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Ancient Chester: a Series of Illustrations on the Streets of this Old City.
by HUGHES Thomas 1822-1896
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London & Manchester: Chester: Warrington:: Alex Hogg, 1880. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. BATENHAM George & William & MUSGROVE John. VG, 1880, 300 copies this being one of 100 on India Paper. New spine in quarter black calf, title & tooling in gilt to maroon calf label, with contemporary maroon cloth boards, bumped and worn at edges and corners. Internally, yellow endpapers, hinges strengthened, title in red and black ink within double ruled red ink borders, [3], (iv) only, [1] pl list, [1] blank, 29 pl each with a leaf of descriptive text, not paginated, titlepage has some tiny paper loss to thumbing at very edge of page, t.e.g., light spotting to blanks. A great Chester title. (458*322 mm). Title continues: taken sixty years since, including views of Edgars Cave, St Johns Church & Eaton Hall. Hughes, social reformer and children's writer sought an appointment, which he was given in July 1882, as a county court judge. This brought an end to his involvement in politics, and a move to Chester. He resigned from the Co-operative Union. His work as a judge seems to have been congenial to him although, according to John Telford, 'his rough and ready justice became a byword for constant reversal on appeal' (Telford, 10). During the 1880s he wrote four more biographies, including Daniel Macmillan (1882) and David Livingstone (1889). He built himself a house called Uffington, at Dee Hills Park, Chester, to which he moved in October 1885. See ODNB for a full Bio.
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- Bookseller
- Madoc Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001740
- Title
- Ancient Chester: a Series of Illustrations on the Streets of this Old City.
- Author
- HUGHES Thomas 1822-1896
- Illustrator
- BATENHAM George & William & MUSGROVE John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Alex Hogg
- Place of Publication
- London & Manchester: Chester: Warrington:
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23"
- Weight
- 6.61 lbs
- Keywords
- Chester History Topography Batenham England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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