Salway Robert (3 results)

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. VG+, Shelfwear, EPS & edge foxing/VG, PC, edgewear, tear, flaking, browning. Illustrated children's story. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Complete set of the Oxford History of England in 16 volumes (17 books, volume I being issued in two books), including the consolidated index volume. All volumes other than I B uniformly bound in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Volume I B has black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine and, being a later addition to the series, is printed on different, acidic-free, paper. 8vos. All volumes are in near fine condition, being neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. All volumes in their original dust wrappers, very slightly shelf worn and lightly bumped at edges, with a couple of short creases and scuffs here and there. The Oxford History of England was originally planned as a 14 volume series spanning the history of England from Roman times to the outbreak of the first world war. However, since the first edition of the first volume appeared in 1931, the series has been substantially revised and enlarged, with some volumes being replaced by revised editions and a 15th volume taking the story to the end of the second world war added. Some of the volumes are considered the classic work on their period but overall the reputation of the series is mixed. The volumes contained in this complete set are: I A - Roman Britain; I B - The English Settlements; II - Anglo-Saxon England; III - From Domesday to Magna Carta; IV - The Thirteenth Century; V - The Fourteenth Century; VI - The Fifteenth Century; VII - The Earlier Tudors; VIII - The Reign of Elizabeth; IX - The Early Stuarts; X - The Later Stuarts; XI - The Whig Supremacy; XII - The Reign of George III; XIII - The Age of Reform; XIV - England, 1870-1914; XV - English History, 1914-1945; The Consolidated Index. A very large, very heavy set (circa 17kg packed weight) which will likely incur an additional charge for overseas delivery.

Large oblong folio 28 x 23 inches, bound in a basic period cloth album. Title and 30 tinted lithographed sheets, mounted on 15 cards recto verso and tipped on stubs into the album. Making a massive panorama from Hyde Park Corner at what was St George's Hospital (now a big hotel) down to Scotch Corner then all the way along Knightsbridge and Kensington High Street to Counter's Bridge (now the bridge at Olympia). Laid end to end it would be about 60 feet long. The plans were made for the Kensington Turnpike Trustees by their Surveyor, Joseph Salway in the Year 1811 - Salway created fifteen large water-coloured drawings with a meticulous level of detail, order and symmetry. They were then lithographed and published in 1903. The first and only edition. A few plates with a minor outer marginal mark not affecting the images. A FASCINATING VIEW of early Kensington. Scarce.