Printed Book

This material is held atUniversity of Manchester Library

  • Reference
    • GB 133 Eng MS 1422/7
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1899
  • Physical Description
    • 243 x 185 mm. 1 vol., [xvi ] + 112 + [i] pp. Binding: publisher's pictorial case binding.

Scope and Content

Joel Wainwright, Memories of Marple: Pictorial and Descriptive Reminiscences of a Life-Time in Marple, Leisure Hours on the Banks of the Goyt, the Tame and the Etherow, with Stories of Old and New of Byegone Days (Manchester: privately printed by Chorlton & Knowles, 1899).

The book contains Wainwright's own account of the history of the Strines Journal on pp. 92-8. Inscribed: 'To my Dear Son Charles Richard Wainwright with my affection, Joel Wainwright, July 17 1899.'