Lot: 16
Ammon Wrigley Songs of the Pennine Hills, Whittaker & Sons, 1938, first edition, original cloth, minor spotting to prelims, VG; and Songs of a Moorland Parish, [1962], 50th Anniversary reprint in gilt leatherette, fine.
Lot: 19
The Works of John Trafford Clegg: Stories, Sketches and Rhymes chiefly in the Rochdale Dialect, Aldine Press, Rochdale, 1898; octavo, two volumes, original gilt cloth, VG; 18 b/w plates; fine internally though one tissue-guard has fox marks. (2)
Lot: 34
John Addy (Ed.) The Diary of Henry Prescott, LL.B., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese, Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, 3 volume set, 1987-97, VG in complete d/jkts, neat ownership signatures.
Lot: 35
Henry Broxap A Biography of Thomas Deacon: The Manchester Non-Juror, Manchester University Press, 1911, orig. cloth, gilt, fine; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere with some spotting to edges; b/w frontispiece and folding-plate. 215pp + 22pp publisher’s catalogue.
Lot: 36
Advertiser Notes and Queries. Reprinted from the Stockport Advertiser, Vol. IV, Stockport 1884; octavo, half-leather, gilt, some wear to extremities; marble-edged and endpapers. Fine internally. 197pp
Lot: 43
A New General and Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, W. Whellan & Co., Manchester, 1852; octavo, rebound in fine modern three-quarter black morocco, gilt, red title label; the volume includes most of the Greater Manchester area including villages & hamlets; 932pp plus 38pp preface; list of bankers and adverts at rear. VG
Lot: 44
The National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918, Section XIV, Salford, National Publishing Co, London, n.d.; quarto, gilt cloth, VG; half-title and final page of text browned o/w fine internally. 360pp
Lot: 46
James Croston Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire, John Heywood, 1882, one of 600 printed for subscribers; quarto, original gilt decorated cloth, foot of backstrip damaged with partial repair; contemporary ownership inscription of Abraham Lord of Alkrington Hall (son of one of the subscribers). Plates complete. Fine internally
Lot: 50
Christopher Wordsworth Ceremonies and Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, Cambridge University Press, 1901, octavo, original gilt cloth, t.e.g., uncut elsewhere, browning to endpapers; includes woodcuts from the Sarum Processionale of 1502 and fine folding diagram. Pencilled notations to rear endpapers plus a few in the text. Good