A New Publication & other titles we distribute.

554 BLATCHLY, John. East Anglian Ex-Libris. Bookplates and labels made between 1700 and the present day. The Bookplate Society, 2008. FIRST EDITION limited to 100 copies, numbered & signed by the author for private distribution, (+ 350 copies for The Bookplate Society). Folio, pp.128; over 260 illustrations & facsimiles throughout (16 in colour); new in laminated pictorial card covers. A well produced sequel to Dr Blatchly's earlier 'Suffolk and Norfolk Ex-Libris', essential reading for local collectors for the biographical notes alone, with three separate indexes of: place, owner, and artists, engravers & printers, which incorporate both works. The first 75 copies sold will include a tipped-in copy of the pictorial bookplate etched by Suffolk painter Anna Airy for Sir Harry Newton, sometime MP for Harwich.  £18

555 BLATCHLY, John. Some Suffolk and Norfolk Ex-Libris. Bookplates and Labels relating to East Anglian Owners, Artists and Printers. The Bookplate Society, 2000. FIRST EDITION limited to 450 copies (200 for sale), folio, pp.(6)154; illustrations throughout; new in stiff printed wrappers. A well produced survey with extremely useful biographical notes & effective index.  £15

556 BLATCHLY, John. Some Suffolk and Norfolk Ex-Libris. [with] East Anglian Ex-Libris... The Bookplate Society [&] The Author, 2000, 2008. Two works, new in original card covers as above. A few copies of the first work remain so to mark the publication of Dr Blatchly's new study we are offering the two works together for  £30 (while stocks last).  £30

557 COPSEY, Tony. Suffolk Writers from the beginning until 1800. A Catalogue of Suffolk Authors with some account of their lives and a list of their writings. [Claude Cox Books for the Author], Ipswich, 2000. FIRST EDITION limited to 150 copies; pp.558; new in gilt-lettered boards. A remarkably researched sequel to Tony Copsey's study of Suffolk Imprints; full of good things & eminently readable, barely 10% of the authors featured may be found in the Dictionary of National Biography. We are sole distributors of this important reference.  £40

558 COPSEY, Tony. Suffolk Writers who were born between 1800-1900. A Catalogue of Suffolk Authors with some account of their lives and lists of their writings. [Claude Cox Books for the Author], Ipswich, 2002. FIRST EDITION, 200 copies printed; pp.416; new in gilt-lettered boards & pictorial dust-wrapper. The second volume of Tony Copsey's Suffolk Dictionary includes nearly 1000 biographies. An essential reference for all interested in Suffolk history & literature. We are sole distributors of this work.  £40

559 COPSEY, Tony. Suffolk Writers. Volumes I & II available together at reduced price.  £60

560 PRETYMAN FAMILY. PRETYMAN, William. Pretyman of Bacton, Suffolk. Notes on their history under five Edwards. 1905. William Pollard & Co., Printers, Exeter. [Now reprinted in facsimile... Claude Cox, Ipswich, 2007] EDITION LIMITED to 225 numbered copies (200 for sale); 4to., pp.(2)xviii,40; armorial in line & four facsimile plates: Charter, 1393; Rent Roll of 1566; Commissioners appointed by Act of Parlt., 1660; various Pretyman signatures, 1567-1803. William Pretyman contributes an 18pp. introductory essay, followed by 40pp. of pedigrees, royal descents, transcriptions of Wills, Inquisitions, Chancery Proceedings, &c.; new in gilt-lettered boards (in style of original binding) and acetate wrapper. A useful reprint of copy no. 12 (kindly loaned by the present owner, a descendant of William Pretyman) of this extremely scarce family history of which only 12 copies were originally printed for private circulation. Copac locates British Library copy only; not known by Steward.  £24

561 THORNHAM. FAIRCLOUGH, John & HARDY, Mike. Thornham and the Waveney Valley. An historic landscape explored. Heritage Publications, 2004. FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,227; 24 colour plates and numerous illustrations & maps in line and half-tone; a fascinating in-depth study based on fieldwork & documentary research; new in pictorial laminated card covers. Published at  £20, we are able to offer the remaining copies at half price.  £10

562 WILLIAMSON, Tom. Sandlands. The Suffolk Coast and Heaths. Windgather Press, 2005. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xii,164; 72 text figures and plates, many in colour; new in pictorial laminated card covers. A beautifully illustrated history of the Suffolk coast Sandlings; published at  £17, we have a small quantity at reduced price  £12