Messrs Barber (4 results)

No Binding. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. This is an original folding colour plan from the Lilleshall Estate sale of 1914, measuring 17 inches by 13 inches approx., the plan takes in St. George's Church, Properties on Duke Street, The Vicarage, and properties on Church Street some noticeable creasing wear, slight damage to plain lower left corner, horizontal fold line is off centre, else in good acceptable condition, would make a nice feature framed. This is a lighter item, shipping costs will be reduced accordingly at checkout where possible.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. "The number of Copies of this Work is strictly limited to Three Hundred and Fifty of which this Copy is no. 57"; pp. xcix, 482; "With illustrations from photographs by Messrs. D. Legard, F. Barber-Starkey, the author, and others."; folding map. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Publisher's red buckram binding with gilt lettering, with minimal wear. Contents clean and tight, a little toned to the endpapers and a few spots to the page edges and title page, previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown otherwise unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Size: Small 4to. by Messrs. D. Legard, F. Barber-Starkey, the author (illustrator). Book. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. Illustrated with folding maps, this is the very scarce first edition of this 1903 auction catalogue of farms and lands within the Orleton Estate of Shropshire. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this 1903 auction catalogue. Illustrated with four folding colour maps. A catalogue for the 30th July 1903 auction of an 'important and attractive freehold property' near Wellington, Shropshire, making up part of the Orleton Estate. Rebound in cloth with endpapers renewed, and with the bookplate of Thornhill to the front pastedown. With the publisher's original paper wrap bound in. Arranged in twenty-three lots, with farms, arable land, a mill, cottages and gardens all for sale. Rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed, and with publisher's original wraps bound in. Externally, excellent, with areas of light fading to cloth. Bookplate to front pastedown. Light handling marks to front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with the odd spot and handling mark. Closed tears and small losses to leaf perimeters. Closed tear to folding plate. Former owner's ink notations throughout. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with three folding maps, this is the very scarce first edition of this 1913 auction catalogue of land in the Shropshire region of Stoke-upon-Tern. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this 1913 auction catalogue. Illustrated with three folding maps loosely inserted in a pocket to the rear. A catalogue for the February 26th, 1913 auction of 1,629 acres of the Stoke-upon-Tern estates, arranged in thirty lots. Rebound in cloth with endpapers renewed, and with the bookplate of Thornhill to the front pastedown. With the publisher's original paper wraps bound in. Included are lots for 'two well-known feeding farms', four small holdings, cottages and gardens, a country residence and a capital sporting estate. Rebound in cloth with endpapers renewed, with the publisher's original wraps bound in. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with spotting to first and last few leaves. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…