Author: Gregson, Matthew:
Title: Portfolio of Fragments relative to the History and Antiquities, Topography and Genealogies of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster.
Description: Liverpool: [s.n.] 1824. Second edition. Folio, pp. (preliminaries), 302, cviii + portrait frontispiece, 10 further portrait plates, 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 4 genealogies, 11 other plates. Preliminaries erratically paginated, but consisting of half-title, title to 1817 edition, title to 1824 second edition, Dedication, Preface, List of Subscribers and Contents, as called for. Occasional smudgy marks but internally very good. Contemporary dark brown morocco, raised bands, gilt borders to spine compartments and boards, blind-tooled boards, gilt title to centre of upper board, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Very light rubbing to joints, a few dusty marks, endpapers foxed but still very good indeed. To ffep verso, ownership inscription of J. Feilden, Mollington Hall. The Feildens were a family of Cheshire cotton merchants who occupied Mollington Hall, from 1796 to 1906. Twycross's Mansions of England and Wales (1850) depicts a grand country house with lakes, described as 'the seat of John Feilsen Esq.' Mollington Hall was demolished in 1938, though its lodges and ice house remain. Printed by C.A. Worrall of Slater Court, Liverpool. Lowndes IV, 942

Keywords: British & Irish History & Topography;Middle Ages & Renaissance


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