Silsoe Lord (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 148 pp., illus., end-paper maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1976 very good hardback, light foxing to page edges, in a very good dust wrapper, spine and spine edges sunned. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 148 pages. Endpaper Maps of Gallipoli and Palestine. Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, x,93pp, photo frontispiece, clean and sound, no inscriptions, author's compliments slip laid in, blue cloth, silver-gilt titles, spine slightly faded, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 148p. Photos. Jacket spine sunned. Fine/Near Fine Copy. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. pp vi + 93 Crisp with slight shelfwear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A book about the Temple in London (the Inner Temple and Middle Temple) and their unique position in Church and State, for more than 800 years, as "peculiar" and "exempt" property. Lord Silsoe notes that "every peculiarity of the Temple, ecclesiastical and lay, stems in origin from a Bull of Pope Alexander III dated 1163". We are not qualified to judge how matters may have changed since this book came out in 1972, but from 1163 up until that point Lord Silsoe's account strikes us as authoritative and curiously interesting. For example: "One of the peculiarities of the Temple is that there are no public sewers in it." Or: "It was quite a common practice to 'drop' unwanted babies in the Temple and they were always cared for - unless the dropper was caught [.] Each child was given the family name of Temple plus a Christian name." Or: "So far as records show, there has not been one case in the Temple Church of a lawful marriage licensed by the Bishop of London." The book is very nicely printed on good-quality, pleasingly tactile paper. No markings to the text, just a couple of tiny spots. There's some minor signs of shelfwear and handling to the blue boards, most noticeably a few small streaks of whitish scuffing on the back, but overall they're tight and bright and solid. This copy once belonged to the distinguished musician John Birch, who was Organist and Director of Music at Chichester Cathedral and a Professor at the Royal College of Music. His neat signature in blue ink is written on the front endpaper, with a date of 1984.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 93. Ex Foreign and Commonwealth Office library with their label and stamps (lightly applied) rebound from the original paperback / pamphlet in boards, preserving the original wraps as the hardbound covers. Very good.

Pp. 96(last blank), appendix; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, stapled, lightly worn, with 2 small inked annotations on upper wrapper; edges of leaves slightly browned, inked annotation to page 93, possibly in the author's hand; Government Printer,Suva, n.d.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, top right corners of front and back cover bumped, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, top edge of cover faded, edges of front and back cover a little faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.