Roberts' Chester Guide [1858]

WITH
FORTY-SIX ENGRAVINGS.
AND AN
ILLUSTRATED PLAN OF THE CITY.
REVISED BY
JOHN HICKLIN,
Editor of the Chester Courant , and Honorary Secretary of the Chester Archæological and Historic Society .
CHESTER: HUGH ROBERTS, EASTGATE ROW. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO.; AND WHITTAKER & CO. AND OTHER BOOKSELLERS.
The visit of the Royal Agricultural Society of England to Chester in July, 1858, seems a fitting occasion on which to present to the public an entirely NEW EDITION of the CHESTER GUIDE, which has been carefully revised throughout, with the requisite care and intelligence for securing to strangers a useful memorial of the “old city.” The work is also embellished with a numerous series of engravings, and an illustrated plan, which will facilitate the visitor’s inspection of the interesting remains and modern attractions with which Chester abounds; and also supply a pictorial reminiscence of scenes and places that may perchance excite pleasant memories. In this hope our Manual is committed to public favour, which, the editor trusts, will be so heartily manifested, as to require, at no very distant day, a renewal of his services as a literary “Guide.”
Chester , June 24, 1858.
Three are but few places, if indeed there are any, which can present such varied attractions to the antiquary as this remarkable and ancient city. It is rich in memorable incidents and associations. It has a history chronicled not only in books, but in its walls, towers, rows, and venerable remains.
The origin of Chester is of very remote date. No definite conclusion has been reached respecting the exact time of its foundation. Various hypotheses have been started, some of them grotesque and ridiculous enough, but its origin is lost in those mists of antiquity where history fades into fable.