| 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 |