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Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A complete 1901-1956 run of the Shropshire Archaeological Society"s Transactions, thirty-two serial volumes bound in twenty-eight, together with the 1924 Shrewsbury Burgess Roll. The Third Series is uniformly bound in half calf with marbled paper boards. The Fourth Series and subsequent volumes are uniformly bound in smart half navy morocco with cloth-covered boards by Morrell of London. A complete numbered run of the Society"s Transactions from Volume XXIV, 1901, through Volume LV, 1954-1956, comprising thirty-two numbered volumes bound in twenty-seven physical volumes. Also included is the separately published Shrewsbury Burgess Roll of 1924, bringing the collection to twenty-eight physical volumes. All are first editions of their respective annual or multi-year volumes. The volumes through 1924 were issued under the Society"s original name, the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. From 1925 onwards they were published by the Shropshire Archaeological Society. The Transactions contain extensive research into the archaeology, architecture, genealogy, heraldry, parish history, antiquities and natural history of Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, and are profusely illustrated with photographs, plans, maps, pedigrees and reproductions of historical documents. Compromising: Third Series, Volumes I-X, 1901-1910, being overall Volumes XXIV-XXXIII: Volume I, 1901, with three folding maps; Volume II, 1902, with a frontispiece and two folding maps; Volume III, 1903; Volume IV, 1904, with a large folding plan; Volume V, 1905; Volume VI, 1906; Volume VII, 1907; Volume VIII, 1908; Volume IX, 1909; and Volume X, 1910, with a large folding colour plan. Fourth Series, Volumes I-XII, 1911-1930, being overall Volumes XXXIV-XLV: Volume I, 1911, with a folding plan; Volume II, 1912; Volume III, 1913; Volume IV, 1914; Volume V, 1915; Volume VI, 1916-1917, with two maps, one folding; Volume VII, 1918-1919, with two colour plates; Volume VIII, 1920-1921; Volume IX, 1923-1924; Volume X, 1925-1926; Volume XI, 1927-1928; and Volume XII, 1929-1930. No volume was published for 1922. Later volumes, bound two serial volumes to each physical volume: Volumes XLVI, 1931-1932, and XLVII, 1933-1934; Volumes XLVIII, 1934-1935, with a frontispiece and folding plate, and XLIX, 1937-1938, with a folding map; Volumes L, 1939-1940, with a portrait frontispiece, and LI, 1941-1943; Volumes LII, 1947-1948, and LIII, 1949-1950, with three folding maps; and Volumes LIV, 1951-1953, with three folding maps, and LV, 1954-1956, with a folding plate. Collated, complete. Also present is 1924 The Shrewsbury Burgess Roll, abstracted and edited by H. E. Forrest and printed by W. B. Walker. An unusually substantial and smartly bound continuous run, offering more than half a century of detailed research into Shropshire and the Welsh Marches. The Third Series is uniformly bound in half calf with marbled paper boards. The Fourth Series and later Transactions are uniformly bound in smart half navy morocco with cloth-covered boards by Morrell of London. Ink stamping from Lincoln"s Inn Library to the odd endpaper. Fading to spines of 4th and 3rd series with slight rubbing and one or two chips to calf. Spine of 4th series vol IX more worn, with slight loss to calf and rubbing. The calf bindings of the Third Series are more aged, with the leather dry and friable, resulting in some powdering and colour transfer. Slight cracking to joints of volumes in the third series, more common to rear and predominantly to Volume VI, with slight lifting to the backstrip. Stamps of Lincoln"s Inn Library to the title pages and the odd page throughout, frequent to the verso of plates. One or two small closed tears to maps at points of extension. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book. …

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. An impressive complete run of the first and second series of one of England's earliest county archaeological society journals, preserving a wealth of research on the history and topography of Shropshire. Twenty-three volumes, uniformly bound in a smart half calf binding with marbled paper boards. First edition. A complete run of the First Series (1878-1888) and Second Series (1889-1890) The Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (founded 1877) is one of England's oldest county archaeological societies. Its Transactions remain an important source for the archaeology, genealogy, topography and natural history of Shropshire and the Welsh Marches. The first and second series contain a remarkable body of original research and primary source material by many leading contemporary antiquaries, including W. G. D. Fletcher, Askew Roberts, Rev. W. A. Leighton, William E. Beckwith, Stanley Leighton, H. F. J. Vaughan, C. H. Drinkwater, Thomas Auden, George Morris, Edward Jones and others. Covering the topography, archaeology, genealogy, ecclesiastical and natural history of Shropshire, with parish and borough records, heraldry, medieval manuscripts and other primary historical sources. Comprising: Volume I. Illustrated with seventeen plates, including four folding plates and a folding plan. Volume II. Illustrated with eight plates and a folding genealogical table. Volume III. Illustrated with thirteen plates. Volume IV. Illustrated with six plates and a large folding colour map. The first plate is fully detached, but present. Volume V. Illustrated with eight plates. Volume VI. Illustrated with eleven plates, two of which are tinted. Volume VII. Illustrated with three plates, one double-page green-tinted plate, and four pages of facsimile autographs. Volume VIII. Illustrated with fourteen plates, including a frontispiece Woodburytype photo of Darwin and two plans. Volume IX. Illustrated with four plates. Volume X. Illustrated with six plates, including a frontispiece and a map. Volume XI. Illustrated with two plates. Second Series: Volume I. Illustrated with three plates. Volume II. Illustrated with eight plates. Volume III. Illustrated with nine plates, two of which are tinted. The fifth plate (Chesterton Walls) fully detached, but present. Volume IV. Illustrated with numerous facsimile signatures and one in-text illustration. Volume V. Illustrated with numerous facsimile signatures, an in-text map, two in-text illustrations, and one plate. Volume VI. Illustrated with five facsimile signatures and an in-text seal, with two architectural plans, a map and four additional plates. Volume VII. Illustrated with seven facsimile signatures and twenty four plates, three coloured. Two loosely inserted, but present. Volume VIII. Illustrated with two in-text facsimile signatures and nine plates. Lacking two plates of portraits of Sir Henry Sacheverell. Volume IX. Illustrated with twenty, in-text facsimile signatures and a handwriting sample, with two monochrome photographic plates. Volume X. Illustrated with ten plates. Volume XI. Illustrated with four plates, three monochrome photographic. Volume XII. Illustrated with three facsimile signatures. Collated, incomplete. Lacking only two plates from Volume VIII of the second series. In a half calf binding with marbled paper boards.Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in minor loss to calf and paper. Slight rubbing to boards with one or two light scuff marks. Slight discolouration to spines, more so to spines of the second series. Internally, generally firmly bound. Some occasional light strain to volumes in second series. The fifth plate in Vol III and two plates from Vol VII of the second series and the first plate in Vol IV of the first are fully detached, but present. Series two incomplete with Vol VIII of second series lacking two plates. Pages bright and clean with one or two light spots and handling marks to first and last few leaves. Slightly more. None Stated (illustrator). book.…