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History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster ... The biographical department by W. R. Whatton, Esq. (History of the cotton manufacture [by Edward Baines Jun.]) [With plates

WHATTON, William Robert., BAINES, Edward - M.P. for Leeds · 1836 · Fisher, Son & Co. · 114 pictures

A multi-volume county history of Lancashire issued by Fisher, Son & Co. in 1836, with topographical and manufacturing text by Edward Baines and biographies of local families by W. R. Whatton, sold to subscribers and antiquarian readers. Steel-engraved plates show market places and street crowds in fine grey line, while wood-engraved vignettes give framed views of churches and timbered houses alongside heraldic shields, crests in scrollwork cartouches, and bull and lion supporters over blank ribbon scrolls.

British Library · HMNTS 10368.l.15. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)