The history of the county palatine and city of Chester; . compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS., parochial registers, ...; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. By George Ormerod, ... In three volumes.
George Ormerod (1785-1873)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3024612
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. . ill.. . fol.. Identified in 1768 catalogue [no shelf ref] (entered in a later hand). Ordinary paper issue. The list of subscribers' includes: 'The Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire' [i.e.: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford, 1st earl of Warrington (2nd. cr.) (1737-1819). Presumably the 5th earl, as subscription would have been required earlier than publication.] The history of Dunham is outlined on pp.398-406 (Booth pedigree - p. 401-6, Grey pedigree - p. 406). [48] plates: vol. 1: 17 plates, 1 folding col. map; vol. 2: 15 plates, 2 col.; vol. 3: 16 plates, 1 col.. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings, surmounted by an earl's coronet [i.e.: George Harry Grey, 6th earl of Stamford (1765-1845), after assumption of earldom in 1819].. Binding: Polished calf; blind rolled, ruled and tooled, gilt rolled, ruled and tooled; doublures marbled, blind and gilt rolled, ruled and tooled; spines gilt and blind tooled; spines lettered in gilt directly onto leather: 'Ormerod's history of Cheshire'; edges gilt; boards detached.
Makers and roles
George Ormerod (1785-1873) Daniel King Sir Peter Leycester (1614-1678)