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The new forest / by Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley

Description: This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.
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The new forest / by Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley ; with twenty full-page illustrations in colour

Rare Books

This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.

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Country sketches for city dwellers / by Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley ; with sixteen full-page illustrations in colour

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The children of the new forest / by Captain F. Marryat ; with eight illustrations in colour by Walter Paget

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British floral decoration / by R. Forester Felton

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The motor routes of Germany : through North-Eastern France and Holland, to the Rhine, the Moselle, the Black Forest, the Thuringian Forest, the Taunus, and Bavaria / by Henry J. Hecht (edited by Gordon Home) ; with 16 full-page illustrations in colour, and 54 town plans and route maps

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The bay of Naples / by Mrs. Steuart Erskine ; illustrated by Major Benton Fletcher

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The new forest / by Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley

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The new forest / by Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley ; with twenty full-page illustrations in colour

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