The Stranger's Guide through Cheltenham; containing An Account of its Mineral Waters; With Descriptions of the various Pump Rooms, Public Institutions, and Places of Fashionable Amusement. . . With Maps of the Town and Surrounding Country, and Seventeen Superior Wood Engravings. Second Edition. [The Stranger's Guide to Cheltenham, and it's Environs]. [EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY].
Published by H. Davies, Montpellier Library, Cheltenham, 1834
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Seller: James Hawkes, LONDON, United KingdomJames Hawkes
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Cheltenham: H. Davies, Montpellier Library, n.d. [1834]. Second edition. xii,209,[1],xii pp. Extra engraved title-page. Illustrated with two folding maps, hand-coloured folding plan, and a total of 32 further plates. Of the 32 plates, 15 are on thinner paper and are as issued by the publisher; a further 12 (on thicker paper, some with the publisher Davis's imprint) may have been issued with the book but could equally be later additions; and 5 (including ad hoc frontispieces facing letterpress and extra-engraved titles) are definitely additions - apparently contemporaneously (sometimes amateurishly) so. One folding map with 1cm. repair to verso in archival tape; folding plan with neat old paper repair to one joint at verso. Occasional minor browning. Neatly rebound in the last century in orange buckram with contrasting leather label to spine, fore-edge untrimmed. A good copy with contemporary ink ownership signature of Lydia Addenbrooke to letterpress title-page, & her brief ink notes on five occasions (including to border of some illustrations - see examples in listing) recording when she visited a particular place or attraction & with whom.…
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- Title
- The Stranger's Guide through Cheltenham; containing An Account of its Mineral Waters; With Descriptions of the various Pump Rooms, Public Institutions, and Places of Fashionable Amusement. . . With Maps of the Town and Surrounding Country, and Seventeen Superior Wood Engravings. Second Edition. [The Stranger's Guide to Cheltenham, and it's Environs]. [EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY].
- Author
- [Early guide-book]. DAVIES (HENRY), publisher
- Publisher
- H. Davies, Montpellier Library, Cheltenham
- Publication year
- 1834
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
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- Antiquarian, Romantics and Romantic Era
James Hawkes
LONDON, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since January 18, 2019
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