest) RAMBLES AMONG THE COTSWOLDS. With a Preface by Sir John Maclean. 104pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Evesham: W. & H. Smith, 1892. £30.00 Bell (Arthur) CATHEDRAL Reflections in Gloucester Cathedral. 138pp, original cloth, signed by the author on the title-page. Arthur Bell, 1988. £5.00 Bennett (James) THE HISTORY OF TEWKESBURY. With 10 illusts, 456pp, early full calf, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, crudely recased, resulting in a gap between spine and boards, later endpapers, covers rubbed, signs where tape was once in place across spine to hold it in place, some foxing, early name to title-page. Tewkesbury: Printed by James Bennett. 1830. £20.00 * The list of subscribers accounts for 305 copies. Bigland (Ralph) ADLESTROP. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) ALDERLEY. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Copper plate engraving, in the text, showing the church with people in the foreground, 8pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £8.00 Bigland (Ralph) ALVINGTON AND AMPNEY CRUCIS. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 8pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) ASCHURCH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) ASHELWORTH AND ASTON BLANK, or COLD ASTON AND ASHTON, or COLD ASHTON. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 10pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £5.00 Bigland (Ralph) BARNSELY AND BARNWOOD. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £5.00 Bigland (Ralph) BARRINGTON MAGNA. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Copper plate engraving in the text, 8pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £6.00 Bigland (Ralph) BATSFORD AND BAUNTON AND BECKFORD. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 10pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £6.00 Bigland (Ralph) BOXWELL. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £5.00 Bigland (Ralph) BRIMPSFIELD. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) BROADWELL, OR BRADWELL. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) BROCKWORTH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) BUCKLAND. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) CAM OR CAME. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Copper plate engraving in the text, 8pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £6.00 Bigland (Ralph) CERNEY NORTH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) CERNEY SOUTH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) CHARLTON KING'S or ASHLEY. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. With a copper plate engraving, 6pp, folio, qtr cloth, paper boards, paper label on top board, short tear to one margin, last leaf browned. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £10.00 Bigland (Ralph) CHEDWORTH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) CHERINGTON. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) CHURCHAM. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) CHURCHDOWN OR CHURCH-DENE. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Copper plate engraving in the text, 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £5.00 Bigland (Ralph) CLEEVE EPISCOPI OR BISHOP'S CLEEVE. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Copper plate engraving showing south porch of the church in the text, 10pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £6.00 Bigland (Ralph) COBERLEY. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Copper plate engraving of effigies in the church, in the text, 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £6.00 Bigland (Ralph) COLNE ST ALDWYN'S Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Copper plate engraving in the text, 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £6.00 Bigland (Ralph) COTES. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bigland (Ralph) DEERHURST, OR DEORHURST. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00 Bright (G.V) PICTURESQUE GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Being a Series of Exclusive Photographs Illustrating the Ancient & Interesting Towns and Villages of the County, together with a short Historical & General Description. 384pp, 4to, original buckram, covered with a loose plastic cover which has been cellotaped to pastedowns. Cheltenham Newspaper Co., 1928. £30.00 Brill (Edith) and Turner (Peter) THE MINOR PLEASURES OF COTSWOLD. Map and 54 photographic illusts, xiii + 64pp, dustwrapper. First edition, J.M. Dent, London: 1971. £4.00 Brill (Edith) COTSWOLD CRAFTS. Illusts, 184pp, spine of dustwrapper faded. First edition, B.T. Batsford, London: 1977. £4.00 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1876. Volume 1. Plates and pedigrees, some of which are folding, 172 + xxivpp, original printed wraps, ink note on top wrap. Gloucester: John Bellows, (1876) £8.00 * Includes chapters on:- Berkeley Castle; Gloucestershire Menhir; English Bicknor; Gloucester Cathedral; Churchdown, etc.. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1880-81. Volume 5. Part 1 of 2 only Illusts, some of which are folding, 186pp, original wraps, Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1881. £6.00 * Includes articles:- Tewkesbury Abbey Church; Stanley St Leonard's Church; Roman Pavement at Woodchester; Tumuli of Uley and Nympsfield, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1880-81. Volume 5. Illusts, 255pp, later cloth, ex-lib. with number to base of spine, and stamp and label to front endpapers. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1881. £22.00 * Includes articles:- Painswick Court House; Tewkesbury Abbey Church; Stanley St Leonards; Roman Pavement at Woodchester; Brimpsfield, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1882-83. Volume 7. Part 2 of 2 only. Illusts, pages numbered 213-354 + xipp, recent unlettered binders cloth. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1883. £9.00 * Includes articles:- Prinknash Park; Old Hostelries of Bristol; Manor and Advowson of Staunton in the Forest of Dean, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1885-86. Volume 10. Illusts, 374 + xipp, recent unlettered cloth. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1886. £10.00 * Includes articles:- Manor of Bosham; Manor and Advowson of Birt's Morton, etc; Gloucestershire Jury List of the Thirteenth Century; Mint of Gloucester; Harescombe; Daubeney Family, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1886-87. Volume 11. Part 2 of 2 only. Illusts, pages numbered 185-380 + 12pp, recent unlettered binders cloth. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1887. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Ancient Church Embroidery; Notes on Wresden, Uley; Manor House of Wotton-under-Edge, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1888. Volume 12. Part 2 of 2 only. Illusts, pages numbered 199-361 + 15, recent unlettered binders cloth, bound without the wraps. Bristol: C.T. Jefferies, 1888. £6.00 * Includes articles:- Registers at Henbury; Oldbury Church; Testa De Nevill Returns for the County of Gloucester, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1888-89. Volume 13. Part 1 of 2. Illusts, 240pp, original wraps, tear to top wrap. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1889. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Medieval Dursley; Gloucester Tokens of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; Manor and Church of Hempsted; Churches of Sodbury, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1889-90. Volume 14. Part 1 of 2. Illusts, 187pp, original wraps, spine faded, short tear foot of top wrap. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1890. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Advowson of Clifford Chambers; Avening Church; Apse of Deerhurst Church, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1889-90. Volume 14. Part 2 of 2. Illusts, 189-414 + xipp, original wraps, spine faded, short tear to rear wrap, small portion missing from foot of spine. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1890. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Leland in Gloucestershire; Sevenhampton; Perambulation of Forest of Dean; , etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Rev. C.S. Taylor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1892-93. Volume 17. Part 1 of 2. Illusts, 2 folding plans, 257pp, portions missing from spine, wraps loose and ragged. H. Osborne, Gloucester: 1894. £10.00 * Includes articles:- Cirencester Hospitals; Parish Church of St. John the baptist, Cirencester; Berkeleys of Cobberley, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Rev. C.S. Taylor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1894-95. Volume 19. Part 2 of 2. Illusts, 171-446 + 15 + 46 (Index) + 18pp, original wraps, slightly chipped to head and foot of spine. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1895. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Haresfield Manors and Church; Chantries of Westbury onDevern; Roman Coins found at Bishop's Wood, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by A.T. Martin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1895,96. Volume 20. Part 2 of 2. Illusts, II + 139-393pp, original printed wraps. Bristol: Printed for the Society by J.W. Arrowsmith, 1896. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Church Bells of Gloucester; Brimpsfield Castle and its Owners; Ancient Mining Tools found in the Forest of Dean, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1914. Volume 37. Part 2 of 2. Illusts, pages numbered 187-264, original printed wraps. Bristol: 1915. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Dr Johnson's Friends and the Cotswolds; Heraldry on the Maps in Chubb's Catalogue of Maps of Gloucestershire; etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1922. Volume 44. Illusts, folding plans, 336 + 20pp, original wraps, top outer hinge rubbed and partly split with small portion of paper missing, wraps spotty. Kendal: Printed for the Society by Titus Wilson, 1922. £10.00 * Includes articles on Millerd's Plan of Bristol; Excavation at Cirencester; Bristol Medical Institutions; Stanley St. Leonards; Gloucestershire Fonts, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1923. Volume 45. Illusts, 324 + 21pp, later cloth, some foxing mainly to prelims. Kendal: Printed for the Society by Titus Wilson, 1923. £22.00 * Includes articles:- Church and Rectory of Buckland; Bromesberrow; Tobacco Pipes of Bristol; Excavations at Sea Mills; Stonehouse, King's Stanley, Woodchester, and Archards; "Chapel Haye", Churchdown, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1924. Volume 46. Illusts, 403 + 22pp, original wraps, portion missing from head of spine, slightly shaken. Titus Wilson, Kendal: 1925. £22.00 * Includes articles:- Priory Mill of Stanley St. Leonard; Water Mill in Stonehouse; Scratch Dials in Gloucestershire; Glass in Tewkesbury Abbey; Gloucester Consistory Court; The Stonehouse Ham, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1927. Volume 49. Illusts, 392 + 24pp, original wraps, short split to head of top outer hinge. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellow, 1928. £16.00 * Includes articles:- Berkeley Castle; Deerhurst Priory Church; Campden Mystery; Gloucestershire Fonts; Campden Mystery; Flaxley Grange; Painted Glass in the Lord Mayor's Chapel, Bristol, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Compiled by Roland Austin BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - GENERAL INDEX to Volumes 41-50. 1918-1929. With a Subject-Index to the Illustrations. 170pp, original printed wraps. Gloucester: H. Osborne, 1930. £9.00 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1930. Volume 52. Illusts, folding plans, 323 + 23pp, original wraps, spine slightly darkened. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1931. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Gloucestershire Maps; List of Bristol Ships 1571 and 1572; Belas Keep Long Barrow; Roman Roads; Elkstone Church; Warksworth; Woodchester; Robert de Todeni and his heirs, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1935. Volume 57. Illusts, plans some of which are folding, 307 + 23pp, original wraps, paper on spine partly split, small splash mark on top wrap. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1936. £16.00 * Includes articles:- Brays of Great Barrington; Saxon Gloucestershire; Gloucestershire in the Pipe Rolls; Kempsford; Roman Finds at Bourton on the Water; Cirencester Election in 1695, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, compiled by Eileen M. Richardson TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - GENERAL INDEX to Volumes 61-70 (1939-1951). 112pp, original printed wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1956. £6.00 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1939. Volume 61. Illusts, folding maps, v + 341 + 23pp, original printed wraps, spine slightly darkened. Gloucester: John Bellows, 1940. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Swordbearers of Bristol; Excavations at Sea Mills; Stone Coffins Gloucestershire; Spillman Cartulary; Bristol Poll Tax 1666; Deerhurst Priory Church, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Roland Austin editor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1943. Volume 64. Illusts, folding pedigree, 264pp, few spots to the original wraps, and to title-page. John Bellows, Gloucester: 1944. £15.00 * Includes articles:- Machen Family; John Deighton, surgeon; Gloucester Militia Men in 1797; Hillier and Parry Family,; Native Speech of Gloucestershire, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Joan Evans editor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1949. Volume 68. Illusts, 228pp, original wraps slightly dusty, with small portion missing from head of spine. John Bellows, Gloucester: 1951. £10.00 * Includes articles:- Bristol's Second Sugar House; Wills of Bristol Merchants; History of Wortley; Hut sites on Selsley Common, near Stroud, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Joan Evans TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1950. Volume 69. Illusts, 2 folding plates, 227pp, original wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1950. £12.00 * Includes articles:- Excavations at King's Weston; Wortley; St. Mary, Dymock; Ivy Lodge Round Cairn, Woodchester, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Joan Evans TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1955. Volume 74. Illusts, 3 folding pedigrees, 228pp, original wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1956. £10.00 * Includes articles:- Tidenham Chase; Kingswood Abbey; Old Catholic Families of Gloucestershire; Parliamentary Burgesses for Bristol and Gloucester 1422-1437, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1956. Volume 75. Illusts, 2 folding pedigrees, 232pp, original wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1958. £10.00 * Includes articles:- Prestbury Moat; Prisoners of War in Stapleton Jail; Ralph Bigland and His Family; Kingswood Abbey; Sir John Cheyne of Beckford, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Joan Evans and H.S. Grace TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1957. Volume 76. Illusts, 2 folding pedigrees, 215pp, original wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1958. £11.00 * Includes articles:- Cirencester Word Square; William of Wycumbe; Last of the Brimpsfield Giffards; Temple Street Sugar House and the Hine and Lane families, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, compiled by Kathleen Morgan TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - GENERAL INDEX to Volumes 79-90 (1960-1971). 62pp, original printed wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by Glevum Press, 1974. £4.00 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by H.S. Gracie TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1964. Volume 83. Illusts, 199pp, roy 8vo, original wraps, small snag to head of spine. Cheltenham: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1965. £6.00 * Includes articles:- Enclosures at Crickley Hill; Deerhurst Priory Church; River Twyver and Fullbrook; Jerninghams of Painswick; Milestones of the Stroud District; Royce Collection at Stow on the Wold, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by B.S. Smith TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1974. Volume 93. Illusts, diagrams some of which are folding, 214pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. slightly rubbed to foot of spine. Bristol: printed for the Society by Western Printing, 1975. £4.00 * Includes articles:- Tewkesbury Abbey; Excavations at the New Market Hall, Gloucester; Medieval Quarries at Ewan; Historic Organs of Bristol and Gloucestershire, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1981. Volume 99. Illusts, 208pp, original wraps. Gloucester: 1982. £7.00 * Includes articles:- Bonded Servants from Bristol; Excavations of a Romano-British settlement at Barnsley Park, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, compiled by Susan Vaughan TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - GENERAL INDEX to Volumes 91-100 (1972-1982). 68pp, original printed wraps. Printed for the Society. £4.00 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1982. Volume 100. Illusts, 282pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Gloucester: 1982. £5.00 * Includes articles:- Birdlip Cemetery; Excavations of a Romano-British settlement at Barnsley Park; Early Policing Methods in Gloucestershire, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1985. Volume 103. Illusts, 264pp, original wraps. Gloucester: 1985. £7.00 * Includes articles:- Gloucestershire Endowed Schools; Gloucester after the Black Death; North Street, Winchcombe; Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement in northern Cotswolds, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1989. Volume 107. Illusts, 308pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Gloucester: 1989. £6.00 * Includes articles:- Druid Stoke megalithic monument; Thornbury Woodlands and Deer Park; Thornbury deer parks; Rodmarton Long Barrow, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. S.T. Blake and G.C. Boon editors TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1990. Volume 108. Illusts, 240pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1990. £7.00 * Includes articles:- Biography of a Parliamentarian Soldier; Lypiatt Cross; Goldsmiths of Gloucestershire; St James's Church, Lancaut, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, compiled by Susan Vaughan TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - GENERAL INDEX to Volumes 101-110 (1983-1992). 124pp, original printed wraps. Printed for the Society. £4.00 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, George C. Boon editor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1992. Volume 110. Illusts, 272pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Published for the Society by Alan Sutton, 1993. £7.00 * Includes articles:- Hannah More; Gloucester's Civil War Trades and Industries; Mill at Woolaston; Tewkesbury Abbey; Church in Berkeley, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by George C. Boon TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1993. Volume 111. Illusts, 286pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Published for the Society by Alan Sutton, 1994. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Exley family in Bristol Education and Methodism; Charity Schoolmasters of Stroud; Keynsham Abbey; Kingsweston Villa; Tewkesbury Excavations, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, John Jurica editor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1999. Volume 117. Illusts, folding plan in pocket at rear, 235pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 2000. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Stroud Tradesmen, 1770-1832; Excavations at Camp Gardens, Stow on the Wold; Herald's Visitation of Gloucestershire 1682-3, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, John Jurica editor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 2000. Volume 118. Illusts, 235pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 2001. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Daneway and Lodge Park Gloucestershire Houses; Africa Trade and the Bristol Gunpowder Industry; Thomas Gambier Parry and the Gloucester Schools of Science; Two Stonehouse Mills, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, compiled by Susan Vaughan TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - GENERAL INDEX to Volumes 111-120 (1993-2002). 101pp, original printed wraps. Printed for the Society. £4.00 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, John Jurica editor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 2005. Volume 123. Illusts, 228pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Bristol: 2006. £8.00 * Includes articles:- Country Houses acquired with Bristol Wealth; Pottery Production in Westbury-on-Trym during the late 17th and 18th Centuries; Open Air Schools of Bristol and Gloucestershire, etc. Brown (Dorothy), Manco (Jean) REDISCOVERING ACTON COURT AND THE POYNTZ FAMILY. Illusts, some in colour, pedigrees, 31pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Visual & Environmental Group, Bristol: (2009) £4.00 Burrow (Edward J) ANCIENT ENTRENCHMENTS AND CAMPS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Numerous illusts, lacks the folding map, 176pp, 4to, original cloth-backed paper boards, gilt, slightly rubbed to edges, covers slightly dusty, lower corners rubbed and bruised, inner hinges cracked and weak. Numbered Limited Edition, signed by the Author. Ed. J. Burrow and Co. Ltd. Cheltenham: 1924. £18.00 [Carter (J.E)] NOTES HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ON THE CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST SLYMBRIDGE. With 5 plates, 67pp, lacks lower wrap and spine, margins of several leaves partly waterstained. William Strong, Bristol: 1845. £8.00 Cheltonian THE CHELTONIAN 1931. New Series. Vol. LVII (57). Illusts, 420pp, binders cloth. Darter's College, Cheltenham: 1931. £6.00 * Includes details with names of competitors in various sports, including football, boxing, shooting, athletics, fencing, rugby, etc. Chubb (T) A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1577-1911. With Biographical Notes. With 12 plates, 238 + 15 + 7pp, original printed wraps, top inner corner of top wrap has a portion missing as well as the top corner of rear wrap, short spit to head of spine and short tear to rear wrap, untrimed and partly unopened. Printed for the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1912. £20.00 Clarke (John) A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE INTERESTING PRIORY OF LLANTHONY, near Gloucester; with Notices of Its Original Foundation in Wales, and Subsequent Removal to England; also Additional Notices of Contemporaneous Buildings in Gloucester, and Introductory Remarks on the Monastic System. Illusts, x + 97pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, outer hinges partly split, frontis and title-page spotty. George Bell, London and J.W. Needham, Gloucester: 1853. £24.00 Clift (Major J.G.N) LECKHAMPTON MOAT. Plan, diagrams, Pages numbered 235-248, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1933. £4.00 Cole (R), compiled by. RENTAL OF ALL THE HOUSES IN GLOUCESTER. A.D. 1455 from a roll in the possession of the Corporation of Gloucester, edited with a translation by W.H. Stevenson. With 18 black and red illusts on 4 pages, xvi + 147pp, untrimmed in the original vellum, covers slightly dusty. 4to, large paper edition limited to 50 numbered copies, signed by the printer. Gloucester: Printed by John Bellows, 1890. £35.00 Collins (Norman), Planning Officer Downs (R.A), County Surveyor and others KINGSWOOD TOWN CENTRE POLICY MAP Numerous coloured maps and plans, several of which are folding, diagrams, 14pp, 4to, original printed card boards, slightly spotty, ink note to top cover, plastic spiral spine. Gloucestershire County Council, 1969. £10.00 Cook (G.H) THE STORY OF GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL. With 41 photos., and 2 plans, 16 pages of text, original decorative paper boards. First edition, Phoenix House, London: 1952. £6.00 Corbet (John) HISTORICALL RELATION OF THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF GLOUCESTER: From the Beginning of the Civill Warre betweene King and Parliament to the Removal of Colonell Massie from that Government to the Command of the Westerne Forces. To which is prefixed the Author's Life. With an engraved portrait and an engraved plan, viii + 152 + 3pp, 4to, untrimmed in early paper boards, lacks spine, plates spotty. Originally published in 1645. Reprinted, Gloucester: Washbourn and Son, Gloucester and Charles Baldwyn, London: 1823. £40.00 * This forms part 1 of Washbourn's Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis. Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club PROCEEDINGS. Volume VII. Plates and diagrams, 242pp, few small marks to early binders cloth, leather label on spine, ex-lib with a few stamps. John Bellows, Gloucester: 1880. £22.00 * Includes:- E. Witchell. Section of Stroud Hill.... ; G.S. Boulger. Report on Progress towards completion of Flora of Gloucestershire etc., etc. Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. Volume 13. Illusts and diagrams, some of which are folding, 322pp, original printed wraps bound in at the rear, half calf cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, ex-ref.lib. label to front endpaper, couple of leaves slightly foxed. John Bellows, Gloucester: 1898-1901. £16.00 * Includes articles:- Camps at Minchinhampton; Upton Saint Leonards; Wye Valley; Roman Architecture in Britain, etc. Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB Volume 14. Illusts and diagrams, some of which are folding, 272 + 32 page supplement,, original printed wraps bound in at the rear, half calf cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, ex-ref.lib. label to front endpaper. John Bellows, Gloucester: 1901-1903. £10.00 * Includes articles:- Moreton in Marsh; Plants in Gloucestershire; Mendips; Westbury on Severn Geology, etc. Couzens (P.A) ANNALS OF A PARISH viz YATE. Illusts, 63pp, original card covers, signed by the author on the title-page. P.A. Couzens, Yate: 1990. £10.00 Darvill (Timothy) PREHISTORIC GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Illusts, diagrams, plans, viii + 216pp, original decorative card covers. Alan Sutton and Gloucestershire County Library, 1987. £4.00 Davis (Cecil T) GLOUCESTERSHIRE MONUMENTAL BRASSES. Full page and textual illusts, xx + 230pp, lacks dustwrapper. First published, 1899, Kingsmead reprints, Bath: 1969. £8.00 Deacon's THE GLOUCESTER COURT GUIDE AND COUNTY BLUE BOOK. A Fashionable Record, Professional Register, and General Survey of the County and of the Cities of Bristol and Bath. Lacks map, 608 + 318pp adverts, original cloth partly faded, short split to both outer hinges. London: Charles Wlliam Dacon & Co., 1899. £16.00 * Includes articles on the Geology, Archaeology, Natural History etc., etc. of the area. Delderfield (E.R) WEST COUNTRY HISTORIC HOUSES AND THEIR FAMILIES. Volume 3. The Cotswolds Area. Illusts, 124pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, private bookplate to front endpaper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £6.00 Ditchfield (P.H), editor MEMORIALS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With Many Illustrations. xiv + 304pp, original cloth, worn, rubbed to head and foot of spine, staining to edges of boards, internally sound. London: George Allen, 1911. £5.00 Dobell (C.M) MEMOIRS OF OLD CHARLTON KINGS. A Series of Short Papers Written For the Charlton Kings Parish Magazine. Original printed boards, 57pp. Norman, Sawyer and Co., Cheltenham: 1898. £16.00 Dyde (W) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF TEWKESBURY. The Third Edition. To which is prefixed, A Descriptive Sketch of Gloucestershire. With folding plan of the town, and 4 plates 3 of which are folding, bound without the view of the Old-Abbey Gate-House, but with 2 plates not called for:- 'Town Hall' and 'Market House', 144pp, sm 8vo, untrimmed in recent qtr calf, marbled boards and endpapers, with just the author's surname on spine, ex-lib. with the occasional stamp. Tewkesbury: Printed by the Editor. 1803. £35.00 Dyde (W) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF TEWKESBURY, The Second Edition, with Considerable Additions and Corrections. Vignette engraved title-page, plan, and 4 plates, one of which shows 2 views, xxiv + (ii) + 243pp, untrimmed in the original paper boards, few ink marks to top boards, covers rubbed to edges, edges of spine rubbed, lacks paper lettering piece from spine. Pasted to the rear pastedown is the label for E. Reddell, No 7. High Street, Tewkesbury, A Circulating Library. Second Edition, Tewkesbury: Printed for the Editor. 1798. £70.00 Elliott (C.H.B) WINTERBOURNE Gloucestershire. Illusts, folding plan, 122 + iiipp, dustwrapper, ownership inscription to front endpaper. First published 1936. Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, 1970. £18.00 Elrington (C.R), editor ABSTRACTS OF FEET OF FINES RELATING TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1300-1359. Gloucestershire Record Series Volumes 20. xix + 228pp, dustwrapper. Includes indices of persons and places and subjects. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2006. £8.00 Elrington (C.R), editor ABSTRACTS OF FEET OF FINES RELATING TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1360-1508. Gloucestershire Record Series Volumes 27. xxx + 268pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2013. £25.00 Enright (Dawn) and Watts (Martin), and others A ROMANO-BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT SITE AT STOKE ROAD BISHOP'S CLEEVE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report No 1. Plans, diagrams, iv + 80pp, original printed wraps. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2002. £4.00 Evans (J.T), editor THE CHURCH PLATE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With 21 plates, and 2 textual illusts, xxiv + 264pp, original cloth, roy 8vo. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1906. £10.00 Fendley (John), editor BISHOP BENSON'S SURVEY OF THE DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER 1735 - 1750. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 13. xx + 264pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2000. £8.00 Fendley (John), editor NOTES ON THE DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER BY CHANCELLOR RICHARD PARSONS C.1700. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 19. xxxiii + 576pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2005. £12.00 Finberg (H.P.R) GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An Illustrated Essay On The History Of The Landscape. With illustrations and sketch maps, 128pp, worn dustwrapper partly creased and with a few short tears, inscription to front endpaper. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. £5.00 Fowler (Sir James K) HAYLES AND BEAULIEU A Brief History and Guide to Hayles Abbey. A Daughter-House of Beaulieu. With Maps, Ground Plans and Illustrations, some of which are folding, 84pp, 12mo, original qtr cloth, paper boards, label on top board, lacks label on spine. First edition, London: William Heinemann, 1928. £16.00 Fryer (Alfred C) GLOUCESTERSHIRE FONTS. Part XVII. (c) Post-reformation Period. With index to parts I-XVII. With 10 plates, pages numbered 123-182, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, c.1927. £4.00 Fullbrook-Leggatt (L.E.W.O) ROMAN GLOUCESTER. (Glevum) 56pp, 12mo, original wraps, fore-edges slightly spotty. Reprinted, John Bellows, Gloucester: 1950. £4.00 Fuller (Rev. E.A) MEDIEVAL CIRENCESTER. Pages numbered 107-115, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1932. £4.00 Gardiner (S.J) and Padin (L.C) STROUD and the Five Valleys in Old Photographs. A Second Selection. Illusts, 160pp, original pictorial card covers. Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1987. £4.00 Garrett (Eric) & Harper (Les), chosen and compiled by YESTERYEAR Collected Papers of Olveston Parish Historical Society. Illusts, 145pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Corrected and reprinted, Tockington Press, 2011. £11.00 Gatrell (Anthony) THE HISTORY OF CIRENCESTER GOLF CLUB 1893 TO 1993. Plates, folding plan, 176pp, original cloth. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Cirencester Golf Club Limited, 1993. £12.00 * Signed by the author on the title-page. Gauntlett (G.H) CHARITY SCHEME, OF THE BAPTIST CHAPEL, TEWKESBURY. Sealed, 3rd, December, 1889. 8pp, original printed, spine partly split, staple rusty, pages loose. Printed by Browett, Tewkesbury: 1889. £6.00 Gethyn-Jones (Rev. J.E) DYMOCK. A History of the Church and Parish. Plates, 16pp, original printed wraps. Reprint, Castle Press, Berkeley: 1976. £4.00 Gethyn-Jones (Rev. J.E) DYMOCK. The Ann Cam School, Gloucestershire. Illusts, 12pp, original pictorial wraps. Albert E. Smith, Gloucester: 1965. £4.00 Gilbert (Edward) A GUIDE TO THE PRIORY CHURCH AND SAXON CHAPEL DEERHURST, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Plates, plan, 12pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted with additional illustrations, Newman, Printer, Tewkesbury: 1958. £4.00 Gloucestershire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore. GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 1. vi + 149pp, recent cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore and Co., 1896. £16.00 * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of King's Stanley, Owlpen, Quedgeley, Rendcombe, Swindon, Forthampton, Nimpsfield and Slimbridge. Gloucestershire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore. GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS MARRIAGES. Volume 4. vi + (i) + 153pp, original buckram, partly faded, ex-reference library, with label to front endpaper, and occasional stamp. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore and Co., 1898. £40.00 * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Hinton-on-the-Green, Aston Somerville, Kemerton, Lemington Parva, Buckland, Saintbury, Preston-upon-Stour, Stanton, Snowshill, Temple Guiting, Wormington, Childswickham, Weston Subedge, Guiting Power, Sutton-under-Brailes, and Todenham. Gloucestershire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore. GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 6. vi + (i) + 155pp, original buckram, partly faded, ex-reference library, with label to front endpaper, and occasional stamp. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore and Co., 1900. £12.00 * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Batsford, Beverston, Standish, Quinton, Elkstone, Ebrington, Stinchcombe, and Weston Birt. Gloucester Election REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS Appointed under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual to Inquire into the Corrupt Practises in the City of Gloucester. I.- Report. Coloured folding map, 37pp, folio, unbound, stitched as issued, stitching now broken, title-page and last leaf slightly ragged, ex-lib. stamps to title-page. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, H.M.S.O. 1881. £12.00 * Includes 18pp schedules listing the people who were guilty of corrupt practises at the 1880 and 1874 elections. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, edited by Rev. B.H. Blacker. GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 2. Frontis, xix + 674pp, half morocco, marbled boards. Wm. Kent, London: and others, 1884. £30.00 * Includes articles:- Lord Northwick's Collection of Pictures; Extracts from Dyrham Parish Registers; Rectors of Uley; Daunt Family; Rudder Family; Nash court and The Steps; Marriages in Hampnett, 1737-1754; Extracts from Dyrham Parish Registers, etc. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore. GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 5. 1891-1893. Illusts, x + (i) + 590pp, original cloth boards, spine faded, slight spotting to frontis and front endpapers. Bristol: William George, and others, 1894. £38.00 * Includes articles on the Arrowsmith Family; Trotman Family; Earldom of Berkeley; Stiffs of Hawkesbury; Maisemore Bells; Family of Longden; Family of Clutterbuck, etc. Gray (Irvine), editor CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS 1815-1826. xxiii + 113pp, original cloth. Printed for the Records Section of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. (1968) £8.00 Greet (Carolyn S) SIX YEARS 1856-1861 The Diaries of Edward Welch of Arle. Illust, plans, double-page pedigree, 229pp original pictorial card covers, short crease to top corner of top cover. Carmichael Books, Cheltenham: 1997. £8.00 * Includes chapters on Crimea, India, Canada, as well his life in Gloucestershire. Gregory (Alfred) ROBERT RAIKES: Journalist and Philanthropist. A History of the Origin of Sunday Schools. Frontis and vignette title, 209 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, sm, 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed and with a few small marks, private library label to front pastedown, relevant news cuttings pasted to rear endpapers, inner hinges weak. First edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1877. £24.00 Griffith (S.Y) NEW HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF CHELTENHAM And Its Vicinity. Embellished with Copperplate Engravings And Maps of the Town and Vicinity from the latest Surveys Also a Plan of Pittville. Vol 2 of 2 only. With an engraved title-page, 5 engraved plates and 2 engraved plans, iv + 288pp, early half calf, raised bands, marbled boards, top board and front endpaper loose, covers slightly rubbed, some spotting to plate. Printed and Published by S.Y. Griffith & Co. Chronicle Office. Cheltenham. 1826. £25.00 Griffiths (S.Y), printer GRIFFITH'S NEW HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF CHELTENHAM. And Its Vicinity.... With 2 maps, one of which is folding, a plan, and with 41 of 43 plates as called for in the 'List of Plates', lacking the view of the 'Arcade Cheltenham', which we have encountered missing several times, and the view of 'Montpellier Baths', which we do not believe was issued as we have never seen it in any copy. Not called for in the 'List of Plates' are plates of 'Williams's Library', 'The Literary Salon Duffield and Weller's Public Library', 'The Plough Hotel', 'The Sale Room of Mr Thos. Price', 18 copper-plate engraved trade plates bound in at the rear, the numbers of these varies from copy to copy, engraved title-page, xiv + 289pp, 4to, untrimmed in the original paper boards, later morocco spine, and new endpapers, boards slightly rubbed, most plates have tissue guards, light spotting to a few plates. First edition. Printed and Published by S.Y. Griffith & Co. Chronicle Office, Cheltenham: 1826. £140.00 Hadley (Mary), printer and publisher CHELTENHAM: An Old Story for a New Year. 28pp, 12mo, disbound. Cheltenham: Mary Hadley, Journal Office, c.185- £12.00 Hall (Malcolm) FILTON AND THE FLYING MACHINE. The Archive Photographs Series. Illusts, 127pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford Publishing, Stroud: 1995. £5.00 Handford (Michael) THE STROUDWATER CANAL. Plates, 337pp, dustwrapper. Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1979. £10.00 * Signed by the author on the title-page. Hart (Cyril) THE VERDERERS AND FOREST LAWS OF DEAN With notes on the Speech House and Deer. Plates and textual illusts, 240pp, dustwrapper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1971. £8.00 Hart (Gwen) A HISTORY OF CHELTENHAM. With 16 plates, map and folding plan, xviii + 394pp, dustwrapper covered with a transparent plastic film. First edition, Leicester University Press, 1965. £5.00 Harte (G.W), and others HANDBOOK BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL CENTENARY, TEWKESBURY, GRAND COSTUME BAZAAR. To be held in the George Watson Memorial Hall, on Wednesday and Thursday, May 4th and 5th, 1910. Illusts, 20pp, original printed paper wraps, staples rusty. Printed by Gardner's, Tewkesbury: 1910. £4.00 Hartland (Edwin Sidney), editor COUNTY FOLK-LORE. PRINTED EXTRACTS NO. 1. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 58pp, untrimmed in the original printed wraps, spine chipped with some loss, and partly split, top wrap partly lightly stained, top wrap and first few leaves slightly crinkled. Published by the Folk Lore Society. 1892. £8.00 Hodsdon (James), compiled by AN HISTORICAL GAZETTEER OF CHELTENHAM. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 9. With 3 folding reproduction plans of Cheltenham by Cossens, Merrett, and Norman, Sawyer and Co., in pocket at rear, xiv + 208pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Stroud: 1997. £18.00 Hodsdon (James), editor THE COURT BOOKS OF THE MANOR OF CHELTENHAM. 1692-1803. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 9. With plate and 2 maps, xxxviii + 621pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Stroud: 2010. £20.00 Holbrook (Neil) and Jurica (John) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A Review of New Discoveries and New Thinking in Gloucestershire South Gloucestershire and Bristol 1979-2004. Diagrams, plans, maps, vii + 265pp, 4to, original card covers. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2006. £5.00 Howse (Carrie) RURAL DISTRICT NURSINGIN GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1880-1925. Illusts, 208pp, original pictorial card covers. Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham: 2008. £6.00 Hubner (Dr.) GLOUCESTER, The Roman Glevum. Map, 2 coloured plates, 13pp, original printed wraps, wraps slightly soiled with a few short tears, 2 holes to inner margins where item placed at one time in a ring binder, occasional foxing. From the Transactions of the Cotteswold Club, John Bellows, c187- £4.00 Hudson (John) THORNBURY TO BERKELEY in Old Photographs. Illusts, 160pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1987. £4.00 Hunter (Andrew Alexander), editor CHELTENHAM COLLEGE REGISTER 1841 - 1889. Bound without plates, xv + 469pp, roy 8vo, untrimmed in early unlettered binders cloth. George Bell, London: 1890. £14.00 Hyett (F.A) GLOUCESTERSHIRE IN NATIONAL HISTORY. With a folding frontis, and 9 plates, xvi + 282pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed, numbers stamped to top of front endpaper. First edition, John Bellows, Gloucester: 1906. £6.00 Hyett (Francis A) GLOUCESTERSHIRE IN NATIONAL HISTORY. With a folding frontis, and 9 other plates, 282pp, original cloth, partly faded. Third edition, John Bellows, Gloucester: 1924. £15.00 Icely (H.E.M) BLOCKLEY Through Twelve Centuries. Annals of a Cotswold Parish. Numerous iIllusts, xx+ 260pp, dustwrapper. First edition, The Roundwood Press, Kineton: 1974. £10.00 Jeremiah (Josephine) THE RIVER SEVERN. A Pictorial History from Shrewsbury to Gloucester. Map, xixpp, 177 illusts, usually 2 to a page, original pictorial card covers. Phillimore, Chichester: 1998. £4.00 Johnson (Joan) STOW-ON-THE-WOLD. Illusts, map, 160pp, dustwrapper, ex-college lib. with stamps to verso of title-page, otherwise a nice copy. Alan Sutton and Gloucestershire County Library, 1980. £4.00 Johnson (Joan) TUDOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Illusts, viii + 184pp, original pictorial card covers. Alan Sutton and Gloucestershire County Library, 1985. £4.00 Kearsey (E. Maslin), editor GLOUCESTERSHIRE The County Handbook. Illusts, adverts, map, 230pp, original pictorial card covers, slightly dusty, head and foot of spine chipped, and rubbed, small chunks torn from top of map, names in ink to 'Contents' leaf. Ed. J. Burrow & Co., Cheltenham: c.1944. £7.00 Kelly (E.R) THE POST OFFICE KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1870. With folding map, pages numbered 453-812, halves of 2 leaves, being pages 595, 596, 597 and 598, have been cut away, small holes, affecting a few letters to the remaining portions, recent cloth, London: Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 1870. £45.00 * This county section was originally bound with the counties of Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Bristol. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1902. Lacks map, original cloth, lightly soiled and faded, outer and inner hinges crudely strengthened with tape, lacks all before title-page. Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1902. £38.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1919. With short tear to map with small amount of loss, original cloth, spine faded, slightly rubbed, few small snags to head and foot of spine, short splits to outer hinges, poor quality paper browned to edges as usual. Kelly's Directories, Ltd., London: 1919. £30.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF CHELTENHAM. 1967. With Charlton Kings, Leckhampton, and Prestbury. Lacks map as usual, 8 + 716pp, original limp card covers, slightly rubbed to edges, printed on poor quality paper which is slightly browned at edges. Kingston upon Thames: Kelly's directories Ltd, 1967. £22.00 Kimball (Elisabeth Guernsey), editor ROLLS OF THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SESSIONS OF THE PEACE 1361-1398. 185pp, original printed wraps, slight bruise to center of spine, ex-school lib., with stamp to half-title,and label to verso of top cover. Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1942. £6.00 * Forming Volume 62 of the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Knowles (W.H) and Fullbrook-Leggatt (L.E.W.O) GLOUCESTER ROMAN RESEARCH COMMITTEE REPORT FOR 1934. Folding map, plates, illusts, Pages numbered 65-81, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1934. £4.00 Lee (Alan) CHELTENHAM RACECOURSE. Illusts, 160pp, dustwrapper, foot of pages slightly damp crinkled. Pelham Books. 1985. £4.00 Lee (Edwin) CHELTENHAM AND ITS RESOURCES: Mineral Waters, Climate, etc. Considered chiefly in a Sanative Point of View. 135pp + 76pp adverts, few small marks to original cloth, new spine and endpapers. London: Whitaker, 1851. £30.00 Lewis (June R) THE COTSWOLDS AT WAR. x + 237pp, dustwrapper, inscription on half-title. Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud: 1992. £8.00 Litzenberger (C.J), editor TEWKESBURY CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNT, 1563 - 1624. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 7. xix + 163pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1994. £8.00 Lloyd-Baker (Lt. Col. A.B), edited by Joyce Popplewell A GLOUCESTERSHIRE DIARIST Lt. Col. A.B. Lloyd-Baker of Hardwicke Court Illusts, pedigree, 156pp, original pictorial card covers, signed presentation inscription by Popplewell to verso of top cover. Thornhill Press, 1993. £7.00 Madge (Sidney J), editor ABSTRACTS OF INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM FOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Returned into the Court of Chancery During the Plantagenet Period. Part IV. 20 Henry III. to 29 Edward I. 1236-1300. xvi + 241pp, in the original 4 parts, 3 parts lack wraps, one part has top wrap, few tears to 2 top margins. Issued to the Subscribers by the British Record Society, Limited. 1903. £8.00 Mann (Malcolm D) THE ROMAN VILLA AT WOODCHESTER Gloucestershire. An Account of the Roman Antiquities discovered at Woodchester, with special reference to the great "Orpheus" pavement. With 4 coloured plates, 8 pages of adverts + 16 + 8 pages of adverts, original printed wraps. Arthurs Press, Woodchester: 1963. £4.00 Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen and one other plate, pages numbered 332-363.... Bound with.... THE NATURAL HISTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen, pages numbered 364-400. 2 items continuously paginated, complete, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £30.00 * Extracted from his work entitled "The Natural History of England.... " Martin (Rupert) THE SCULPTED FOREST Sculptures in the Forest of Dean. With an essay by Martin Orrom and texts by the artists: Bruce Allan, Peter Appleton, Kevin Atherton, etc. Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1990. £6.00 Masefield (G.B), editor WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE. A Century of Change. Illusts, 112pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1980. £10.00 Masse (H.J.L.J) THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF GLOUCESTER A Description of its Fabric and a Brief Description of the Episcopal See. Bell's Cathedral Series. Illusts, double-page plan, 132 + (1)pp, 12mo, some splash stains to the original decorative cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. G. and Sons, London: 1910. £4.00 Masters (Brian) and Pollock (Adam) SUDELEY CASTLE. Illusts, plans, 32pp, original pictorial card covers, some spotting to covers. Printed by Balding & Mansell, London: 1970. £4.00 McCall (H.B) THE PARISH REGISTER OF SYSTON OR SISTON in the County of Gloucester From 1576 - 1641. 80pp, later cloth, with original top cover pasted to front board, a couple of pages at rear crudely opened. Privately Printed and Published by the Editor. Barton End Court, Nailsworth: 1901. £32.00 Mee (Arthur) GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Illustrated with new photographs by A.F. Kersting. Plates, double page map, 314pp, dustwrapper, with 2 ex-lib stamps to prelims, New edition revised and reset, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1966. £5.00 Michell (George B) PAGES FROM THE PAST at Frampton on Severn. With 8 plates, 64pp, original printed wraps and fore-edges spotty, top wrap loose, lacks large portions from spine. Ex-lib. Soc. of Genealogist with their stamp and with 'Donor Rev. Sir Henry Denny' written to top cover. Printed by Crypt House Press, Gloucester: 1929. £10.00 GLOUCESTERSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS Not all of my books are on line. For a further selection and to receive my latest catalogue please E-mail :- ambra@localhistory.co.uk Mills (Betty) A PORTRAIT OF NAILSWORTH. Illusts, map, 88pp, original pictorial card covers. Privately Published, Nailsworth: (1985) £7.00 [Moreau (Simeon)] A TOUR TO CHELTENHAM SPA; or Gloucestershire Display'd. Containing An Account of Cheltenham, its Mineral Waters, Amusements, Public Walks, Environs, &c. the Natural History of the County of Gloucester, the City of Gloucester, and the Towns of Cirencester, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Fairford, &c. with a Correct Itinerary from Cheltenham, and a new and easy Mode of knowing The Hours for Passing the Severn at Aust and the New Passages.... 174pp + Addenda leaf, 12mo, recent qtr cloth, paper boards, small light splash mark and 'Moreau' in ink to lower margin of title, small engraving pasted to verso of title-page, lacks half-title(?) First edition. Bath: Printed for the Author by R. Cruttwell. 1783. £40.00 [Moreau (Simeon)] A TOUR TO CHELTENHAM SPA; or Gloucestershire Display'd. Containing An Account of Cheltenham, its Mineral Waters, Amusements, Public Walks, Environs, &c. the Natural History of the County of Gloucester, the City of Gloucester, and the Towns of Cirencester, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Fairford, &c. with a Correct Itinerary from Cheltenham, and a new and easy Mode of knowing The Hours for Passing the Severn at Aust and the New Passages.... Lacks half-title and title page, 174pp + Addenda leaf, 12mo, early half calf, rubbed, spine chipped, boards loose, text block in 2 halves. First edition. Bath: Printed for the Author by R. Cruttwell. 1783. £16.00 Mowl (Timothy) HISTORIC GARDENS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Illusts, plates, plans, 192pp, original pictorial card covers, signed by the author on the title-page. First edition, Tempus Publishing, Stroud: 2002. £10.00 Newenham (W.T) ANTIQUATED SPOTS ROUND CHELTENHAM. With 3 woodcut illustrations, 143pp, 12mo, original cloth, gilt, cover slightly soiled, early inscription on front endpaper. Simpkin, Marshall, London: (1851) £18.00 * Includes:- Prestbury Camp, Bishop's Cleeve, Seven Springs, Leckhampton, and Winchcombe. Nicholls (H.G) FOREST OF DEAN.... AND IRON MAKING IN THE OLDEN TIMES. New edition with introduction by Dr Cyril Hart. Illusts., folding map, xii + 286 and 92 + (6)pp, dustwrapper, couple of school stamps to endpapers. Originally published in 1858 and 1866. Reprinted David and Charles, Dawlish: 1966. £20.00 Nicholls (H.G) IRON MAKING IN THE OLDEN TIMES: as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of the Forest of Dean, historically related, on the basis of contemporary records, and exact local investigations. Illusts, xii + 82pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. Facsimile reprint, Douglas McLean, Coleford: 1981. £5.00 --- See sample text Norman (D.D.R) REMINISCENCES OF UPTON CHEYNEY. Illusts in the text, original pictorial card covers, small folio, with a platic spiral spine, 43 + 2pp, waterstain crinkling to top margin of most pages, similar stain to lower margins affecting a few pages at rear, relevant news cutting loosely inserted. D.D.R. Norman, Upton Cheyney: 1992. £9.00 Orchard (D.R) A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MANOR AND CASTLE OF THORNBURY. With a Guide to the Grounds. Illusts, double page plan, 14pp, original pictorial card covers. Orchard Bros., Glastonbury: c.198- £4.00 Patterson (Robert B), editor THE ORIGINAL ACTA OF ST. PETER'S ABBEY GLOUCESTER c. 1122 to 1263. Edited, with an account of the Scriptorium and its Scribes. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 11. With 44 plates, lxi + 354pp, dustwrapper. Includes indices of persons and places and subjects. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1998. £8.00 Payne (Gordon E) A SURVEY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A Physical, Social & Economic Survey and Plan. Numerous illusts and coloured folding maps, also folding maps in pocket at rear, vii + 320pp, original cloth, 4to. John Bellows, Gloucester: c.1938. £10.00 Peake (David, Susanna, & Edward) & Thomas (Graham) SEZINCOTE HOUSE. Near Moreton-in-Marsh. Coloured and black and white illusts, 17pp, original pictorial card covers. c.2012. £4.00 Platts (A) and Hainton (G.H) EDUCATION IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A Short History. Illusts, 128pp, original cloth, partly faded. Published by Gloucestershire County Council 1954. £6.00 Playne (Arthur Twisden) A HISTORY OF THE PARISHES OF MINCHINHAMPTON AND AVENING. With 24 plates, viii + 188pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. First edition, Gloucester: John Bellows, 1915. £35.00 Pooley (Charles) NOTES ON THE OLD CROSSES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With 13 tinted lithographic plates and numerous textual illusts., xiii + 76pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, number to foot of spine, corner of top board bruised, small amount of spotting mainly to margins of plates, waterstain to lower corner of frontis slightly affecting title. First edition, Longmans, Green, 1868. £15.00 --- See sample text * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sydenham H.A. Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, to front pastedown and a presentation inscription to him from the author on the title-page. Powell (Geoffrey) THE BOOK OF CAMPDEN. History in Stone. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 120pp, lacks dustwrapper. This copy seems to have been used to advise the printers on a new edition, note taped to front endpaper, subscribers list, information on verso of title-page and illust on half title scored through with pencil, Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1982. £6.00 Purnell (Frances) and Williams (Henry W) JUBILEE HISTORY of the Gloucester Co-operative and Industrial Society Limited. Illusts, xiv + 284pp, original cloth, faded, few marks to top board. Gloucester: John Jennings, 1910. £10.00 Rampton (Norman), County Property Services Manager LITTLEDEAN GAOL. Freehold for Sale. Illusts, map, plans, 6pp, 4to, on single folded sheet. Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucester: 2003. £8.00 Rector LETTERS TO THE PARISHES FROM THE RECTOR. Parishes:- St. James the Elder Church, Horton and the Church of St. Adeline, Little Sodbury. 267pp, original pictorial card covers. No imprint, 1993 £4.00 Richards (Roger C) THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER, ENGLAND. REPORT BY MR. ROGER C. RICHARDS (ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER), UPON THE POOR LAW UNION OF CIRENCESTER, (Gloucestershire.) Title + 11pp, pages numbered 51-61, complete, small folio, later paper covers, with paper label on top cover. Houses of Parliament, London: 1893. £18.00 * Extract from British Parliamentary papers. A detailed report on the conditions, wages, housing, hours worked of Gloucestershire agricultural workers. Richardson (L) A HANDBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF CHELTENHAM and Neighbourhood. Illusts, xii + 303pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, and pulled to head of spine, large folding map in pocket at rear, few tears and splits crudely repaired to verso, tipped onto last free endpaper is a small envelope which contains some relevant news cuttings. First edition, Cheltenham: Norman Sawyer and Co., 1904. £15.00 Roberts (Daniel) MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF JOHN ROBERTS Frontis, One of the early Friends, By his son. Facsimile reproduction with a new introduction by Christopher Hill. 98pp, sm 8vo, originally printed card covers. This edition originally published 1859. Friends Home Service Committee, London: 1973. £8.00 [Roberts (Mary)] THE ANNALS OF MY VILLAGE: Being A Calendar of Nature Every Month in the Year. Frontis, 3 plates, iv + 362 + (2) pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, recased, spine laid down, original endpapers preserved, some off-setting, early ownership inscription to front endpaper, and recipient's name to title-page, later bookplate to front pastedown. First edition, London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1831. £45.00 * "My Village" is Sheepscombe, and not Painswick as has been sometimes stated.' see Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, vol. 2, page 263. Rolt (L.T.C) THE DOWTY STORY. Illusts, 90pp, couple of short tears to dustwrapper. With the name and address of a former store-keeper for the company, to front endpaper, and a note in ink in his hand to one page. With the compliments slip of Sir George Dowty loosely inserted. Newman Neame, London: (1962) £12.00 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Volume One. Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Plates, diagrams some of which are folding, four folding maps in pocket at rear, lvi + 157pp, 4to, very short tear to rear of dustwrapper, frontis slightly crinkled. H.M.S.O. London: 1976. £14.00 Rudder (Samuel) A NEW HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Comprising the Topography, Antiquities, Curiosities, Produce, Trade, and Manufactures of that County.... with a Copy of Domesday for Gloucestershire.... With a folding map, 16 engraved plates, mostly folding, and one engraving in the letterpress, xii + 854 + lxviiipp, folio, dustwrapper, page edges slightly tinged, inner hinges pulled and weak, rear of dustwrapper creased, and with a couple of sort tears. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies. Cirencester: 1779. Reprinted, Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1986. £35.00 * 'In this reprint the text has been reduced by 10 per cent.' Rushen (Percy C) OLD TIME INVENTION In the Four Shires. Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick and Oxford. 4to, 63 + (4) page index, original cloth, partly faded, prelims spotty. Published by the author, c.1916. £25.00 * Not in Austin's Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection. No, date, printer or publisher is given. Gives details of the various patents held such as, 'Patent No 709, dated 27 May 1756, was granted to John Wright of Lower Redbrooke, in the county of Gloucestershire, refiner, for "A New Method of Raising Steam for Working Fire Engines." The latter term was that given to steam engines before the days of Watt.... ' Includes Indices of Places, Persons and Subjects. Rushworth (G. McNeil) WARKWORTH. Pages numbered 265-274, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1930. £4.00 Saville (Alan), editor ARCHAEOLOGY IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE From the Earliest Hunters to the Industrial Age. Essays dedicated to Helen O'Neil and the late Elsie Clifford. Illusts, maps, diagrams, 352pp, paperback, slightly rubbed to edges. Cheltenham Art Gallery and the Bristol Archaeological Society, Cheltenham: 1984. £6.00 Sawyer (John) CHELTENHAM PARISH CHURCH Its Architecture and Its History. Illusts, 124 + (ii)pp, original qtr cloth, couple of corners slightly bruised. LARGE PAPER COPY. Norman Sawyer and Co., Cheltenham: 1903. £10.00 Shaw (E.S) CROSS HANDS HOTEL Old Sodbury, Glouestershire, England. One of Britain's fine Historic Inns in the heart of Beaufort Hunt and Cotswold Country. Illusts, adverts, folding map, 48pp, original printed card covers, partly faded, oblong 8vo. First edition, Ed. J. Burrow, Cheltenham: 1953. £10.00 Smith (D.J) THE GREAT PAVEMENT AND ROMAN VILLA at Woodchester Gloucestershire. Illusts, 10pp + (12) pages of adverts, few spots to the original pictorial card covers. Woodchester Roman Pavement Committee. 1973. £4.00 Smith (Rev. Ernest F), Revised by Benson (Rev. E. Geoffrey) TEWKESBURY ABBEY. Illusts, 48pp, loose in the original pictorial wraps. Third edition, Printed and Published by R.A. Newman, Tewkesbury: 1936. £5.00 South Cerney Local History Group SOUTH CERNEY Old and New. Material for a History of the Parish. Illusts, 89pp, orignal pictorial card covers, cloth spine, covers partly dusty. South Cerney Trust, Cirencester: c.1971. £10.00 Spence (Rev. H.D.), Illustrated by Herbert Railton & A. Quinton CLOISTER LIFE IN THE DAYS OF COEUR DE LION. Illusts, xii + 203 + (1)pp, roy 8vo, original decorative cloth, signed and dated by Spence on Dedication leaf, and with a small newscutting obituary to him taped at top margin to verso of title-page. First edition, Isbister & Co., Ltd., 1892. £22.00 * Contains much on Tewkesbury Abbey. Spence (Rev. H.D.M), Illustrated by Herbert Railton DREAMLAND IN HISTORY. The Story of the Norman Dukes. Illusts, xii + 228pp, roy 8vo, original decorative cloth, spine slightly dull, stitching loose, text shaken. First edition, Isbister & Co., Ltd., 1891. £10.00 * Concerns the Norman's construction of ecclesiastical buildings with much on the Abbey of Gloucester. Spence (Rose) FRAMPTON ON SEVERN. Portrait of a Victorian Village. Map endpapers, frontis and 63 illusts, x + 150pp, dustwrapper. Chichester: Phillimore, 2000. £12.00 Stacy (N.E) FROM THE FONT TO THE GRAVE IN EARLY MODERN DYRHAM. Pages numbered 97-120, offprint, complete, original card covers. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Soc. 1995. £4.00 Stephens (Leslie) CIRENCESTER QUAKERS 1655 - 1973. With an introduction by L. Hugh Doncaster. Illusts, roy 8vo, 58pp, original wraps. Third printing, Cirencester Preparative Meeting, Cirencester: 1973. £5.00 Stokes (Ethel), Abstracted by ABSTRACTS OF INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM FOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Returned into the Court of Chancery During the Plantagenet Period. Part VI. 33 Edward III to 14 Henry IV. 1359-1413. x + 266pp, lacking wraps, in 3 parts, one leaf faded, one margin partly soiled. Issued to the Subscribers by The British Record Society Limited. 1914. £12.00 Stonham (Jessie M) DAUGHTER OF WYEDEAN AND KERNOW. Notes from a West Country Childhood. Illusts, 152pp, dustwrapper. Thornhill Press, Gloucester: 1978. £4.00 Sturge Gretton (M) A CORNER OF THE COTSWOLDS. Through the Nineteenth Century. With Twelve Illustrations. ix + 289pp, original cloth, front inner hinge tender. First edition, 1914. £10.00 * 'The country I write of.... in the main it is the tableland between the Coln and the Evenlode.... ' Sutton (Alan) and Hudson (John) COTSWOLD IMAGES Coloured plates and black and white illusts, map, 192pp, oblong 8vo, dustwrapper, name to half-title. Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1988. £5.00 Swain (E.J), director K.A.A. 1975-77 SEASONS THE CHESSALLS EXCAVATIONS KINGSCOTE. Plans, diagrams, 28pp, folio, original pictorial card covers. Loosely inserted is a large folded plan of the 'Kingscote Roman Excavations'. Kingscote Archaeological Association, (1977) £7.00 Tann (Jennifer) GLOUCESTERSHIRE WOOLLEN MILLS. Plates and textual illusts, 254pp, rubbed dustwrapper, with short tear to rear flap. First edition, David and Charles, Newton Abbot: 1967. £8.00 Thomas (Alan), Holbrook (Neil) and Bateman (Clifford), and others LATER PREHISTORIC AND ROMANO-BRITISH BURIAL SETTLEMENT AT HUCCLECOTE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE EXCAVATIONS IN ADVANCE OF THE GLOUCESTER BUSINESS PARK LINK ROAD, 1998. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report No 2. Plans, diagrams, ii + 74pp, original printed wraps. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2003. £4.00 Tucker (Joan) FERRIES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE Maps, illusts, 160pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Tempus Publishing, Stroud: 2008. £6.00 Tucker (Joan) THE STROUDWATER NAVIGATION. Coloured and black and white plates, 191pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half title. Tempus, Stroud: 2003. £5.00 Tymms (Samuel) GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Section extracted from 'Camden's Britannia Epitomized and Continued.' Engraved map, 43pp, 12mo disbound, short tear to inner margin of map neatly repaired to verso. Nichols & Son, London: (1833) £22.00 Victoria County History, edited by William Page VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Volume 2. Plates and textual illusts, xv + 448pp, 4to, recent cloth. First edition, Archibald Constable, London: 1907. £35.00 * Contains chapters on Ecclesiastical, Social and Economic History, Agriculture, Forestry, Sports, Ancient and Modern including Stag and Fox-hunting. Vinter (Dorothy) TRAPPED IN THE PIT and other Kingswood Stories. 20pp, 12mo, original printed card covers. Central Press, Kingswood: 1951. £12.00 Waring (Michael) 100 YEARS OF ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT AT KINGSWOOD A commemoration by Bendix Limited. Numerous illusts, 24pp, oblong 4to, original pictorial card covers. Limited Numbered Edition. Bendix Limited, Kingswood: (1985) £8.00 * The story of how Bendix, an American company, supplied air brakes, etc, forthe production of motorbikes and other vehicules for William Douglas. Waters (Ivor) BEACHLEY BETWEEN THE WYE AND THE SEVERN. With 2 folding plans, plates, 22pp, recent cloth with original paper cover pasted to top cover, ex-lib., with stamps to verso of title-page, labels to front endpaper. The Printing Club, Army Apprentices College, Chepstow: 1977. £4.00 Watts (Martin), editor PREHISTORIC AND MEDIEVAL OCCUPATION AT MORETON-IN-MARSH AND BISHOP'S CLEEVE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report No 5. Plans, diagrams, vi + 94pp, original printed wraps. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2007. £4.00 Watts (Martin), editor PREHISTORIC, ROMANO-BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL OCCUPATION IN THE FROME VALLEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report No 8. Plans, diagrams, illusts, vi + 82pp, original pictorial card covers. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2013. £5.00 Way (Albert) NOTES ON A BRONZE RELIQUE Assigned to the late Roman or the Saxon Age, discovered at LECKHAMPTON, Gloucestershire. Plate, illusts in the text, 17pp, lacks wraps(?) Reprinted from the Archaeological Journal, (1855) £8.00 Webb (Alf) CIVIL WAR IN DEAN The History and Archaeology of the English Civil Wars in Forest of Dean and Gloucestershire. Illusts, maps, diagrams, 62pp, original pictorial card covers. Dean Archaeological Group, 2001. £10.00 Wells-Furby (Bridget), editor A CATALOGUE OF THE MEDIEVAL MUNIMENTS AT BERKELEY CASTLE. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 17. lxxxix + 574pp dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2004. £22.00 Wells-Furby (Bridget), editor A CATALOGUE OF THE MEDIEVAL MUNIMENTS AT BERKELEY CASTLE. Gloucestershire Record Series Volumes 17 and 18. 2 volumes, lxxxix + 574pp and xi + 575-1200pp, dustwrappers. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2004. £50.00 Were (F) INDEX TO THE HERALDRY IN BIGLAND'S HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Compiled for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Pages numbered 147-510pp + viii page index, later cloth, bound without the wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1905. £16.00 * Forming Volume XXVIII (28). Part 2 of the Society's Transactions. White (H.C) GLOUCESTERSHIRE STORIES. Illusts, 157pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, few spots to endpapers. Gloucester: British Publishing Company, (1949) £4.00 White (Hope Costley) GLOUCESTERSHIRE STORY. Map endpapers, 127pp, few small nicks to dustwrapper. British Publishing Company, Gloucester: 1956. £4.00 White (Senior Officer Bryan) PRO H.M. PRISON BARRACK SQUARE GLOUCESTERSHIRE The Murderers of Gloucestershire, Hangings in Gloucester Prison 1872 to 1939. (and others). Illusts, viii + 65pp + 3 blanks, folio, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Bryan White, H.M. Prison Service, 1985. £15.00 Wilson (Andy), compiler STUMP HIGH! Cricket Miscellany. Illusts, adverts, 61 + 6pp, lacks spine and rear wrap, small portion torn from inner margin of top wrap, some spotting to first 3 leaves. Gloucestershire C.C.C. 1953. £5.00 Wise (Meg) AROUND THORNBURY REVISITED. (Images of England) Illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Tempus, Stroud: 2006. £5.00 Woodman (Marian) PRISON AT THE CROSSROADS (Northleach House of Correction) Illusts, 12pp, original pictorial wraps. Corinium Museum, Cirencester: (1981) £8.00 Wratten (Nigel) and Richards (Margaret), editor GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORICAL STUDIES 13. With 2 full-page plans, and 1 plan in text, 63pp, small folio, original printed wraps, ex-Bristol University label and stamp to verso of top wrap. University of Bristol Department of Extra-Mural Studies, 1982. £10.00 * Includes articles on The Poor School, Gloucester; Charlton Kings Wills 1547-1553; Tewkesbury Local Board of Health 1848 - 1853; The Cloth Mills, Painswick, etc. Wyatt (Irene), editor TRANSPORTEES FROM GLOUCESTERSHIRE TO AUSTRALIA 1783-1842. Gloucestershire Record Series. Volume 1. Folding map, xx + 181pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1988. £20.00 * Lists the names, ages, addresses, occupations, sentences, transport, etc. Back to the Top ORDERING Or for further information contact Ivor Cornish :- Tel:- ( 0117 ) 9076899 E-mail :- ambra@localhistory.co.uk Bristol -- Bristol Clearance Cornwall -- Cornwall Clearance Devon -- Devon Clearance Dorset -- Dorset Clearance GLOUCESTERSHIRE Somerset -- Somerset Clearance Wiltshire -- Wiltshire Clearance General ( Includes items of GLOUCESTERSHIRE interest. ) -- General Clearance ( Includes items of GLOUCESTERSHIRE interest. ) GLOUCESTERSHIRE :- Selection of items I wish to purchase GLOUCESTERSHIRE :- Selection of manuscripts, maps, ephemera etc. for sale from Lesley Aitchison. AMBRA BOOKS Home page Copyright © Ambra Books -- 2025. All rights reserved.