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Images from The River Dee: Its Aspect and History by J. S. Howson. My copy has a splendid red leather cover. 4to. pp. xiv, 174, 174. wood-engraved frontis. & 92 text illus. after the drawings of Alfred Rimmer. Complete with half-title, contemporary gilt-stamped roan, inside dentelles, all edges gilt. First edition Chapters on the city of Chester and its cathedrals, Dee River halls, castles, bridges &c.
John Saul Howson died in 1885; Alfred Rimmer died in 1893. The text and images are out of copyright.
Title: The River Dee: Its Aspect and History
Published by: Virtue, Spalding & Co.
City: London
Date: 1875
Total items: 16
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Cathedral from the N.E. and part of City Wall.
“[...] there is good reason to believe that during the Roman occupation of Chester, a church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, stood upon this spot; and most interesting it is thus to connect this ground with the early Christianity of the Apostles of the gentiles, so large a part of whose life was spent among Roman soldiers, and whose name must [...] [more...] [$]
Chapter-head: Greek or Egyptian Frieze
This Victorian border, ornament or frieze is in the style of a frieze from a classical Greek temple, a style that was also imitated in Roman and (later) Egyptian decoration. It [...] [more...] [$]
My copy is bound in full read leather with a gold vine-leaf motif border. [$]
Images from The River Dee: Its Aspect and History by J. S. Howson. My copy has a splendid red leather cover. 4to. pp. xiv, 174, 174. wood-engraved frontis. & 92 text illus. after the drawings of Alfred Rimmer. Complete with half-title, contemporary gilt-stamped roan, inside dentelles, all edges gilt. First edition Chapters on the city of Chester and its cathedrals, Dee River halls, castles, bridges &c.
John Saul Howson died in 1885; Alfred Rimmer died in 1893. The text and images are out of copyright.
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