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  1. Andrew (Martin) PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES. FRANCIS FRITH'S SOMERSET. Numerous illusts, dustwrapper. Frith Book Company, Salisbury: 2000. £5.00




  2. Andrews (Ken) MR BOWLER OF BATH Victorian Entrepreneur and Engineer. Maps, illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers, partly faded. Ken Andrews, Bristol: 1998. £6.00




  3. Ashbrittle ASHBRITTLE AT THE MILLENNIUM Researched, written, photographed, edited and designed by people from the parish of Ashbrittle with help from some close neighbours. Illusts, map endpapers, 170pp, oblong 8vo, paperback. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 750 COPIES. Ashbrittle Arts, 2000. £7.00
    * A history of the manor of Ashbrittle, in Somerset, with photographs, comments and snippets by many of its residents.





  4. Ashton Court NATURE TRAIL. ASHTON COURT ESTATE. Textual illusts, map, 20pp, original pictorial card covers, few spots to text. Public Works Committee of the Corporation of Bristol, c.1970. £4.00




  5. Bailey (Derrick Sherwin) WELLS CATHEDRAL CHAPTER ACT BOOK 1666-83. xlv + 120pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society. Volume 72. Printed for Subscribers. 1973. £4.00




  6. Bailey (Derrick Sherwin) WELLS MANOR OF CANON GRANGE. xxvii + 224pp, dustwrapper. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985. £6.00




  7. Bailey (John) WESTON SUPER MARE The Good Old Days. Illusts, 55pp, original pictorial card covers. Second edition, Redcliffe, Bristol: 1985. £4.00




  8. Balch (H.E) WOOKEY HOLE, ITS CAVES AND CAVE DWELLERS. With an Introduction by Professor Boyd Dawkins. Period Restoration and numerous Drawings by John Hassall, R.I. Cave Photographs and Diagrams by J.H. Savory. With 36 plates, and 55 figures in the text, viii + 258pp, 4to, untrimmed in the original cloth-backed printed paper boards, partly rubbed to edges, edges of boards lightly stained, signs where label removed from front endpaper. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1914. £60.00




  9. Bantock (Anton) THE LATER SMYTHS OF ASHTON COURT. From their letters 1741-1802. Plates, textual illusts, plans, map, 237pp, original decorative card covers. Bristol: Malago Society, 1984. £7.00




  10. Bantock (Anton) THE EARLIER SMYTHS OF ASHTON COURT. From their letters 1545-1741. Plates, textual illusts, map, pedigrees, 270pp, original decorative card covers. Bristol: Malago Society, 1982. £8.00




  11. Banwell SEARCH Number 8. Journal of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. 1968. Text illusts, 32 + xviiipp, sm 4to, original wraps, some corners curled, stain where the original tape is missing from spine. Banwell: 1968. £4.00




  12. Batten (John) HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF PARTS OF SOUTH SOMERSET, viz Barwick, Chilton Cantelo, Sutton Bingham, East Coker, Brympton, Houndston, Preston, Limington, with Notices of West Coker, and Hardington Mandeville. With plates, folding pedigree, iii + 200pp, original bevelled cloth, title slightly discoloured as usual. First edition, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London: & Whitby and Son, Yeovil, 1894. £20.00




  13. Batten (John) HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF PARTS OF SOUTH SOMERSET, viz Barwick, Chilton Cantelo, Sutton Bingham, East Coker, Brympton, Houndston, Preston, Limington, with Notices of West Coker, and Hardington Mandeville. With plates, iii + 200pp, untrimmed in the original bevelled cloth, slightly rubbed, lettering on spine feint, title slightly browned. Whitby and Son, Yeovil: and Simpkin Marshall, London: 1894. £25.00




  14. Beazer (Cyril H.G) RANDOM REFLECTIONS OF A WEST COUNTRY MASTER CRAFTSMAN. With 23 plates, 3 of which are coloured, several with two illustrations, 158pp, dustwrapper. Published by C.H.G. Beazer, Bath: 1981. £6.00
    * The story of how he worked as a stone mason before the war and then built up his own construction company, working mainly in Bath.





  15. Beisly (Philip) THE NORTHMARSH OF SOMERSET. Illusts, plans, 136pp, original pictorial card covers, corner of lower corner of rear board creased. Weston super Mare Heritage Centre, 1996. £6.00
    * 'The Northmarsh is surrounded by the expanding towns of Weston super Mare, Clevedon and Nailsea... '





  16. Bell (Rev. A.H) & (Rev. R. Corrin) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF YEOVILTON in Somerset. Two plates, 21pp, page loose in the original printed wraps. Western Gazetter & Co., 1949. £4.00




  17. Bettey (Joseph) THE RISE OF A GENTRY FAMILY: The Smythes of Ashton Court. c.1500-1642. With 4 plates, genealogical table, 20pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, The University, Bristol: 1978. £4.00




  18. Bidgood (William) IN MEMORIAM. WILLIAM BIDGOOD, Born at Skilgate, April 18th, 1840. Died at Taunton, January 31st, 1901. Curator and Librarian to the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 39 Years. 14pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps, short tear to rear outer wraps, few spots to wraps. Contemporary inscription to top wrap. Reprinted from the Somerset County Gazette, 1901. £4.00




  19. Binding (Hilary) and Stevens (Douglas) THE BOOK OF MINEHEAD With Alcombe. Illusts, 160pp, includes a 3pp list of subscribers, dustwrapper. First edition, Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2000. £10.00




  20. Binding (Hilary) DISCOVERING DUNSTER. A History and Guide. Illusts, some in colour, plan, 94pp, original pictorial card covers. The Exmoor Press, c.1990. £4.00




  21. Black (Clementina) THE LINLEYS OF BATH. With an introduction by George Saintsbury. With 13 plates, 300pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed spine slightly faded. New Edition (revised and reset) London: Martin Secker. 1926. £8.00




  22. Black (Clementina) THE LINLEYS OF BATH. With 13 plates, With an introduction by George Saintsbury. 300pp, dustwrapper. New Edition. London: Frederick Muller, 1971. £6.00




  23. Britton (John) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WELLS; Including Biographical Notices and Anecdotes of the Bishops of the See of Bath & Wells. (iv) + 154pp, 8vo, original printed paper boards, lacks portions of spine, early ownership name to front pastedown. Francis & John Rivington, London & Thomas Green, Wells: 1847. £19.00
    * This is a pocket edition of his larger illustrated work.





  24. Britton (John), and Peach (R.E.M) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF BATH ABBEY CHURCH. Continued to the Present Time, with Additional Notes by R.E.M. Peach. With Six Illustrations. xix + 107pp, later half calf, cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top outer hinges partly cracked, though sound, few spots and small water stain to outer edge of frontis. Charles Hallett, Bath: 1887. £20.00




  25. Britton (John), and Peach (R.E.M) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF BATH ABBEY CHURCH. Continued to the Present Time, with Additional Notes by R.E.M. Peach. With Six Illustrations. xix + 107pp, original cloth, gilt, frontis partly waterstained, slight spotting to title-page, lightly rubbed to corners and to top outer hinge. Charles Hallett, Bath: 1887. £32.00




  26. Brooke (Leslie) THE BOOK OF YEOVIL. A Portrait of the Town. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 148pp, partly faded dustwrapper. Includes 2 page list of subscribers. Signed by the author on the title-page. First edition, Barracuda Books Limited, Chesham: 1978. £10.00




  27. Brown (Bryan J.H.) and Loosley (John) THE BOOK OF WESTON-SUPER-MARE. The Story of the Town's Past. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 148pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Barracuda Books Ltd., Buckingham: 1979. £12.00




  28. Brown (Bryan J.H.) and Loosley (John) THE BOOK OF WESTON-SUPER-MARE. The Story of the Town's Past. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 148pp, includes 2 page list of subscribers, dustwrapper. Second Impression, Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1983. £8.00




  29. Brown (Martyn) SOMERSET RURAL LIFE MUSEUM. Illusts, map, 20pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury: 1982. £4.00




  30. Buchanan (Brenda), editor BATH HISTORY. Volume 6. Illusts, maps, 176pp, original pictorial card covers. Bath Archaeological Trust, 1996. £4.00
    * Includes:- The Barton of Bath; Avon Navigation; Cloth-Industry of Twerton, etc.





  31. Bulleid (Arthur) and Gray (Harold St George) THE MEARE LAKE VILLAGE.... Excavations and the Relics from the Eastern Half of the West Village, 1910-33. Complete Set. Numerous plates some of which are folding. 3 volumes, xv + 105pp and xi + 108-280pp and ix + 281-419pp, 4to, original cloth-backed printed paper boards. Privately Printed at Taunton Castle: 1948-1966. £55.00




  32. Bulleid (Arthur) THE LAKE VILLAGES OF SOMERSET Somerset Folk Series No 16. Plates some of which are folding, 78pp, original printed wraps, slightly dull, slightly chipped to head and foot of spine. First edition, Folk Press, Ltd., 1924. £5.00




  33. Burrow (Ed.J) PORTISHEAD (Somersetshire) Official Handbook. Published by Authority of the Portishead Urban District Council. Illusts, map, adverts, 32pp, tape applied to tear of one leaf, First edition, Ed. J. Burrow & Co Ltd, Chetenham: c.1925. £5.00




  34. Bush (R.J.E) and Dunning (R.W) HUISH EPISCOPI, LANGPORT AND SOMERTON Extracted from The Victoria History of the County of Somerset. Illusts, 38 + pages numbered 129-153, complete, small folio, original printed card covers. Reprinted, Bigwood and Staple, Bridgwater: 1983. £6.00




  35. Bush (Robin) A TAUNTON DIARY 1787 - 1987. Two centuries of gossip, scandal, success and calamity in darkest Somerset. Numerous illusts, 144pp, cr 4to, dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition. With 2 page 'Subscribers List'. Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1988. £10.00
    * Signed by the author on the title-page.





  36. Bush (Robin) JEBOULT'S TAUNTON. A Victorian Retrospect. Numerous illusts, 116pp, cr 4to, dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition. With 4 page 'Subscribers List'. Signed by the author on the title-page. Barracuda Books Ltd., Buckingham: 1983. £10.00




  37. Byford (Enid) SOMERSET MURDERS. Life and Laughter in old Somerset. Illusts, 134pp, original pictorial card covers. Dovecote Press, Wimborne: 1990. £4.00




  38. Chadwyck Healey (Charles E.H) HISTORY OF THE PART OF WEST SOMERSET Comprising the Parishes of Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke Pero, Porlock, Culbone and Oare. Maps, folding pedigrees, illustrations some of which are coloured, ix + 557pp, untrimmed in recent half calf, raised bands, leather label, cloth boards, few small marks to covers, tape repair to short split of one map, pencil note to one margin, few spots to half-title. Tipped in at page 152 are 11 photo-copied pages on the Worth Family from 'Devonshire Wills by Worthy', tipped in at page 104 are 8 photo-copied pages on the Coplestone family from the 'Visitation of Cornwall'. LIMITED TO 380 NUMBERED COPIES. 350 of which are for sale. London, Henry Sotheran, 1901. £160.00 --- See sample text




  39. Chadwyck Healey (Charles E.H) HISTORY OF THE PART OF WEST SOMERSET Comprising the Parishes of Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke Pero, Porlock, Culbone and Oare. Maps, pedigrees some of which are folding, illustrations some of which are coloured, ix + 557pp, untrimmed in the original buckram, covers partly faded, couple of corners slightly bruised. Limited to 380 Copies. 350 of which are for sale. Henry Sotheran, London: 1901. £60.00 --- See sample text




  40. Chard History Group THE HISTORY OF CHARD. Publication No. 4. Maps, illusts, 68pp, original pictorial wraps, small area rubbed and marked to top cover. Reprinted, Yeoprint, Yeovil: 1994. £6.00




  41. Chard REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF CHARD. (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1236-1242, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: (1835) £12.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.





  42. Church (Rev. C.M) FOUR SOMERSET BISHOPS 1136 - 1242. From Documents in Possession of the Dean and Chapter of Wells. (iv) + 97pp, original wraps, lacks portions of spine, tape applied to base of spine. London: T. Burleigh, 1909. £6.00




  43. Church (Rev. C.M) THE EPISCOPATE OF REGINALD, BISHOP OF BATH (1174-1191), and his share in the Building of the Cathedral Church of Wells. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries. 66pp, 4to, original printed wraps, later cloth tape spine, short tear to top wrap. Westminster: 1887. £15.00




  44. Clew (Jeff) SPARKFORD Memories of the Past. Illusts, map, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Haynes Publishing, Sparkford: 1997. £7.00




  45. Clive-Ponsonby-Fane (Charles) WE STARTED A STATELY HOME. Pedigree, illusts, viii + 142pp, original pictorial laminated boards. Privately published, Brympton d'Evercy, Yeovil: 1980. £8.00




  46. Coles (J.M) and Orme (B.J) PREHISTORY OF THE SOMERSET LEVELS. Illusts, diagrams, 64pp, original pictorial card covers. Somerset Levels Project, 1980. £7.00




  47. Coles (J.M), editor SOMERSET LEVELS PAPERS Number 2, 1976. Illusts, diagrams, tables, 79pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Somerset Levels Project, 1976. £8.00
    * Includes chapters on Abbots Way; Archaeology in the Somerset levels; Tree-ring studies, etc.





  48. Collis (I.P) and Shorrocks (D.N), editor STUDIES IN SOMERSET HISTORY, From Local Records. 77 pages printed on rectos only, small folio, original wraps, tape on spine, rear wrap partly waterstained, Bristol University labels to verso of top wrap. University of Bristol Extra-Mural Studies, 1971. £8.00
    * Includes:- Apprentices of Pitminster; Wiveliscombe Corps of Volunteers, 1803-1805; Catholic Chapel, Taunton, etc.





  49. Connely (Willard) BEAU NASH Monarch of Bath and Tunbridge Wells. With 13 plates, 184pp, a few small portions missing mainly to head and foot of dustwrapper as well as a few short tears, inscription to front pastedown. First edition. London: Werner Laurie. 1955. £4.00




  50. Cooper (Cicely Elaine) MEMOIRS OF SELWORTHY. Numerous photographic illusts, vii + 235pp, dustwrapper, original cloth. Reprinted, E.P. Publishing Ltd., Wakefield: 1972. £9.00




  51. Corner (Dennis) THE NEW BOOK OF PORLOCK. Past and Present. Numerous illusts, 160pp, includes a list of subscribers, 4to, dustwrapper. First edition, Halsgrove, Wellington: 2014. £12.00




  52. Cotterell (T. Sturge) SIR BARTLE FRERE Mural Tablet Unveiled at Norfolk Buildings, Bath by Lord Morris, 5th July, 1924. Illusts, 14pp, sm 8vo, original wraps. Bath Chronicle Printers, Bath: 1924. £4.00




  53. Coysh (A.W), Mason (E.J) and Waite (V) THE MENDIPS. With 25 plates, line drawings, x + 232pp, name on front endpaper, few short tears to dustwrapper which is protected with a plastic sleeve. Second edition, Robert Hale, London: 1962. £8.00




  54. Coysh (A.W), Mason (E.J) and Waite (V) THE MENDIPS. With 25 plates, line illusts, x + 232pp, dustwrapper chipped to top edge, few spots to endpapers. Reprinted, Robert Hayle, London: 1954. £8.00




  55. Cunliffe (Barry) ROMAN BATH DISCOVERED. Illusts, plans, diagrams, xvii + 232pp, 4to, original cloth, dustwrapper. Revised Second edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London: 1984. £10.00




  56. Cunliffe (Barry) THE ROMAN BATHS. A Guide to the Baths and Roman Museum. Illusts, plans, original pictorial card covers. Bath Archaeological Trust, 1978. £4.00




  57. Daniel (W.E), editor THE PARISH REGISTER OF HORSINGTON IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. 1558 - 1836. 217pp, loose and unbound. Frome-Selwood: Edward Green, 1907. £10.00




  58. Dan'l Grainger (David J. Gass) MORE DOWN=ALONG TALKS By "Dan'l Grainger". Somerset Folk Series No 24. Frontis, 48 +pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, 2 leaves slightly ragged, presumably where carelessly opened. London: Folk Press, 1926. £4.00




  59. Davis (Fred) AROUND SHEPTON MALLET. Numerous illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Tempus, Stroud: 2001. £5.00




  60. Derrick (Freda) GOTHIC WANDERINGS IN SOMERSET. Illusts, xiii + 307pp, includes 2« page list of subscribers, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, inscription to front endpaper. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Ltd., 1930. £15.00




  61. Dix (Angela) NORTH CURRY A Place in History. Plates, diagrams, Illusts, 239pp, small folio, original pictorial laminated boards, signed by author on title-page. First edition, Angela Dix, North Curry: 2006. £9.00




  62. Dobbie (B.M. Willmott) AN ENGLISH RURAL COMMUNITY: Batheaston with S. Catherine. Illusts, 2 folding maps, roy 8vo, 170pp, few shorts tears to slightly worn and crinkled dustwrapper, short split and a few small portions missing to fold-over of dustwrapper. Internally sound. Bath University Press: 1969. £14.00




  63. Drayson (S), Eldridge (B) and Peirce (R) PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN THE BOROUGH OF TAUNTON 1800 - 74. Sponsored and directed by the History Department, Taunton School, Taunton, Somerset. 17 + 17 + 18 cyclostyled pages, on one side only, held by a metal clip through 2 punched holes, lower corner of the first 9 leaves damp stained, not affecting legibility. Taunton School, c.195- £9.00




  64. Dunning (R.W), and Tremlett (T.D), editor BRIDGWATER BOROUGH ARCHIVES V 1468-1485. From transcripts originally made by T.B. Dilks. xv + 97pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, with the withdrawn stamp of Somerset Record Office to the front endpaper. Somerset Record Society Volume 70. Printed by Butler & Tanner, Frome: 1971. £18.00




  65. Dwelly (E), transcribed, & prepared by Webb (Adrian James) EXCHEQUER DEPOSITIONS BY COMMISSION 1565 - 1610 FOR SOMERSET. viii + 36pp, original pictorial card covers. Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1992. £8.00




  66. Easton Ladies' Guild YESTERDAY IN EASTON. To Commemorate their Ruby Anniversary. Plans, one of which is double-page, photos, and illustrated with line drawings by Michael Stewart and Sheila Barker, 80pp, original printed card covers. Easton Ladies' Guild, March,, 1980. £14.00




  67. Eckhart (Sheila) BROWSING IN THE BRENDON HILLS. Illusts, maps, 95pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1995. £4.00




  68. [Edwards (John)], Agrikler of Wrington POEMS HUMOROUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL by Agrikler. New Series. xiii + 140pp, original decorative cloth. London: Griffith and Farran, and Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, (1883) £10.00




  69. [Elton (A.M)] SKETCHES AND SCRAPS. Une Soiree Musicale. Une Soiree Litteraire. Une Soiree Dansante. Le Bois De Boulogne. An Ecclesiastical Scrap. 32pp, original printed card covers, covers slightly worn, lacks spine. Upper Clevedon: George Caple, "Mercury" Office, 1863. £14.00




  70. Elton (Arthur & Margaret) CLEVEDON COURT Avon. Plan, plates, 32pp, original printed card covers. Revised edition, The National Trust, 1974. £4.00




  71. Fisher (W. Bro. Wilfred G) THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SOMERSET. With 7 plates, ix + 209pp, original cloth. Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset, 1962. £20.00




  72. Flower (J.B), printer RULES OF THE SOMERTON RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS. Established A.D. 1860. 7pp, 12mo, original slightly dull printed wraps, pencil notes to verso of wraps. Somerton; J.B. Flower, (1860) £20.00
    * With a list of the names of Captains, Sergeants and Corporals. Not in Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis.





  73. Ford (Eric H) SHEPTON MALLET Somerset. An Historical and Postal Survey. With 17 plates, textual illusts., 118pp + iv. original cloth partly faded, bookplate to front pastedown. Limited Edition of 200 Numbered Copies. Bound and Published by the Author. Bournemouth: 1958. £15.00
    * Includes chapters on postal history, post marks, coaches, etc.





  74. Gadd (David) GEORGIAN SUMMER Bath in the Eighteenth Century. Full page and text illusts, xi + 195pp, couple of short tears to lightly rubbed dustwrapper. First edition, Adams and Dart, Bath: 1971. £8.00




  75. George (W) and (R), printer SOMERSET. COPY OF THE COMMISSION OF THE PEACE. Dated the 7th of October, 1864. Acting Justices are distinguished by asterisks prefixed to their names. 47pp, original cloth, top outer and front inner hinge partly split, some slight spotting. W. and R. George, Wells: 1864. £12.00




  76. George (William) LYTES CARY MANOR HOUSE, SOMERSET, And its Literary Associations. With notices of Authors of the Lyte Family, from Queen Elizabeth to the Present Time. With mounted photo frontis, and one other mounted photo, 14pp, contemporary qtr roan, marbled boards, lacks small portion from head of spine, original wraps bound in, occasional light foxing. Bristol: William George, (1879) £20.00




  77. Gilmore, Hankey & Kirke, consultants ASHTON COURT MANSION Historic Development and Future Potential. Illusts, plans, (16)pp, tall 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bristol: 1989. £4.00




  78. Glastonbury REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF GLASTONBURY. (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1282-1286, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: (1835) £16.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.





  79. [Goldsworthy (E.F)] RECOLLECTIONS OF TAUNTON. by An Old Tauntonian. Folding map, illusts, 62 + 20 page index, original pictorial boards. This is the first illustrated edition. Originally published 1883. Barnicotts Publications, Taunton. 1975. £6.00




  80. [Goldsworthy (E.F)] RECOLLECTIONS OF TAUNTON. by An Old Tauntonian. 62 + (2)pp, original cloth,, original owners name to top margin of title-page. Second Edition: Barnicott and Son, Taunton: 1883. £9.00




  81. Goodchild (John) THE BOROUGH OF YEOVIL. Its History and Government Through the Ages. With 6 illustrations, 136pp, roy 8vo, original cloth slightly dull and spotty. Published by The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Yeovil. 1954. £6.00




  82. Goodchild (John) THE BOROUGH OF YEOVIL. Its History and Government Through the Ages. With 6 illustrations, 136pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, top cover dull, slightly warped, and soiled, internally sound. Published by The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Yeovil. 1954. £6.00




  83. Green (Emanuel) BIBLIOTHECA SOMERSETENSIS: A Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Single Sheets, and Broadsides in some way Connected with the County of Somerset. Volumes 2 and 3 of 3 only. 2 volumes, 559pp and 523pp, 4to, original cloth, rubbed and with some marks and damp spots, volume 2 lacks spine, the spine to volume 3 is loose, pages edges dusty. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1902. £90.00
    * The major bibliography of the county and an invaluable reference work. These 2 volumes contain books on the county only. Volume 1 is devoted to Bath.





  84. Green (Emanuel) PEDES FINIUM. Commonly Called Feet of Fines For the County of Somerset. Richard I to Edward I. A.D. 1196 to A.D. 1307. xxv + 397 + 41 page index, later cloth. Somerset Record Society Volume 6. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1892. £22.00




  85. Greenwood (Charles) WALKING IN BATH. Illusts, 64pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Kingsmead Press, Bath: 1978. £4.00




  86. H.M.S.O. CENSUS 1971. ENGLAND AND WALES, COUNTY REPORTS. Somerset. Preliminary Report and parts 1, 2, 3 and Advance Analysis. 4 volumes, 45 and 74 and 126 and 88 and 19pp, small folio, all have original wraps. H.M.S.O. London: 1972 and 1973. £22.00




  87. H.M.S.O. CENSUS 1971. ENGLAND AND WALES, ADVANCE ANALYSIS. Somerset. 19pp, small folio. H.M.S.O. London: 1972. £4.00




  88. Halliday (Maria) DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT AND EFFIGIES IN PORLOCK CHURCH, Somerset, With Reasons Deduced from the Documents Pertaining to the Manor and Chantry of Porlock for Attributing the Tomb to the Memory of John, fourth Baron Harington of Aldingham and Elizabeth (Courtenay) his Wife, Afterwards Wife of William, Lord Bonville of Chewton, Somerset. With 12 plates 3 of which are coloured, 2 folding genealogical tables, 80pp, original cloth, t.e.g., covers slightly spotty, rubbed to spine and edges, some foxing mainly to edges of some plates. "Torquay Directory", Torquay: 1882. £14.00




  89. Hamilton (Archibald) THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. With Notes on those who hunted them. Illusts, xvii + 363pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, few ink spots to rear board, relevant news cuttings tipped on to front endpapers First edition, London: Horace Cox, 1907. £20.00




  90. Hancock (Frederick) THE PARISH OF SELWORTHY in the County of Somerset. Some notes on its History. With 9 plates, 6 pedigrees, 5 of which are folding, x + 308pp, original cloth, covers damp spotted, spine faded. LIMITED EDITION OF 200 COPIES. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1897. £50.00




  91. Harbige (Sarah), Museum Officer BRIDGWATER. The Archive Photographs Series. Compiled from the collections at Admiral Blake Museum. Numerous illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford Publishing Company, Stroud: 1998. £6.00




  92. Harbin (S.W.B) MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. 3 plates of Arms, 203pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, couple of neat repairs to verso of top wrap. Taunton: Published for the Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society. 1939. £16.00




  93. Harding and Curtis, Ltd. printer and publisher GUIDE THROUGH AND ROUND BATH Illusts, folding plan, xxxviii + 178 + 28 pages of adverts, original printed cloth covered card covers, foot of top outer hinge split.. Eleventh Edition, Bath: Printed and Published by Harding & Curtis, Ltd. c1903. £10.00




  94. Hart (Gerald S) HAM GREEN An account of the history of Ham Green area including the hospital.... Illusts, diagrams, 90pp, original pictorial card covers. Crockerne Books, Pill: 1990. £8.00




  95. Haskell (Tony) BY WATERWAY TO TAUNTON A history of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal and the River Tone navigation. Illusts, maps, plans, x + 145pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Somerset Books, Tiverton: 1994. £8.00




  96. Haslam (Malcolm) ELTON WARE The Pottery of Sir Edmund Elton. Illusts, some in colour, 59pp, original pictorial card covers. Richard Dennis, Shepton Beauchamp: 1989. £8.00




  97. Hasler (Joan), editor WOOKEY MANOR AND PARISH 1544-1841. Folding map in pocket at rear, xvi + 228pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society, Volume 83. Taunton: 1995. £6.00




  98. Hawkins (Desmond) AVALON AND SEDGEMOOR. Plates, double-page map, 262pp, dustwrapper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £6.00




  99. Hawkins (M.J), editor SALES OF WARDS IN SOMERSET, 1603-1641. xxxi + 240pp, original cloth partly darkened, Somerset Record Office withdrawn stamp to front endpaper. Somerset Record Society. Volume 67. Frome: Butler and Tanner, 1965. £23.00




  100. Hendy (E.W) SOMERSET BIRDS and some other folk. Plates, illusts, in the text, 165pp, small portion torn from top of dustwrapper, crude repair to verso. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London: 1944. £5.00




  101. Hendy (E.W) WILD EXMOOR THROUGH THE YEAR. Illustrated from drawings by A. Carruthers Gould. Illusts, 320 + 47 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, spine faded, lacks dustwrapper. Re-issued, Jonathan Cape, London: 1932. £4.00




  102. Holmes (T. Scott) A REPORT TO THE CONVOCATION OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY ON THE ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS OF THE DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS, To which is attached a Short Account of the Church plate now in the custody of the Dean and Chapter of Wells and the parochial clergy of Somerset. xxxi + 176pp, untrimmed in the original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, with the armorial bookplate of John Holden to front end paper along with an ownership name. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, The Wessex Press, 1914. £6.00




  103. Howard-Gordon (Frances) GLASTONBURY MAKER OF MYTHS. Coloured and other illusts, folding map, 67pp, original pictorial card covers. Gothic Image, Glastonbury: 1982. £4.00




  104. Hugo (Thomas) HISTORY OF MYNCHIN BUCKLAND PRIORY AND PRECEPTORY, In the County of Somerset. With 4 plates, 112pp, roy 8vo, original qtr roan, paper boards slightly rubbed, occasional foxing. Taunton: F. May, 1861. £35.00




  105. Hurley (Michael C), transcribed by SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, CHARLINCH. Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts. Baptisms and Marriages 1593-1946. Burials 1583-1981. vi + 65pp, 4to, original cloth backed paper wraps. Harry Galloway, Taunton: 1996. £12.00




  106. Hutton (Edward) HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SOMERSET. With Illustrations by Nelly Erichsen. Folding map, xviii + (ii) + 419pp, original cloth. First edition, Macmillan and Co. 1912. £8.00




  107. Huxtable (Norma) THE LAST WORD ON EXMOOR. 139pp, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2001. £6.00
    * 'For over thirty years Norma Huxtable has kept readers and listeners smiling with her inimitable tales of life on Exmoor as a full-time farmer's wife and summer landlady.' The farm is near Dulverton.





  108. Irvine (J.T) DESCRIPTION OF THE REMAINS OF THE NORMAN CATHEDRAL OF BATH, exposed during the repairs made between 1863 and 1872. With 2 plans, 10pp, recent paper boards, paper label on spine, head of spine bruised with paper hinge partly split, original printed wraps bound in. British Archaeological Association, 1890. £9.00




  109. Ives (A.G) KINGSWOOD SCHOOL IN WESLEY'S DAY AND SINCE. Plates, xiii + 264pp, couple of short tears to dustwrapper. Epworth Press, London: 1970. £8.00




  110. Jarrold & Sons THE BEAUTY OF SOMERSET. Coloured frontis, black and white illusts, map, 40pp, original pictorial card covers, spotting to top margins of verso of covers. Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich: c.1959. £5.00




  111. Jeboult (Edward) A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF WEST SOMERSET. Description of the Valley of the Tone & the History of the Town of Taunton.... Lacks plates, [iv] + 132 + [ii] + 121 + 94pp, 4to, original cloth, covers rubbed, and damp marked, front inner hinge almost broken, rear inner hinge pulled, text clean, presentation inscription from Jeboult on the front endpaper. First edition. Somerset and Bristol Steam-Press, Taunton: 1873. £9.00




  112. Jeboult (Edward) A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF WEST SOMERSET. Description of the Valley of the Tone & the History of the Town of Taunton. Illustrated by a New process of Photography and Heliotype. Illusts, [iv] + 132 + [ii] + 121 + 94pp, 4to, original cloth boards, later cloth spine and endpaprs, usual occasional foxing. First edition. Somerset and Bristol Steam-Press, Taunton: 1873. £25.00




  113. Jefferies (Richard) SUMMER IN SOMERSET Illusts with line drawings by his friend J.W. North, 12pp, complete, (pages numbered 35-46), disbound extracted from the 'New English Illustrated Magazine.' London: 1888. £20.00
    * Jefferies wrote this after staying on Exmoor for a fortnight in 1882. It was first published in 1888 after his death.





  114. Jennings (James) OBSERVATIONS OF SOME OF THE DIALECTS OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, Particularly Somersetshire: with A Glossary of Words now in use there; and Poems and other Pieces exemplifying the Dialect. xxiv + 191pp, 12mo, untrimmed in early paper boards, slightly rubbed to edges, small strip missing from head and foot of spine, lacks lettering piece from spine, later endpapers. First edition. Printed by Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, London: 1825. £40.00




  115. Johnson (Birdie), photographs by Mark J. Rattenbury. REFLECTIONS Life Portraits of Exmoor. Plates, 167pp, 4to, dustwrapper, with an audio CD contained in a transparent pocket. Reprinted, Dulverton & District Civic Society, 2003. £8.00
    * Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.





  116. Jones (Charles) THE HISTORY OF CHARLES JONES, The Footman. Written by Himself. From the Cheap Repository Tracts. 16pp, disbound. New Edition, J.G. & F. Rivington, London: 1833. £12.00
    * He resided at King's Charlton.





  117. Jones (Sally) MYSTERIES IN THE SOMERSET LANDSCAPE. Illusts, 96pp, large oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Bodmin: 1986. £4.00




  118. Joyce (Walter W), editor MOORSIDE TALES AND TALK. Illusts, 254 + 2 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, spine of dustwrapper is faded with short tears and with small portions missing from head and foot. First edition, George Allen & Unwin, London: 1935. £16.00
    * Exmoor interest.





  119. Kenworthy-Browne. and others DYRHAM PARK. Gloucestershire. Plan, pedigree, 64pp, tall 8vo, original pictorial card covers. First edition, The National Trust, 1981. £5.00




  120. King (Edward J) YEARS BEYOND MEMORY The Story of a South Somerset Village in its wider setting. With 10 plates, 134pp, few tears to ragged and partly faded dustwrapper, waters stain to portion of spine slightly overlapping onto top of dustwrapper, name to partly faded front endpaper. First edition. B.H. Blackwell Ltd. Oxford: 1954. £10.00
    * The village is Misterton.





  121. King (J.E), editor INVENTORY OF PAROCHIAL DOCUMENTS IN THE DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS AND THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. xiv + 400pp, original buckram, partly faded, foxing, page edges spotty. Somerset County Council Records Committee. 1938. £5.00




  122. Landon (L), editor SOMERSETSHIRE PLEAS from the Rolls of the Itinerant Justices (for the 8th Year of the Reign of Edward I) Vol IV, Part I (Civil Pleas). x + 415pp, original cloth, ex-ref.lib. with just a stamp to half-title. Somerset Record Society Volume 44. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1929. £16.00




  123. Leach (Peter), and others ILCHESTER Volume 1. Excavations 1974-5. Numerous diagrams and plans, 290pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Western Archaeological Trust, 1982. £18.00




  124. Lehane (Brendan) C. AND J. CLARK 1825-1975. Coloured map, illusts, some of which are coloured, 52pp, 4to, original printed wraps, presentation card taped to verso of top cover. Second edition, C. & J. Clark, Street: 1975. £8.00




  125. Little (Bryan) and Aldrich (Andrew) AMMERDOWN The House and the Centre. Illusts, 22pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, bookplate to verso of front cover. Governors of the Ammerdown Study Centre, 1977. £4.00




  126. Little (Bryan) BATH PORTRAIT. The Story of Bath, its Life and its Buildings. Plates, folding map to rear pastedown, x + 118pp, short tear to dustwrapper. Burleigh Press, Bristol: 1961. £5.00




  127. Locke (R) and Ward (F. Madeline) SUPPLEMENT TO COLLINSON'S HISTORY OF SOMERSET. Extracts from Locke's Survey with a short Biography by F. Madeline Ward. Frontis, map, 2 plates, 175pp, folio, original cloth partly faded, lower corner of rear board bruised, bookplate to front pastedown. Barnicotts Ltd., Taunton: 1939. £55.00




  128. Lowndes (William) THE THEATRE ROYAL BATH. The eventful story of a Georgian playhouse. Plates, 91pp, couple of short tears to head of partly faded dustwrapper. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1982. £10.00




  129. MacMillan (A.S) SOMERSET EPITAPHS First Series. "Relations". Somerset Folk Series No 18. Frontis, xxvi + 148 + 4pp, 12mo, original cloth, inscription to E.W. Swanton from the author to front pastedown. London: Folk Press, 1924. £10.00




  130. Madge (Robin) RAILWAYS ROUND EXMOOR. Illusts, plates, folding map, 72pp, original card covers. Exmoor Press, Dulverton: 1971. £4.00
    * Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.





  131. Maggs (Colin) THE WESTON, CLEVEDON AND PORTISHEAD RAILWAY. Illusts, plans, 45pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. Oakwood Press, Lingfield: 1964. £6.00




  132. Malden (R.H) THE STORY OF WELLS CATHEDRAL. Illusts, 80pp, 12mo, few spots to the original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Fifth edition, Raphael Tuck & Sons, London: 1955. £4.00




  133. Mathias (Michael), Hector (Derek) GLASTONBURY. Illusts, plan, 48pp, original pictorial laminated boards, few light spots to prelims. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1979. £5.00




  134. Maxwell-Lyte (H.C.) DUNSTER AND ITS LORDS 1066-1881. With A Descriptive Sketch Of Dunster Castle by G.T. Clarke, and a chapter on The Siege and Surrender Of Dunster Castle by E. Green. Numerous plates and plans, viii + 145pp, roy 8vo, original buckram, usual occasional foxing, slightly shaken. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. First edition, Exeter: Printed for Private Circulation, William Pollard, 1882. £50.00




  135. Mayberry (Tom) and Binding (Hilary), editor SOMERSET The Millenium Book. Coloured and black and white plates, 144pp, small folio, dustwrapper. Somerset Books, Tiverton: 1999. £5.00




  136. McCann (John and Pamela) THE DOVECOTES OF HISTORICAL SOMERSET. Coloured and black and white illusts, 231pp, tall 8vo, original pictorial card covers, top corner slightly bruised, private bookplate to verso of top cover. Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group, 2003. £10.00




  137. Meehan (J.F) A FEW OF THE FAMOUS INNS OF BATH AND DISTRICT. Illusts, 43pp, original printed wraps are loose. B. & J.F. Meehan, Bath: 1913. £10.00




  138. Meek (Marion) THE BOOK OF WELLS. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 128pp, includes 2 page list of subscribers, slightly faded, dustwrapper. Buckingham: Barrucuda Books Ltd. 1980. £10.00




  139. Melville (Lewis) BATH UNDER BEAU NASH - AND AFTER. Illusts, xviii + 321pp, original decorative cloth, contemporary inscription on front endpaper, occasional light spotting. First edition, Bath: S.W. Simms, London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907. £15.00




  140. Michael (W) HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF THE WELLS CATHEDRAL. Engraving, 8pp, sm 8vo, original printed top wrap, lacks lower wrap, light spotting. W. Michael, Bookseller. &c. Westbury Wilts. c.1870. £8.00








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  141. Millard (Lillian) THE LIVES OF JOHN LOCKE, 1632-1704 & HANNAH MORE 1745-1838. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. no imprint. £4.00




  142. Miller (James) FERTILE FORTUNE The Story of Tyntesfield. Coloured and black and white plates, 192pp, 4to, dustwrapper. First edition, The National Trust, London: 2003. £8.00




  143. Monday (Alfred James) THE COUNTY RECORDS OF SOMERSET (Enrolled Deeds) 24pp, original wraps. Reprinted from Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries. Sherborne: c.1908. £4.00




  144. Norman (George) TRANSACTIONS OF SOMERSET MASTERS LODGE, No 3746. 1927. With 6 illusts, 209pp, original wraps. Bath: (1927) £10.00
    * Includes chapters on William Stukeley and George Oliver.





  145. Nott (Anthony) and Hasler (Joan), editor WELLS CONVOCATION ACTS BOOKS 1589-1665. Part 1: 1589-1629. 491pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society, Volume 90. Taunton: 2004. £8.00




  146. Nott (Anthony) and Hasler (Joan), editor WELLS CONVOCATION ACTS BOOKS 1589-1665. Part 2: 1629-444; 1662-65. 493-1080pp, original cloth, ex-ref lib. with small stamps to front endpaper. Somerset Record Society, Volume 91. Taunton: 2004. £8.00




  147. Osborne (R) WATCHET HARBOUR BILL. Report of the Admiralty. 3pp, drop head title, folio, disbound, few short tears to margins, and split for 1" at inner margin where folded. Ordered by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 26 February 1857. £10.00




  148. Penley (Belville S) THE BATH STAGE: A History of Dramatic Representations in Bath. Illustrated. xv + 196pp including 14pp. of adverts, original cloth. London: William Lewis & Son, and Bath: 1892. £9.00




  149. Pevsner (Nikolaus) SOUTH AND WEST SOMERSET. (Buildings of England Series) Illusts, double-page map, 394pp, original cloth, couple of short tears to lightly rubbed dustwrapper. First Edition, Penguin, Harmondsworth: 1958. £12.00




  150. 'Philo-Baldud' CAUSES AND EFFECTS; OR BATH IN MDCCCXL. A Rider to the Letter of Lud Hudibras, by Philo-Bladud. Addressed to the Community. 20pp, disbound, few spots. Bath: Meyler and Son. 1840. £18.00




  151. Plowman (Thos. F) THE ENGLISH DRAMA; The conditions under which it has flourished or decayed: A Paper read before the Bath Literary and Philosophical Association, February 4, 1887, The Mayor (Jerom Murch, Esq.) in the Chair. 28pp, original printed wraps, wraps partly faded, spine partly split. Reprinted from the "Bath Chronicle", Bath: 1887. £4.00




  152. [Plowman (T.F)] SOME COUNTRY-SIDE FOLK. By one who has known them (Otherwise T.F.P.) Illusts, roy 8vo, 47pp, original printed boards. Reprinted from "The Bath Chronicle and Argus." Bath: 1911. £10.00




  153. Poole (Charles Henry) THE CUSTOMS SUPERSTITIONS AND LEGENDS OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Collected from various sources. 147pp, 12mo, original printed card covers. Second Edition, The Toucan Press, Guernsey: 1970. £6.00




  154. Popham (Hugh) THE SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY. (Prince Albert's) (The 13th Regiment of Foot) Illusts, 149pp, dustwrapper. Hamish Hamilton, London: 1968. £5.00




  155. Powell (Rev A.H) ANCIENT BOROUGH OF BRIDGWATER. Plan, folding map and 9 plates, v + 311pp, original cloth, head and foot of spine rubbed, short splits to cloth on rear outer hinge, light splash(?) mark to top board. Page and Sons, Bridgwater: 1907. £7.50




  156. Powell (Rev A.H) BRIDGWATER IN THE LATER DAYS. Map and Illusts, viii + 296pp, includes 5« pages of subscribers, untrimmed in the original cloth, endpapers browned as usual. Bridgwater: Page and Son, 1908. £14.00




  157. Ralegh Radford (C.A), Rahtz (P.A), and others A GLASTONBURY CHURCH BOOK. Adverts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. E.C. Helliker, printers, Glastonbury, 1970 £4.00




  158. Rawle (E.J) ANNALS OF THE ROYAL FOREST OF EXMOOR. Compiled Chiefly from Documents in the Record Office together with some Account of the Forest Laws and Charters and Officers. Frontis, plate, coloured double-page map, xi + 165pp, folio, untrimmed in the original cloth-backed boards, lacks spine, edges slightly rubbed, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, and stamp and numbers to verso of title-page. LIMITED TO 50 NUMBERED LARGE PAPER COPIES. Initialled by the publishers. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1893. £20.00




  159. Rawlins (Sophia W), editor THE SHERIFFS OF SOMERSET. From the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century. Illusts, 44pp, original card covers, bookplate to verso of top cover. Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1968. £10.00




  160. Raymond (Stuart) SOMERSET A Genealogical Bibliography. 107pp, original printed card covers. Federation of Family History Societies, Birmingham: 1991 £4.00




  161. Raymond (Walter) THE BOOK OF CRAFTS AND CHARACTER 272 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, small snag to head of spine, few spots to prelims and fore-edges. First edition, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1907. £8.00
    * A series of essays on various Somerset characters and craftsmen.





  162. Raymond (Walter) TRYPHENA IN LOVE With 6 illustrations by I. Walter West, 176pp, 12mo, untrimmed in the original cloth. First edition, London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1895. £16.00
    * A novel set in Middleney, Somerset.





  163. Read (John) CLUSTER=o'=VIVE Stories and Studies of Old World Wessex. Somerset Folk Series No 11. Frontis, xi + 207 + (5)pp, 12mo, original cloth, signed presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper. London: Somerset Folk Press, 1923. £12.00




  164. Reid (R.D) SOME BUILDINGS OF MENDIP. Double-page map, illusts, 67pp, original pictorial card covers. Mendip Society, 1979. £4.00




  165. Richardson (Anne) IN RED DEER LAND. With 3 plates, 63pp, 12mo, original decorative paper boards. Second Edition, Cox, Sons & Co. Ltd. Minehead and Williton: 1928. £4.00
    * A collection of short stories one of which is set on Exmoor.





  166. Robinson (Very Reverend J. Armitage) THE FOURTEENTH-CENTURY GLASS AT WELLS. Reprinted from Archaeologia vol. LXXXI. Illusts, pages numbered, 85-118, complete, 4to, original paper boards, spotty, and partly faded, rubbed, lacks spine, short tear to front endpaper. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries. Oxford: 1931. £10.00




  167. Rogers (T.E) RECORDS OF YARLINGTON: Being the History of a Country Village. 94pp, sm 4to, uncut, original cloth, partly faded. Tipped in at the front is a handwritten letter, signed by the author, on one side of an 8vo leaf. First edition, London: Elliott Stock, 1890. £30.00




  168. Rogers (T.E) RECORDS OF YARLINGTON: Being the History of a Country Village. 94pp, sm 4to, uncut, original cloth, ex-university lib. with label, and small stamp to front pastedown, presentation inscription to front endpaper. First edition, London: Elliott Stock, 1890. £20.00




  169. Ross (David Melville) LANGPORT AND ITS CHURCH. The Story of the Ancient Borough, with References to Neighbouring Parishes. Illusts, xv + 381pp, 4to, original cloth, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, early ownership inscriptions to front endpaper. First edition, The Herald Press, Langport: 1911. £30.00




  170. Rutter (John) DELINEATIONS OF THE NORTH WESTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. And of its Antediluvian Bone Caverns, with A Geological Sketch of the District. Illustrated with 12 engraved and lithographed plates, folding coloured map, vignettes, 349pp, later qtr calf, leather label on spine, paper boards. Firset edition, Printed and Published by the Author, Shaftesbury: Longman, Rees and Co., London: 1829. £65.00




  171. Savage (James) HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF CARHAMPTON, in the County of Somerset. With a frontis, xxiv + 662pp, original cloth. This reprint does not include the large folding map that was in the original edition published in 1830. Reprinted Higginson Book Company, Salem: n.d. £20.00




  172. Seaby (W.A) COINAGE FROM HAM HILL IN THE COUNTY MUSEUM, TAUNTON. Plate, text illusts, pages numbered 113-158, original printed wraps, staples rusty. Reprinted from the proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1950. £4.00




  173. Sellick (Roger) THE OLD MINERAL LINE. Illusts, 64pp, original pictorial card covers. Third revised edition, Halsgrove, Wellington: 2012. £7.00
    * 'An illustrated survey of The West Somerset Mineral Railway from Watchet to the Brendon Hills as it was and is today.'





  174. Sheppard (E.J) BATH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Illusts, 108pp, original pictorial card covers. Third impression, Longmans, London: 1968. £4.00




  175. Shickle (Rev. C.W) ANCIENT DEEDS BELONGING TO THE CORPORATION OF BATH XII - XVI Cent. Translated and Epitomised by The Rev. C.W. Shickle M.A., F.S.A., V.D. Master of St. John's Hospital, Bath. Honorary Chaplain of the Territorial Forces. Frontis, 2 plans, xvi + 165pp, folio, original qtr calf, buckram boards, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown and a few small stamps. Published by the Bath Record Society in co-operation with the Bath City Council. 1921. £20.00




  176. Shillibeer (H.B) THE ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF THE MANOR OF TAUNTON DEANE; Collected from the Records of the Manor.... To which are prefixed, some Introductory Observations on Copyholds In General, and Remarks on Those of This Manor.... vii + 132 + xxixpp, unbound, untrimmed in the original unstitched sections, title and 3 leaves slightly dusty and marked, small hole and neat repair to last leaf. Printed by T. Parkhouse, Tiverton, for the Author: 1821. £8.00




  177. Shilton (Dorothy O), and Holworthy (Richard), editors WELLS CITY CHARTERS. Folding plate, xxxii + 231pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to outer hinges. Somerset Record Society Volume 46. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1932. £18.00




  178. Shorrocks (Derek), editor BISHOP STILL'S VISITATION 1594 AND THE 'SMALE BOOKE' OF THE CLERK OF THE PEACE FOR SOMERSET 1593-5. 193pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society, Volume 84. Taunton: 1998. £15.00




  179. Simpson (Andrew) ILLUSTRATED REFERENCE BOOK AND GUIDE Covering CHARD - ILMINSTER AND DISTRICT. Illusts, maps, adverts, 114pp, plastic spiral binding. First edition, Forum Books, Chard: 1987. £8.00




  180. Sitwell (Edith) BATH. With 16 plates, 288pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, lacks dustwrapper. Fifth impression, London: Faber and Faber, 1947. £4.00




  181. Smith (D.I), and Drew (D.P), compiled and edited by LIMESTONES AND CAVES OF THE MENDIP HILLS. With 36 plates, textual illusts, 424pp, dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, Published for The British Cave Research Association. 1975. £8.00




  182. Smith (E.H) QUANTOCK LIFE AND RAMBLES. Illusts., map e.p.'s. 145pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Third Impression (Enlarged). Taunton: 1944. £5.00




  183. Smith (R.A.L) BATH. With 84 Illustrations from Engravings, Paintings, and Photographs by Paul Fripp, and others. 118pp, lacks dustwrapper, inscription to verso of front endpaper. First edition, B.T. Batsford. 1944. £5.00




  184. Smith (Rev. E.H) HAPPY MEMORIES OF WEST SOMERSET. In 100 Pictures. 179pp, original paper boards, rear cover spotty, contemporary inscription to front endpaper. Signed by the author on the Dedication leaf. Whitby, Light & Lane, Ltd., Bridgwater: c.1946. £5.00




  185. Snell (F.C), editor MEMORIALS OF OLD SOMERSET. Illusts, 192 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, original bevelled cloth, front inner hinge cracked and weak. First edition, London: Bemrose, 1906. £9.00




  186. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. GENERAL INDEX To Vols. I. to XX. of the Society's Proceedings and Index to Wells Chapter Records. x + 113 + xvi + 70pp, original wraps, spine worn. Charles T. Jefferies, Bristol: 1876. £8.00




  187. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. Volume 26. At its thirty-fourth Annual Meeting, held at Chard, 1882, under the Presidency of Charles I. Elton. With 7 plates, Illusts, 68pp, 4to, original qtr cloth paper boards, covers rubbed, lacking small portions of boards from edges, occasional light foxing. Printed by J.F. Hammond, Taunton: 1881. £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Manor Court House; Family of Frye; Whitestaunton Manor House; Wayford Church and Manor House, etc.





  188. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 29. Proceedings during the year 1883. New Series Vol. IX. Illusts, ix + 84 + 138pp, original wraps, slightly shaken, spine chipped, covers dusty. Taunton: J.F. Hammond, 1884. £26.00
    * Includes articles:- Barlinch Priory; Dolbury and Cadbury Camps, etc.





  189. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 41. Proceedings during the year 1895. Third Series. Vol 1. Illusts, vii + 40 + 124 + pages numbered 241-437 being part 3 of Flora of Somerset by Murray, original wraps, small portion torn from top wrap, portion missing from head of spine, rear outer hinge split and slightly ragged. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1895. £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Hinton Charterhouse; Chartularies of Bath Priory; The Clevedon Family; Somerset Flora, etc.





  190. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 42. Proceedings during the year 1896. Illusts, vii + 33 + 98 + Murray (Richard Paget) frontis, title-page, and pages iii + lxi + Further Addenda, 2 leaves, original wraps, lacks portions of spine, rear wrap chipped and creased. Taunton: 1896. £20.00
    * Includes articles:- Cerne Abbey; Sherborne Castle; Barrows on the Brendon Hills, etc.





  191. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 45. Proceedings for the year 1899. Illusts, viii + 218 + 8pp, original cloth. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1899. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Mudford and its Church; Brook of Somerset and Devon; Descent of the Manor of Allerton, etc.





  192. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 50. Proceedings during the year 1904. Illusts, viii + 139pp, lacks wraps, spine chipped to head and foot. Barnicott and Pearce, Taunton: 1905. £14.00
    * Includes articles:- Pen-Selwood; Excavations at Lansdown; Somerset Church Towers, etc.





  193. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 55. Proceedings during the year 1909. Illusts, x + 113 + 218pp, original wraps, top wrap loose and ragged, few short tears to lower wrap. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1910. £14.00
    * Includes articles:- Gold Tore found at Yeovil; Court Leet of Taunton, Glastonbury Abbey, Excavations at Charterhouse-on-Mendip; Wells, etc.





  194. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 57. Proceedings during the year 1911. Illusts, xi + 132 + 169 + 15-54pp, original wraps, lacks lower wrap, spine chipped and rubbed. Barnicott and Pearce, Taunton: 1912. £10.00
    * Includes articles:- Boring for Coal at Puriton; Roman Remains at Puckington; Barrow Gurney Church; Monmouth at Philip's Norton; Glastonbury Abbey, etc.





  195. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Volume 82. Proceedings during the year 1936. Illusts, x + 286 + pages numbered 113-144, forming part 5 of Harbin. Members of Parliament for Somerset, original wraps. Taunton: 1937. £14.00
    * Includes articles:- Somerset Fairs; Monumental Brasses in Somerset; Manor of Poyntington, etc.





  196. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 104. Proceedings for 1959/60. Illusts, 177pp, original card covers, ink note to top cover. Taunton: 1960. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Cannington Court; 13th century Garden at Rimpton; Garden at Glastonbury Abbey, 1334-4; Royal Arms in Somerset Churches; Birdcombe Mesolithic Site, Wraxall, etc.





  197. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. Volume 105. Proceedings for 1960-61. Illusts, 169pp, original card covers, spine faded, note in ink and few spots to top wrap. Taunton: 1961. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Wraxall Villa; Barrow Mead, Bath; Livery Badges and Personal Badges in Early Tudor Work at Cheddon Fitzpaine and Staple Fitzpaine; Bath Politics in the Eighteenth Century, etc.





  198. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. Volume 110. Proceedings during 1965-66. Illusts, 138 + 57-69pp, original card covers, private ownership stamp to top cover. Taunton: 1966. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Cheddar Vicarage; Ilchester Election 1646; Badgers in Somerset; City Walls of Bath, etc.





  199. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 111. For 1966-67. Illusts, 110 + 71-78pp, original card covers. Printed for the Society, Taunton: 1967. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Burghill Hidage - Lyng; Clay Tobacco Pipes from Bath; Excavations at Gatcombe; Bridgwater Court of Record, etc.





  200. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 124, 1980. Illusts, micro-fiche in pocket at rear, 188pp, original card covers. Taunton: 1981. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Excavations at Combe Hay; Some Hawkers of Somerset; Fortified Manor House at Newton St. Loe; Excavations at Farleigh Hungerford; Adelar of Bath and the Astrolabe, etc.





  201. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 125, 1981. Illusts, 144pp, original card covers. Taunton: 1981. £9.00
    * Includes articles:- Dunster Castle; Great House and Two Lanes in Wells; Destruction of Catcott Chapel at the Reformation, etc.





  202. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 126, 1981/2. Illusts, diagrams, micro-fiche in pocket at rear, 166pp, original card covers, name and ink note to top cover. Taunton: 1983. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Man at Cheddar 11-10,000 Years Ago; Excavations at Silver Street, Glastonbury; Deserted Farm in the Brendon Hills; Peel, Disraeli and the 1835 Taunton By-Election; Medieval Chapel in Southover in Wells, etc.





  203. Somersetshire Archaeological Society, Compiled by Jean German and Peter Gooch SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. GENERAL INDEX To Volumes 127-147 (1983-2003) 59pp, original printed wraps. c.2004 £6.00




  204. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 136. Proceedings for 1993. Illusts, viii + 254pp, original pictorial card covers. Taunton: 1993. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Saxon Cemetry at Templecombe; Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court; Henry Savile's Map of Bath; Excavations at North Street, Stoke sub Hambon; Excavations at Glastonbury in Abbey Enclosure; Discovery and Publication of the Alfred Jewel; Excavation at Shipwick, etc.





  205. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 141. Proceedings for 1997. Illusts, 239pp, original wraps. Taunton Castle: 1998. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- French Emigres at Bath; Somerset County M.P.'s 1832-1885; Leigh Court, Thomas Hopper and Pythouse; Bishop's Palace at Wookey; Ilchester Archaeology; Two Lions at Milborne Port, etc.





  206. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 147. Proceedings for 2003. Coloured and black and white illusts, 282pp, original pictorial card covers. Taunton Castle: 2004. £8.00
    * Includes:- Hill Farm, Kingston St Mary; Manor Farm, Castle Cary; Bridge at Dowlish Wake; Barwick Follies; Regilbury Manor, 1730, etc.





  207. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 148. Proceedings for 2004. Coloured and black and white illusts, 210pp, original pictorial card covers. Taunton: 2005. £8.00
    * Includes:- Medieval hamlets of Pykeash and Ash Boulogne; John Spreat steward at Chipley from 1680 to 1720; Keynsham Abbey excavations; Ecology in Somerset, etc.





  208. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 150. Proceedings for 2006. Coloured and black and white illusts, 277pp, original pictorial card covers. Taunton: 2007. £8.00
    * Includes:- Bronze Age field and figure from Hillfarrance; Excavation at Cleeve Abbey; Muchelney Abbey, etc.





  209. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 151. Proceedings for 2007. Black and white illusts, 303pp, original pictorial card covers. Taunton Castle: 2008. £8.00
    * Includes:- Woolston Manor Farm, North Cadbury; Excavation at Whitegate Farm, Bleadon; Fosse Way and other Roman roads around Bath; West Somerset woollen trade; Civil War defences at Friarn Meadows, Bridgwater, etc.





  210. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 152. Proceedings for 2009. Black and white illusts, 314pp, original pictorial card covers. Taunton Castle: 2009. £8.00
    * Includes:- Excavations at Field Farm, Shepton Mallet; Medieval estate in the valley of South Somerset; Kelston in Domesday Book; Excavations in eastern Blackdowns; Excavations at West Wick; Civil War hoards in Somerset, etc.





  211. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 153. Proceedings for 2009. Illusts, 221pp, original pictorial card covers, front cover creased. Taunton Castle: 2010. £6.00
    * Includes:- Furniture in Wells Cathedral; Medieval settlements in Winscombe; John Locke's Somerset property; Brewing industry in Wells area; Papermakers around Wells; Chandos Glass Cone, Bridgwater, etc.





  212. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 154. Proceedings for 2010. Illusts, 335pp, original pictorial card covers, corner of front cover creased. Taunton Castle: 2011. £8.00
    * Includes:- Banwell bone cave; Exmoor stone settings Lanacombe; Wellow Lane Excavations Peasedown St John; Winterstoke Hundred, etc.





  213. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 156. Proceedings for 2012. Illusts, 290pp, original pictorial card covers. Taunton Castle: 2013. £8.00
    * Includes:- Prehistoric landscapes of Lanacombe, Exmoor; Bronze age burial Beacon Hill, Mendip; Bridgwater Castle; Sir Francesa Dodington, a Somerset royalist in the Civil War, etc.





  214. Somerset Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and Douglas LL. Hayward. SOMERSET PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 1. 159pp, original cloth, short split to cloth on top outer hinge, bookplate to front pastedown. Limited to 150 copies. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1898. £20.00
    * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Aller, Charlton Adam, Charlton Mackrell, High Ham, Huish Episcopi, Kingsdon, Long Sutton, Muchelney, Northover, and Langport.





  215. Somerset Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and E.H. Bates. SOMERSET PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 4. 159pp, original cloth, with an armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Limited to 150 copies. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1902. £20.00
    * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry usually up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Ashill (up to 1815), Ile Brewers, Beer Crocombe, Ilton (up to 1811), Whitestaunton (up to 1811), Stocklinch Magdalen (up to 1776), Stocklinch Ottersey, Barrington, Shepton Beauchamp, Buckland St. Mary, Wraxall, Packington, and Swell.





  216. Somerset Year Book, edited by Douglas Macmillan. SOMERSET YEAR BOOK 1925. No XXIV (24). Illusts, adverts, 151pp, original printed wraps, couple of small stains from staples to wraps. Society of Somerset Folk, 1925. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Old Stones of Bruton; Glastonbury Museum; Mendip Brass Band; Chilton Cantelo Skull; Tom Poole of Nether Stowey; Stories after Battle of Sedgemoor, etc.





  217. Somerset Year Book, edited by Douglas Macmillan SOMERSET YEAR BOOK. 1927. No XXVI (26). Illusts, adverts, 140pp, original printed wraps, slight rust stain to inner margin of top wrap. Society of Somerset Folk, 1927. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Yeovil; Wookey Cavern; Selwood Forest; Somerset Sydenham family; Exmoor Red Deer; Quantocks; Somerset Place Names; Baltonsborough; Monmouth in Somerset, etc.





  218. Somerset Year Book, edited by Douglas Macmillan. 1928. No XXVII (27). Illusts, adverts, 154pp, original printed wraps. Folk Press, London: 1928. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Taunton Pageant; Stuckeys Bank; Cheese of West Pennard; Weston-super-Mare; East Brent, etc.





  219. Somerset Year Book, edited by Douglas Macmillan SOMERSET YEAR BOOK. 1930. No XXIX (29). Illusts, adverts, 130pp, original printed wraps, short split to top outer hinge. Folk Press Limited, London: 1930. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Bicknoller and the Quantock Hills; Frome and its Fringes; Kilmersdon; Witchery of Somerset; Monmouth Rebellion;, etc.





  220. Somerset Year Book SOMERSET YEAR BOOK. 1932. No XXXI (31). Illusts, adverts, 132pp, original printed wraps, short tear to top wrap. Society of Somerset Folk, 1932. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Combe Sydenham; Geological History of Somerset; John Locke; Whatley; William Wallwyn - Parish Warden, Kilmersdon, etc.





  221. Somerset Year Book, edited by H.W. Fortescue Long SOMERSET YEAR BOOK. 1937. No 36. Illusts, adverts, 138pp, original printed wraps, small portion missing from foot of spine. The Society of Somerset Folk, Yeovil: 1937. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Frome; Hinton Priory; Balch. Cave Research in Somerset; Dove-Cotes in Somerset; Somerset Coins, etc.





  222. Somerset Year Book, edited by H.W. Fortescue Long SOMERSET YEAR BOOK. 1939. No XXXVIII (38). Illusts, adverts, 133pp, original printed wraps, rear wrap partly water stained, affecting last few leaves, top wrap partly torn and crudely repaired. Society of Somerset Folk, 1939. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Bath Assembly Rooms; Mells; St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol; Aquae Sulis; Vale of Croscombe; Oak-Apple Day in Somerset; William Smith, Geologist, etc.





  223. Spa Committee of Bath City Council BATH The Georgian City. Official Guide Book 1965. Illusts, adverts, folding plan, 96pp, original pictorial card covers, spine slightly darkened. Spa Committee of Bath City Council, 1965. £4.00




  224. Spencer (Joseph Houghton) WILTON REGISTERS 1558 to 1837. A Copy of the Registers of the Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at the Church of St. George, in the Parish of Wilton, adjoining Taunton.... Transcribed from the Originals. xiv + (2) + 343pp, untrimmed in the original cloth. LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES. Taunton: Barnicott and Son, 1890. £35.00




  225. Spencer (Joseph Houghton) WILTON REGISTERS 1558 to 1837. A Copy of the Registers of the Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at the Church of St. George, in the Parish of Wilton, adjoining Taunton.... Transcribed from the Originals. xiv + (2) + 343pp, untrimmed and loose in the original cloth, outer hinges partly split, tears to front endpaper, and last leaf. LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES. Taunton: Barnicott and Son, 1890 £20.00




  226. Squibbs (Phillips J) SQUIBBS' HISTORY OF BRIDGWATER. Revised and updated by John F. Lawrence. Illusts, xii + 196pp, portion of dustwrapper torn, approx 2" x 1" from foot of spine. Phillimore, Chichester: 1982. £9.00
    * Signed inscription by the author's wife on verso of title-page.





  227. Stephenson (Joseph Henry) FRIENDSHIP and Other Poems. 53pp, 12mo, original cloth, spine slightly faded. A.C. Coome, Lymsham; Robbins, Weston-super-Mare and Hamilton Adams & Co, London: 1883. £14.00
    * Stephenson was the Rector of Lymsham, Prebendary of Wells and Rural Dean.





  228. Stevens Cox (J), editor SOMERSET DIALECT POEMS The Somerset Man's Complaint. 17th C. and Doctor Cox: a Blanscue. Early 19th C. 12pp, 12mo, original printed wraps. The Toucan press, Guernsey: 1970. £4.00




  229. Stoate (T.L), transcribed by TREBOROUGH AND WITHYCOMBE Parish Registers. (iv) + 78pp, 4to, original pictorial wraps. Somerset and Dorset Family History Society, 1996. £10.00




  230. Storer (B) SEDGEMOOR: Its History and Natural History. Numerous illusts, diagrams and maps, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1972. £8.00




  231. Strickland (Keith V) ROBERT GILLO'S SOMERSET. Views from a commercial photographer's pattern book of the 1870's. Illusts, 32pp, oblong pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press Ltd., 1988. £4.00




  232. Sweet (Jack W) SHOCKING SOMERSET MURDERS of the Nineteenth Century and Other Stories of Violent or Suspicious Death. Plates, 189pp, pictorial card covers. Somerset Books, Tiverton: 1997. £4.00




  233. Tarbat (Alan C) THE NEW GATE. (8) pages, original wraps, partly faded. Loosely inserted is a handwriten compliments slip, signed by the author, dated June 8th, and with his address in Wells. Warren & Son, Winchester: c.1943. £8.00




  234. Taunton Markets THE TAUNTON TOWN AND MARKET ACTS. Printed by Order of the Trustees from the Original Acts. xi + (iii) + 75pp, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, front inner hinge weak, few spots to boards. Taunton: Edwin Goodman, Printer, 29 North Street. 1878. £35.00
    * Reprints the four Acts of Parliament relating to Taunton Markets which were originally published in 1786, 1817, 1833 and 1840.





  235. Taylor (M.J), editor THE STORY OF SOMERTON. Compiled by members of the Somerton Women's Institute. With 23 illusts, 3 maps one of which is double-page, 96 + (1)pp, roy 8vo, original cloth boards, titled and with an illustration pasted onto the top board, later, amateur, front pastedown, and with the name and address of the editor on the front endpaper. Somerton Women's Institute, (1953) £15.00




  236. Thornycroft (L.B) THE STORY OF THE DOONES In Fact, Fiction and Photo. Illusts, 108pp, oblong 8vo, illusts, large folding map, original printed wraps. Third impression, Barnicotts Limited, The Wessex Press, Taunton: 1943. £5.00




  237. Tomalin (D.J) WOODSPRING PRIORY Somerset. Illusts, plans, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, The Landmark Trust, 1974. £4.00




  238. Toulmin (Joshua) and Savage (James) HISTORY OF TAUNTON, In the County of Somerset. Originally written by the late Joshua Toulmin. A New Edition, Greatly Enlarged and brought down to the Present Time, by James Savage. With an engraved frontis, and a folding plate which rarely turns up, xxiv + 608pp, untrimmed in later cloth, frontis partly waterstained, plate foxed, page edges browned. Taunton: John Poole, 1822. £25.00




  239. Trivett (Keith) PRELUDE TO WAR: the Somerset Coalfield in 1939. Illusts, 22pp, original pictorial card covers. Radstock, Midsomer Norton and District Museum, 2009. £6.00




  240. Turner (A.H) LEPIDOPTERA OF SOMERSET. Folding map, 188 + 7 page Index, map contained in pocket at rear, later cloth, ex-ref. lib. with label to front pastedown and stamp to verso of title-page, few marks to cloth. Printed for the Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Soc. 1955. £10.00




  241. University of Bristol Extra-Mural Studies SOMERSET HISTORICAL STUDIES. 83pp, small 4to, original wraps, Bristol University label to verso of top wrap, and signs where another removed. University of Bristol Department of Extra-Mural Studies, 1969. £8.00
    * Subjects include:- Gawbridge Mill, Kingsbury Episcopi; Agriculture at Langford Budville; Somerset Mills; Mayors of Taunton 1677-1700; William Hook of Crowcombe, Parish Constable; Medical Practice in Eighteenth Century Wells, etc.





  242. Ussher (W.A.E) THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN WELLINGTON AND CHARD Memoirs of the Geological Survey. Explanation of Sheet 311. With Contributions by H.B. Woodward and A.J. Jukes-Browne. Textual illusts, 68pp, recent paper wraps, with the title from the original wraps pasted onto top wrap. First edition, London: Printed for H.M.S.O. 1906. £18.00




  243. Vivian-Neal (Ralph) POUNDISFORD PARK Pitminster, Taunton, Somerset. Plan, coloured and black and white illusts, 10pp, original pictorial card covers. Acanthus Press, Wellington: c.1970. £4.00




  244. Wadmore (Rev. J.A.W) SUPPLEMENT TO THE BARROW GURNEY HISTORY. With 2 plates, 39 + 34pp index which covers the both parts, original wraps. Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1902. £10.00
    * Five leaves of the index are duplicated.





  245. Waller (Ann), editor SMILING SOMERSET Visitor's guide & county handbook. Illusts, with folding map supplement loosely inserted, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Nineteenth Edition, C & D. Constable Ltd., c.1960. £4.00




  246. Walpoole (George Augustus) SOMERSET. Engraved plate with 2 views, pages numbered 359-372, folio, disbound, folded in half. London: Alexander Hogg, 1784. £8.00
    * Extracted from Walpoole's New British Traveller.





  247. Warburton (William), Bishop of Gloucester A SERMON PREACHED AT THE ABBEY CHURCH AT BATH, for promoting the Charity and subscription towards the GENERAL HOSPITAL, or Infirmary in that City, on Sunday, October 24th, 1742. To which is added A Short account of the General Infirmary at Bath. 39pp, sm.8vo., 39pp, lacks all before the 'Dedication' to Ralph Allen, it has 2 pages setting out Benefactions and Disbursements for the hospital, the Sermon on pages 1-24, Short Account... of the General Hospital on page 28, Subscribers, giving names and sums on pages 29-39. The verso of page 39 is blank. The listing on Copac states that there are a further 5 unnumbered pages after page 39. Disbound, some stitching broken. Printed for J. Leake at Bath and sold by J. & P. Knapton, London: 1742. £25.00




  248. Ward, Lock & Co GUIDE TO BATH, Cheddar, Wells, Glastonbury, Etc. Lacks plans, illusts, 160 + 10 pages of adverts, few small marks to slightly rubbed and faded original cloth boards. Eleventh Edition - Revised, London: Ward, Lock & Co., c.194- £5.00




  249. Watkin (Dom Aelred), editor THE GREAT CHARTULARY OF GLASTONBURY Volume 2. xci-cxciii + 249-575pp, recent cloth. Somerset Record Society. Volume 63. 1952. £15.00




  250. [Watson (Lawrence G)] OFFICIAL SOUVENIR Issued on the occasion of the presentation by The Most Hon. The Marquess of Bath, R.G., P.C., C.B. of the Charter of Incorporation granted to the Burgesses of WESTON-SUPER-MARE by His Most Gracious Majesty King George VI in the First Year of His Reign. Plates, 40pp, few spots and a couple of splash marks to the original decorative, slightly dusty, wraps, internally sound. Lawrence Bros., Weston-super-Mare: 1937. £22.00




  251. Watson (Walter) THE LICHENS OF SOMERSET. 94pp, original wraps. Taunton: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1930. £9.00




  252. Weaver (Rev. F.W), and Bates (Rev. E.H), editor INDEX TO COLLINSON'S HISTORY OF SOMERSET. Including a Supplementary Index (Alphabetical and Ordinary) to all the Armorial Bearings mentioned in the work. Contributed by Lt-Col. J.R. Bramble. iv + (4) + 325pp, 4to, fore-edges untrimmed in the original cloth, endpapers and title-page spotty, few black marks to spine, edges lightly rubbed, bookplate to front pastedown. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, Athenaeum Press, Fore Street. 1898. £50.00
    * An invaluable work that unlocks the wealth of information in Collinson's work.





  253. Webb (Adrian J) THE 1601 AND 1628 SUBSIDY RETURNS FOR SOUTH SOMERSET. vi + 47pp, 4to, original wraps. Harry Galloway, 1993. £6.00




  254. Webb (Adrian James) TWO SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SOMERSET FREEHOLDERS LISTS. viii + 46pp, original card covers. Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1999. £8.00




  255. Webb (Adrian James), editor SOMERSET FREEHOLDERS LIST 1733. viii + 52pp, original pictorial card covers. Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1999. £8.00




  256. Webb (Hedley Vicars) NATURE RAMBLES IN SOMERSET. Somerset Folk Series No 10. Frontis, illusts, 98 + (3)pp, original wraps, with 2 short splits to top outer hinge of spotty dustwrapper London: Somerset Folk Press, 1925. £6.00




  257. Wells REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF WELLS, (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1364-1374, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: (1835) £12.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.





  258. Western Division THE REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ANY ELECTION OF A MEMBER TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE WESTERN DIVISION of the County of Somerset, between the 30th of November, 1843, and the 1st of December, 1844. Approx. 350 leaves printed on rectos only, 4to, stitching loosening, top wrap loose and last leaf slightly ragged, lacks spine and rear wrap, small hole in last leaf affecting a couple of words. Contains the Names, Addresses, Nature of Qualification and Description of Qualifying Property. Printed by J. Barnicott, F. May, W. Court, Taunton: 1843. £50.00
    * Includes the Polling Districts of:- Bridgwater, Dulverton, Carhampton, Ilchester, Ilminster, Langport, Taunton, Williton, and Wiveliscombe.





  259. Whittock (Martyn) WALKING SOMERSET HISTORY. The Complete Guide. Maps, illusts, some in colour, 119pp, original pictorial card covers. The Dovecote Press, Wimborne: 1995. £8.00




  260. Wickenden (H.J) THE HISTORY OF TAUNTON. Illusts, 186pp, original cloth. E. Goodman, Taunton: 1938. £14.00




  261. Williams (Robin & Romey) WEST COUNTRY LANDSCAPES. THE MENDIPS Illusts, maps, 175pp, original pictorial card covers. Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon: 1996. £8.00




  262. Wilson (W.A) COLEOPTERA OF SOMERSET. 165 + (vii)pp, original wraps. Printed for the Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Soc. 1958. £10.00




  263. Woodhams (Dowman), printer and publisher THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GUIDE to the Cathedral Church at ST. ANDREW, AT WELLS, the City, and Neigbourhood. Illusts, 68pp, 12mo, loose in the original printed card covers are covered with a transparent plastic, private label to top cover, front endpaper, later titled label on spine, old cellotape stains to front end rear inner hinges. Dowman Woodhams, Printed and Publisher, Wells: 1900. £6.00




  264. Worth (R.N) TOURISTS' GUIDE TO SOMERSETSHIRE: Rail and Road. With folding map, plan, 168 + 32pp of publishers adverts, 12mo, original cloth. Fourth Edition, London: Edward Stamford, 1890. £12.00




  265. Wright (Peter Poyntz) THE PARISH CHURCH TOWERS OF SOMERSET. Their construction, craftsmanship and chronology 1350 - 1550. With a Foreword by The Rt. Revd. Abbot Aelred Watkin, Titular Abbot of Glastonbury. Plates and illusts, xi + 217 + (2) list of subscribers, small folio, dustwrapper. Avebury Publishing Company: 1981. £12.00




  266. Wyatt (Monica) 100 YEARS IN SOMERSET Numerous illusts, 120pp, original pictorial card covers, note in ink to verso of front cover. Bossiney Books, Bodmin: 1986. £5.00




  267. Yeovil Corporation THE REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE. Appointed by the Inhabitants of the Town to further Municipal Reform.... to which is added an Appendix. Pamphlet, 26pp, stitched as issued, slight evidence of once being folded. Printed and Published by W. Porter, Yeovil: 1835. £12.00




  268. Young (Ruth) MRS CHAPMAN'S PORTRAIT. A Beauty of the 18th Century. With 3 plates, xii + 158pp, original qtr cloth, paper boards, paper label to top board, boards partly faded. Bath: The George Gregory Bookstore, 1926. £8.00
    * Written by her great great grand daughter.



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