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Title
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Author
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Date
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Description
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Damage
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Contribution Guide
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Boscobel (4)
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Harrison Ainsworth, W
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8" x 5.5" x 1.5". Red cloth over boards with floral embossed pattern and gold blocked panel on front board and spine.
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Split spine and detached pages
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£80
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Illustrations of Tamworth (6)
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Hamel, Etienne B
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15" x 11" x 0.75". Full leather binding in brown coloured calf with tight spine and 4 raised bands. Gold and blind tooling to front and back boards. Sewn headbands.
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Detached boards. Spine partially missing, edges and corners rubbed and worn
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£250
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Boscobel - A series of views shown in their present state of places visited by Charles II (7)
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1861
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12.5" x 9.75" x 0.5". Red cloth over boards. Embossed designs to front and back boards with gold blocked title to front board An early form of perfect binding using gutta percha adhesive.
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Spine detached. Text block structure failed.
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£120
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Tixall Poetry with Notes and Illustrations (91)
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Clifford, Arthur
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1813
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11" x 9" x 1.75". Bound in tan coloured calf on spine and corners with marbled paper sides. Hollow spine
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Front board detached and back board attachment weak. Spine and corners badly rubbed. Detached flyleaf.
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£120
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The Stafford Peerage!! Or the Imposter Unmasked (26)
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Campbell, John
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[1823]
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8.5" x 5.5" x 0.25". Publisher's temporary binding- dark brown paper spine with lighter brown paper sides over boards.
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Board attachments loose damage to spine at head, tail and joints.
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£50
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Borough of Walsall. Bath Street Burial Ground Register of Inscriptions (98)
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nd
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10" x 6.5" x 0.5". Black cloth binding with blocking to front board
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Back board detached.
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£80
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A Guide to Dudley Castle Containing an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Ruins etc Also a Short Account of the Priory (92)
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1840
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6.75" x 4.5" x 0.25". Black cloth over boards.
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Front board off, spine partially detached
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£80
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The Walsall Notebook (121)
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1830-1831
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8.5" x 5.5" x 0.75". Publisher's temporary binding sewn on three cords and bound in paper over boards
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Spine missing
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£70
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Views of Dudley Castle, the lime caverns etc (123)
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Hawksmith, W
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1836
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11.5" x 9" x 0.25". Embossed brown cloth spine with Spanish marbled sides.
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Front board detached and back board loose
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£80
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