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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Some account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, of the City of London. [With an Appendix.].

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Published by The Worshipful Company Of Grocers, 1854. Hardback. Good. Good condition with no wrapper. Large format. 10.5 x 7 inches. Brown embossed cloth. Gilt title to spine and gilt crest to front cover. B/w frontis. B/w text illustrations. 2nd edition. Contents very good. Top of spine split and repaired. Base of spine bumped and worn. Corners rubbed. Covers and gilt dull.

London: privately printed, 1829. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 14cm), viii, 358pp. Engraved frontispiece and title, and one plate (South View of Grocers Hall). 20th-century binding of green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Light foxing of the preliminary pages, top edge a little dusty, faint blindstamp to the title page; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author "Charles Filicca Esq from his friend J B Heath, September 1833". This is the uncommon first edition, with the legend "Not Published" on the title page.

London: Privately Printed [by Whittingham and Wilkins at the Chiswick Press], 1869., 1869. 4to. pp. xvi, 601, [1]. complete with half-title. title in red & black. 7 engraved plates (incl. frontis.). 1 folding facsimile. numerous wood-engravings in the text. woodcut arms on title. decorative ornaments & initials. full morocco, armorial crests stamped in gilt on covers, inside dentelles, a.e.g., by Coupil & Co. (bit rubbed, front joint cracked). several ms. corrections & additions. Third Edition.cfMartin pp. 382-4 (for the first edition).. F. Hardcover.

London: Privately Printed, 1854. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 7.5". Various. A scarce second edition copy of this fascinating historical study of the 'Worshipful Company of Grocers' guild of London; signed by the author and presented to the Treasurer to St Bartholomews Hospital, William Foster White. The 'Grocers' Company' is often cited as the oldest of London's 'Great Twelve City Livery Companies', and ranks second in the Companies order of precedence after the Mercers' Company. This work provides an account of the guild's Hall and the principal events that took place there, a history of the Company, and an extensive biographical examination of the most eminent and distinguished members. Featuring the following ink inscription: 'William Foster White Esq. Treasurer of the Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew from his friend John Benjamin Heath [Signature] January 1856'. Copiously illustrated throughout with in-text illustrations and plates, several of which are folding. This… Read More

London: 'Not Published', [Printed by W.Marchant], 1829., 1829. 8vo. pp. viii, 358, [1 leaf]. complete with tipped-in errata slip. engraved title & 2 engraved plates (incl. frontis.). 19th century calf, rebacked (covers rubbed, some foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves). First Edition; Privately Printed. Goldsmiths' 26051. Kress S.6479. Martin pp. 382-84.. F. Hardcover.

London: Privately Printed. Very Good+. 1829. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. viii, 258 pages; London: Very Good+. 1829. First Edition; First Printing. viii, 358 & [1] pages; Contemporary full polished calf, tobacco brown, covers paneled with incised lines in blind, decorative devices stamped in the corners and the panels of the spine, title lettered in gilt in the second panel, marbled endpapers, all edges decoratively stained red. Minor rubbing, but still quite handsome and solid. Engraved frontispiece depicting a figure of Saint Anthony, from a carving in the Grocers Hall, engraved title page, with a device of the heraldic crest of the Company of Grocers and the date 1829, beneath which is the notation "Not Published, " full page engraved plate of the Grocers Hall (as it had been restored after the Great Fire of London 1666) . Errata slip pasted to the gutter margin of the last leaf of text. There are modern paper "repairs" to the upper corners of the… Read More

1869. Third Edition. London, Privately Printed, 1869. Large Octavo. Frontispiece (Saint Anthony, tutelar Saint of the Company of Grocers), XVI, 601 pages with many illustrations (steel-engravings) and one facsimile. Hardcover / Original publishers quarter morocco with gilt lettering on spine and Emblemata on cover. Top edge gilt. Only some faint signs of dampstain to the outer margins of the illustrations. Otherwise in splendid condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation copy from Master Ernest Woodhame to R. Graham Carritt on the occasion of his admission to the Livery of the Company in June 1927. With a bookplate of Grocer's Hall to the front pastedown. The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the 110 Livery Companies of the City of London and ranks second in order of precedence. Established in 1345, the Grocers comprise one of London's Great Twelve City Livery Companies. The company was founded in the 14th century by members of the Guild of Pepperers, which dates from 1180.… Read More