The History of Cheshire: containing King's Vale-Royal Entire, together with considerable extracts from Sir Peter Leycester's Antiquities of Cheshire; and the observations of later writers, particularly Pennant, Grose, &c, &c. The whole forming a complete description of that county, with all its hundreds; seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders; rivers, towns, castles, and buildings, ancient and modern. To which is prefixed an Introduction, exhibiting a general view of the state of the Kingdom previous to, and immediately after, the Norman Conquest. Two volume set.
Chester: John Poole, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], lxxxviii, 1-430; [ii], 431-994. With the original marbled endpapers, bearing the handwritten ownership label of John Clough of Lostock Gralam. Structurally sound and attractive set, with foxing or soiling affecting most pages, sometimes heavily. Offsetting to a few pages, and early owner's..... More