Guides & Directories
The Liverpool Directory for the Year 1766
The Stranger in Liverpool 1812
The Stranger in Liverpool 1823
The Picture of Liverpool or Strangers Guide 1835
General Histories
An essay towards the history of Leverpool William Enfield (George Perry) 1774
A descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of Liverpool James Wallace 1796
History, directory and gazetteer of the county palatine of Lancaster vol 1 Edward Baines 1824
The Commerce of Liverpool Braithwaite Poole 1854
Lancashire and Cheshire, past and present: Thomas Baines 1867
Memoirs & Biographies
Liverpool a few years since by ‘An Old Stager’ James Aspinall 1854
The tales of old Liverpool John P Eiffe 1886
Bygone LiverpoolHenry S Young & Harold S Young (intro by Ramsay Muir) 1913
Recollections of Old Liverpool by ‘A Nonagenarian’ James Stonehouse 1863
John Manesty, the Liverpool merchant vol 1
John Manesty, the Liverpool merchant vol 2 William Maginn 1844
Reminiscences of a Liverpool ship owner, 1850-1920 Sir William Bower Forwood 1920
Active-service diary, 21 Jan 1917-1 July 1917 Edward Hornby Shears 1919
Reports & original documents
Report to the Health committee on the borough of Liverpool under the Sanitary act from 1856 to 1862 1863
Speeches of the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P., October 1868 William Ewart Gladstone 1868
Speeches of the Right Hon. George Canning during the election in Liverpool 1818 G Canning 1818
Speeches of the Right Hon. George Canning the 12th of June, 1816 George Canning 1816
Education act, 1902. Scheme for the constitution of an education committee 1903
Speeches of the Right Hon. George Canning Thomas Kaye 1825
Handbook to the Commercial reference library 1920
Catalogue of Mayer Free Library, Bebington. Established January 1st, 1866 1876
The SQUIB-BOOK; BEING AN IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT of the Liverpool election, March 1820
The poll for the election of members of parliament for Liverpool, Dec 1832
The History of Everton Robert Syers 1830
The Wapentake of Wirral 1820 R Stewart-Brown 1907
Rambles round the old churches of Wirral Charles William 1922
A few interesting details about Garston and district R Saunders Jones 1919
A Perambulation of the Hundred of Wirral Harold Edgar Young 1909
Specialist
Selections from the municipal archives and records City of Liverpool vol 1
Selections from the municipal archives and records City of Liverpool vol 2 Sir J A Picton 1883-1886
Liverpool banks [and] bankers, 1760-1837, John Hughes 1906
History of the Liverpool privateers an account of the Liverpool slave trade Gomer Williams 1897
English local government, from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act vol 1
English local government, from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act vol 2
English local government, from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act vol 3
English local government, from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act vol 4
English local government, from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act vol 5
English local government, from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act vol 6
The history of the house of Stanley to 1776 John Seacome 1796
Catholic history of Liverpool Thomas Burke 1910
The Port of Liverpool: its rise and progress Mersey Docks and Harbour Company 1913
Liverpool public libraries. A history of fifty years Peter Cowell 1903
Annals of the Liverpool stage, theatres and music halls in Bootle and Birkenhead R J Broadbent 1908
The place-names Liverpool district names of South-west Lancashire and Wirral Henry Harrison 1898
A circumstantial narrative of the wreck of the Rothsay Castle steam packet Joseph Adshead 1834
The story of the “9th King’s” in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts 1922
Roscoe’s library, or, Old books and old times James Aspinall 1853
Memoir of the Late Henry Park,Esq.,surgeon, of Liverpool 1840
Internet Library of Early Journals
Suburbs
The History of Everton : Robert Syers 1830
The Wapentake of Wirral; Ronald Stewart-Brown 1907
Rambles round the old churches of Wirral Charles William 1922
A few interesting details about Garston and district R Saunders Jones 1919
A perambulation of the Hundred of Wirral Harold Edgar Youngm 1909
Gleanings towards the annals of Aughton, near Ormskirk G Coulthard Newstead 1893
Novels
Redburn his first voyage Herman Melville 1850
The riot act : a play in three acts Sir James Sexton 1914
Harry Birkett; the story of the man who helped himself Hugh Shimmin 1860
Liverpool in eighteen hundred & twenty-five, a satire [in verse] by ‘Jeremy Jumper’ James Scott Walker 1825
Liverpool ho! Powys Oswyn 1857