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Manchester & London: Manchester & London: John Heywood 1888 First Edition cr.8vo xvi,311pp, 1888 VG original cloth, gilt titles, moderate edgewear, spine ends chipped, internally very clean throughout. A collection of essays which include The Manchester Rebels; Colour-Names amongst the English Gipsies; The Relation of Archaeology to Art; Byron's Influence on European Literature; The Invention of Paper Money; The Old English Guilds; Virgil and Cotton; Luxury, Ancient & Modern; Blindness or Deafness; The Legend of the Sirens; Facts and Fancies of Longevity; George Eliot's Use of Dialect; The Origin of Sunday Schools; The Cost of Theatrical Amusements; English the Dominant Language of the Future; Folk-Lore of Architecture; The Geographical Distribution of Men of Genius; Sir Richard Phillips - A Bookseller & Author; The First Balloon Ascent in Eng land; A Century of the Cotton Trade; On the Increase of Wealth and Population in Lancashire. Each essay has a bibliography, and there is… Read More