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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: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Ruins of St. John's, from the Grosvenor Park,]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/078-Ruins-of-St.-Johns-q50-162x200.jpg "[picture: Ruins of St. John's, from the Grosvenor Park,]")
Ruins of St. John’s, from the Grosvenor Park,
bwpics has a history and more pictures of this ruined church which was heavily ‘restored’ in the 19th century. [more...] [$]
![[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: 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. [$]
![[picture: Mace and Sword of Chester]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/104-mace-and-sword-of-chester-q85-71x200.jpg "[picture: Mace and Sword of Chester]")
The ceremonial mace and sword of the city of Chester. [$]
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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