WARD, John: — Moston Characters at Play and Work.

Manchester, Charles H Barber, 1905 and 1911. Two volumes, pp. vi, 190 and 257, well illustrated and with a large folding map at the end of each volume. Original cloth, top edges gilt. Bindings a bit darkened and with a few marks, but very sound.. Internally, some foxing owing to the "woolly" nature of the paper, some darkening of the pages, but again very sound. One of the maps with a short repaired tear.Both volumes have presentation inscriptions from the author to his daughter Mrs James Wood. Loosely inserted is The Memorial Service to John Ward, May 1916. Very scarce as a matching pair of presentation copies.