KENT [Dover]

Leach, Derek [Compiled and Researched by]

(Book #ID 79182)

Published by the Author, Dover First Edition 1999. Dover 1999.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains 105 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Light rubs to all cover edges and corners, minimal dust marking to the closed page edges and in near Fine clean unopened condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0953616606

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Leach, Derek and Terry Sutton

(Book #ID 89166)

Published by Riverdale Publications, 24 Riverdale, River, Dover, Kent First Edition 2003. 2003.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains 208 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0953616649

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Lyon, The Reverend John Lyon [1734 - 1814] was Minister of St. Mary's, Dover [Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson Bart.]

(Book #ID 86689)

Dover, Printed for the Author, by Ledger and Shaw and sold by them, and all the Booksellers in the County of Kent; and by Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown, 39, Paternoster Row, London. 1813 + 1814. Two Volumes. 1813/1814.

Uniform matching first edition hard back binding in publisher's original plain brown paper covered boards, paper title and author lettering labels to the spines, all page edges untrimmed. 4to 11½'' x 9''. Volume I [xii] + xlviii + 366 pages; Volume II, [viii] + 390 pages. Illustrated with 18 copper engraved plates, 8 of which are folding. From the private library of Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson Bart, with his armorial coat of arms bookplate inside each volume. Scattered foxing to the end papers, small tear to the bottom of the title page of volume II, the front hinge to volume I has started to pull away, corners rubbed and turned-in, chipping of the paper covering the spines. The subscribers list accounts for 203 copies, so it is probable that no more than 250 copies were printed. Typed letter, dated 1966, tipped-in opposite the title page to volume I, concerning 'Anglo Saxon England and the Norman Conquest' by H. R. Lyon. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Lushington, Sir John

(Book #ID 111938)

Published Privately by the Author First Edition 2012. 2012.

First edition hard in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to 11¾'' x 8¼''. Contains [viii], 335 pp illustrated with archive monochrome maps, relevant plans, copies of original documents and photographs throughout, along with a small amount of colour illustrations. The Lushington family's origins are traced back to the small hamlet of Standen, in the Alkham Valley where they farmed and reared a large family. Branches of their descendants lived in Hawkinge, Capel-le-Ferne, Alkham, Cheriton, Elmsted, Hastingleigh and Barham with wider links to the Isle of Thanet, Sittingbourne, London and Norfolk. A vast number of other names are researched and included in the index. Hand written No. 64 of 100 Limited Edition copies SIGNED by the author to the title page 'John Lushington.' Errata note tipped-in. In Fine unused new condition and an important source of reference material for life in East Kent during the medieval period. In publisher's original box. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9780957352803

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