FIRST EDITION. 16 mo. vi,. [1], 199 pp with fold-out map frontispiece of fishing districts; six colour plates of flies by Hardy Bros of Alnwick, each mounted on grey card. Original blue cloth with black ...

SIGNED COPY. Revised. Octavo. 142 pp. Fold-out map frontispiece. Book Condition: Good. Blue cloth with gilt titles to upper board. Gift inscribed by the author to ffep. Inner hinges weak; sporadic foxing and fingermarking, mainly ...

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 square octavo. Red roan with geometric blind-stamped decoration to boards. All edges gilt; primrose yellow endpapers. An approx 280 pp. album (the majority of the pages blank) with over 100 signatures of late 19th ...

INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Green cloth with white titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Front pastedown a little fingermarked. Cover cloth edge rubbed especially to spine ...

SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 368 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Fair. Red cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth lightly edge rubbed. Dust wrapper creased, nicked and torn ...

Duodecimo, pp., xii, 312. Publisher’s original sage green cloth with blind-stamped foliate decoration to boards and gilt titles and decoration to spine. Sporadic foxing & a little finger-marking; front paste-down wrinkled with associated creasing to adjacent leaves ...

Original Nuremberg Chronicle leaf from the first (Latin) edition printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493. Folio (approx 15x12 inches) ; printed in 63 lines in gothic letter. Recto and verso decorated with several original woodcut ...

SECOND EDITION. Quarto. 415 pp. Numerous maps and colour illustrations throughout. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Revised and expanded edition with ...

Quarto. 127, [1], pp 327-399 ; six colour plates to rear. Book Condition: Near Fine. Plain green cloth with gilt titles to spine; no publisher stated [Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen]. A very clean copy indeed; no annotation ...

FIRST EDITION. Quarto. xii, 139 pp. Portrait frontis of Rev Charles Hesketh, 3 double-page maps, photographic plate of St Cuthbert's Church, 5 armorials & Meols Hall Inscription in text plus large fold-out Pedigree of the Coudray, Aughton and Hesketh families. Book Condition: Very Good. Publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cover cloth heavily sunned, especially to spine and top portion of upper board, and lightly damp-stained. Free endpapers toned; a little light foxing and fingermarking mainly to portrait frontis ...

SECOND EDITION. Large octavo. xviii, 335 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the Author plus 116 figures to plates including fold-out map. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Original cloth with gilt titles to spine in ...