Corbett, J., Borough Engineer of Salford; Chairman of Committees of the Agecroft Rowing Club The River Irwell. Pleasant Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Century and Suggestions for Improvements in the Twentieth , Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, 1907.

First Edition. Good. 137mm x 213mm tall (5.5" x 8.5" approx.). Pp (vi), 155, xii, with frontispiece and 49 further single-sided leaves giving a total of 57 b/w photos and 3 maps (one a multi-folding sheet some 21" long). Spine sunned, with a small chip to spine-foot, contents leaf browned, and a brown offset-mark to pages 18 & 19 where a piece of newspaper has been used in the past as a page-marker. Overall an internally tight and clean example of this uncommon, well-written, and highly informative book. (Book ref. 003731)  £55.00

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