Lot: 77
John H. Cooke Bibliotheca Cestriensis, or a Biographical Account of Books, Maps, Plates, and other Printed Matter relating to….The County of Chester. Mackie & Co, 1904, tall quarto, half-vellum, gilt, VG, No. 89 of 200 issued; fine internally; 218pp + index + tissue-guarded half-tone plates. Some light foxing to fore-edge. Upper-right corners bumped.
Lot: 78
Tom C. Smith A History of Longridge and District, C.W. Whitehead, Preston, 1888, quarto, original gilt cloth, spine a little darkened, large paper edition complete with map, pedigrees & plates; xii,296pp. VG
Lot: 79
[Samuel Midgley] Revenge Upon Revenge: or, an Historical Narrative, of the Tragical Practices of Sir John Eland, of Eland, High Sheriff of the County of York, E. Jacob, Halifax, 1789, octavo, bound in modern cloth with title label, fine; browning to last page of text, occasional light toning elsewhere. Re-issue of a work first published in 1695. [2],70pp
Lot: 171
John Fawcett Skelton The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs, Simpkin Marshall & John Heywood, 1876, First Edition, quarto, original gilt cloth: two copies, one uninscribed, the other with presentation inscription by the author and a few manuscript alterations to the text in the same hand, together with an autograph letter from W.T. Hampson to a friend recalling Skelton’s activities in Edgworth, Bolton, in the late-19th Century. Occasional fox mark otherwise good/VG. (2)
Lot: 227
Selection, many historical, all bar one in d/jkt including Shackleton The Textile Mills of Pendle and their Steam Engines, 2006; Brian Law Fieldens of Todmorden, 1995, signed; The Britain of Brian Cook, Batsford, 1987; David Hey Packmen, Carriers & Packhorse Roads, 2001; Hardie A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes, ICI, 1950; and others, mainly industrial. Good to VF (14)