DERBYSHIRE. ADDY (Sidney Oldall) & CROSTON (James). An Account of Winfield Manor in Derbyshire... With an Introduction by Richard Keene. Illustrated with Platinotypes and Engravings on Wood.1885

Derby: Printed and Published by Richard Keene, First edition, 4to (280 x 215 mm), [12], 60, [2]pp., all leaves ruled in red, 6 platinotype plates, 10 wood-engravings, some light spotting, a couple of leaves working loose, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, a little soiled. This book is more concerned with the house, which was built 1440/3 by Ralph Lord Cromwell, Treasurer of England in the time of Henry 6th, page 49 and 50 refer to its destruction, and the erection with the materials, of Imanuel Halton's replacement residence "a plain and excessively ugly-looking structure on the opposite side of the valley". The "platinotypes" are early photogravures and very clear and distinct. Holmes, p.232.