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The new Bath guide; or, useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this antient city. Giving an account of the first discovery of its medicinal waters by King Bladud; nature and efficacy of the warm baths and sudatories, with the rules and prices of bathing and pumping. The virtues of the bath waters used internally and externally, Lists of the Medical faculty, ... post, &c. Institution and present state of the general hospital; description of the assembly-rooms, public charities, churches, chapels, and other edifices. The principal roads to different parts ... in the environs of Bath. Directions for passing the Severn into Wales; and many other particulars worthy observation. (The whole embellished with six copper-plate engravings, viz. portraits of the masters of the ceremonies, plan of the city, elevation of the town-hall, view of the crescent, and portrait of Richard Nash, esq.) To which is added, The life, character, &c. of Richard Nash, Esq; who presided over the amusements of this city upwards of fifty years.
The new Bath guide; or, useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this antient city. Giving an account of the first discovery of its medicinal waters by King Bladud; nature and efficacy of the warm baths and sudatories, with the rules and prices of bathing and pumping. The virtues of the bath waters used internally and externally, Lists of the Medical faculty, ... post, &c. Institution and present state of the general hospital; description of the assembly-rooms, public charities, churches, chapels, and other edifices. The principal roads to different parts ... in the environs of Bath. Directions for passing the Severn into Wales; and many other particulars worthy observation. (The whole embellished with six copper-plate engravings, viz. portraits of the masters of the ceremonies, plan of the city, elevation of the town-hall, view of the crescent, and portrait of Richard Nash, esq.) To which is added, The life, character, &c. of Richard Nash, Esq; who presided over the amusements of this city upwards of fifty years.
ISBN
Z001827858
Dewey Classmark
914.238
Local Shelfmark
B 914.238 BAT
Edition
A new edition, improved and much enlarged.
Publication
Bath : printed by R. Cruttwell, for W. Taylor, bookseller, Church-street, Kingston-Buildings. Sold also by all the booksellers in Bath and Bristol; and R. Baldwin, bookseller, in Pater-noster-row, London, -Price 1s , 1787.
BNGH copy 1 (1105387814): Title page lists 6 engravings, but Bath's copy lacks the portrait of Richard Nash. Frontisport. of James King. Half leather binding. R.E.M. Peach bookplate recto back board.
BNGH copy 1 (1105387814): Tipped on MS note of what seems to be editorial requests for changes to text. MS inscription (1st owner?) on recto frontisplate page: 'Davis 1787' .
BNGH copy 2 (1105468490): Library binding. Missing portrait of James King and folded map.
The new Bath guide; or, useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this antient city. Giving an account of the first discovery of its medicinal waters by King Bladud; nature and efficacy of the warm baths and sudatories, with the rules and prices of bathing and pumping. The virtues of the bath waters used internally and externally, Lists of the Medical faculty, ... post, &c. Institution and present state of the general hospital; description of the assembly-rooms, public charities, churches, chapels, and other edifices. The principal roads to different parts ... in the environs of Bath. Directions for passing the Severn into Wales; and many other particulars worthy observation. (The whole embellished with six copper-plate engravings, viz. portraits of the masters of the ceremonies, plan of the city, elevation of the town-hall, view of the crescent, and portrait of Richard Nash, esq.) To which is added, The life, character, &c. of Richard Nash, Esq; who presided over the amusements of this city upwards of fifty years.
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Bath Guide / Falconer / 1787 (BNGH copy 1)
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A new edition, improved and much enlarged.
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Bath :
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printed by R. Cruttwell, for W. Taylor, bookseller, Church-street, Kingston-Buildings. Sold also by all the booksellers in Bath and Bristol; and R. Baldwin, bookseller, in Pater-noster-row, London, -Price 1s ,
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1787.
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79, [1]p. :
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ill., front., 4 plates, folded map. ;
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16 cm. (8vo).
590##
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BNGH copy 1 (1105387814): Title page lists 6 engravings, but Bath's copy lacks the portrait of Richard Nash. Frontisport. of James King. Half leather binding. R.E.M. Peach bookplate recto back board.
590##
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BNGH copy 1 (1105387814): Tipped on MS note of what seems to be editorial requests for changes to text. MS inscription (1st owner?) on recto frontisplate page: 'Davis 1787' .
590##
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BNGH copy 2 (1105468490): Library binding. Missing portrait of James King and folded map.
