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DERBY - PAMPHLETS AND PAPERS WILKINS (WILLIAM, compiler)
Miscellaneous Extracts selected Chiefly from the Derby Newspapers, 6 vol.

17 April 2012, 11:00 BST
Oxford

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DERBY - PAMPHLETS AND PAPERS

WILKINS (WILLIAM, compiler) Miscellaneous Extracts selected Chiefly from the Derby Newspapers, 6 vol., covering the years 1831 to 1880, approximately 2700 pages, neatly mounted, sources given and indexed in manuscript, signature of W. Wilkins 10 North Parade Derby on flyleaves, bookplate of Alfred Seale Haslam, Mayor of Derby, engineer, the first volume with a quantity of manuscript accounts, pamphlets and printed ephemera bound in (see below), contemporary calf gilt, worn, royal 8vo, Derby, [c.1830-1880]

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The pamphlets include: Memoirs of the Life and Principal Works of the late Joseph Wright, Esq. of Derby, 16 pages, offprint from Monthly Magazine, inscription from R. Phillips to Mr. Evans on title [only the Macmaster copy on ESTC], 1797--Bailey (Thomas) An Account of the Three Days Disturbances in Nottingham, 8 pages, [no copy on Copac], Nottingham, 1831; Report of the Exhibition Committee of the Derby Mechanics Institution, 10 pages [Copac has 2 copies of the catalogue, but not this report], Derby, 1839--Glover (S.) The History of Ilkeston, frontispiece [only the Nottingham copy on Copac], Derby, 1831--Rules of the Derby Town and County Library and Alphabetical Catalogue, 46 pages [no copy of any edition on Copac], Derby, 1856.

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