THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY PALATINE AND CITY OF CHESTER : COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL EVIDENCES IN PUBLIC OFFICES, THE HARLEIAN AND COTTONIAN MSS, PAROCHIAL REGISTERS, PRIVATE MUNIMENTS, UNPUBLISHED MSS, COLLECTIONS OF SUCCESSIVE CHESHIRE ANTIQUITIES . . .

2nd edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby. Three volumes bound in six; engraved portraits and plates; full-page coloured map of the County; 2 hand-coloured plates of painted glass, armorials ot text, some minor spotting, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, later red quarter morocco gilt, folio, some rubbing to spine edges, leather a little cracked to bottom of one hinge, otherwise very good. NOTES: George Omerod (1785-1883) was a keen antiquarian and at the age of 23 started making a large collection of documents for his planned history of Cheshire. Born in Manchester and educated in Cheshire, in 1811 he purchased an estate near Chorlton,and the first edition of his great work was published in 1819. Although he left papers for a revised edition, access was not allowed to them by his family, so Thomas Helsby had to produce his revised edition independently. This is a VERY HEAVY set. Size: Folio.