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LANCASHIRE AUTHORS A SERIES OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Written by John Randal Swann.
Stock no. 2125700
1924. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles. B/w photos. SIGNED by (and dedicated to) R.W. Kenyon - designer of the Ewbank carpet sweeper. Spotting and wear to covers. Corners are bumped. Foxing.

THE BIRDS OF THE LIVERPOOL AREA
Written by Eric Hardy.
Stock no. 2124566
Published by T. Buncle & Co.. 1st 1941. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth. B/w photos. Merseyside Naturalists' Association Handbooks No. 1. Cup ring mark to front cover. Looks like a new front endpaper has been glued in. A little surface paper damage to front pastedown. Foxing to outer page edges.

HANDBOOK FOR SHROPSHIRE, CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE
No author listed.
Stock no. 2124520
Published by John Murray. 1st 1870. Good condition.

Red cloth with gilt titles. With Map. 64 pages of advertisements to rear. New red spine, with gilt titles (old spine is still inserted loosely into book). Heavy wear to edges, with some scuffing to covers. Some foxing. A few small pencil annotations to margins. Map is present, but very fragile!

LEIGH REGISTER GUIDE
Written by M.J. Watts.
Stock no. 1814835
Published by Leigh And District Family History Society. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

Compiled by the Leigh and District Family History Society. Registers of Churches, Copies and their Whereabouts. Large format. Stiff paperwraps. ISBN: 1871247055.

THE OLD CHURCH CLOCK
Written by Richard Parkinson; John Evans.
Stock no. 1814826
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Abel Heywood & Son Ltd.. 5th 1880. Good condition.

Fifth Edition. Edited with a Biographical Sketch of the author by Evans. Olive green cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. xcvii + 267 pages includes index. Top & tail of spine worn with fraying. A few marks to rear board. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Joints and hinges pulled, binding fragile.

THE WORTHIES OF YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE
Written by Hartley Coleridge.
Stock no. 1208783
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1899. Good condition.

Being lives of the most distinguished persons that have been born in, or connected with, those provinces. Red embossed cloth, gilt title to spine. Portrait frontis plus one other b/w portrait plate. 480 pages. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners bumped. Covers soiled. Names and dates in ink on verso of front endpaper. Prelims very browned. Some margin marks and foxspots but contents generally clean.

PRESTON PUBS
Written by Stephen R. Halliwell.
Stock no. 1814267
Published by Amberley. 1st 2014. Fine condition.

Over the past 400 years more than 800 pubs have opened in the city of Preston... well researched and beautifully illustrated. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 9781445638584.

A NORTHERN SCHOOL
Written by Peter Davies.
Stock no. 1608701
Published by Redcliffe Press Ltd.. 1st 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Lancashire artists of the twentieth century. B/w and colour illustrations. ISBN: 0948265736. Spine and corners bumped. Inscriptions in ink to front pastedown. Wrapper edge creased.

CHAPEL INTO CHURCH
Written by A. John Ward.
Stock no. 1605429
Published by A. John Ward. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

How Denton Chapel became St. Lawrence's Church. By Rev. A. John Ward, Rector of St. Lawrence's. B/w photos. Light browning to wrapper.

LANCASHIRE ITS HISTORY LEGENDS AND MANUFACTURES
Written by G.N. Wright.
Stock no. 2106648
Published by Fisher, Son & Co.. Fair condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w plates. Very damp! Covers are worn, with scuffs and chipping and damp marks. Marks of damp affecting book throughout. Still a good reading copy.

BLACKPOOL TO FLEETWOOD
Written by Brian Turner.
Stock no. 1601507
Published by The Light Railway Transport League. Very good condition.

Tramways. Reprinted with additions from the 1975 and 1976 issues of Modern Tramway, published monthly. B/w cardwraps with green title to front. B/w photos. 99 pages. ISBN: 0900433671. Covers scuffed and a little grubby.

WILLOUGHBY MANOR
Written by G. Norway.
Stock no. 1001011
Published by W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell. 1st 1902. Very good condition.

A Story of Old Liverpool. Dark green pictorial cloth, 6 b/w plates. All edges gilt. Corners bumped and rubbed.Bookplate to front pastedown.