The history of the county palatine and city of Chester ... [complete in three volumes]

Ormerod, George (1785-1873)

1882, Second Edition. London : George Routledge and Sons. Good set only in contemporary quarter leather over plain boards, with paper spine labels. Boards damp-stained and scuffed; edges, joints, and endbands rubbed. Vol. 1: spine cover detached at head. Vol. 3: endbands fraying. Rear hinges of vols. 1 and 3 broken; board coming detached on vol. 1, mull holding on vol. 3. Some endpapers and plates loose or coming loose, with some plates showing moderate foxing; vol. 2 frontispiece loose with title page. Text blocks complete and otherwise both secure and clean. A serviceable set overall. Further scans and images available on request. Notes; This set comprises mixed formats of the same edition: vols. 1 and 2 crown folio, vol. 3 royal folio ("Large Paper"). Item #465934

Physical description; complete in 3 volumes : illustrations (some colour), genealogical tables, maps, plans, portraits ; vols. 1-2, 39 cm; vol. 3, 48 cm. Notes; Title continues: "Compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished mss., collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county : incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities." Half title: History of Cheshire. Text in two columns. List of subscribers ("new ed., large paper only"): v. 1, p. [v]-vi. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Vol. I. Containing the introduction and prolegomena, the county of the city of Chester, and Bucklow Hundred -- Vol. II. Containing hundreds of Edisbury, Wirral, and Broxton -- Vol. III. Containing the hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield; appendix, and the general index. Subjects; Cheshire. History. Genealogy. Antiquities. Chester. 19th century. Illustrated.

Price: €495.00