Memorials Of The Parish Of Codford St. Mary. / Notes Historical And Architectural On The Church Of Saint John The Evangelist Slymbridge Gloucestershire.

Two books bound as one. A very good full leather binding by "Clarke & Bedford". 8vo. pp.iv/pp.50/[9pp.]/pp.10 - 67. Polished tan calf. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments (rubbed) and black leather title label: "Codford St Mary - Slymbridge". Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers and matching page edges. Armorial bookplate to verso of the front board: "James Heywood Markland" . Binder's stamp to top edge of endpaper: "Clarke & Bedford". All plates as called for. Clear text through out, foxing to last few pages and all plates. VG. ** "James Heywood Markland (1788–1864) was an English solicitor and antiquary. Born at Ardwick Green, Manchester, 7 December 1788, he was the fourth and youngest son of Robert Markland, a textile manufacturer there; his mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Hibbert of Manchester.He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, member of the Roxburghe Club. Markland died at his house, Lansdown Crescent, Bath, on 28 December 1864, and was buried in the new Walcot cemetery on 3 January 1866, the first window in Bath Abbey west of the transept being filled with glass to his memory. His library was dispersed at his death." - See Wikipedia *** Francis Bedford (18 June 1799 – 8 June 1883) was an English bookbinder. Bedford was born at Paddington, London, on 18 June 1799; his father is believed to have been a courier attached to the establishment of George III. At an early age he was sent to school in Yorkshire, and on his return to London his guardian, Henry Bower of 38 Great Marlborough Street, apprenticed him in 1817 to a bookbinder named Haigh, in Poland Street, Oxford Street. Only part of his time was he served with Haigh, and in 1822 he was transferred to a binder named Finlay, also of Poland Street, with whom his indentures were completed. At the end of his apprenticeship Bedford entered the workshop of one of the leading bookbinders of the day, Charles Lewis, of 35 Duke Street, St. James's, with whom he worked until the death of his employer, and subsequently managed the business for Lewis's widow. Bedford attracted the notice of William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, who became a patron and friends. In 1841 Bedford, who had by then left Mrs. Lewis's establishment, entered into partnership with John Clarke of 61 Frith Street, Soho, who had a reputation for binding books in tree-marbled calf. Clarke and Bedford carried on their business in Frith Street until 1850, when the partnership was dissolved. The binder, Clarke & Bedford, was considered to be one of the finer binderies in Great Britain." - See Wikipedia. …