Inns Kent by Whitbread (8 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. slight wear to cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: some edge wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1st edition. Slim 8vo. 54pp. 7 coloured plates, b/w. illustrations. F.e.ps. slightly browned. Original boards. Pictorial green d/w. lettered in white, spine browned, rubbed to edges. US$15.

First Edition: Green photographic bds., white titles, 155 x 245 mm., 300 grms., 66 pp., with index, illustrated with 7 plates in colour and 37 illustrations and 7 sketch maps in bw., owner's inscription on ffep., original original pictorial dw., unclipped, with light shelf-wear, VG/VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Illustrated boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Second Edition. The Whitbread Library No.6. With 7 plates in colour and 37 illustrations and 7 sketch maps in black and white. 66 pages. Inscription on front endpaper.Worn dustjacket. Some shelf-wear to illustrated boards. Splendid illustrations.…

Illustrated boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The Whitbread Library No.6. With 7 plates in colour and 37 illustrations and 7 sketch maps in black and white. 66 pages. Lightly nibbled dustjacket in protective plastic wraps. Some shelf-wear to illustrated boards. Splendid illustrations. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Four volumes of the Whitbread Library: Vol 2,Your Local, 1947. Vol 5, Whitbread Craftsmen, 1948. Vol 6, Inns of Kent, 1948. Vol 7, Inns of Sport, 1949. All first editions, hardcover with dust jackets. Pages slightly browned, dust jackets bright,shelf worn.…

11 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured, tinted and monochrome illustrations (many full-page) throughout, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, one or two volumes with neat signatures on endpapers; original series bnding of pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper, a few wrappers chipped at heads of backstrips. LOOSELY INSERTED ARE 1)PUBLISHER'S PRINTED PROSPECTUS FOR THE SERIES; 2) T.L.s. FROM W. H. WHITBREAD, CHAIRMAN. The set comprises 1: Whitbread's Brewery (1947); 2: Your Local (1947); 3: Inn-Signia (1948); 4: The Brewer's Art (1948); 5: Whitbread Craftsmen (1948); 6: Inns of Kent (1948); 7: Inns of Sport; (1949) 8: Receipts and Relishes (1950); 9: Your Club (1950); 10: Inn Crafts and Furnishings (1950); 11: Word for Word (1953). Produced to promote the famous brewery, its products and its houses, the Whitbread Library is a tribute to a passed age of ale, 'the local' and the English countryside which must have seemed idyllic in the aftermath of WWII. Covering all aspects of the art and craft of brewing and related activities, the series was produced partly in-house and partly using well-known authors and illustrators including John Moore, John Wentworth-Day, Bernard Darwin, John Leigh-Pemberton, Ivor Brown and Derrick Harris. The texts are deceptively detailed and all volumes are well-illustrated. Several volumes (especially 2, 3 and 8) are scarce; one (no. 11) is rare; most are now elusive in really good condition with dustwrappers. The series was clearly well-received: The Times termed it a 'novel enterprise in commercial publishing'; the Illustrated London News called it ' a valuable addition to the literature of the trade and our social life'. With the present popularity of real ale and the resurgence of craft brewing, the series deserves the appreciation of another generation. COMPLETE SETS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPERS ARE PARTICULARLY SCARCE. …