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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. Arlett (Mike) & Peters (Ivo) STEAM AROUND BATH. With 281 illusts, usually 2 to a page, 4to, dustwrapper. Millstream Books, Bath: 1987. £16.00




  4. Arlett (Mike) THE SOMERSET AND DORSET AT MIDFORD. Maps, diagrams, illusts, 112pp, dustwrapper. Millstream Books, Bath: 1986. £16.00




  5. 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.




  6. 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




  7. Atthill (Robin) OLD MENDIP. With 43 plates, 7 line drawings, and 7 maps, 204pp, dustwrapper. Second edition. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1971. £7.00




  8. 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




  9. Bailey (Derrick Sherwin) WELLS MANOR OF CANON GRANGE. xxvii + 224pp, dustwrapper. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985. £8.00




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




  11. 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




  12. Bantock (Anton) THE INSIDE STORY OF THE SMYTHS OF ASHTON COURT. Illusts, plan, 28pp, 4to, loosely inserted are copies of the floor plan of the mansion and the Smythe family tree, original decorative wraps. Second edition, Bristol: Malago Society, 1980. £9.00




  13. 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




  14. 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




  15. Bath REPORT ON THE CITY OF BATH, (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1109-1130, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £15.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.




  16. Bath and West of England Society LETTERS AND PAPERS on Agriculture, Planting &c. Selected from the Correspondence Book of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufacture and Commerce.... To which is added, An Appendix.... Volume 1. xii + 366pp, early half calf, marbled boards, lacks spine, boards held by strings. Second Edition, Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1783. £25.00
    * Includes articles:- Species of Grass in Wiltshire; Burnbaiting on Mendip Hills; Turnips in Suffolk; Norfolk Husbandry; Agriculture in the Isle of Wight, etc.




  17. Bath and West of England Society LETTERS AND PAPERS on Agriculture, Planting &c. selected from the Correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society.... Volume 3. With 3 folding and 2 other plates, 498 + (1)pp, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed to edges, lacks spine. First edition, Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1786. £30.00
    * Includes:- 'On the Farm-Yard Management of Dung' by Arthur Young, and an article on 'Experiments with the English Rhubarbs made in the General Hospital at Bath'.




  18. 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.




  19. 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... '




  20. 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




  21. 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




  22. 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




  23. Binding (Hilary) and Stevens (Douglas) THE BOOK OF MINEHEAD With Alcombe. Illusts, 160pp, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2000. £12.00




  24. 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




  25. 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




  26. 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




  27. Bowdler (Miss) POEMS AND ESSAYS, By the Late Miss Bowdler. The Ninth Edition. Published for the Benefit of the General Hospital at Bath. 274pp, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, lacks lettering piece, title-page slightly browned and spotty, 3 leaves loosening. Ninth Edition, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1797. £28.00




  28. Bristol Exploration Club BELFRY BULLETIN The Journal of the Bristol Exploration Club. Volume 50. No 12. Number 505. Illusts, diagrams, 49pp, small folio, in original printed wraps. The Bristol Exploration Club, December, 1999. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Caving in Burrington in the 1960's; Stock's House Shaft, Chewton Minery; Lost Caves of Mendip, etc.




  29. 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 hinge partly cracked, few spots and small water stain to outer edge of frontis. Charles Hallett, Bath: 1887. £28.00




  30. 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 a 2 page list of subscribers, spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. First edition, Barracuda Books Ltd., Buckingham: 1979. £12.00




  31. 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




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




  33. 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.




  34. Bulleid (Arthur) THE LAKE VILLAGES OF SOMERSET Somerset Folk Series No 16. Plates some of which are folding, textual diagrams, 79pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, titled in manuscript on spine. Fourth edition, Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, Yeovil: 1949. £4.00




  35. 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




  36. 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




  37. 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. £8.00




  38. 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. £15.00
    * Signed by the author on the title-page.




  39. 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. £15.00




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




  41. 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




  42. 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. £100.00 --- See sample text




  43. Chapman (Chris) SECRETS OF THE LEVELS. Illusts, maps, 84pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, one corner slightly bruised, name to title-page. Somerset Books, 1996. £5.00




  44. 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




  45. 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. £9.00




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




  47. 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




  48. 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




  49. 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.




  50. Congresbury History Group THE CONGRESBURY ARSONIST AND OTHER TALES. Illusts, 36pp, original pictorial card covers. Congresbury History Group, 1989. £6.00




  51. 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




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




  53. 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




  54. 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




  55. 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




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




  57. 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




  58. 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. £22.00




  59. Danks (Warwick), editor CLAVERTON PUMPING STATION (A Definitive Study) Illusts, 67pp, original cloth with the original pictorial card covers pasted down. Twenty five copies bound as a special edition. Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, Devizes: (1984) £10.00




  60. 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




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




  62. 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




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




  67. [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




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




  69. 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




  70. 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.




  71. 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




  72. 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. £22.00




  73. 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




  74. [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. £8.00




  75. [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




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




  77. 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




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




  79. 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




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




  81. Hall (W.G), editor MAN AND THE MENDIPS With plates, some of which are in colour, maps, diagrams, 167pp, oblong 8vo, slightly dusty dustwrapper. The Mendip Society, 1971. £5.00




  82. 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 11 plates 3 of which are coloured, 2 folding genealogical tables, 80pp, original cloth, t.e.g., covers rubbed to edges and spotty, some foxing mainly to edges of some plates. "Torquay Directory", Torquay: 1882. £22.00




  83. Hamilton (Archibald) THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. With Notes on those who hunted them. Illusts, xvii + 363pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded. First edition, London: Horace Cox, 1907. £35.00




  84. 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




  85. 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




  86. 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




  87. 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




  88. 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




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




  90. 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




  91. Heard (Herbert) SHEPTON MALLET. NOTES ON THE CHARITIES OF THE TOWN. Portrait frontis, 96pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges, 1" portion missing from head of spine, short splits to top outer hinge, partly split to head of outer hinges, ownership name and stamp of 'Westminster Bank' to verso of frontis. Shepton Mallet: A. Byrt and Son, 1903. £6.00




  92. 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




  93. 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




  94. 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




  95. Holmes (Thomas Scott) THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH AND MANOR OF WOOKEY; being a contribution towards a future History of the County of Somerset. Frontis., 2 plans, 164pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, spine darkened, endpapers discoloured, contemporary inscription to front pastedown. First edition, Bristol: C.T. Jefferies and Son, c.1885. £30.00




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




  97. Howell (Chris) MEMORIES OF CHEDDAR. Numerous illusts, 126pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, few spots to fore-edges, bookplate to front endpaper. Published by the Author. Chilcompton: 1984. £7.00




  98. 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




  99. Hunt (William) THE SOMERSET DIOCESE, BATH AND WELLS. Folding map, viii + 261 + (ii)pp, sm 8vo, original decorative cloth, map, title-page and page edges foxed. S.P.C.K. London: 1885. £5.00




  100. 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




  101. 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. £10.00




  102. 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.




  103. 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. £12.00




  104. 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




  105. 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




  106. 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




  107. 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, slightly darkened to toward edges of boards, edges of boards slightly rubbed, later calf spine, usual occasional foxing. First edition. Somerset and Bristol Steam-Press, Taunton: 1873. £32.00




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




  109. 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.




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




  111. 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.




  112. 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




  113. Knight (Frank) GENERAL-AT-SEA The Life of Admiral Robert Blake. 152pp, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine of dustwrapper. Macdonald, London: 1971. £8.00




  114. Knight's Companion BATH. Engraved title and 24pp, disbound. (1851) £8.00
    * See Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis Vol 1, page 301. Intended as a guide for travellers on the railway, includes 2pp table of villages etc on the railway line with distances from Paddington and Bristol.




  115. 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, spine loose. Somerset Record Society Volume 44. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1929. £10.00




  116. Le Neve (John), Compiled by B. Jones FASTI ECCLESIAE ANGLICANAE 1300 - 1541. Volume 8 Bath and Wells. xi + 97pp, couple of 1cm tears to head of dustwrapper. University of London: 1964. £9.00




  117. 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




  118. 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




  119. 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




  120. 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




  121. 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




  122. 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. £16.00




  123. 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.




  124. Maggs (Colin G) BRANCH LINES OF SOMERSET. Numerous illusts, vi + 154pp, dustwrapper, bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1993. £7.00




  125. Maggs (Colin G) THE WESTON, CLEVEDON AND PORTISHEAD LIGHT RAILWAY. Illusts, maps, 160pp, tall 8vo, dustwrapper, bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Second Enlarged Edition, Oakwood Press, Headington: 1990. £20.00




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




  127. 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




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




  129. 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




  130. 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. £15.00




  131. McGarvie (Michael), editor SIR STEPHEN GLYNNE'S CHURCH NOTES FOR SOMERSET. Illusts, xxxi + 400pp, dustwrapper partly faded. Somerset Record Society. Volume 82. Taunton: 1994. £20.00




  132. Mee (Arthur) SOMERSET County of Romantic Splendour. With 474 Places and 160 Pictures. 482pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, name to front endpaper. Eighth impression, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1956. £5.00




  133. Mee (Arthur) SOMERSET New photographs by A.F. Kersting Plates, double-page map, 308pp, couple of short teears to dustwrapper. New and Revised Edition, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1969. £6.00




  134. 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




  135. 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




  136. 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




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




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




  140. 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




  141. 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.




  142. 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




  143. 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




  144. 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




  145. 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. £16.00




  146. 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




  147. '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




  148. 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




  149. 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




  150. Poole (Sharon) WESTON-SUPER-MARE. In Old Photographs. Numerous illusts, 160pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted, Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1993. £4.00




  151. Poole (Sharon) WESTON-SUPER-MARE. A Pictorial History. With frontis and 181 photographic illusts, 4to, dustwrapper, small ownership sticker to title-page. Phillimore, Chichester: 1995. £12.00




  152. Popham (Hugh) THE SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY. (Prince Albert's) (The 13th Regiment of Foot) Illusts, 149pp, dustwrapper. Hamish Hamilton, London: 1968. £6.00




  153. 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. £12.00




  154. 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




  155. 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




  156. 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




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




  158. 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.




  159. 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.




  160. 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




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




  162. 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.




  163. 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




  164. 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




  165. 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. £40.00




  166. 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




  167. Sellick (Roger) THE WEST SOMERSET MINERAL RAILWAYS and the story of the Brendon Hills Iron Mines. With contributions by J.R. Hamilton and M.H. Jones. Illusts, folding map, 126pp, portion of top corner of top of dustwrapper torn away, not affecting text, dustwrapper covered in adhesive transparent plastic sheet. First edition, David & Charles, Dawlish: 1962. £12.00




  168. 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.'




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




  170. 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




  171. 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




  172. 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. £22.00




  173. 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




  174. Siraut (Mary) INDEX TO KIRBY'S QUEST FOR SOMERSET, volume III of the Somerset Record Society publications being the texts of Kirby's Quest of 1284-5, the Nomina Villarum of 1316, the Exchequer Lay Subsidy of 1327, the county Rate for 1742 and the hundreds and parishes from the 1841 census. iii + 62pp, original printed wraps. Harry Galloway Publishing, Weston-super-mare: 1996. £8.00




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




  176. Skrine (H.D) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BELGIC CAMP ON HAMPTON DOWN. A Paper Read to the Members of the Bath Selborne Society on the Site of the Belgic Camp, April 8, 1897. Map, 10pp, 12mo, original wraps. Signed by the author on the top wrap. Privately Printed, Bath: 1897. £10.00




  177. 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




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




  179. 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




  180. 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




  181. 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




  182. 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




  183. 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.




  184. 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.




  185. 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.




  186. 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.




  187. 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.




  188. 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.




  189. 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.




  190. 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.




  191. 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.




  192. 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.




  193. 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.




  194. 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.




  195. 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.




  196. 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




  197. 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.




  198. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 139. Proceedings for 1995. Illusts, 251pp, original pictorial card covers. Taunton Castle: 1996. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Stocklinch Magdalen Church; Ilchester to Odcombe Pipeline; South Cadbury; Excavations at Benedict Street, Glastonbury; Resident Gentry of Somerset, 1502; Romano-British Building at Seavington St. Mary, etc.




  199. 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.




  200. 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.




  201. 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.




  202. 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.




  203. 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.




  204. 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.




  205. 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.




  206. 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.




  207. 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.




  208. 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.




  209. 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.




  210. 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.




  211. 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.




  212. 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.




  213. 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.




  214. 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.




  215. 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




  216. 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




  217. 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




  218. 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.




  219. 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.




  220. 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




  221. 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




  222. 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




  223. 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




  224. 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




  225. 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.




  226. 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) £18.00




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




  228. 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




  229. 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




  230. 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




  231. 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.




  232. 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




  233. Victoria County History, edited by R.W. Dunning A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Volume 4. Maps, plates, textual illustrations, xx + 266pp. small folio, dustwrapper, bookplate to front pastedown. Oxford University Press, 1978. £36.00
    * Includes:- Crewkerne Hundred; Martock Hundred; South Petherton Hundred.




  234. 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




  235. 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.




  236. 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




  237. 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.




  238. Ward (F. Madeline) SUPPLEMENT TO COLLINSON'S HISTORY OF SOMERSET. Extracts from Locke's Survey with a short Biography by R.B. Mowat. Frontis, map, 2 plates, bound without title-page, 175pp, folio, untrimmed, half calf, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, cloth boards, several blanks bound at rear, small split to head of top outer hinge, slightly rubbed to edges of calf. Barnicotts Ltd., Taunton: 1939. £40.00




  239. 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




  240. Watkin (Dom Aelred), editor THE GREAT CHARTULARY OF GLASTONBURY Volume 2. xci-cxciii + 249-575pp, recent cloth. Somerset Record Society. Volume 63. 1952. £18.00




  241. Watson (Walter) THE LICHENS OF SOMERSET. 94pp, original wraps. Taunton: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1930. £14.00




  242. 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, head and foot of spine rubbed, short splits to outer hinges, corners slightly rubbed, few spots to fore-edges. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, Athenaeum Press, Fore Street. 1898. £75.00
    * An invaluable work that unlocks the wealth of information in Collinson's work.




  243. Webb (Adrian J) THE 1601 AND 1628 SUBSIDY RETURNS FOR SOUTH SOMERSET. vi + 47pp, 4to, original wraps. Harry Galloway, 1993. £8.00




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




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




  246. 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




  247. Wedlake (W.J) EXCAVATIONS AT CAMERTON Somerset. A Record of Thirty Years' Excavation covering the Period from Neolithic to Saxon Times 1926-56. With a Foreword by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Plates, textual illusts, xvii + 284pp, numerous plates, illusts and folding plans, some short and one long tear to partly faded dustwrapper, approx. 1" portion missing from foot of spine of dustwrapper. Camerton Excavation Club. 1958. £18.00




  248. 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.




  249. West Huntspill THE BOOK OF WEST HUNTSPILL. A Millenium Celebration. Compiled by People of the Parish. Illusts, 160pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2001. £20.00




  250. 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. £65.00
    * Includes the Polling Districts of:- Bridgwater, Dulverton, Carhampton, Ilchester, Ilminster, Langport, Taunton, Williton, and Wiveliscombe.




  251. 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




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




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




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




  255. 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




  256. 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. £18.00




  257. 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 + 217pp, small folio, partly faded dustwrapper, signs where small label removed from front pastedown. Avebury Publishing Company: 1981. £10.00




  258. 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




  259. 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. £24.00




  260. 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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