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[No Author]. 
Arundel: The Gem of Sussex. (pb) £5.00

[No author]
La Basilica di S. Ambrogio. (pb) £6.50

[no author]
Cattedrali di Fede: Guida alle Cattedrali Lombarde/Cathedrals of Faith: Lombard Cathedrals Guide. (pb) £3.00

[No Author].
A Guide to Glastonbury and its Abbey: A Short History of the Abbey Ruins and other Notable Buildings; together with Ground Plan
.
(pb) £2.50  

[No author].
Jorvik Viking Centre: Official Guide. (pb) £1.50

[No author listed].
The Life and Times of William I: An Illustrated Guide to Places of Interest. (pb) £6.50  

[No author]. 
The Life and Times of Richard III: An illustrated guide to places of interest. (pb) £3.50

[No author listed].
The Life and Times of Henry VII: An Illustrated Guide to Places of Interest. (pb) £4.00  

[No author]. 
Michelham Priory. (pb) £3.50

[No author]
The Official Maldon Town Guide. (pb) £3.00

[No Author]. 
The Paston Way: an unhurried perambulation encompassing 16 of Norfolk's beautiful churches. (pb) £1.50

[No author].
The Place Names of Skye: A Visitors Guide. (pb) £4.00

[No author]
Pilgrim's Guide to the City of Canterbury: The Official Guide and Historical Record. (pb) £2.50

[No author]. 
Saint Michael and All Angels, Stewkley, Buckinghamshire. (pb) £2.00

[No Author]. 
St. Nicholas Parish Church, Arundel: Buildings before 1380;
Arundel Parish Church, 1380-1480
. (paper leaflets)
£1.00

[No Author]. 
365 Churches, Abbeys and Cathedrals: Official Tourist Board Guide. (pb, 2008 edn.) £3.00
365 Historic Houses and Castles: Official Tourist Board Guide. (pb, 2008 edn.) £3.00

[No author]
Treasures of Britain and Treasures of Ireland. (hb) £4.00

[No Author]. 
A walk round a Saxon church: Holy Trinity Church, Bosham. (leaflet) £2.50

Malcolm Airs
The Buildings of Britain: Tudor and Jacobean, A Guide and Gazetteer. (pb) £8.00

Geoffrey Ashe
A Guidebook to Arthurian Britain. (hb) £8.50 

Patrick Ashmore
Jarlshof: A Walk through the Past. (pb) £5.00

W. St. Clair Baddeley
Hailes Abbey: A Property of the National Trust. (pb) £4.00

Richard Barber
The Companion Guide to Gascony and the Dordogne. (pb) £8.50

Roberto Bartolini
Florence [revised edition of "Florence and its Hills"]. (pb) £2.50

Darrell Bates
The Companion Guide to Devon and Cornwall. (hb) £8.50 

John Bate
Lanterns for the Dead: The Medieval Lanternes des Morts of Central and South-West France. (hb) £20.00

Patricia Beer; photographs by Fay Godwin
Wessex: A National Trust Book. (hb) £5.00  

Abbé Georges Bernès, Georges Veron, Louis Laborde Balen
The Pilgrim Route to Compostela in Search of St James: A Practical Guide for Pilgrims and Walkers in Spain. (pb) £6.00

Vivian Bird
Warwickshire. (hb) £2.50

Janet & Colin Bord
Mysterious Britain. (pb) £3.50

Frank Bottomley 
The Explorer's Guide to the Abbeys, Monasteries and Churches of Great Britain. (hb) £6.00

Sir Harold Brakspear
Battle Abbey: An Illustrated Historical Sketch. (pb) £1.00

Richard Briers
English Country Churches. (pb) £4.50 

Ian Broad & Bride Rosney
Medieval Dublin: Two Historic Walks. (pb) £5.00

J. A. Brooks
Britain's Haunted Heritage. (hb) £7.50

R. Allen Brown 
Castles from the Air. (hb) £15.00

Michael Busselle
Castles in Spain: A Traveller's Guide featuring the National Parador Inns. (hb) £8.00

Peter Caine
The Definitive Guide to the Da Vinci Code Paris Walks. (pb) £4.00

Luciano Canonici
The Land of Saint Francis: Umbria and its Surroundings. (pb) £12.50

Colonel E. H. Carkeet-James
Her Majesty's Tower of London,  2nd edn. (hb) £3.50 

H. Malcolm Carter
The Fort of Othona and the Chapel of St. Peter-on-the-Wall, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex. (pb) £3.00

H. W. Catling, rev. 
Notes on Brass-Rubbing, with a list of some brasses in the Oxford region, 6th edn. (pb) £2.50

Russell Chamberlin
Carisbrooke Castle. (pb) £2.50

Alan Charles
Exploring the Pilgrims' Way, Winchester to Canterbury; revised edn. (pb) £4.00

David Clark
Battlefield Walks: The Midlands. (pb) £4.50
Battlefield Walks: North. (pb) £3.50 
Battlefield Walks: The South. (pb) £4.00

Brian Conduit
Walks into History: Cheshire. (pb) £4.50

Glyn Coppack and Peter Fergusson
Rievaulx Abbey. (pb) £1.50

O. E. Craster
Tintern Abbey, Gwent/Abaty Tyndryn; 2nd edn. (pb) £3.50

Michael Dames
Merlin and Wales: A Magician's Landscape. (hb) £10.00 

Timothy Darvill, Paul Stamper, and Jane Timby
England: An Oxford Archaeological Guide to Sites from Earliest Times to AD 1600. (pb) £7.50

Martin Davidson
A Visitor's Guide to A History of Britain: Locations from the TV series. (pb) 7.50

P. Théophile Desbonnets
Assisi, in the Footsteps of Saint Francis: A Spiritual Guidebook; 2nd edn. (pb) £3.50

Fran And Geoff Doel, Terry Lloyd
Worlds of Arthur: King Arthur in History, Legend and Culture (includes gazetteer). (pb) £5.00 

Roger Edwards, ed.; James Graham-Campbell, text. 
Saxon and Viking Britain. (pb) £4.50  

Barbara Eperon
Normandy, Picardy & Pas de Calais, second edition. (pb) £6.50

William C. Fallows
Northleach Brasses: A description of the brass memorials in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul of Northleach. (pb) £4.50 

Robin Fedden & Rosemary Joekes, eds.
The National Trust Guide: A Complete Introduction to the Buildings, Gardens, Coast and Country owned by the National Trust, 3rd edn. (hb) £4.00

Claudio Ferrata
Assisi Rediscovered. (pb) £4.00 

James Forde-Johnston
Great Medieval Castles of Britain. (hb) £6.00
A Guide to the Castles of England and Wales. (hb) £8.00

Joan Forman
Haunted Royal Homes. (hb) £6.00 

Alan Franklin
May I Show You Round Ely Cathedral? (pb) £3.00 

J. H. P. Gibb 
Sherborne Abbey, 2nd edn. (pb) £1.50

R. Gilyard-Beer
Cleeve Abbey, Somerset. (pb) £3.50
Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire: Dept of Environment Official Handbook. (pb) £4.50

Stefano Giordano
The Splendour of Monreale. (pb) £12.50

Anthony Goodman; photographs by Michael Cyprien
A Traveller's Guide to Early Medieval Britain. (hb) £4.00

Godfrey Goodwin
Islamic Spain. (pb) £6.50

Howard Green
The Battlefields of Britain and Ireland. (hb) £5.00

Marian Green
A Harvest of Festivals. (hb) £9.00  

Jesse Green
York Minster Illustrated, with Brief Guide: Reproducing Forty-six Photographs from the Publisher's Collection. (pb) £3.50

Donald Gregory
Wales Before 1066 - A Guide. (pb) £2.50
Wales Before 1536 - A Guide. (pb) £3.00

Edward Grierson
The Companion Guide to Northumbria. (pb) £4.00

J. R. C. Hamilton  
Jarlshof, Shetland. (pb) £1.50

Muriel Hammond
Castles of Britain, 3: Wales and Northern Ireland. (hb) £2.50

Clive Hardy
Francis Frith's Scottish Castles: Photographic Memories. (pb) £6.50

Lord Harlech
Ancient Monuments: East Anglia and the Midlands. (hb) £4.00

P. J. Helm
Exploring Saxon and Norman England. (hb) £6.50

Florence Higham, intro. 
Cathedral Church of St Saviour & St Mary Ovarie, Southwark. (pb) £4.00

Thomas Hinde, ed.
The Domesday Book: England's Heritage, Now and Then. (hb) £10.00 

Bernulf Hodge
A History of Malmesbury. (pb) £2.50

James Hogg and Gerhard Schlegel, eds. 
Monasticon Cartusiense. Tomus IV, España: Pars II. Provincia Castillæ, Estados Unidos, Brasil, Argentina, Corea del Sur. (pb) £8.00

Étienne Houvet
Chartres: Guide of the Cathedral. (pb) £4.50

Kathleen Hughes and Ann Hamlin
Celtic Monasticism: The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church. (pb) £12.50

Anthony Jackson 
The Pictish Trail: A Traveller's Guide to the Old Pictish Kingdoms. (pb) £2.50

Robert Jackson
Dark Age Britain: What to See and Where. (hb) £10.00

Deborah Jaffé 
What's Left of Henry VIII. (pb) £5.00

Paul Jeffery  
The Collegiate Churches of England and Wales. (hb) £55.00

Richard Jenkyns
Westminster Abbey. (hb) £8.50

Michael Jenner
Journeys into Medieval England. (hb) £8.00
Journeys into Medieval England. (pb) £6.00

Paul Johnson
The National Trust Book of British Castles. (hb) £4.00

Terry Johnson
Hidden Heritage: Discovering Ancient Essex. (pb) £6.00 

Duncan Jones and Alison L. Rae
A Wee Guide to Robert the Bruce. (pb) £2.00

Anthony Kemp
Castles in Colour. (hb) £5.00

A. F. Kendrick
The Cathedral Church of Lincoln: A History and Description of its Fabric and a List of the Bishops. (hb, Bell's Cathedral Series) £5.50

Nigel & Mary Kerr
A Guide to Anglo-Saxon Sites. (hb) £2.00
A Guide to Medieval Sites in Britain. (hb) £8.00

Elias Kollias
The Knights of Rhodes: The Palace and the City. (pb) £6.00

Lloyd and Jennifer Laing
A Guide to the Dark Age Remains in Britain. (hb) £6.00

Brendan Lehane
The Companion Guide to Ireland. (hb) £6.50 

Sue Le' Queux
Haunted Bristol. (pb) £3.50

Pietro Lievore, ed. 
Padua, Baptistery of the Cathedral: Frescoes by Giusto De' Menabuoi (XIV c.), 2nd edn. (pb) £8.00

Maurice Lindsay
The Castles of Scotland. (hb) £9.50

M. J. H. Liversidge
The Fourteenth Century Decorated Ceiling in St. Helen's, Abingdon. (pb) £6.50 

Etrenne Lymbery
Tales of the Paris Bridges and How the Artists Saw Them. (pb) £3.50

Tom McNeill
English Heritage Book of Castles. (hb) £15.00
English Heritage Book of Castles. (pb) £9.50 

Sir Philip and Lady Magnus-Allcroft 
Stokesay Castle, Shropshire. (pb) £1.50

Conleth Manning
Clonmacnoise. (pb) £5.00

Martin Mason and Malcolm Sanders
The City Companion. (hb) £6.50  

Mary Mauchline, Duff Hart-Davis, Hugh Meller
Buckland Abbey, Devon. (pb) £6.50  

Arthur Mee 
Lincoln. (pb) £6.00
York. (pb) £4.50

Malcolm Miller
Chartres Cathedral. (hb) £3.50
Chartres Cathedral: The Medieval Stained Glass & Sculpture. (pb) £3.00

Mark Morris
Domesday Revisited: A Traveller's Guide. (hb) £8.50

Richard Muir
The National Trust Guide to Dark Age and Medieval Britain 400-1350. (hb) £8.00

Julian Munby and Henry Summerson
Stokesay Castle, Shropshire. (pb) £1.50

Nigel Nicolson and Edward Fawcett
Ightham Mote, Kent. (pb) £4.50

J. G. Noppen, rev. S. E. Rigold
The Chapter House, Westminster Abbey. (pb) £4.50

A. W. Oxford
Guide to Fountains Abbey. (pb) £4.00 

B. M. Pande
Qutb Minar and its Monuments. (hb) £7.50

Sir Charles Peers 
Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight. (pb) £3.50

John Clifford Perks 
Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire; 2nd edn. (pb) £3.50  

Adrian Pettifer
Welsh Castles: A Guide by Counties. (hb) £14.00 

Nikolaus Pevsner
(w/ Priscilla Metcalf): The Cathedrals of England: Southern England. (hb) £65.00

David Piper
London: An Illustrated Companion Guide. (hb) £6.50 

Mary Pittaluga
The Sistine Chapel. (pb) £3.50

Colin Platt
The National Trust Guide to Late Medieval and Renaissance Britain, from the Black Death to the Civil War. (hb) £15.00
The Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: Eight Tours for the Weekend and the Short Break. (hb) £8.00
The Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: Eight Tours for the Weekend and the Short Break. (pb) £3.50

Marco Pupillo 
St. Bartholomew's on the Tiber Island: A Thousand Years of History and Art. (pb) £4.50

William Purcell
Pilgrim's England. (hb) £9.50

Henri Queffélec, photographs by Vincent Robert
Bretagne. (hb) £4.50

Richard Quick, ed.
Discover Norman Britain: Nine Norman Heritage Trails. (pb) £3.50

F. J. E. Raby and P. K. Baillie Reynolds
Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk; 2nd edn. (pb) £1.50

Bernard Rackham
The Stained Glass Windows of Canterbury Cathedral: A Guide for Visitors and Students. (pb) £8.50

C. A. Ralegh Radford
The Bishop's Palace, St. David's, Pembrokeshire, 2nd edn. (pb) £2.50
The Early Christian and Norse Settlements at Birsay. (pb) £3.00
Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. (pb) £3.50

Filippo Raffaelli and Fabio Raffaelli
Passegiate in Toscana e Umbria: Una scelta di itineri inconsueti per capire la terra dei Medici e dei Lorena, spaziando nella vicina patria dei santi e capitani di ventura. Tra storia e curiosità, due regioni ricche di suggestivi paessaggi e tradizioni gastronomiche. (hb) £8.50

Jack Ravensdale
In the Steps of Chaucer's Pilgrims: From Southwark to Canterbury from the Air and on Foot. (hb) £6.00

John E. Ray
Hastings Castle. (pb) £4.00

Elizabeth Rees
An Essential Guide to Celtic Sites and their Saints. (pb) £8.50

J. S. Richardson and Marguerite Wood; rev. C. J. Tabraham 
Melrose Abbey. (pb) £2.50 

Anna and Graham Ritchie
Scotland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. (pb) £11.50

H. Ernest Roberts
Notes on the Medieval Monasteries and Minsters of England and Wales. (hb) £12.50 

Nesta Roberts
The Companion Guide to Normandy. (pb) £5.00 

David M. Robinson and Colin Platt
Strata Florida Abbey/Talley Abbey. (pb) £4.00 

Dorothea Russell (Lady Russell Pasha)
Medieval Cairo and the Monasteries of the Wadi Natrun: A Historical Guide. (hb) £7.50

Annie Sacerdoti
The Guide to Jewish Italy. (pb) £8.00

Charles Sarazin
Reims. (pb) £3.50

Malcolm Saville
The Story of Winchelsea Church. (pb) £3.50

Alastair Service
The Buildings of Britain: Anglo-Saxon and Norman, A Guide and Gazetteer. (pb) £4.00

Mick Sharp
The Way and the Light: An Illustrated Guide to the Saints and Holy Places of Britain. (pb) £8.50 

Annie Shaver-Crandell & Paula Gerson, with Alison Stones
The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela: A Gazetteer. (pb) £35.00

Donn Small, ed.
Explore the New Forest. (pb) £6.00 

David L. Snellgrove 
Khmer Civilization and Angkor. (pb) £7.00

Joanna Story
Lindisfarne Priory. (pb) £2.50

David & Fiona Sturdy
Historic Monuments of England & Wales. (hb) £4.00.

Henry Summerson 
Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland. (pb) £1.50

Richard Surman
Secret Churches: Ecclesiastical Gems from around Britain and Ireland. (hb) £9.00

A. J. Taylor
The Jewel Tower, Westminster: Dept of Environment Official Handbook. (pb) £3.00

David Thackray
Corfe Castle, Dorset. (pb) £3.50

A. Hamilton Thompson
Lindisfarne Priory, Northumberland. (pb) £2.00 

Arthur Huxley Thomson
The Cathedral Church of St. Peter in Exeter: Its History, Its Mediaeval Glass, Its Treasures, Its Customs. (pb) £2.50

Richard Tilbrook 
Buckfast Abbey. (pb) £2.00

John Timpson, photography by Derry Brabbs
Timpson's Leylines: A Layman Tracking the Leys. (hb) £6.00 

Giuliana Todini and Nicola Vox, eds. 
The Medieval Rome. (pb) £3.00

Piero Torriti, ed.
Pienza: citta' del Rinascimento. (pb) £4.00

Shirley Toulson
Celtic Journeys in Scotland and the North of England. (pb) £2.00

Nigel G. Tranter
The Fortalices and Early Mansions of Southern Scotland 1400 to 1650. (hb) £35.00

A. P. Trevor et al
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd. (pb) £4.50

Michael Trinick
Compton Castle, Devon. (pb) £2.50

Barbara Carpenter Turner
City of Winchester: The Ancient Capital of England. (pb) £3.00

Christopher Turner 
London Churches Step by Step. (hb) £7.00 

Rosella Vantaggi
Siena, Town of Art. (pb) £5.00

John Vince
Discovering Saints in Britain, 3rd edn. (pb) £2.50
Discovering Watermills, 5th edn. (pb) £2.00

Albert E. Webb
Glastonbury Abbey: A Hasty Story of the Abbey and a Descriptive Guide to the Abbey Ruins. (pb) £6.00

John West
Our Norman Heritage. (pb) £3.50 

J. W. Whiston
Croxall, Staffs. - An Air Photograph of a Deserted Medieval Village. (pb) £4.50 

Jeffery W. Whitelaw
Hertfordshire Churches and Other Places of Worship. (pb) £3.50

Arthur Whittingham
Norwich Cathedral Bosses and Misericords. (pb) £4.50 

H. R. Wilkins and A. W. Wellings
The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Great Warley, Essex: History and Guide. (pb) £5.00

Joy Wilson
Tristan and Iseult: A Cornish Love Story. (pb) £2.50

Roger J. A. Wilson
A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain, 3rd edn. (hb) £5.00 

Hartley Withers
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury: A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See, 3rd edn. (hb, Bell's Cathedral Series) £6.00

Geoffrey N. Wright 
Discovering Abbeys and Priories. (pb) £2.50

Erdem Yücel. 
Saint Saviour in Chora: Mosaics and Frescoes. (pb) £4.00




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