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 3024612.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1. . ill.. . fol.. Identified in 1768 catalogue [no shelf ref] (entered in a later hand). Ordinary paper issue. 17 plates, 1 folding col. map; 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; doublure marbled, blind and gilt rolled, ruled and tooled; spine gilt and blind tooled; spine lettered in gilt directly onto leather: 'Ormerod's history of Cheshire'; edge gilt; board detached.
Makers and roles
George Ormerod (1785-1873) Daniel King Sir Peter Leycester (1614-1678)