Digital Resources

An occasional series of digitised items from the collection available to read as pdf files.

Hollingworth's Mancuniensis

Manchester Association for Constitutional Order

Criminal Manchester

Manchester and Liverpool of Today

William Seward's Diary

Fishwick's History of Rochdale

Art Treasures Examiner of 1857

The North Western Museum of Science and Industry: Some Reminiscences by Richard Hills

Memoir of Cecil Wray

The Anti-Monopolist

Knyvett's Defence of this Realm

Athenaeum Souvenir

The Cup of Destiny: How to Tell Fortunes with Tea Leaves

By Mistress Zodiah

Published by the Daisy Bank Printing and Publishing Company, early C20th.

View the pdf of The Cup of Destiny here.

The Daisy Bank Printing Company was owned by Jesse Pemberton, who brought out about forty titles at the beginning of the C20th, mostly on magic, sport, and true crime.

For more information on Daisy Bank, we recommend you consult Librarian Michael Powell's definitive study 'Do the Dead Talk?', in Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade, published in 2006 by Oak Knoll Press and available to view here at the Library.