Lot 156
Bryans, William
Antiquities of Cheshire, in Photograph
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
With Short Descriptive Notes: to which are added Views of Several Ancient Buildings in Shropshire and North Wales. Chesters: Hugh Roberts, 1858. First edition, 4to (37 x 27cm), original half morocco, rebacked, purple cloth sides, [9] 55 pp., 25 mounted albumen print photographs, some stripping and wear to backstrip and corners, variable spotting to mounts and text-leaves, silvering along edges of 'Birth-place of Bishop Wilson' (plate no. 8), very short closed tear to mount of 'Waberton Church' (no. 9), 'Tarvin Church' (no. 17) with a few spots within photograph, hint of silvering to 'South Doorway, Edstaston Church' (no. 25), withdrawn from Chester Reference Library with their plate to front pastedown, withdrawal stamp to initial blank, ink-stamp to title-page, and further small ink-stamps to pp. 3 and 55 [Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 83]. Together with: Charles Leigh, The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire. with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, Oxford: for the Author, 1700, first edition, folio, 20th-century half morocco, 24 engraved plates, folding map hand-coloured in outline, lacking portrait frontispiece, ex-Chester Reference Library with associated markings, damp-staining towards rear, text not collated