1904 A Short History of The Township of Rivington In the County of Lancaster

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition. 

Illustrated with a monochrome photographed frontispiece and sixteen monochrome illustrations, including monochrome vignettes, a folding colour map, and monochrome photographic plates. Collated, complete.

Presented by William Hesketh Lever, an English industrialist, philanthropist and politician, to 'Col G. J. French'. The work was presented for the opening of Lever Park, a Landscape park in Rivington donated by William Lever. 

This work also includes a folded illustration by Thomas Raffles Davison depicting an old barn at Rivington which was restored by W. H. Lever, with a relevant newspaper article about the illustration. The illustration was taken from the 'The British Architect' periodical. 

William Fergusson Irvine's account of the history of Rivington, a village and Civil Parish in Lancashire in England. The work discusses the history of the manor, the Rivington Church, Grammar School and the chapel, and covers the old houses and families, reservoirs and more. 

In the publisher's original cloth with a crushed morocco spine label.