LANCASHIRE. – Thomas Dunham WHITAKER. An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe. To Which Is Subjoined An Account of the Parish of Cartmell. London and Manchester: George Routledge and Sons and L.C. Gent, 1872-1876. 2 vols., largest paper edition, being number 30 of only 40 copies signed by the publisher George Routledge, large 4to (380 x 282mm.) 37 engraved plates, including 1 folding plate of ‘The Hall of Little Mitton’, numerous folding genealogies. (Toning, spotting to plate margins, marginal tear to limitation page of volume I.) Original red morocco, gilt lettering to spines (extremities lightly rubbed). – And a further five related volumes (including Edward Baines’ ‘History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster’, 4 vols., 1836, 4to, and a third edition of Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s ‘An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe’, 1818, 4to) (7). Provenance: the property of The Much Hon. The Baron of Stobo.