Sir Charles Travis Clay (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG First Edition, clean and bright throughout with occasional uneven edges from poor opening of the leaves. Single stamp of 'Wakefield Art Gallery & Museums' to title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG First Edition, clean and bright throughout with occasional uneven edges from poor opening of the leaves. Single stamp of 'Wakefield Art Gallery & Museums' to title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. Complete in 2 volumes. Volume 1: xvi + 117 including index. Volume 2: xix +198 pages including index + an excellent folding map. Volumes CXXIII + CXXIV in the Record Series. Packed with useful detailed information. The subtitle is "Being Notes on the Dignitaries, Archdeacons and Prebendaries in the Church of York prior to the Year 1307". Previous owner's label on front end paper of volume 1. In original brown grained cloth gilt hard cover binding with crest in gilt on front cover. Very Good+ .

Dark Blue Cloth Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Presumed First Edition. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, Extra Series Vol.X. 187pp with index, illustrated with black and white reproductions of documents, fold out map and genealogical table. Gilt insignia to top board, gilt lettering to spine. Slight fading to spine and edges of lower board and minor dust-marking to top edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 117;198pp. Folding map in Vol. II. Good hardbacks. Small inscription to endpapers on both volumes. Small bump to one volume as shown.

One page, 8vo, bifolium, edges dusted ow good. Lord Crewe (his superior in the India Office) has asked him to respond to T. Edwards Jones's question about Crewe's father's Blake collection. "He would have been pleased to be of assistance to you in regard to your lecture on William Blake, but he fears that his father's collection of Blake drawings was disposed of some years ago & that the few Blake possessions which he still has are not of significant interest to make it worth your while to see them for the object which you have in view." Note: A sale of William Blake drawings belonging to Lord Crewe is recorded at Sothebys in 1903.

2pp, 4to. 34 lines of closely-written text. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Addressed to 'Mr. Poole'. After expressing a hope that they will be meeting Poole now that they are both on the council of the Royal Historical Society, he explains that he is writing in relation to his redrafting of 'the early part of Percy for the Complete Peerage', noting that 'the present draft is certainly alarming'. He is taking it 'down to 1245' and finds it 'full of snags'. He has 'just finished a draft of Jocelin, Agnes de Percy's husband', and L. C. Loyd has pointed him towards Poole's 'paper in the volume of essays presented to your Father', and he asks for 'documentary evidence' regarding Jocelin's paternity: 'I should be very grateful to have the reference which I could incorporate. In one of his charters to Reading Abbey Jocelin mentions his father duke Godfrey & his mother - but unfortunately unnamed.' He ends with a paragraph regarding work on 'a consolidated index of names & places' to the first three volumes of Sir William Farrer's Early Yorkshire Charters. vols. I-III'.

First edition. 8vo. ( 252mm. ) Pp. xxiii, 438. Plates XII. Pedigrees [4] including a frontispiece. Printed for The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series. Extra Series Vol. IX. Publishers blue cloth backed boards. Previous owners name in ink on the front endpaper. A fine copy in the the original cardboard box. An uncommon book.