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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. · 119 pictures

A county history of Lancashire published by Fisher, Son & Co. in 1836, with biographies by W. R. Whatton and a section on cotton manufacture by Edward Baines, sold to local subscribers and antiquarians. The wood engravings are mostly historiated initials in which letters are formed from tree trunks, scrolls or ruins framing halls, castles, streets and battle scenes.

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