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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: 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. [$]
![[picture: Remains of Valle Crucis Abbey]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/041-Remains-of-Valle-Crucis-Abbey-q37-267x200.jpg "[picture: Remains of Valle Crucis Abbey]")
“It was exactly in the year 1200 that Madoc, Lord of Bromfield, at the time when Prince Llewellyn was contending with King John, founded this monastic house in a deep hollow, already called the Valley of the Cross, from a monumental cross which stood there previously, and stands theire still [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Water Tower, with Roman Hypocaust]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/092-Water-Tower,-with-Roman-Hypocaust-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Water Tower, with Roman Hypocaust]")
Water Tower, with Roman Hypocaust
“The descent of Watergate Street, at right angles to Bridge Street, led to the [River] Dee at another point of its broad, sweeping course. Of the actual form of the gate there is less to be recorded; but a little beyond this spot the Water Tower (sometimes called the New Tower), remains at the north-western angle of the city, so as to show us very [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page, The River Dee]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-148x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, The River Dee]")
![[picture: Chester, from the Alford Road.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/000-frontispiece-chester-from-alford-road-q70-269x200.jpg "[picture: Chester, from the Alford Road.]")
Chester, from the Alford Road.
Probably this view was drawn from the road between Chester and Aldford, as it’s written today, at the bank of the River Dee. [$]
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