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Brierley, Ben.
Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life: Daisy Nook Sketches [with] Chronicles of Waverlow; Treadlepin Fold, The New Borough and A Fight For Love; Irkdale; Out of Work, Our Old Nook and The Fratchingtons of Fratchingthorpe [and] Cotters of Mossburn [6 volumes].
Publisher: Abel Heywood & Son/ Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Manchester & London;
Date of Publication: 1881
Stock Code: 8095
Six of the Nine Volumes in the set. Octavo, pp. 127,[1]; 280; 268; 326; 306; 283, [1]. Frontispiece by J. Shackleton to each volume excepting Daisy Nook Sketches. Publishers’ red cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration, featuring floral motifs and roundels of mill shuttles; advertisements to lower boards. Spines lightly sunned with minor wear at tips; Waterlow slightly cocked and Out of Work a little shaken. Ex library copies with printed plates to each front pastedown and ffep; ownership inscription to front pastedown Daisy Nook only. Scattered foxing, heavier to endpapers and edges. A Good set. Stories by Manchester weaver and dialect writer Benjamin Brierley (1825-1896). Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £65.00