Search Results: Birmingham from Stephen Rench

Birmingham: The Birmingham Magazine Company, 1898 Book. Good. Hardcover. Two complete volumes of the magazine bound in one. Together with some odd pages from volume 3. Vol1 - 240 pages with a plate before page 51. Vol 2 - 176, viii pages - pagination skips 117/118 - with a plate facing page 89. Vol 3 - just odd pages. The pagination is erratic and includes most, but not all, of the plates. There are a few ink notes here and there - front end paper, page 4 of vol 2 and page 178 of vol 3, also to the rear free end paper. Free end papers are browned, particularly at the front from an old newscutting which is loosely inserted. Bound in old cloth covered boards which only mention vols 1 and 2 on the lettering on the spine. A heavy volume, extra postage will be required to send it outside the UK..

Birmingham: Printed for the author by M. Billing, 1853 Book. Fair. Disbound. 290p + final page of errata. Additional engraved frontis and title page - To where the smoke ascends from distant fires, And churches looming with their varied spires. The poem itself takes up less than 90 pages, the appendix taking twice as much. Original cloth, but contents now separated from binding, the cloth is worn and stained and with a hole to the edge of the spine. Bookplates of T Edgar Pemberton to front pastedown and rear free end paper. First and last pages just a bit worn at edges. Frontis and engraved title are browned. Contents are generally very lightly browned. A few pages have marks..

Brighton: W.T. Pike & Co, 19 Grand Parade, 1900 Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated, circa 1900. 203, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout. In the original cloth covered boards and leather spine. The boards are stained and worn, the cloth has been affected by damp and is partly detached from the rear boards. The leather is rather worn, the spine faded. Tear and creasing to the inner margins of pages 187-190. A large and heavy volume.

Birmingham: Printed by Pearson and Rollason, 1778 Book. Good. Hardcover. iv, 140 pages. ESTC T113250 where just two locations are mentioned. In old paper covered boards and leather spine - now all very worn. Leather split down the edges and centre of the spine. Bookplate to the front free end paper of John L Marks of Earlswood. Pages soiled and lightly browned throughout.

1791 Book. Good. Hardcover. Bound volume containing three items relating to the Birmingham riots of 1791. 1. An authentic account of the riots in Birmingham on the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th days of July 1791; with the trails of the rioters, and an impartial collection of letters &c. Written by the supporters of the establishment and the dissenters, in consequence of the tumults. The second edition To which is now added an appendix, containing papers omitted in the first part or since published; likewise the claims of the suffererd and the verdicts of the juries. The whole compiled in order to preserve to posterity the genuine particulars and connnexions of an event which attracted the attention of Europe. Printed (for the compiler) and sold by J. Belcher in Deritend viii, 76, 36 pages. ESTC T79577 Heavily spotted 2. 8 pages containing descriptions of the houses destroyed or damaged. Written in French. Would originally have been issued with plates illustrating the houses. Half the page would… Read More

Birmin, 1951 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xix, [i], 88 pages. Illustrated throughout. In the original blue cloth which is gilt lettered to the front board. Some creasing to page corners..

Birmingham: Printed and published by Radclyffes and Co, No 3 Peck Lane, New Street., 1833 Book. Good. Hardcover. Contains - Prospectus, 4 pages, dated 1832. The author's advertisement, 2 pages, dated 1833. Preface 4 pages South Staffordshire, the mining district, 12 pages ends mid word The town of Birmingham, 8 pages, The manufactures, 8 pages, ends mid word. There is a view of Birmingham facing the preface, this is spotted and browned. A plate of Watt's double acting engine facing page 8 of the Manufactures. 12 more advertising plates, some of them spotted. In the original paper covered boards, with printed paper pasted to them. Leather spine. The boards are soiled and browned. Small piece of paper pasted to the upper right corner of the printed sheet on the front cover. Bookseller's label to the front inner cover of Radclyffes, but this is oxidised and difficult to read. Ink inscriptions to the front inner cover - 2/6 stitched. From Radclyffes + Co Birmingham, 10 Feb 1834. Pencil… Read More

Birmingham: Birmingham School of Printing, 1931 Book. Good. Original Cloth. 41, [2]p. Pages lightly browned. In original cloth, spine faded and worn. Free end papers also browning lightly..

Birmingham: Martin Billing, Son and Co, 1872 Book. Good. Full leather. First Edition. [vi], 69p + [2]p ads at rear. Offsetting of text throughout, most can probably be removed by gentle erasing. Bound in original[?] limp leather wrappers. Gilt lettered to front. Edges worn. Page edges marbled. Small closed tear to rear free end paper..

Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1875 Book. Illus. by Illustrations in chromo-lithography by Thomas Underwood from original drawings by Allen E. Everitt. Fair. Hardcover. [vi], 56 pages + frontispiece and 8 other plates. Rear of frontispiece very spotted. Damp stain to lower inner corner throughout, also to the fore edge of pages. In the original green cloth which has some light wear and marks. Plates are browning and spotting and this affects the tissue interleaving..

Liverpool University Press, 2017 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xvii, [i], 269, [1] pages. Hardback book with just light signs of use.

Birmingham: The Journal Printing Works, 1882 Book. Good. Hardcover. vii, [i], 171, [1] pages + photographic frontispiece. In the original cloth binding which is stained and dulled. Gilt arms of Mason's Science College to the front board. Small hole to the lower edge of the front board. Josiah Mason was an industrialist and philanthropist who founded Mason's Science College, which became the University of Birmingham..

Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1907 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xvi, 246 pages + plates + folding genealogical table. In the original cloth binding, corners a little bumped. End papers browned and spotted. Ink inscription to the half title page - Andrew Crawford with the kind regards of the Author, July 1907..

Archaeopress, 2022 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. [vi], xviii, 318 pages. Paperback. Just light signs of use..

Birmingham: Printed for the Subscribers by White and Pike, 1882 Book. Good. Hardcover. [x], 60, [5]p + 4 folding plans, 62 pages of monuments and 5 other plates. Errata slip tipped in. Bound in original blue cloth, spine very worn and complete;y split along one edge. Occasional foxing, heavy to some of the plans. Prinknash Abbey bookplate to ffep and signs of a label having been removed. Ink owner's name WH Ryland 1907 to the title page. A heavy volume, extra postage may be required to send it outside the UK..

Birmingham: Henry Wright, 1863 Book. Good. Hardcover. [ii], 4, 56 pages, frontispiece, plan and two folding facsimiles. In the original cloth binding, which is just lightly worn. Staining to the inner margins of the preliminary pages. This seems to be an earlier issue as later issues include an updated subscribers' list and there are viii numbered pages of prelims. Folding facsimiles at the rear are browned and spotted. Some spotting to page edges throughout. Ink owner's name to the front pastedown - W.H. Bowater. Small bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown also - Richard L. Grew, Bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, 27 Temple Row, Birmingham..

London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1875 Book. Good. Hardcover. [viii], 164 pages + frontispiece. In the original cloth binding, but this is missing a large section of the spine and another section is torn and coming loose. Numbered sticker to the front pastedown. Light browning to pages. Ink ownership inscription from 1953 to the rear of the half title page..

1901 Brochure. Good. No Binding. Prince of Wales Theatre. Broad Street, Birmingham. Lessees Rodgers Ltd. Manager & Licensee Mr J.F. Graham. Theatre programme for April 1901. La fille de Madame Angot. [8] pages including the covers. Lightly soiled, some tears to the edges. The pages measure approximately 22.5 x 14.9cm.

London: Longman and Co, 1850 Book. Good. Hardcover. [7], 14-185, [1] pages. Pagination erratic but matches the copy on the British Library. Pages are browned throughout. Some pages are heavily stained. In the original cloth binding with printed paper label to the spine. There are also the remains of another paper label at the foot of the spine. Ex library with bookplate of Springfield College to the front pastedown and also the ink stamp of Mansfield College Library - no further signs of institutional ownership. Bookplate of John L Marks of Earlswood to the front free end paper..

Birmingham: City of Birmingham School of Printing, College of Arts and Crafts, 1937 Book. Illus. by Decorated by Bernard Sleigh. Good. Hardcover. xvi, 17, [1] pages. Pages printed in red and black. In the original cloth covered boards. Small tear to the spine..