Lot: 38
John Harland Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Whittaker & Co., 1865, the author's personal copy & signed by him on front endpaper; alterations and annotations in Harland's hand to 'The Blessed Conscience' extending from pp.47 to 55 based on a manuscript provided to him after the book's initial publication. Small ownership stamp of the collector Robert Holland Ford at top of half-title. Together with Edwin Waugh Th' Owd Blanket and other stories, 1867; and Robert Dottie The Rambles and Recollections of “R' Dick”, Manchester 1898. (3)
Lot: 97
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1957-2008, mostly cloth-bound, gilt, and mainly 1990s/2000s. VG/VF (28)
Lot: 101
The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey, Chetham Society, 1886-1919, six volumes, unopened; and The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey, Chetham Society, 1898-1909, five (of six) vols, lacking Vol.1, part II. Publisher's gilt cloth. VG/Fine
Lot: 109
Henry Fishwick The History of The Parish of Rochdale, James Clegg & Elliot Stock, 1889, rebound in quarter-morocco, gilt, over buckram-covered boards; minor spotting to half-title o/w fine with all plates, pedigrees and illustrations in text; and The Works of John Trafford Clegg: Stories, Sketches, and Rhymes chiefly in the Rochdale Dialect, James Clegg, 1895, two vols., orig. gilt cloth, 18 b/w plates. (3)
Lot: 117
Edward Baines The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, John Heywood, 1888, revised edition (with Pedigrees), edited by Croston; five volumes, quarto, orig. gilt cloth, backstrip of Vol.1 with some damage; small repair to folding map; minor spotting to prelims o/w very clean internally. Partly unopened. (5)
Lot: 154
Manchester suburbs, few canal views etc; including street scenes of Levenshulme (2), Fallowfield (2), Burnage, Longsight, Urmston (2), Gorton, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Didsbury and Heaton Moor. 19 RPs. Fair-VF. (32)