Knaresborough

1840 Bradford and Huddersfield Turnpike Road large folded vellum document concerning the Mortgage of the Tolls for serving arrears of interest. Three red wax seals at foot together with signatures of Trustees plus £2 blue revenue stamp at top left. 26 x 19" Very fine condition. Also 4 receipts relating to the same road all dated 1874-5 and with revenue stamps. Relating to a road from the top of Odsall through Wibsey Low Moor to Huddersfield. Suitable for framing. £45

1840 Bradford and Huddersfield Turnpike Road large folded vellum document concerning the Mortgage of the Tolls for serving the Principal sum of £200. Three red wax seals at foot together with signatures of Trustees plus £2 blue revenue stamp at top left. 26 x 19" Very fine condition. Relating to John Clay of Raistrick. Suitable for framing. £40

1840 Bradford and Huddersfield Turnpike Road large folded vellum document concerning the Mortgage of the Tolls for serving the Principal sum of £2000. Three red wax seals at foot together with signatures of Trustees plus £6 blue revenue stamp at top left and 9/- blue revenue stamp on reverse. 26 x 19" Very fine condition. Relating to the road from top of Odsall near Bradford through Wibsey, Low Moor to Huddersfield with 1872 Indenture on reverse. Suitable for framing. £40

ABBAY R. The Castle of Knaresburgh. A tale of verse of the Civil War in Yorkshire, 1644 and the white mare of Whitestonecliff, a Yorkshire legend of the fifteenth century. London. 1887. xiv + 337pp + folding map and publisher's ads. 1st ed., very fine in orig red cloth. English Civil War history of battles for Knaresborough castle and Marston Moor. £75

AIREBOROUGH AND HORSFORTH MUSEUM SOCIETY More of Old Aireborough. M.T.D. Rigg Publications. 1986. x + 150pp. 1st ltd. deluxe ed., very fine in original quarter calf binding with marbled boards. 7 x 10" History of Aireborough through old photographs. £25

ANON The History of Ripon: with descriptions of Studley-Royal, Fountains Abbey, Newby, Hackfall, &c. An analysis of Aldfield Spaw: and lists of the rarer indigenous plants found in the neighbourhood. Ripon. Printed and sold by W. Farrer. 1806. 314pp + engraved frontispiece and one engraved plate. 2nd ed., very fine in fine modern quarter green calf with marbled boards. £120

ANON The Life of John Metcalf, commonly called Blind Jack of Knaresbro' containing many entertaining anecdotes of his exploits in hunting, card playing, &c., also an amusing account of his elopement and marriage to Miss Benson. His career as a soldier; also a full account of his contracts for making roads, erecting bridges, and other undertakings, which brought him into public notice as a most extraordinary character. J. Johnson, Leeds. 1870 (circa). 30pp + [2] 1st ed., fine in orig. illustrated paper covers. A very scarce work. £75

ARKELL Lt. Cdr. J.O.A. The Parcel Post Labels of Great Britain. Part 2. Yorkshire Harry Hayes. 1977. 80pp. 1st ed., fine in pink card covers. £8

BENHAM K. The village undated handstamps of Yorkshire. Yorkshire Postal History Society. 1982. 47pp. 1st ed., fine in blue card covers. £6

BOWMAN W. Reliquiae antiquae Eboracenses, or remains of antiquity, relating to the county of York. Illustrated by plates and woodcuts. Cooke & Clark, Leeds. 1855. 96pp + 15 plates. 1st ed., clean in modern half calf. Originally published in six parts the work is made up of articles on various aspects of Yorkshire history. Includes some hand coloured plates. Detailed and well illustrated catalogue of Tradesmen's tokens, history of Fenton church and Markenfield Hall near Ripon, etc. £175

BRADLEY T. The Old Coaching Days in Yorkshire. Leeds. 1889. xv + 251pp + ads. 1st ed., fine in worn orig. red pictorial cloth. A fine work illustrated with many line drawings by the author. Much on the old coaching inns. £60

BULLAMORE C.P. The postal history of Scarborough. 1558 - 1952 Yorkshire Postal History. 1989. 62 large pp. 1st ed., clean in blue card covers. £12

CASTILLO J. The Bard of the Dales, or poems and miscellaneous pieces. Partly in the Yorkshire Dialect. W.T. Lumley, Kirby-Moorside & John Hughes, London. 1850. 184pp. Clean in original worn cloth. 12mo. With the receipt of James Miles of Leeds, Bookseller dated 1914 tipped in at rear. Notes on the published editions of this work written in on front end papers. A very scarce work containing poetry in Yorkshire dialect. £75

EDWARDS W. The early history of the North Riding. A. Brown & Sons. 1924. xvi + 267pp + folding map and plates. 1st ed., fine in worn original brown cloth. 8.5 x 11" Much on the abbeys of Byland and Jervaux and with many references to Guisborough, Northallerton and Whitby. Recommended. £25

GENT T. The Antient and Modern history of the Loyal Town of Rippon. York. 1733. xvi + [2] + 165pp + [1] + 73pp + [9]. 1st ed., lacking the 3 plates as called for Boyne and one page torn at top right with some loss otherwise clean in modern grey boards with paper label. Many fine woodcut illustrations throughout. Chapters on Studley Park, Ripon minster, Tadcaster, Wakefield, Knaresborough including an account of St Robert's Chapel plus list of Carriers. £125

GREENWOOD J.B. The Early Ecclesiastical history of Dewsbury, in the West Riding of the County of York: including a sketch of the introduction of Christianity into Northumbria. To which is added Dr Whitaker's account of Dewsbury, from his 'Loidis and Elmete;' and his Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of Domestic Architecture: from his History of Whalley and An Account of the Savile family of Lupset, Thornhill and Howley. London. 1859. xiii + 253pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in original cloth. Repair required to spine. Includes extracts from parish registers, the plague and much on the churches. £60

HARGROVE E. The History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresborough; with Harrogate, and its Medicinal Waters. York. 1775. 78pp + frontispiece. 2nd ed. (first edition published in 1769). A very clean copy in modern quarter calf with marbled boards. Engraved frontispiece with view of Knaresborough Castle. Contents are rather different from the later editions. £175

HARGROVE E. The History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresborough; with Harrogate, and its Medicinal Springs. York: Printed by Wilson, Spence and Mawman. 1798. 382pp + frontispiece, folding hand coloured map and plates. 5th ed. Very fine in modern quarter calf with marbled boards. Engraved frontispiece with view of Knaresborough Castle. £90

HARGROVE E. The History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresborough; with Harrogate, and its Medicinal Springs. Knaresborough: Printed by Hargrove and Sons. 1809. 423pp + frontispiece, folding hand coloured map, plates and publisher's advertisment. 6th ed. Very fine in modern quarter cloth with grey boards. Engraved frontispiece with view of Knaresborough Castle. £90

HARGROVE E. The History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresbrough; and the Harrogate Visitors' Guide, in which the Medicinal Springs, the most remarkable places, the antiquities, the elegant buildings, the ornamented grounds, and other singular productions of nature and art in the adjacent country, are minutely and accurately described, as they stand at present. William Langdale, Knaresbrough. 1834 (circa). 318pp + ii. 7th ed. A very fine copy in original half calf with marbled boards and original paper label. Genealogical notes in neat m/s on front and rear end papers and a few corrections in margins of text. Completely re-written from the earlier editions now with details of all the villages and towns about. £145

HARRISON W.H. Mother Shipton Investigated. The result of critical examination in the British Museum library, of the literature relating to the Yorkshire sibyl. London. 1881. 64pp. 1st ed., clean in orig. blue cloth. Rare first edition. £65

HARROGATE The Album of Harrogate Views. Printed in Germany. 1890 (circa). Foldout panoramic views of Low Harrogate and 'The Royal Spa Concert Rooms and George Hotel. Sepia tinted chromolithograph. Couple of extra folds otherwise clean in worn orig. blue card covers. £16

HOFLAND B. Season at Harrogate; in a series of poetical epistles, from Benjamin Blunderhead, Esquire, to his Mother, in Derbyshire: with useful and copious notes, descriptive of the Objects most worthy of attention in the vicinity of Harrogate. Knaresborough: Printed by G. Wilson and sold by R. Wilson, Knaresborough, and Harrogate. 1812. vii + [1] + 9 - 103pp + [1]. 1st ed., repair to margin of title page and two pages with light damp stains otherwise clean in later boards with crude cloth spine. £60

HOGG G. Blind Jack of Knaresborough. Road builder extraordinary. Phoenix House, London. 1967. xii + 145pp. 1st ed., very fine in slightly rubbed D/W. Biography of John Metcalf. £18

HOLMES R. Pontefract: Its name, its Lords, and its Castle. A concise history. Old Hall Press. 1994. xxiv + xxvii + 247pp. Facsimile reprint of 1878 ed., fine in blue cloth. £25

HOWELL A. Elim: or, Harrogate in Prose and Verse. R. Ackrill, Harrogate. 1892. xv + 127pp. 1st ed., very fine in decorated green cloth, all edges gilt. Some interesting historical notes on the Harrogate area plus attractive line drawings in text. Very scarce. £85

HUNTER A. The Waters of Harrogate and its vicinity. London. 1834. iv, [2], 143pp + 2pp. 4th ed. Faint toning otherwise clean in orig. green cloth with title on front board - scarce thus. History of Harrogate and discussion of the mineral waters and their medicinal qualities. £95

JENNINGS B. A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough, written by the Harrogate W.E.A. local history group. Advertiser Press, Ltd. 1970. 492pp + plates. 1st ed., very fine in fine D/W. £24

KINGSLEY C. At last. A Christmas in the West Indies. Macmillan. 1880. 401pp + plates. Very fine in contemporary decorated full red morocco prize binding of St George's College, Harrogate. The author gives his impressions of Trinidad. Many good line engravings. £75

KNARESBOROUGH The Ancient Customs of the Forest of Knaresbrough; together with the last perambulation, prior to the General Enclosure, begun in 1771: to which is added, the Ancient Customs, extent, and limits, of the Townships of Knaresbrough and Scriven. Knaresbrough: Printed by Hargrove and Sons. 1808. 71pp + [1] + frontispiece. 1st ed., corners of margins only of frontispiece and last page replaced, tone spots to title page and frontispiece otherwise mostly clean in modern half maroon calf with marbled boards. Curiously page 6 is pasted on to what was a blank page presumably by the printer as this seems to be constant in all copies seen by me. Very scarce. £120

 

KNARESBOROUGH Life and prophesies of Mother Shiption. Bound with Life of John Metcalfe and Eugene Aram: His trial and defence. Anon. 1910 (circa). 72pp + plates and adverts. Fine in original green cloth. A locally printed work with attractive adverts including photo ad for the Elephant and Castle public house. £42

LAWRENCE E.W. Views of Knaresborough. Published by E.W. Lawrence, M.P.S. The Oldest Pharmacy in England, Market Place, Knaresborough. Business established in the reign of King George 1, 1720. Knaresborough. 1910 (circa). 20pp. 1st ed., very fine in original decorated boards. 9.5 x 7" Photo views of the town including street scene of the High Street showing the Eugene Aram public house. £40

MARSHALL The rural economy of Yorkshire. Comprizing the management of Landed Estates, and the present practice of husbandry in the agricultural districts of that county. London. 1788. 2 vols. 413 + 366pp + two folding maps. 1st ed., very fine in orig. full calf with original morocco labels. Includes a study of Yorkshire dialect. £365

METCALFE J. The life of John Metcalfe, commonly called Blind Jack of Knaresborough. With many entertaining anecdotes of his exploits in hunting, card-playing, etc. Some particulars relative to the expedition against the Rebels in 1745, in which he bore a personal share; and also a succinct account of his various contracts for making Roads, erecting Bridges, and other undertakings, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire; which for a series of years, have brought him into public notice, as a most extraordinary character. E. & R. Peck, York. 1795. vi + 153pp and engraved frontispiece. 1st ed., a very clean copy lacking only part of free front end paper in old grey paper covers with new spine and slipcase. Much on life in Knaresborough, road making under the turnpike system and the 1745 rebellion. £250

METCALFE J. The life of John Metcalfe, commonly called Blind Jack of Knaresborough. With many entertaining anecdotes of his exploits in hunting, card-playing, etc. Some particulars relative to the expedition against the Rebels in 1745, in which he bore a personal share; and also a succinct account of his various contracts for making Roads, erecting Bridges, and other undertakings, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire; which for a series of years, have brought him into public notice, as a most extraordinary character. E. Baines, Leeds. 1801. 140pp + engraved frontispiece. 2nd ed., damage to last page of text with loss only to margin otherwise mostly clean in original grey boards with later calf spine.  £250

METCALFE J. The life of John Metcalfe, commonly called Blind Jack of Knaresborough. With many entertaining anecdotes of his exploits in hunting, card-playing, etc. Some particulars relative to the expedition against the Rebels in 1745, in which he bore a personal share; and also a succinct account of his various contracts for making Roads, erecting Bridges, and other undertakings, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire; which for a series of years, have brought him into public notice, as a most extraordinary character. Old Hall Press. 1989. v + 141pp. Reprint of 1795 ed., fine in orig. cloth with marbled boards. Ltd. ed. of 550 copies.  £20

MONKHOUSE W. The Churches of York. With historical and architectural notes by the Rev. Joshua Fawcett M.A. H. Smith, York. 1850 (circa). [46], 23 tinted lithograph views of churches and 3 plates of ground plans. Folio. Original worn cloth with new spine. Minor tone spotting mostly confined to margins thus an above average copy. 11 x 15" £225

NEWTON C. Map of British and Roman Yorkshire. Archaeological Institute, London. 1847. Large folding map backed onto linen in orig. cloth case. 32 x 25" An attractive engraved map with the Roman roads and settlements marked in red and also showing the position of earlier settlements. £85

PARKINSON T. Lays and leaves of the forest: A collection of poems, and historical, genealogical, & biographical essays and sketches, relating chiefly to men and things connected with the Royal Forest of Knaresborough. Kent & Co., London. 1882. ix + 298pp + tinted frontispiece. 1st ed., fine in worn orig. decorated green cloth. Attractive tinted frontispiece with view of Fewston Church. £60

PAULDEN Cap. T. Pontefract Castle. An account of the final siege. The Old Hall Press. 1986. 23pp. Fine in modern cloth with marbled boards. Reprint of the 1702 edition. £15

PRICE A.C. Leeds and its Neighbourhood. An illustration of English History. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1909. xxiii + 322pp + folding map and plates. 1st ed., tone spotting to map otherwise clean in fine original green cloth. £20

RADFORD G. Rambles by Yorkshire Rivers. Richard Jackson, Leeds. 1886. 222pp + 12 etchings by 'J.A.S.' 1st ltd. ed., no 509 of 510 copies. Initialed dedication by the artist on half title. Mostly clean apart from a few pencil notes in margins in worn original brown cloth. Most attractive etchings of the rivers of Yorkshire with views of Knaresborough, Fewston, Selby and Whitby noted. £45

RIPLEY Ripley Church: Fragments old and new. J.D. Hannam, Knaresborough. 1864. 28pp. 1st ed., clean in rather soiled orig. card covers. A scarce early guide to the history of the church architecture. £45

RIPON Boadicea to Victoria. Ripon Historic Festival, 1896. Official Programme and Guide to the Pageant, Play and Revels. William Harrison, Ripon. 1896. 47 + 95pp + plates and adverts. 1st ed., mostly clean apart from a little soiling in margins bound in orig. worn cloth with new end papers. 11.5 x 9" Many fine photo plates including street scenes of Ripon and the surrounding area. £50

SEDGEWICK W.A. The postal history of Doncaster. Yorkshire Postal History Society. 1975. 139 + 4pp + 28 plates. 1st ltd. ed., no. 137 of 300 copies. Fine in orig. green card covers. £15

SEDGEWICK W.A. The temporary handstamps of Yorkshire. Yorkshire Postal History Society. 1988. 81 large pp. 2nd revised ed., clean in green card covers. £12

SIMPSON T.A. The postal history of Beverley. Yorkshire Postal History Society. 1986. 47 large pp + 25 plates. 1st ltd. ed. of 250 copies signed by the author on title page. Clean in card covers in spiral ring binding. £12

SMITH A. The Harrogate Medical Guide; a popular and practical treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate, and the diseases in which they are useful; with supplementary remarks on diet and exercise; and some select cases. London. 1847. xiv + 130pp. 2nd ed., very slight spotting in some page margins only otherwise clean in original very worn cloth with original paper label on front board. Bookplate of York Minster Library on inside cover but with no handstamps or other library markings. A revised and enlarged edition of this scarce work which extols the virtues of sulphur water. £125

SMITH H.E. Reliquiae Isurianae: the remains of the Roman Isurium, (now Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire), illustrated. London. 1852. [3] + 62pp + [1] errata + iv publisher's advertisment + 35 plates and large folding frontispiece. 1st ed. Faint water stain to one section of book lightly affecting relevant plates and very minor tone spotting mostly in margins otherwise clean in original faded blindstamped cloth, rebacked and with modern cloth spine. 10 x 14" Lovely frontispiece showing the author and his wife looking over Aldborough from the top of the church tower. Some of the plates hand coloured showing mosiacs and Roman artefacts. £325

TETLOW R.J. An historical account of the Borough of Pontefract, in the County of York; and the definition of a Borough in General: including the reason why Nominal Pledges, used in Law Proceedings, were originally inserted. Intersperced with pleasing occurrences: The deaths of King Richard II. Thomas Earl of Lancaster, and other Nobles, who have suffered at Pontefract Castle. Old Hall Press. 1985. iv + 43pp. Facsimile reprint of 1769 ed. A fine ltd. ed. of 250 copies in blue cloth with marbled boards. £35

TORR J. The Antiquities of York City, and the Civil Government thereof: with a list of Mayors and Bayliffs, Lord Mayors and Sheriffs, from the time of King Edward the first, to this present year, 1719. Collected from the papers of Christopher Hilyard, Esq. York: Printed by G. White for F. Hilyard. 1719. [6] + 148pp + [4] Appendix. 1st ed., very clean in contemporary full calf with raised bands, showing wear to joints. Tipped in page from 1826 Gentleman's magazine at rear. A very fine copy of this early work which includes drawings of coats of arms. £175

VERSEY H.C. The postal history of Leeds. Reprinted from the Publications of the Thoresby Society Miscellany, Vol. 14, Part 3. Kendal. 1950 (circa). 16pp. 1st ed., some pen underlining otherwise clean in card covers. Very scarce. £12

WALBRAN J.R. A guide to Ripon, Fountains Abbey, Harrogate, Bolton Priory, and several places of interest in their vicinity. Ripon. 1875. 210pp + folding maps and plates. 12th ed., clean in orig. cloth lacking f.e.p. Many attractive engraved views. £60

WALKER G. The Costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being fac-similes of original drawings, with descriptions in English and French. Printed by T. Bentley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Ackermann, Strand; and Robinson, Son and Holdsworth, Leeds. 1814. Coloured frontispiece, [4] + 96pp + 40 plates. Small folio, (10.5 x 14"). Title, table of contents and text in English and French. Contains 41 hand coloured aquatint plates. by R. & D. Havell after George Walker. Contemporary half calf, re-backed, corners worn and with original marbled boards and end papers. Plate 8 with repaired tear in margin only. Free from tone spotting and overall a fine clean copy. Very fine plates showing ordinary working people. The plate of the Collier is important as in the background it depicts the first printed representation of a steam engine locomotive. £3,000

WALKER G. The costume of Yorkshire illustrated by a series of forty engravings being facsimiles of original drawings. With descriptions in English and French. Leeds. 1885. v, 106 large pp + 40 chromolithograph plates. Ltd. ed., no. 36 of 600 copies. Very fine in original half red calf, t.e.g. Marbled boards a little rubbed. Folio (13 x 18") First published in 1813 which at the time was the first English book to depict a steam engine. Other views include views of the Militia regiments, horse dealers, jockeys at the races, factory children, etc. £750

WALKER M. A Journey Through our History. The story of the Jamaican People in Leeds and the work of the Jamaica Society (Leeds). Jamaica Society. 2003. viii + 206pp. Large Paperback. Fine. Illustrated history. £6

WARD R. The postal history of Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon. Yorkshire Postal History Society. 1976. 124 large pp + 17 plates. 1st ltd. ed., no. 205 of 250 copies. Fine in card covers. £15

WARD R. The Temporary handstamps of Yorkshire. Yorkshire Postal History Society. 1977. 30pp + 19 plates. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Guide to the skeleton postmarks. £12

WHEATER W. Knaresburgh and its rulers. Leeds. 1907. [x], 335pp, [2]pp subscriber's list, frontis with tissue guard, 14 plates. Orig. decorated red cloth gilt, teg. 1st ed. Ltd. no. 102 of 350 copies. Spine faded as usual. History of Knaresborough. £120

YORK History and description of the cathedral church of York, dedicated to St Peter, containing a chronological list of the Archbishops. Bellerby's Circulating Library, Stonegate, York. 1825. 60pp + ads. 1st ed., clean in modern cloth. Attractive engraving of the cathedral on title page. £38