Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the 1847 Thomas Catherall edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. We would like to thank Llangollen Library, Denbighshire, for allowing access to the copy from which this transcription was made.
THE “LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN,” as sketched by many hands; with notices of OTHER OBJECTS OF INTEREST in “THAT SWEETEST OF VALES.”
BY JOHN HICKLIN, editor of the “chester courant,” author of the “history of chester cathedral,” etc. etc.
CHESTER: THOMAS CATHERALL, EASTGATE ROW; london: whittaker & co.; ackermann & co., strand; dublin: t. cranfield.
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to MISS LOLLY AND MISS ANDREW, the PROPRIETORS AND OCCUPIERS OF PLAS NEWYDD. the famed retreat of “The Ladies of Llangollen,” the following pages are most respectfully inscribed, by their obedient servant,
THE PUBLISHER.