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![[picture: Front Cover, The River Dee]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-382x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, The River Dee]")
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.
![[picture: Chester, from the Alford Road.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/000-frontispiece-chester-from-alford-road-q70-269x200.jpg "[picture: Chester, from the Alford Road.]")
Chester, from the Alford Road.
Probably this view was drawn from the road between Chester and Aldford, as it’s written today, at the bank of the River Dee. [$]
![[picture: Mace and Sword of Chester]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/104-mace-and-sword-of-chester-q85-71x200.jpg "[picture: Mace and Sword of Chester]")
The ceremonial mace and sword of the city of Chester. [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, The River Dee]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-153x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, The River Dee]")
My copy is bound in full read leather with a gold vine-leaf motif border. [$]
![[picture: Cathedral Cloisters and King's School]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/083-Cathedral-Cloisters-and-Kings-School-q75-230x200.jpg "[picture: Cathedral Cloisters and King's School]")
Cathedral Cloisters and King’s School
The King’s School was so named when Henry VIII founded it in 1541. The location shown in the woodcut is now (2007) a Barclays Bank. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page, The River Dee]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-148x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, The River Dee]")
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