A Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places; with a Description of the Lakes; a Sketch of a Tour in Wales and Itineraries. Illustrated with Maps and Views
- Publisher : Printed for Richard Phillips
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 36 plates (2 folding), 21 maps (5 folding), 1 folding table
Description:
Apparantly a revised edition - the first was published in 1803. In this copy, the Advertisement (pp. iii-iv) dated 1806, the frontispiece is dated August 1808). John Feltham (fl. 1780-1803) was an English travel writer and editor of the 'Picture of London', an annual guide book.
Condition
12mo in 6s, cont. mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, gt rules, gt dec to compartments, leather title piece. Some foxing to plates, mainly to the outer margins; slight wear to the fold of one plate (Ramsgate from the Pier) with minor loss to image. Vg. Book-plate of Robert J. Hayhurst (1929-2016), bibliophile and book collector.