William Chafin (33 results)

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In this thoughtful and carefully researched work, William Chafin offers a critical evaluation of the claims made in W. Chafin's treatise 'Anecdotes Respecting Cranbourn Chase'. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the region and its history, Chafin exposes a variety of errors and discrepancies in Chafin's work, and provides readers with a more accurate and nuanced understanding of the historical events in question. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Southern England, or in the art of historical research more generally.

103 [i.e. 107] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. "This facsimile reproduction of the second edition of Cranbourn Chase is privately printed by Lieut.-General Pitt Rivers. Rushmore, 1886"--Page opposite title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint 1886 Of 1818 Edition Full title: A second edition of the anecdotes and history of Cranbourn Chase by William Chafin, Clerk. With additions, and a continuation of the said history to some extent. To which are added, some scenes in, and anecdotes of, Windsor forest; by the same author.' 'This facsimile reproduction of the second edition of Cranbourn Chase is privately printed bye Lieut.- General Pitt Rivers. Rushmore, 1886.' 8vo.pp. 103. Rebound in Brown cloth with a title label: 'Anecdotes Respecting Cranbourn Chase, With a Very Concise Account of It: together With The Rural Amusements it Afforded our Ancestor in The Days of Yore.' Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Introduction by Desmond Hawkins. First Edition thus. SIGNED BY HAWKINS on title. Dovecote Press, 1991. Fine in d/w.

Frontis, 103pp, actually 107 pages as the first 4 pages are followed by numbers with asterix , 1, 1* etc., original qtr cloth, paper boards, with the original label on top board, spine slightly darkened and rubbed to edges, paper on rear board partly cockled, internally clean. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a facsimile reproduction of the second edition of Cranbourn Chase privately printed by Lieut-General Pitt Rivers dated Rushmore 1886. The full Title is 'A Second Edition of The Anecdotes and History of Cranbourn Chase. By William Cafin, Clerk. With Additions, and a Continuation of the Said History to some extent. To which are added, some scenes in, and anecdotes of, Windsor Forest; by the same Author'. Octavo 103pp. Black and white pictorial frontis. Blue paper covered boards with cream cloth spine, Titles in paper label on front board. Spine and edges of boards darkening with wear to ends and corners, free endpapers browning, neat ink ownership insctiption on front pastedown, pages unevenly trimmed and foxing scattered throughout. A tight copy.

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Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (Not price clipped). Desmond Hawkins? signature to title page. Private bookplate on front endpaper. Letter from publisher stuck on rear endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. xxviii, 106pp. With b/w portrait frontis. Facsimile limited edition, with an introduction, of William Chafin?s 1818 book on Cranborne Chase. The Chase was a lawless place in the 18thC and Chafin, of Chettle House, a parson and Magistrate, interpreted the law to his own convenience. The book tells many stories of the clashes between poachers and keepers.

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8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, small neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. SIGNED BY HAWKINS ON TITLE. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1818. Hawkins' own monograph on the Chase was published in 1980.

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Original Boards. Condition: Very Good. Second Corrected and Ammended. (ii); 103 pages. engraved frontispiece. Page edges uncut. Some light foxing (not excessive). Original cloth backed paper covered boards.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 126. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1866 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 126.

56pp, text and frontis and title slightly spotty, untrimmed in recent half calf, raised bands, marbled boards. First edition. London: Printed by and for J. Nicholls. 1818. Bound with. Haydon (B.R) NEW CHURCHES; Considered with Respect to the Opportunities they Offer for The Encouragement of Painting. 22pp. London: Printed by C.H. Reynell and Published by J. Carpenter and Son, 1818. 2 volumes bound in one, early full calf with a later spine, heraldic arms in gilt on both boards, gilt lines, slightly rubbed to edges of boards. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).

Hardback. Condition: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). A facsimile edition of this historical study of Cranborne Chase, privately printed from the 1818 second edition by Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, who in 1880 inherited a large portion of the estate. A facsimile reproduction of the second edition of William Chefin's 1818 work discussing Cranbourne - or Cranborne - Chase, a large area of countryside overlapping the boundaries of Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Somerset. This facsimile of the second edition was privately printed by Lieutenant General Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1886.With an illustrated frontispiece.A collection of early nineteenth century anecdotes relaying tales of fox and deer hunting, falconry and cock-fighting in the country, along with an discussion of excursions in Windsor forest. Providing a history of this ancient woodland, referencing battles between gamekeepers and poachers, and the keeping of ostriches in Windsor Forest in the 1750's.In 1880, Pitt Rivers inherited an estate of more than 32,000 acres in Cranborne Chase. With the bookplate of Alan Thornton to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Back strip head and tail detaching, with losses to paper. Closed tear to paper to back strip centre. Joints starting, with front board slightly tender and rear board firmly held. Marks to front board, most concentrated to board perimeters. Small loss of paper to centre of front board and head of rear board. Chipping to head of paper label to front board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with light handling marks. Good Only. book.

Frontis, 103pp, actually 107 pages as the first 4 pages are followed by numbers with asterix , 1, 1* etc., occasional spotting, early half calf, raised bands, morocco label, spine gilt tooled. with the engraved armorial bookplate of James Comerford to front pastedown. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).

Second Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the library of Gregory Drew with the owner's bookplate and signature. Physical description; [2], 4 leaves, 5-103, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill ; 23 cm. Notes; First edition published the same year. The final page is blank. Subjects; Game and game-birds England Cranborne Chase. Cranborne Chase (England) History. Game and game-birds. Cranbourne Chase, England. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. With frontis, original boards, , spine defective, front cover nearly detached, , uncut, pp103.

Second Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the library of Gregory Drew with the owner's bookplate and signature. Physical description; [2], 4 leaves, 5-103, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill ; 23 cm. Notes; First edition published the same year. The final page is blank. Subjects; Game and game-birds England Cranborne Chase. Cranborne Chase (England) History. Game and game-birds. Cranbourne Chase, England. 1 Kg.

Second edition. [2], 103 [i.e. 107]pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Nineteenth-century calf-tipped marbled paper boards, recently rebacked, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Recent lending label of Salisbury Free Public Library to FEP, with their ink-stamps to title page and p.56, ink-stamp of Troyte-Chafyn-Grove, North Coker to recto of FFEP, short tear to head of leaf H3, scattered spotting. Job Lousley's copy, noted as such 'Job Lousley's Book Hampstead Norris Berks 1843' to gutter of title, with a characteristically bio-bibliographical note in his hand to the head of title: 'A very curious and interesting Book and rather scarce contains some very curious things'. An expanded edition, posthumously published in the same year as the first, of Church of England clergyman William Chafin's (1733-1818) sketches of Wiltshire gamekeepers and enduring battle with poachers on the lands surrounding Salisbury. Job Lousley (1790-1855), English landowner, farmer, antiquarian and bibliophile. He lived at Blewbury and Hampstead Norris, near Newbury; an avid and idiosyncratic book-collector, with an eye for the curious and unusual, the books from his library, with the present being a curious exception, often bear forthright inscriptions relating his opinions of the contents, or his other encounters with the work. Size: 8vo.

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Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. White paper to spine and blue paper to boards. With paper title labels to front. In good condition. Some rubbing to boards, chips to edges and corners. Darkening to title labels on front. Some tanning and light foxing to endpapers. Some occasional light foxing spots to pages. Frontis plate clean and bright. No inscriptions. Else a clean and tight copy. Illustrated with a frontis plate of ?A group of Deerhunters.? 103 pp. (the first 4 pages are numbered 1, 1*, 2. 2*, etc.). Loosely laid is a note (4 pages) copying a letter from Mrs. Anne Chafin to her husband). Hawking ( pp. 45 - 50), cock fighting (pp. 51 -52).

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Facsimile reprint of the 1818 edition. Hardcover edition. Reading copy only. Moldy. Dampstained. In polypropylene bag. (england, history).