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I do not sell books! The small prices at the end of some listings are there as a guide only.

• Baring-Gould, Sabine. A book of the west—Cornwall; Methuen, London: 1899. Republished by Wildwood, London: 1981. ISBN 0 7045 0419 7.
• ———Guavas the tinner; Methuen: 1897. Fiction, set in C16th Reprint by Praxis: 2000
• Barton, D. B. A history of copper mining in Cornwall and Devon; Truro Bookshop: 1961.
• ———A history of tin mining and smelting in Cornwall; Truro Bookshop:1967. £40 Republished 1989. £11
• Barton, Rita M. [ed.]. Life in Cornwall in the early Nineteenth Century; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1970. Extracts from the West Briton Newspaper 1810–35. £28 (Reprinted by Dyllansow Truran, Truro: 1997. ISBN 1-85022-112-X)
• ———Life in Cornwall in the mid Nineteenth Century; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1971?. Extracts from the West Briton Newspaper 1835–54.
• ———Life in Cornwall in the late Nineteenth Century; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1972. £17 Extracts from the West Briton Newspaper 1855–75.
• ———Life in Cornwall at the end of the Nineteenth Century; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1974. £24 Extracts from the West Briton Newspaper 1876–99.
• Benney, D. E. An introduction to Cornish watermills; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1972.
• Better Pubs. Ltd. (pub.) The history of better pubs in Cornwall; Better Pubs, Crediton: 1978/79. Surprisingly well researched though anonymous and with no index.
• Blackwell, Henry Cecil. From a dark stream; Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1986. ISBN 1 85022 019 0. £10
• Boase, George Clement. Collectanea Cornubiensias—A collection of biographical and topographical notes relating to the county of Cornwall; Netherton & Worth, Truro: 1890.
• ———& Courtney William Prideaux. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis —A catalogue of the writings both manuscript and printed of Cornishmen (3 volumes); Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, London:1874–82. £635 Available in facsimile on CDROM from the Archive CD Books Project. The CORNISH-L Library [link broken 2018] can help with these volumes.
• Bonham, Mrs. John. Christmas in Cornwall 60 years ago. Unicorn Press, London: 1898.Containing the stories Mrs. Olliver’s Tea-Party & How they spent Christmas Eve at St. Cadge transcribed on this site.
• Borlase, William. Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the County of Cornwall; London: 1754 £485 & 1769. The later edition contains extra material, additional plates and a map. Apart from some“fanciful conjectures concerning the druidical worship,” this work is thought to be quite reliable. Facsimile of the second edition with introduction by P. A. S. Pool and Charles Thomas; E. P. Publishing: 1973 £160
• ——— The natural history of the county of Cornwall; The author, 1758. £680 Facsimile reporint with an introduction by F. A. Turk and a biography of William Borlase by P. A. S. Pool; E. & W. Books, 1970 £172
• Brewer, Paul & Thompson, Gillian. Cornish Chapels, 1851; The authors, Grampound: 1998. ISBN 0 9527927 3 7.£5 new
• Brown, H. Miles. Cornish clocks and clockmakers; David & Charles, Dawlish: 1961. £10
• Buckley, J. A. Cornish Mining—Underground; Tor Mark. ISBN 0-85025-316-0.£3 new (Photographs by J. C. Burrow taken 1893–1910)
• ———Cornish Mining—At Surface; Tor Mark. ISBN 085025325X.
• Burrow, J. C. ’mongst mines and miners; London and Camborne: 1893. (Photographs underground. See Buckley above for an affordable alternative) £800
• Burt, Roger, Waite, Peter & Burnley, Raymond. Cornish mines—Metalliferous and associated minerals 1845–1913; University of Exeter with the Northern Mine Research Society: 1987. ISBN 0 85989 287 5. A very detailed listing of the major mines and their production statistics.
• Caddick, Arthur. One hundred doors are open. An illustrated guide to one hundred inns, mainly in West Cornwall; The Author, Nancledra: 1956. Second edition 1957.
• Carew, Richard. Survey of Cornwall; John Jaggard, London: 1602. Reprint 1723. Reprint with life of the author by H*** C*****; B. Law & J. Hewett, Penzance: 1769 £220 This edition has been transcribed and is downloadable from Project Gutenberg: 2003. The Chapter on Penwith has been edited and placed online on this site. A new edition from an original unpublished manuscript with notes by Thomas Tonkin; T. Bensley, London: 1811. £250 Reprint with introduction by F. E. Halliday and maps by John Norden plus other contemporary material. Melrose, London: 1953 £35 Facsimile of the 1602 edition; Devon & Cornwall Records Society: 2004 £20
• Clarke, Evelyn. The Cornish Fogous; 1961.£28
• Cook, Michael. The diocese of Exeter in 1821: Bishop Carey’s replies to queries before visitation—Volume I: Cornwall; Devon & Cornwall Record Society, Exeter: 1958.
• Cooke, G. A. Topographical survey of the county of Cornwall; Sherwood, London: c1820 £20
• ———Topographical and statistical description of the county of Cornwall; c1827 £50
• Cornwall Education Committee. Cornwall education week souvenir handbook. Cornwall Education Committee: 1927.
• Cornwall Education Committee. Cornwall education committee handbook 1937–1940; Cornwall Education Committee: 1937.
• Courtney, Margaret Ann. Cornish feasts and folk-lore; Beary and Son, Penzance: 1890.
• ———& Couch, Thomas Quiller. Glossary of Words in use in Cornwall; Published for the English Dialect Society, London: 1880. In two parts; the West Cornwall part is by Courtney
• Daniell, Rev. J. J. Compendium of the history and geography of Cornwall; Netherton & Worth, Truro: 1854.
  ———& Collins, J. H. Netherton & Worth, Truro: 1894 This is the 3^rd edition.
  ———& Peter, Thurstan C. A Compendium of the history and geography of Cornwall; Netherton & Worth, Truro: 1906. £36 This is the 4^th edition and very different. There is an ongoing project [link broken 2018 while Rootsweb sort themselves out] run by Phil Ellery to transcribe this edition to the web—some pages are already available.
• Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries A twice yearly journal devoted to local history, archaeology, biography and antiquities.
• Dines, H. G. The metalliferous mining region of South West England (2 volumes); H.M.S.O., London: 1956.
• Douch, H. L. Old Cornish Inns—and their place in the social history of the county; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1966.
• ———The Cornwall muster roll for 1569; T. L. Stoate, Almondsbury: 1984. £45 (Facsimile on microfiche; Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1999 available from Bernard D. Welchman [link broken 2018].) Note that the microfiche edition incorrectly attributes the editorship to T.L.Stoate who was the publisher.
• ———& Glencross, R. M. The Cornwall protestation returns 1641; T. L. Stoate, Bristol: 1974. (Facsimile on microfiche; Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1995 available from Bernard D. Welchman [link broken 2018]. ISBN 1-873931-57-3) The originals are in the House of Lords Library.
• Dunstan, G. R. The register of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter 1420–1455 (five volumes —New series Vols. 7, 10, 13, 16 & 18); Devon & Cornwall Record Society, Exeter: 1963–72. I am missing volume 2
• Edmonds, E. A. et. al. British regional geology—South West England (3^rd. edition). H.M.S.O., London: 1969.
• Edwards, L. W. L. Index to Cornish nonconformist registers deposited at the Public Record Office; The author, London: 1976. ISBN 0 9504867 0 1. £16
• Fairclough, A. The story of Cornish Railways; Tor Mark Press, Truro: 1970. £2
• Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Journal. The Federation; St. Ives: 1925–1961 + a selection of others. A magazine issued twice a year. Mine are bound in five volumes. A partial table of contents for these 5 volumes and some others is online. £75
• Folliott Stokes, A. G. From Devon to St. Ives; Greening, London: 1910
• George, Pam. The Cornubian index: 1911–1916; CFHS, Truro: 1997 ISBN 1 85869 595 3. Index to the letters of John T. & Sid Blake from New York to Cornwall.
• Gethyn-Jones, Eric; Trevisa of Berkeley—a Celtic firebrand; Alan Sutton, Dursley: 1978. A fictional account of a genuine C14th scholar but grounded in a lot of research and minimal fabrication. Also covers the life of John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter, 1327–69.
• Gilbert, C. S. An historical survey of Cornwall; Congdon, Plymouth: 1817. £720
• Gilbert, Davies. The parochial history of Cornwall (4 volumes); J. B. Nichols, London: 1838. £250 set
• Gomme, George Lawrence (Ed.). The gentleman’s magazine library—Part II, Cambridgeshire–Cumberland; Elliot Stock, London: 1892. Topographical extracts from the Gentleman’s Magazine 1731–1868. Available in facsimile on CDROM from the Archive CD Books Project..
• Graham, Frank et. al. Old inns & taverns of Cornwall; V. Graham, Newcastle upon Tyne: ?date.
• Gray, Todd. Early-Stuart mariners and shipping—The maritime surveys of Devon and Cornwall (new series Vol. 33); Devon & Cornwall Record Society, Exeter: 1990. ISBN 0 901853 33 X.
• Hals, William. History of Cornwall; Andrew Brice, Truro & Exeter: 1750.very rare Hals died in 1739. The parochial histories alphabetically from Advent to Helston only were published, and it is not considered particularly reliable. Manuscripts of the remainder may exist. Extracts were printed in Lake’s Parochial History and relevant ones are available online on this site.
• Harris, J. Henry. Cornish saints and sinners; Bodley Head, London: 1906. Contains numerous drawings by L. Raven-Hill some of which are hilarious (as is the text) and some sublime in the style of Beardsley. A number of extracts can be found on the Britannia [link broken 2018] web site.
• Hawkins, Christopher. Observations on the tin trade of the ancients in Cornwall and on the “Ictus” of Diodorus Siculus; J. J. Stockdale, London: 1811.
• Henderson, Charles. Cornish church guide; 1925. (Reprint Truro: 1965) £17
• ———The 109 parishes of the four western hundreds of Cornwall; RIC, Truro: 1954–60. £65
• ———Henderson’s Cornish manuscripts; I have only heard of this from citations but volume III is reported to contain landholders in Penwith and Kerrier, 1512.
• Henwood, George. Cornwall’s mines and miners; Bradford Barton, Truro: 1972
• Hingston, Francis Charles. Specimens of Ancient Cornish Crosses, Fonts, etc.; W. J. Cleaver, London: 1850 £135 Republished by Men-an-Tol Studio [link broken 2018], Penzance: 1999 ISBN 1-902793-00-5
• Hingeston-Randolph, Francis Charles (Ed.) The register of Edmund Stafford, 1395-1419; London and Exeter: 1886 Bistop of Exeter. Hingeston-Randolph is the same person as Francis Charles Hingston in later life.
• ———The registers of Walter Bronescombe, 1257-1280, and Peter Quivil, 1280-1291, bishops of Exeter. With some records of the Episcopate of Bishop Thomas de Bytton (1292-1307); also the taxation of Pope Nicholas IV; George Bell, London and Extere: 1889.
• ———The register of Walter de Stapeldon, bishop of Exeter, 1307-1326; London and Exeter: 1892.
• ———The register of John de Grandisson, bishop of Exeter, 1327-1369. With some account of the episcopate of James de Berkeley (1327); Exeter: 1894–99 3 Volumes
• ———The register of Thomas de Brantyngham, bishop of Exeter, 1370- 1394; London: 1901–06 Facimile Astrologos [link broken 2018], New York: Print to Order.
• ———, Browne, C. G. and Reichel, O. J. (eds.) The register of Edmund Lacy, bishop of Exeter, 1420-1455; London and Exeter: 1909–15.
• Hitchens, Fortescue. The history of Cornwall; Helston, 1824 £450
• Hore, Liz and Tamblin, Stuart. WO 13/346 Musters of the Cornish militia; Family History Indexes, Northampton: 1999 (on microfiche).
• Hull, P. L. The caption of the seisin of the Duchy of Cornwall 1377 (new series vol 17); Devon & Cornwall Record Society, Torquay: 1971. £14
• Hunt, Robert. Popular romances of the west of England—The drolls, traditions and superstitions of old Cornwall; 1881. Many of the stories, particularly those of the giants, are set in Penwith. There are two series, often bound together. They remained in print for a long time, at least until the 1930’s. These have been transcribed and can be found at Sacred Texts and also on CD-ROM
• Institute of Cornish Studies. Cornish Studies (Annual publication—Issue 7 (1979) includes “Oral History Project—Farming in West Penwith”, Issue 15 (1987) includes “Holman’s foundry, St. Just 1890–1951”);1973–1992.
• Jago, Fred. W. P. The ancient language and the dialect of Cornwall with an enlarged glossary of Cornish provincial words. Netherton & Worth, Truro: 1892. Available in facsimile on CDROM from the Archive CD Books Project.
• James, Henry. Domesday book, Facsimile of the part relating to Cornwall; Ordnance Survey, Southampton: 1861. £30 There is sometimes A literal translation of the part of Domesday Book relating to the county of Cornwall bound with this, in which case £55
• Kain, Roger & Ravenhill, William eds.. Historical Atlas of South-West England; University of Exeter Press, Exeter: 1999. ISBN 0 85989 434 7.If you get no other book about Cornwall, get this one (and the Philip Payton book listed below). It is superb
• Lawrance, W. T. Parliamentary representation of Cornwall, being a record of the electoral divisions and boroughs of the county from 1295 to 1885, together with copies of the roll of parliamentary members during the period above named; Netherton and Worth, Truro: c.1925
• Lukis, William Collings. Prehistoric stone monuments of the British Isles: Cornwall; Society of Antiquaries: 1885 £250
• Lysons, Daniel and Samuel. Topographical and historical account of the county of Cornwall; Cadell & Greenland, London: 1814. Volume 3 of a series of county histories called the Magna Britannia which only made it to 10 volumes. Available in facsimile on CDROM from the Archive CD Books Project.
• Mason, John H.N. Walk the Cornish coastal path; Bartholomew, London: 1989 (revised 1995). ISBN 0 7028 2831 9.
• Mayers, Lynne. Balmaidens; Hypatia Trust, Penzance: 2004.£20
• Mitton, G. E. & Nicholls, G. F. Cornwall; Black, London: 1915 (revised 1925). The 1915 edition has 20 colour paintings, the 1925 edition has an extra chapter and 32 plates.