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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: Heron Bridge]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/134-Heron-Bridge-q70-227x200.jpg "[picture: Heron Bridge]")
![[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: 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...] [$]
![[picture: Ruins of St. John's, from the Grosvenor Park,]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/wm/big/078-Ruins-of-St.-Johns-q50-162x200.jpg "[picture: Ruins of St. John's, from the Grosvenor Park,]")
Ruins of St. John’s, from the Grosvenor Park,
bwpics has a history and more pictures of this ruined church which was heavily ‘restored’ in the 19th century. [more...] [$]
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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