Rochdale Book Company

The Pubs, Inns and Alehouses of Lymm.

WILLIAMS and Taylor.: · 2018

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Leckonby Press, 2018. Original card covers, very good condition.

The Early English Cotton Industry, With Some Unpublished Letters of Samuel Crompton

DANIELS, George W. and UNWIN, George: · 1920

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Manchester University Press, 1920. First edition. Also issued in a cloth binding, this is the issue in paper covers. Inevitably there is some wear to the spine and there is some foxing, but still the book in sound condition. A newspaper obituary of Daniels is pasted inside the...

Some Account of the Family of the Armitages from 1662 to the present time.

ARMITAGE, Cyrus: · 1850

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Reed & Pardon, 1850, pp. 98, 6. Original cloth, all edges gilt. Good condition, but the large folding pedigree is now loose, but at least this makes it easier to use. Name on endpaper. With much about American branches of the family.

Our Country Churches and Chapels.

"ATTICUS", (A. Hewitson): · 1872

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Preston, 1872, pp. 585, illustrated and printed title pages. Original cloth, all edges gilt. Some slight rubbing to spine ennds, but an unusually nice, bright copy. Name on title page, bookplate removed from front endpaper. Covers an extensive area all around Preston.

Astley Hall, Chorley, Lancashire. A Report on the Hall and its Contents.

Cescinsky, Herbert: · 1923

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Chorley, 1923. 48 pages with three folding plans. Number 22 of only 125 copies printed. Original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, stained and dusty, but still sound and internally good.

The Clockmakers and Watchmakers of Wigan 1650-1850.

HAWKES, Arthur John: · 1950

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Wigan, for the author, 1950, 84 pages, 13 illustrations.Good condition in the original cloth.

Annals of Prestwich.

MIDDLETON, George: · 1902

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

Manchester, Abel Heywood,1902, pp. xii, 215, with the erratum slip and 8 illustrations. Original cloth, very good condition. With a list of subscribers. Endpaper inscribed from Richard Heape (author of Dated Stones and Sundials of Rochdale) to his nephew Robert Grundy Heape an...

History and Traditions of Prestwich.

NICHOLLS,The Rev. W: · 1905

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Manchester, Albert Sutton,1905, first edition, pp.193, frontispiece. Pages browned as always owing to the poor quality of paper used. Original cloth binding, a good,sound copy.

Rural Historical Gleanings in South Lancashire.

FIELDING, Joseph: · 1852

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

Manchester, 1852, volume first ( but in fact all published). Modern leather binding. Very good condition.Originally issued in monthly parts this is a very scarce and detailed account of South East Lancashire, its people, scenery and manufactures.. Covering Manchester, Oldham, ...

Reminiscences in the Life of Joshua Bradley: Donor of Hyde Town Hall Clock and Bells.

BRADLEY, James: · 1904

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Oldham, Clegg, 1904. pp. 281, 9 illustrations. Original cloth, good, sound condition.

History and Associations of Altham and Huncoat.

AINSWORTH, Richard: · 1932

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

Accrington, Wardleworth, 1932. pp. xii, 307, numerous illustrations, list of subscribers. Original black cloth, some foxing, else very good condition. Signed by the author.

Notes (Historical and Biographical) Mainly of Todmorden and District.

TRAVIS, John: · 1896

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Rochdale, E. Wrigley, 1896, pp. 386 plus index, portrait frontispiece. Original binding of half leather with cloth sides, top and for-edge gilt. Boards a bit discoloured, but very good and sound condition.

The History of Hyde and its Neighbourhood.

MIDDLETON, Thomas: · 1932

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Hyde,1932, pp. xxxiv, 579 plus errata leaf. Profusely illustrated. Includes Denton, Haughton, Dukinfield, Mottram, Longdendale, Bredbury, and Marple. Original green cloth spine over paper covered boards. Neat names of previous owners inside. Very nice, clean condition. A subs...

The Registers of the Parish Church of Deane.

DEANE ( Bolton), Lancashire: · 1916

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Bolton, L.P.R.S.,1916-17, two volumes, numbers 53 and 54 in the series, edited by Archibald Sparke. Baptisms and Weddings 1604:1613-1750, Burials 1604; 1613-1750. Original cloth rather rubbed and used ( first volume more so), but still a sound reference set. First volume ex-l...

The Letters (and Correspondence) of Josiah Wedgwood 1762-1795.

FARRER, Katherine Euphemia (editor): · 1973

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Didsbury, E.J.Morten and the Wedgwood Museum, (1973). three volumes, reprinted from the original edition of 1903-1906, Three volumes, pp.vii, 388, 605, 312. The books are in very good condition, but in well-worn creased and chipped dust jackets which are in loose protective s...

Curtain Up.

STREATFEILD, Noel: · 1944

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

Dent, 1944, first edition. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends, and a little rubbed, but a sound, clean copy. Unusually a very good dust jacket from a seventh impression is wrapped around the original.

Royal Lancastrian Pottery 1900-1938.

LOMAX, Abraham: · 1957

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

Bolton,published by the author,1957, pp. 153, with 4 plates in colour and 61 monochrome illustrations. Original cloth in a well-used dust jacket which is chipped particularly along the top edge. Endpapers foxed, small area of fading at top of spine where the jacket is lacking....

Inscribed and Dated Stones and Sundials in and adjoining the Ancient Parish of Rochdale.

HEAPE, Richard: · 1926

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

Privately printed at the Cambridge University Press,1926, small 4to, pp.x, (2),358, photo frontis of the entrance to Healey Hall. Original buckram, Hand-made paper, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Very good condition. I have seen a letter from Cambridge University Press sta...

The Struggle for Supremacy: Being a Series of Chapters in the History of the Leblanc Alkali Industry in Great Britain

ANON: · 1907

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Liverpool, Walmsley, 1907, pp. 78, illustrated. Original cloth, a little wrinkling to back cover, but very good condition.

The Story of the "Cheeryble" Grants from the Spey to the Irwell.

ELLIOT, Rev. W. Hume: · 1906

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Manchester, Sherratt & Hughes, 1906, pp. (8),247 plus publisher's catalogue. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth, spine a bit rubbed, endpapers browned, but good, sound condition. Original photo of Grant's Tower taped to back of half title.