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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: Eaton Hall]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/135-Eaton-Hall-q72-200x200.jpg "[picture: Eaton Hall]")
Eaton Hall, the Cheshire seat of the Duke of Westminster, is situated in a very large, though hardly picturesque, park, which is liberally thrown open to strangers, and, in consequence, is a great boon to Chester. The Grosvenor Lodge is only a few hundred yards from the city walls, and an avenue of two miles in length leads up to the deer-park, which is entered by a large lodge and gateway, and [...] [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: Cathedral from the N.E. and part of City Wall.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/082-Cathedral-from-the-NE-and-part-of-city-wall-q75-152x200.jpg "[picture: Cathedral from the N.E. and part of City Wall.]")
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...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page, The River Dee]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-148x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, The River Dee]")
![[picture: Chapter-head: Greek or Egyptian Frieze]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/104-chapterhead-border-q90-943x200.jpg "[picture: Chapter-head: Greek or Egyptian Frieze]")
Chapter-head: Greek or Egyptian Frieze
This Victorian border, ornament or frieze is in the style of a frieze from a classical Greek temple, a style that was also imitated in Roman and (later) Egyptian decoration. It [...] [more...] [$]
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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