[Rarebooks] FS: A scarce & unrecorded Pickering imprint

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(EDUCATION) Whatton, William Robert. THE HISTORY OF MANCHESTER SCHOOL; Comprising the Foundation, the Original Charters and Statutes, and the Revenues and Expenditure... Illustrated by Numerous Biographical and Explanatory Notes, and a Memoir of the Life of the Founder. London: William Pickering [and] Manchester: Agnew and Zanetti. 1834. Lg. 4to. iv,124pp. Illus. with 4 engraved plates. BOUND WITH (as published): Whatton, William Robert.  A HISTORY OF THE CHELTHAM HOSPITAL AND LIBRARY, with a Genealogical Account of the Founder... Relating to the Office of High Sheriff and Treasurer of the County of Lancaster... Manchester: Agnew and Zanetti, Repository of Arts. 1833. (4),(125)-294pp. Illus. with an engraved frontis. portrait and 11 engraved plates (1 a ground plan). Plates with occasional light foxing. Bound by Riviere (circa 1900) in 1/2 dark blue morocco, gilt tooled spine, over marbled boards, hinges a bit rubbed.    $375.00 (trade discount allowed)
Not recorded in the WILLIAM PICKERING bibliographies.

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