BURNS, George:

Gibbets and Gallows, the Story of Edmund Arrowsmith, S.J.

Burns Oates, 1944, pp. 88, frontispiece. Original red cloth, spine faded, else very good condition. No dust jacket.

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Book number: 3209

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Edmund Arrowsmith, Catholic Lancashire,martys,

BURTON, Thomas:

Royton Industrial Co-Operative Society Limited: History of the Society's Formation and Progress, 1857-1907.

Manchester, 1907, pp. 126, illustrated. Original cloth, very good condition.

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Book number: 2963

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Royton,Oldham,co-operation,

Bushnell, George Herbert:

Scottish Engravers: a Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Engravers and of Engravers Who Worked in Scotland to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century .

Oxford University Press, 1949, pp.xii, 60. Ex-library with the usual evidence, but a sound copy. Postage will be less than the standard rate.

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Book number: 2145

Catalogue: Bibliography

Keywords: Scotland engraving engravers bibliography

BUTTERWORTH, James:

The antiquities of the town, and a complete history of the trade of Manchester: with descriptions of Manchester and Salford: to which is added an account of the late improvements in the town, &c.

Manchester, 1822, pp. (8), vi, 302, xii. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Frontis, plate of tokens and wood cuts in the text. With a list of subscribers. Pages browned as usual, old tape repair to last leaf, but good, sound condition.

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Book number: 3045

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Manchester,cotton manufacture,Lancashire,cotton trade,Salford,

BUTTERWORTH, James:

An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Parochial Chapelry of OLDHAM in the County of Lancaster.

Oldham, J. Clarke, 1817, pp. xii, 212 plus advert leaf. Complete with the two folding maps and the multi-folding pedigree of the Radcliffes. Includes a directory of the town. Original printed boards as issued. Spine worn and defective, boards rubbed, but still tight and sound. Maps and pedigree in excellent condition, page 51/2 torn across, but nothing missing. Paste-downs with traces of an old paper cover, news cutting on front endpapers. A good copy and rare in this original condition and with the maps and pedigree intact (one map has a short repaired tear in the usual place).

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Book number: 2944

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: James Butterworth,Oldham,Royton, Radcliffe family,Lancashire,Shaw,Crompton,

BUTTERWORTH, James:

An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Parochial Chapelry of OLDHAM in the County of Lancaster.

Oldham, J. Clarke, 1817, pp. xii, 212 plus advert leaf. Complete with the two folding maps, but lacking the multi-folding pedigree of the Radcliffes. Includes a directory of the town. An attractive copy in half calf with marbled boards. Maps in excellent condition. Trace of old library stamp on title page.

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Book number: 2945

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Keywords: James Butterworth,Oldham,Royton, Radcliffe family,Lancashire,Shaw,Crompton,

BUTTERWORTH,Edwin:

Historical Sketches of Oldham.

Oldham,John Hirst,1856, new edition with an appendix containing the history of the town to date, pp.256 plus appendices and numerous interesting advertisements. Bound in contemporary, probably original calf which is a bit rubbed and chipped at spine ends. Contents a bit browned and thumbed, but a sound reference copy.

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Book number: 2946

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Oldham,Lancashire,Royton,Shaw,Crompton

BUTTERWORTH, James:

An Historical and Topographical Account of the Town and Parish of Rochdale..... and also of the Parochial Chapelry of Saddleworth.

Manchester, W. D. Varey, 1828, two parts, Rochdale and Saddleworth, each with tile page and frontispiece of the respective parish churches. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, very expertly re-backed. Covers a bit dull and rubbed, name inside, some staining mainly to the endpapers, but very sound condition. Bound at the back is Tabula Mancuniensis a rare 16 page pamphlet by Butterworth published in 1829 listing chronological events in the history of Manchester.

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Book number: 3382

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Rochdale, Saddleworth, Royds, Lancashire

BUTTERWORTH, Edwin:

An Historical Account of the Towns of Ashton-Under-Lyne, Stalybridge, and Dukinfield.

Ashton,1842, pp. (2),177,v. Plain binder's cloth without lettering, tape repairs to first leaf of text, last page a bit marked. A sound working copy of a scarce title. Not to be confused with the book which his father James wrote on Ashton. Presentation inscription from John Ross Culthart, a prominent banker in Ashton to the Venerable Archdeacon Rushton.

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Book number: 3435

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Ashton-under-Lyne,Stalybridge,Dukinfield,

BUTTERWORTH, James:

History and Description of the Town and Parish of Ashton-Under-Lyne in the County of Lancaster and the Village of Dukinfield.

Ashton, Thomas Cunningham, 1823. Original boards with a modern paper spine and label to match. Page edges untrimmed. Board corners worn, else good, sound condition.

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Book number: 3436

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire, Ashton-under-Lyne,Tameside,Dukinfield

BYRNE, Matthew:

Beautiful Churches Saved by The Churches Conservation Trust

Frances Lincoln, 2013. Very good, clean condition in the dust jacket.

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Book number: 3254

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: isbn 9780711234536,church architecture,churches,church restoration,., 9780711234536

CAMINADA, Jerome:

Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life.

Manchester, John Heywood, 1895 and 1901. Two volumes, complete. Original green cloth, top edges gilt. Volume one a little rubbed at corners and spine ends, inner hinges cracked, but still tight and sound. Volume two with small mark to foot of front cover, else excellent condition.Detailed reminiscences of police life in Manchester.

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Book number: 3430

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Manchester,Lancashire,police, detective,crime,criminals,

CAMPION, George G:

The Riddle of the Sphinx, an Essay.

privately printed, n.d. (c. 1915), pp. 118. Original wrappers, somewhat dusty and chipped, marginal tear to corner of last leaf,endpapers spotted, but sound. The scarce original edition.

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Book number: 2273

Catalogue: Education

Keywords: education Montessori,Pestalozzi Froebl Chassevant,Newman,boy scouts, girl guides

CANTRELL, J.A:

James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry: a study of entrepreneurship in the early engineering industry.

Manchester,Chetham Society,1984, pp. viii, 279. Very good in dust jacket. Chetham Society, Third Series, Volume 31.

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Book number: 3416

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: isbn 0719013399, engineering,foundry,foundries,Nasmyth,bridgewater,machine tools,Manchester,iron,steam hammer, 0719013399

CARR, James:

Annals and Stories of Colne and Neighbourhood.

Manchester, John Heywood, 1878, new and revised edition, pp. 245, frontispiece. Original cloth. Some light foxing, mainly at beginning and end, else a nice, tight copy.

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Book number: 3080

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Colne,Lancashire,