Royal Leamington Spa
A guide to Leamington Spa, with a grey card cover which has a blue and gold printed inscription. It was published by the Leamington Corporation in 1940.
Royal Leamington Spa Official Guide
A guide book of Leamington Spa entitled Royal Leamington Spa Official Guide. It has a green cover and the Coat of Arms of Leamington Spa on the front. Inside the guide book there is a folded street plan ...
Royal Leamington Spa, Garden Town of Shakespeare Land
A guide to Leamington, called Royal Leamington Spa, Garden Town of Shakespeare Land. It has a paper cover and a blue and yellow printed front which depicts a view of the Hitchman Fountain.
Royal Leamington Spa, Official Guide
An official guide to Leamington Spa, with a green card cover which has a brown and white printed inscription, c.1958.
Royal Leamington Spa, Official Guide
An official guide to Leamington Spa, with a blue card cover which has a brown and white printed inscription.
Rural England
A hard backed book containing anecdotes and descriptions of life in rural England, illustrated with engravings.
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - instructions for the mews, Book 2, p.11.
The care of hawks: a familiar occupation for Shakespeare.
Falconry was not only a sport of the nobility. In Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor Master Page invites his friends to early morning ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - second title page of Book 2, p.1v., detail
Everyday travel on horseback for Shakespeare’s fellow countrymen.
Most Elizabethans, and people for centuries later, traveling both within a local area or, like Shakespeare, from the country ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page book 2.
Petruchio talks of training his hawk in The Taming of The Shrew
Petruchio who has won a wife with a fortune in The Taming of the Shrew, talks about training her to his wishes by starving her, and constraining ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page, [A1r].
A falconry handbook on a subject well known by Shakespeare.
Falconry was a popular sport with the Elizabethan gentry and nobility. Latham’s handbook describes all aspects of ‘the princely ...
Still More Bystander Fragments From France
Still More Bystander Fragments From France Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Volume 3
A paper back book containing cartoons with a green cover and blue print. a multicoloured scene of two soldiers is depicted ...
Ten Miles Round Leamington
A paper back book, with a printed front cover, called Ten Miles Round Leamington. The booklet has a green paper cover and contains descriptions and prints of Leamington Spa, 1905.
The Antiquities of Warwickshire
This is a hard-backed book containing historical information and descriptions of Warwickshire towns and villages by William Dugdale. The book includes maps and engravings of monuments, c.1656.
The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times
A hard backed book describing the history of illumination, containing many chromolithographic plates, 1860.
The Bobtail Puppy Book
A hard backed children's book. It is called The Bobtail Puppy Book and has a drawing of an Old English Sheep dog puppy on the cover.
The Boy's Own Treasury Of Sports And Pastimes
A hard-backed book, with a green cover with gold embossed decoration. The title, The Boy's Own Treasury Of Sports And Pastimes, is written on the spine. The book was presented to William Lockwood Nundy ...
The Bystander's Fragments From France
The Bystander's Fragments From France Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Volume 4
A paper back book containing cartoons with a grey cover and red printing. It depicts a multicoloured scene of three soldiers ...
The Bystander's Fragments From France
The Bystander's Fragments From France Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Volume 5
A paper back book containing cartoons with a grey cover and blue print. There is a cartoon on the front.