ORMEROD, George (1785-1873). The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester ... Second Edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882. 3 volumes, 2° (379 x 255mm). Half titles, 3 engraved portrait frontispieces, 2 hand-coloured lithographed maps, one double-page, one plan, 54 engraved plates, 2 hand-coloured. (Title of vol. III torn at margin, occasional light spotting.) Early 20th-century half russet morocco gilt, spines with raised bands and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed). Cf. Brunet IV, 235: "Une des bonnes histoires particulières des comteés d' Angleterre"; Lowndes 1732: "A highly-valued county history ..." (3)