Wallsend? 1929

Unpaginated. 16 original plates mounted on thick card mounts. Long 4to. Rexene album with tilt titles and motif on upper board. Maroon cord ties. 440 x 350mm. Image sizes are 255 x 203mm Presentation inscription on first leaf "Messrs Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend Yard, Wallsend on Tyne 11 October 1929" Small split on spine of album else very good. The ship was constructed by Swan Hunter for Swedish Lloyd as a passenger Line in 1929, sister ship to the "Britannia". All the photographs show the interiors of the liner from first class to third class accommodation. Each photograph has a printed caption and the photographs have blind stamp of photographer in bottom corner with A Kassels, Gotenborg printed below. Images show high quality furniture in the style of Maples or Waring and Gillow traditional in style. Beautifully composed images.

Glasgow James Maclehose [1870] 1878

xvi + 289pp including list of subscribers to both first and second editions. Large 4to. Red Turkey Morocco spine, green boards with gilt lettering and impressed gilt design of a country house on upper board. head and base of spine slightly rubbed with scuff mark along spine else a very bright copy. Signature of previous owner on the half title.[ Agnes M R Dunlop] This book was essentially commissioned by well-to-do members of the old aristocracy and merchant class to record the houses in the Glasgow area and is a parallel to his book on Ayrshire houses. 100 mounted carbon prints, plus three other mounted plates, two of which are maps of Glasgow. One of 225 copies. Hard to find in this condition.