Hi Guys
The book might have been this one:
PICTORIAL RELICS OF ANCIENT LIVERPOOL. Accompanied with descriptions of the antique buildings, etc. compiled from original evidences, private muniments, and unpublished collections.
HERDMAN, W.G.
Available now on ABE Books with one copy described by one bookseller as follows:
Brown, Barnes & Bell. Liverpool., 1878. Folio. 2 vols. pp. iv, xix, 60, (2); 68, xvi, (6). With 72 hors-texte plates with descriptive letterpress. Plates reproduced using the autotype process. Original red half-morocco, banded spine, gilt. Gilt title on front boards. A.e.g. Spine and hinges repaired. The drawings from which the plates are reproduced are principally from original sketches made by the author during a period of more than fifty years, and reproduced in permanent autotype photography; which faithfully reproduces the variegated tones and shading of the original drawings. A fine architectural retrospective of Liverpool's most prominent monuments and buildings. Herdman's study of old Liverpool was first published between 1843-56 with lithographed illustrations. Sales of the volumes were so rapid that this later work was published with autotype plates.
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Price a cool US$ 670.36 from one bookseller and US$ 1266.24 for another copy described as "Subscriber's edition, [Liverpool, printed by Henry Greenwood] privately published by the author, 1857."
Chris
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