Search Results: Authors starting with I from Rochdale Book Company

For the Authors, 1946. Old repair to inside of the covers at the top, else good condition with the folding map intact. A description of this early Scottish mining waggonway.

Liverpool, Henry Young, 1903, pp. 40. Original cream buckram which is almost inevitably a bit soiled, else a very good copy.

Edinburgh, Ballantyne Press, 1904, 4to, pp. xv, 2ii, folding map and numerous illustrations. With some account of the church and grammar school.Original buckram with leather title label. Printed presentation inscription from W.H. Lever (later Lord Leverhulme). Leather label a little rubbed, small brown stain affecting the top outer corners through most of the book, but nowhere near the text. Otherwise a good, sound copy.

London, Edward Churton, 1836, two volumes in one, pp. xxiii, [3], 356, [ii], 402, folding map and four plates, probably lacking the half title to volume 2. Near contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Booards rubbed, but binding firm. Some internal soiling, mainly to the preliminary leaves of each volume, plate margins browned, but generally a sound copy. An important description of the Zulu nation. See Mendelssohn vol. 1, pp 760-761 for a lengthy paragraph on the book and its "valuable notes on the country, its language, population and customs of the natives".