The History of Cheltenham and Its Environs: Including an Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of the Mineral Waters, &c. &c. &c. And a Concise View of the County of Glocester. [WITH ADDITIONAL PLATE A West Prospect of the Spaw & Town of Cheltenham 1748, by Thomas Robins the Elder, probably printed at the Middle Hill Press]
Language: English
Published by H. Ruff ; [Middle Hill Press], Cheltenham, 1803
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Seller: James Hawkes, LONDON, United KingdomJames Hawkes
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Cheltenham: H. Ruff, 1803. First edition. 8vo (measures 8.5 x 5.3" approx.). xvi,358pp. With folding frontispiece and two engraved plates (latter offset). Title-page vignette. § 'Based on Simeon Moreau's "Tour to Cheltenham". With a preface by H. Ruff implying that he is the compiler, but in fact compiled by T. F. Dibden [sic]', BL. The folding frontispiece, by Thomas Robins the elder (1716-1770), is apparently the c.1860 version probably printed at the Middle Hill Press - the private press of the book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) - and so clearly a later addition. Ownership name clipped from head of title. A good copy, stoutly rebound in twentieth-century maroon leather, contrasting label (attributing the authorship to the publisher), marbled endpapers. Robins plate also in good condition with a 1 cm. repair in archival tape to verso of one fold.
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- Title
- The History of Cheltenham and Its Environs: Including an Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of the Mineral Waters, &c. &c. &c. And a Concise View of the County of Glocester. [WITH ADDITIONAL PLATE A West Prospect of the Spaw & Town of Cheltenham 1748, by Thomas Robins the Elder, probably printed at the Middle Hill Press]
- Author
- [Early guide-book]. [DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL or T.F.), 1776-1847]. RUFF (H.), publisher.
- Publisher
- H. Ruff ; [Middle Hill Press], Cheltenham
- Publication year
- 1803
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Thomas Robins the elder
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James Hawkes
LONDON, United Kingdom
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