Topography, English Counties – Lysons, (Daniel FRS) & (Samue...

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Topography, English Counties – Lysons, (Daniel FRS) & (Samuel, FRS, FSA), Magna Britannia Being a Concise Topography of the Several Counties of Great Britain, The County Palatine of Chester Vol. II Part II of 6 published, London, Cadell & Davies 1810, 4to, 297-889pp, 35 engraved plates, county map and map of Chester, marbled endpapers, later armorial bookplate Sir W Hesketh Lever, Bt., bound plain boards, half leather, gilt titles to spine reading ‘History of Cheshire/Lysons’ (1)

***William Hesketh Lever FRGS, FRIBA, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), soap manufacturer and philanthropist, was made a baronet in 1911 but advanced to a peerage in 1917. This volume would have been intended for his library at Thornton Manor, Wirral, Cheshire