ECHOES OF OLD LANCASHIRE
Written by William E.A. Axon
Published by William Andrews & Co.
in 1899
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- NORTH WEST UK
- LANCASHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- MANCHESTER
ECHOES OF OLD LANCASHIRE
Written by William E.A. Axon.
Stock no. 1208784
1st.
1899.
Hardback.
Good condition.
A volume intended for those who find it pleasant to wander in the byways of topography and local literature. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Floral endpapers. 263 pages includes index. Plus booklist at rear. Top and tail of spine worn. Edges and corners rubbed. Covers a little marked. Browning to endpapers. Name and date in ink on front endpaper. Contents very good.
Front cover
Contents
- The "Lancashire Plot"
- De Quincey's Highwayman
- Some Lancashire Centenarians
- What was the First Book Printed in Manchester?
- Thomas Lurting: A Liverpool Worthy
- Kufic Coins found in Lancashire
- Newspapers in 1738-39
- A Lancashire Naturalist: Thomas Garnett
- The Traffords of Trafford
- A Manchester will of the Fifteenth Century
- A Visitor to Lancashire in 1807
- How the First Spinning Machinery was taken to Belgium
- Merry Andrew of Manchester
- A Manchester Jeanie Deans
- Some Lancashire Giants
- A Note on William Rowlinson
- Literary Taste of the Eighteenth Century
- Hugh of Manchester: A Statesman and Divine of the Thirteenth Century
- Mrs Fletcher in Lancashire
- Manchester and the First Reform Agitation
- The Folk-Lore of Lancashire
- Manchester Grammar School Mill
- The Rising of 1715
- The Fool of Lancaster
- Alexander Barclay and Manchester
- Index