Lot: 14
C. Frederick Lawrence History of Middlewich and Neighbourhood, 1895, orig. printed boards worn & darkened, near detached; title-page damaged at inner margin; text clean & intact. 40pp of adverts by local businesses at rear. 100,(40)pp.
Lot: 15
Manchester & area local history titles, mostly 1970s/2000s, comprising softbacks (22) and h/bks (6, three in d/jkt). Largely VG/VF (28)
Lot: 16
Alexander Mackenzie The Isle of Skye in 1882-1883; illustrated by a full report of the Trials of the Braes and Glendale Crofters….Inverness, 1883; orig. gilt cloth faded & marked; ownership signature to front pastedown scratched away; light browning to title page, small tear to margin at foot of Contents leaf. Good clean text; liv,203,12pp
Lot: 18
A Wesleyan Minister Sorrow on the Land…an account of the Inundation occasioned by the Bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir…,J. Mason, 1852; Robert Young The Importance of Prayer Meetings, J.Mason 1859; Early Days, or the Wesleyan Scholars Guide for the year 1858; Grindrod A Compendium of the Laws and Regulations of Wesleyan Methodism, 1848; and a collection of other religious based works, 1792 to early 20th Century, many of Wesleyan interest. Mostly original cloth, some bound in leather. Varied condition. (28)
Lot: 19
Trades' Directory Staffordshire 1903, Trades Directories Ltd, Birmingham, 1903; tall octavo, rebound in modern cloth, title page in facsimile o/w fine.
Lot: 20
Horace Field Parshall The Parshall Family A.D. 870-1913, Francis Edwards, 1915, 4to, quarter vellum, gilt, t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; bookplate of the Gale family; folding map, pedigrees and plates; faint damp staining to upper margin affects some pages; some light marginal glosses in pencil. One of 100 printed. VG
Lot: 21
The Potteries, Newcastle and District Directory, Staffordshire Sentinel, 1912; orig. gilt decorated cloth, some wear, fading to spine; VG internally; xxxviii, 1248pp
Lot: 24
Local History selection, mostly Staffordshire related, including Swinscoe, Blore and the Bassetts 1998; Redfern History of Uttoxeter, 1865, (with map); M. Wright The Best of Cannock Chase, 1933; Stephens History of Congleton, 1970; The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, Vol.VIII, 1963; and various others, mostly h/bk, some in d/jkts, varied condition. (25)
Lot: 25
Gregory King (edited Armytage & Rylands) Staffordshire Pedigrees based on the visitation of that County made by William Dugdale, Harleian Society, 1912; 4to, original gilt cloth, small spilt to foredge of front board; few leaves with a corner crease o/w VG internally; viii,295,20,(6)pp
Lot: 26
Aleyn Lyell Reade The Reades of Blackwood Hill in the Parish of Horton Staffordshire. A Record of Their Descendants: With a Full Account of Dr.Johnson's Ancestry His Kinsfolk and Family Connexions, privately printed for the author, London, 1906; tall 4to, orig. gilt cloth, slightly marked, lower right corner of front board bumped; browning to endpapers and front tissue-guard; 18 photo plates and 29 tabular pedigrees; 285pp plus introduction, index and pedigrees. One of 350 printed.
Lot: 27
Diane Baker Workhouses in the Potteries, City of Stoke on Trent, n.d.; A4 s/back, stapled binding; well illustrated including 3 fold-out plans/elevations. 51pp. VG
Lot: 28
William Scarratt Old Times in the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, 1906; original illustrated cloth, gilt, some fading; fine internally. B/w plates in text. 202pp
Lot: 29
Percy W.L. Adams John Henry Clive 1781-1853 of North Staffordshire and his Descendants, Newcastle, 1947; orig. grained cloth, gilt; thirty tissue-guarded plates; folding pedigree loosely inserted; xviii,144,(2)pp. A prospectus of the book and a hand-written letter from the author are also loosely inserted. Front board bumped at foot o/w fine, no inscriptions.
Lot: 31
Josiah C. and Joshua G.E. Wedgwood Wedgwood Pedigrees, Titus Wilson, 1925; quarter vellum with silver title, pictorial boards, minor wear; uncut two sides; bookplate of Reginald Bladen; some slight spotting mostly confined to foredge and folding plate at rear; ix,384pp. Together with Robert Nicholls The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, 1930, orig.cloth; and three related softbacks. Good/Fine (5)
Lot: 32
E. J. D. Warrilow History of Etruria, Etruscan Publications, 1952, gilt cloth, fine, in a complete but damaged d/jkt (rear panel of jacket badly torn). Fine internally, without inscriptions. Numerous photo-plates. 396pp
Lot: 33
Descriptive Catalogue of the Series of Coins found at Tutbury, in the County of Stafford, in the bed of the River Dove, in June, 1831, and supposed to have been part of the Military Chest of the Earl of Lancaster. Temp.Ed.II. Derby, [c.1835]; octavo, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth; bookplate of the Dalry Library dated 1904; (4),62pp. Fine
Lot: 40
Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland 1941, rebound in cloth with paper title label; complete with map which has a small repair o/w fine internally.
Lot: 102
Programme of the North Staffordshire Musical Festival, Victoria Hall, Hanley….1890, in aid of the Local Hospitals, leather bound, gilt, spine worn, contemp. ownership inscription, fine internally; Nettel North Staffordshire Music, 1977, in d/jkt; and two related. Good/Fine (4)