Lot: 16
Carton of Newspapers (abt. 42) from 19th Century including many issues of Manchester Guardian Weekly 1938; together with greetings cards, photos and sundry ephemera. Varied condition. (Qty)
Lot: 20
Manchester Evening News, February 1943, bound volume, editorial department's file copy. Half-leather, gilt, marbled boards. Some wear to binding; few leaves with peripheral faults, generally VG internally.
Lot: 21
Manchester Evening News, August 1943, bound volume, editorial department's file copy. Half-leather, gilt, marbled boards. Some wear to binding. VG internally.
Lot: 72
John Ward Moston Characters at Play, 1905, and Moston Characters at Work, 1911; both orig. gilt cloth; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere, VG; both signed & inscribed, and complete with fine folding maps of Moston in 1848; browning to endpapers; the 1905 title with a patched hole top left of front endpaper. (2)
Lot: 73
Manchester & Salford history & topography, 1868 to modern, h/bk and s/bk including illustrated works and scarce pamphlets. Includes a reprint of Aiken's 1795 Description of the Country Round Manchester. Mostly VG/VF (31)
Lot: 74
William Mills The Manchester Reform Club 1871-1921, 1922, orig. leather-covered boards, worn at extremities o/w fine; W.E.A. Axon Handbook of the Public Libraries of Manchester and Salford, 1877, gilt cloth, some light toning to prelims; and others relating to the Portico and Chetham's Libraries including three modern pamphlets. Good to VF (10)
Lot: 75
An Act for cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets, Lanes, Passages and Places within the Towns of Manchester and Salford, 1792, 88pp; plus ten other Manchester related Acts of Parliament 1790-1849, and Charity Commission Reports (2) for Manchester and Eccles 1904. Good to fine. Also four antiquarian books, Lancashire related, in poor condition, three with engravings. (17 items)
Lot: 76
Manchester Region History Review 1990-1992 (6 issues); Manchester & Salford history publications by Neil Richardson (13), and a collection of related softbacks, mostly illustrated. Mainly VG/VF. (40 in all). Also a related DVD.
Lot: 90
Ernest Broxap Manchester a Hundred Years Ago, John Taylor, [1921], 4to, faded cloth, gilt, fine internally with all plates (2 coloured); and William Shaw Manchester Old and New, Cassell, [1894] illustrated byTidmarsh, 4to, 3 vols, gilt cloth, worn at extremities, grubby mark in margin to p.vii in Vol.3, rear endpaper missing from Vol.2. (4)
Lot: 110
Manchester architecture & culture including Bill Birch Keeper of the Flame: Modern Jazz in Manchester 1946-1972; Terry Wyke Manchester Theatres; W.T. McIntire Manchester Historical Pageant 1938; Len Grant Built to Music: The Making of the Bridgewater Hall, 1996, in d/jkt; and various others. Good to fine. (17)