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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: Decorative initial ``L'' with wild flowers and weeds]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/104-initial-letter-l-thistle-q75-187x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial ``L'' with wild flowers and weeds]")
Decorative initial “L” with wild flowers and weeds
A decorative initial capital letter “L” used at the start of a chapter. This one featuers thistles, clover (or shamrock), and a flower that could be a daisy. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Mace and Sword of Chester]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/104-mace-and-sword-of-chester-q85-71x200.jpg "[picture: Mace and Sword of Chester]")
The ceremonial mace and sword of the city of Chester. [$]
![[picture: Chapter-head: Greek or Egyptian Frieze]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/104-chapterhead-border-q90-943x200.jpg "[picture: Chapter-head: Greek or Egyptian Frieze]")
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...] [$]
![[picture: Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John's Street]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/085-Cathedral-Tower-from-St-Johns-Street-q85-172x200.jpg "[picture: Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John's Street]")
Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John’s Street
A narrow cobbled street with black-and-white half-timbered buildings, an overhanging turret with a percariously-mounted lamp, a heavily-laden cart pulled by two horses, and in the background, with birds wheeling about it, the tower of Chester cathedral. Perhaps this street had [...] [more...] [$]
![[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. [$]
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