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THE MOUSE AND HIS MASTER: THE LIFE AND WORK OF TERENCE CUNEO
Written by Terence Cuneo. Illustrated by Terence Cuneo.
Stock no. 1827732
Published by New Cavendish Books. 1st 1977. Very good condition.

Terence Cuneo's life story and a cross-section of his life's work. Cuneo was an artist of many subjects including steam trains, military, industrial. Large oblong format. Cream textured cloth, gilt titles. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations. Top edge deep green. ISBN: 0904568083. Cream coloured boards a little grubby, remains of labels to rear. Contents are clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly worn and a little grubby.

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FELINHELI A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE PORT OF DINORWIC
Written by Reg Chambers Jones.
Stock no. 1327368
Published by Bridge Books. 1st 1992. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. Charts the rise and fall of the welsh slate industry. ISBN: 1872424260. Covers lightly browned and edge rubbed.

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THE IRON INDUSTRY OF THE WEALD
Written by Henry Cleere; David Crossley.
Stock no. 1827644
Published by Leicester University Press. 1st 1985. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0718512138. Light browning and minor foxing to top edge of text block else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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STONE: QUARRYING AND BUILDING IN ENGLAND AD 43-1525
Written by David Parsons.
Stock no. 1827612
Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Written by no fewer than eighteen specialists. The history of the industry, the sources of stone and of the routes by which it travelled from the quarry to the finished building. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and drawings, a few colour photos. ISBN: 0850337682. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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STATIONARY STEAM ENGINE MAKERS VOLUME 1 (LANDMARK COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY)
Written by George Watkins; A.P. Woolrich.
Stock no. 1326690
Published by Landmark Publishing. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Illustrations, photographs and descriptions of stationary steam engine makers. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1843062003. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and slightly faded to spine.

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FLOUR MANUFACTURE: A TREATISE ON MILLING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
Written by Friedrich Kick; H.H.P. Powles.
Stock no. 1826854
Published by Crosby Lockwood and Son. 2nd 1888. Almost very good condition.

Translated from the Second Enlarged and Revised Edition with Supplement by H.H.P. Powles also bound in. Illustrated with 24 fold-out plates plus another 4 fold-out plates to supplement. 113 woodcuts plus 54 woodcuts to supplement. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Text block untrimmed. Spine & board corners rubbed & worn. Cloth joints starting to split from the outside. Inner joints still firm. Text block and page edges a little browned. All plates present. A few finger marks to margins. Some dampstaining to some plates.

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TECHNICS OF FLOUR MILLING: A HANDBOOK FOR STUDENTS
Written by W. Halliwell.
Stock no. 1826848
Published by The Northern Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1st 1898. Almost very good condition.

Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to front. B/w illustrations and diagrams. Boards a little scuffed and marked. Rear joint pulled. Endpapers and text block browned. Some black powder spots to prelims and rear endpapers. A few margin marks.

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A HISTORY OF THE CALICO PRINTING INDUSTRY OF GREAT BRITAIN
Written by Geoffrey Turnbull.
Stock no. 1826846
Published by John Sherratt & Son. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Calico printing is cloth printed with simple designs in one or more colours. A combination of many highly technical processes. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Uneven fading to top & tail of spine. Foxing to text block and endpapers. Green patterned dustwrapper is heavily edge-worn with loss to corners.

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FLOUR MILLING PROCESSES
Written by J.H. Scott.
Stock no. 1826844
Published by Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1st 1936. Almost very good condition.

Aspects of the flour milling process, modern at the time of publication in 1936. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w diagrams and charts. Ex-lib with usual markings. Spine is cocked. Hinges pulled but binding tight. Light rubbing to board edges. Text block lightly browned and slightly grubby. A few marks to contents and a few pencil annotations present.

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PRACTICAL PAPER-MAKING
Written by George Clapperton.
Stock no. 1826831
Published by Crosby Lockwood and Son. 1st 1894. Very good condition.

A Manual for Paper-Makers and Owners and Managers of Paper Mills to which are appended useful tables, calculations, data, etc. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations reproduced from micro-photographs. Top & tail of spine lightly worn. Page browning. Some hinges pulled but binding is tight.

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PATTERNS OF LABOUR: WORK AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE POTTERY INDUSTRY
Written by Richard Whipp.
Stock no. 1826830
Published by Routledge. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Exploring the interaction between home, paid work, and the individual. The author looks at the far-reaching effects on one industry of industrialisation, economic transformation, notions of gender, and unionisation. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0415030765. Some light scuffing to dustwrapper.

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L S LOWRY THE MAN AND HIS ART
Written by Judith Sandling; Michael Leber. Illustrated by L.S. Lowry.
Stock no. 1826763
Published by City Of Salford Art Gallery And Museums. Circa 1991. Slightly better than very good condition.

Produced to accompany an exhibition of Lowry's paintings and drawings. Black pictorial cardwraps. B/w and colour illustrations. 32 pages. ISBN: 0901952206. Covers lightly scuffed. Includes loosely inserted list of paintings and drawings. A few foxspots to top margin of first page.

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