Books for Sponsorship Part 1

Part 1 : Staffordshire and Black Country History

Title Author Date Description Damage Contribution Guide
Boscobel (4) Harrison Ainsworth, W

8" x 5.5" x 1.5".  Red cloth over boards with floral embossed pattern and gold blocked panel on front board and spine.

Split spine and detached pages £80
Illustrations of Tamworth (6) Hamel, Etienne B 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. Detached boards. Spine partially missing, edges and corners rubbed and worn £250
Boscobel - A series of views shown in their present state of places visited by Charles II (7) 1861

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.

Spine detached. Text block structure failed. £120
Tixall Poetry with Notes and Illustrations (91) Clifford, Arthur 1813

11" x 9" x 1.75".  Bound in tan coloured calf on spine and corners with marbled paper sides. Hollow spine

Front board detached and back board attachment weak. Spine and corners badly rubbed. Detached flyleaf.

£120
The Stafford Peerage!! Or the Imposter Unmasked (26) Campbell, John [1823]

8.5" x 5.5" x 0.25".  Publisher's temporary binding- dark brown paper spine with lighter brown paper sides over boards.

Board attachments loose damage to spine at head, tail and joints. £50
Borough of Walsall.  Bath Street Burial Ground Register of Inscriptions (98) nd

10" x 6.5" x 0.5".  Black cloth binding with blocking to front board

Back board detached. £80

A Guide to Dudley Castle Containing an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Ruins etc Also a Short Account of the Priory (92)

1840

6.75" x 4.5" x 0.25".  Black cloth over boards.

Front board off, spine partially detached £80
The Walsall Notebook (121) 1830-1831

8.5" x 5.5" x 0.75".  Publisher's temporary binding sewn on three cords and bound in paper over boards

Spine missing £70

Views of Dudley Castle, the lime caverns etc (123)

Hawksmith, W 1836

11.5" x 9" x 0.25".  Embossed brown cloth spine with Spanish marbled sides.

Front board detached and back board loose

£80

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