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War sketches in colour / by Captain S.E. St Leger

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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Partridges and partridge manors / by Captain Aymer Maxwell ; with sixteen illustrations in colour by George Rankin

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

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War impressions : being a record in colour / by Mortimer Menpes ; transcribed by Dorothy Menpes

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St. Albans / by Elizabeth Grierson ; with three illustrations in colour and four in black and white

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From sketch-book and diary / by Elizabeth Butler ; with twenty-eight illustrations in colour and twenty-one small sketches in the text by the author

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

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War sketches in colour / by Captain S.E. St Leger

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Partridges and partridge manors / by Captain Aymer Maxwell ; with sixteen illustrations in colour by George Rankin

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From sketch-book and diary / by Elizabeth Butler ; with twenty-eight illustrations in colour and twenty-one small sketches in the text by the author

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