Copper engraved certificate approx 9” x 5” with armorial vignette and “George Silvertop Esq.”. Single sheet, undated but circa 1800. Plate mark to margin. The field ‘Newcastle upon Tyne’ is engraved ready for use, together ...

Softcover. Quarto, pp vi, 242. Pictorial card wraps. Spine creased with bump at head and associated small split at upper front joint; corner crease to upper cover and early leaves and toning to rear cover ...

Broadside approximately 15” x 11”. Minor surface soiling and foxing and repair to upper right corner, otherwise a very clean copy.

Broadside approximately 11” x 8 1/2”. Light folding crease (now faint) approx 2 inches from right-hand edge. Very minor foxing to margin; single small nick to edge and a little faint soiling top edge ...

Reprint: Facsimile of 1837 original. Large octavo. [2], 200 pp. Illustrated. Book Condition: Near Fine. Publisher's bottle-green cloth with gilt titles to maroon panel to spine; maroon endpapers. Part of “The British Book Trade ...

Octavo. 194 pp, [16] advertisements. Errata slip bound-in. Engraved title-page showing a scene of industry with workers, horse-drawn wagons of coal and belching chimneys; 8 geological plates plus line drawings -and tables in text. Book ...

Reprint. Octavo. [3], pp 4-51, [1]. Book Condition: Very Good. Modern plain card wraps. Very light foxing and small stain to edge of final blank otherwise a very clean crisp copy indeed. McCulloch (1789-1864) was ...

Octavo. [2], 45 pp, [1] blank. Book Condition: Very Good. Modern plain card wraps. Cropped to edge with very minor loss to margins of text to edges pp 14, 21/2, 29/30 (single letters ...

Octavo. 24 pp. Book Condition: Near Fine. Pamphlet in modern plain thin card wraps. Minor soiling top edge throughout with associated light creasing and small nick to half-title. No annotation or inscriptions. Scarce- Copac locates ...

[1887]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. xiv, 109 pp all printed and paginated to recto only, 8 advertisements. 60 full-page illustrations by James West; folding map to rear. Book Condition: Very Good. Half cream paper with black ...

W Shaw & Co Photograph Archive. Collection of fifteen superb mounted and titled early twentieth century silver gelatin prints depicting armament manufacture at the Wellington Cast Steel Foundry in Middlesbrough, owned by William Shaw & Co. The largest five magnum prints are 22 x 28 inches (including mount) and show the manufacture of 'Cast Steel Ariel Bombs for the Great War', four of these images are reproduced as smaller prints of 13 x 17 inches (including mount). Two photographs are approx 21 x 15 1/2 inches and show variously the 'Main Casting of Stern Frame for Admiralty Twin Screw Tank Steamer' and a superb image of 'Southampton Floating Dry Dock, The Largest of its Kind in the World' built by Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Another image is 12 x 9 1/2 inches and shows a cast Steel Blast Box for a Bessemer Convertor and one untitled image of the same size of cast machinery in the Shaw yard. A further image (21 x 17 inches) shows a train of '12 Cast Steel Slag Ladles and Carriages' with the W. Shaw Blast Furnace in the background, lastly a smaller image (20 x 10 1/2 inch) of a train of cast steel ships propellers. Minor soiling to mounts with chips and to extremities, professional archival repair to one mount but overall in very good condition.

The Wellington Foundry was opened in 1881 and was owned by Shaw’s until a 1960 take over by Leys Foundry; Middlesbrough was then the centre for steel manufacture in England (being nicknamed the ‘Infant Hercules’ by William Gladstone) with over 140 foundries situated there in its heyday.

Small quarto. 55 pp. Frontispiece with portraits of the Directors in 1933; "With compliments" leaf with facsimile signatures. Numerous plates mainly from photographs of local personalities and views. Book condition: Very Good. Original brown cloth ...