London and Fashionable Resorts, (illustrated). A Complete Guide to the Places of Amusement, Objects of Interest, Parks, Clubs, Markets, Docks, Leading Hotels ...
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Book Description
The 29th year of this resonantly Victorian publication, with a host of useful advertisements and information on various trades, hotels and amusements in London and satellite ‘fashionable’ resorts (Brighton, Isle of Wight, The Channel Islands, etc.). Included are numerous full-page illustrations and "An Album of Operatic and Dramatic Celebrities, Managers of Theatres etc. and places of Amusement" (pp. 221-330), with portraits of Madame Adelina Patti, Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Madame Melba and many, many more. We have handled a number of different years of this publication and the contents vary considerably.
Dealer Notes
OCLC records one copy only, at Bryn Mawr.
Author[LONDON DIRECTORY].
Date1900
Bindingoriginal decorated red pebble-grained cloth gilt over bevelled boards, gilt edges; expertly recased, cloth alittle sunned and worn, but still a very good copy.
PublisherLondon: J P Segg & Co.,
ConditionLarge 8vo, pp. xii, 330; printed in red, all within decorative chromolithograph neo-classical borders of various hues, blocked with gold, numerous text illustrations;
Price: £285.00
Offered by Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers
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