Four volumes [1867]. First Edition in the original publisher's cloth binding with decorative gilt. Ex-library books (Clifford- Bratt Memorial Library). In fair condition, boards to Division II are detached but present, all volumes rubbed and bumped. Hinges torn at various points, bindings still largely solid. With eighteen full page plates of views and a series of seven engraved portraits taken from original drawings by H. Warren . These are bound in the front of each volume on heavy card. These and the first few pages of text are foxed. Thomas Baines was an English journalist and historian. This is a history and description of the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, forming the North-Western division of England, from the earliest ages to the present time (1867). With an account of the rise and progress of manufactures and commerce, and civil and mechanical engineering in these districts by William Fairbairn.