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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

CROSTON, James., BAINES, Edward - M.P. for Leeds · 1888 · John Heywood · 130 pictures

A multi-volume county history of Lancashire, revised by James Croston from Edward Baines's work and published by John Heywood in Manchester in 1888, for local antiquaries and gentry subscribers. The plates are line-engraved armorial achievements—tilting shields, mantling, helms, crests and tasselled cords—with blazons set in the margin, offering crisp foliate scrollwork and heraldic charges for reuse as ornament.

British Library · HMNTS 10362.c.1. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)