Mackman J (4 results)

14pp, 1 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Hardback. Condition: New. Essays offer a lively snapshot of important topics.The essays presented here draw on a number of different approaches and perspectives to address and illuminate key aspects and issues of the period. Longitudinal studies of king's confessors and corrodies of the crown provide insights into the intersection of political, religious and demographic currents over the longue durée, and are complemented by studies of documentary sources of various kinds - newsletters, chronicles, and municipal archives - to challenge current understandings of important events and processes such as the deposition of Edward II, the evolving identity of the parliamentary peers, and Richard II's vision for the house of Lancaster. Prosopographical and biographical studies of post-plague clerics, and of knights within comital affinities and within their own individual affinity groups, shed light on county communities and gentry society; they also demonstrate the impact of the Black Death on society at large, especially on the question of religious continuity and discontinuity at the parish level. Contributors: Paul Dryburgh, Pierre Gaite, Chris Given-Wilson, Michael Jones, Taylor Kniphfer, Samuel Lane, Jonathan Mackman, Alison McHardy, Matt Raven, David Robinson.…

Condition: Good. First edition, folio, pp.xv,308,(8) adverts, textured decorative claret cloth, gilt, top edges red, illustrated with colour and b/w plates, loose folding plate for a gondola design; occasional fingermarking to margins, light foxing to edges, 2cm tear to cloth over spine, spine lightly rolled, rubbing to extremities, overall very good.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this striking work describing the Lambeth method of cake decoration, complete with colour plates. The first edition of this work.An in-depth study on the Lambeth method of cake decoration, a method of design which uses royal icing to over-pipe intricate designs on cakes.Illustrated with twenty striking colour plates, and monochrome photographs throughout.By Joseph A. Lambeth.With a foreword by John H. N. Mackman.Three pages of adverts to the front, eight pages to the rear.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some light marks to the boards and spines. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Gilt to the front board and spine have faded. Front hinge is starting but firm. Stamp to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. John J. N. Mackman (illustrator). book.…