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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: 15
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Ancient Half-Timbered Houses, Foregate Street]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/095-Ancient-Half-Timbered-Houses-q67-200x200.jpg "[picture: Ancient Half-Timbered Houses, Foregate Street]")
Ancient Half-Timbered Houses, Foregate Street
“Turning now from the outside of the walls to the inside, we must remember that the four Roman Streets, intersecting one another at right angles, have always been the features which determined the whole interior character of the city. Only we must add to this fact that at the intersection was the “Hich Cross” itself—a structure of stone, which [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, The River Dee]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-153x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, The River Dee]")
My copy is bound in full read leather with a gold vine-leaf motif border. [$]
![[picture: Heron Bridge]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/134-Heron-Bridge-q70-227x200.jpg "[picture: Heron Bridge]")
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Remains of Valle Crucis Abbey]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/041-Remains-of-Valle-Crucis-Abbey-q37-267x200.jpg "[picture: Remains of Valle Crucis Abbey]")
“It was exactly in the year 1200 that Madoc, Lord of Bromfield, at the time when Prince Llewellyn was contending with King John, founded this monastic house in a deep hollow, already called the Valley of the Cross, from a monumental cross which stood there previously, and stands theire still [...] [more...] [$]
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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