Lot: 46
Manor of Newcastle, Stafford: 1615 copy document of a legal Agreement fixing the Fee Farm Rents within the Manor, the final leaf largely torn away, comprising 11 full pages of text, 41 x 34cm, with a later outer cover, all stitched together upper left; peripheral faults with some marginal loss of text, browned throughout. Reference is made to this document in Ward's History of Stoke on Trent.
Lot: 60
Keates & Ford's Annual Potteries and Newcastle Street and Trade Directory with Almanack, for 1865-6, Hanley, 1865; original stipple-grained cloth, gilt, rebacked, worn corners; bookplate of James E. Moxon with his signature top of title-page; front inner hinge weak; VG internally. 228pp plus 111pp of advertisements
Lot: 63
Keates's Gazetteer & Directory of the Staffordshire Potteries, Newcastle and District 1873-74, Hanley, 1873, orig. blind-tooled & gilt cloth, faded, VG internally; F. Brighton Pattingham, 1942, ink marks to cover; Simeon Shaw History of the Staffordshire Potteries, 1829 (poor binding); and other Staffordshire history including 1980s/90s journals (23). Varied condition. (45 in all).