The new Bath guide, or, useful pocket-companion; necessary for all persons residing at, or resorting to, this antient and opulent city. [ . . . ]

Name: The new Bath guide, or, useful pocket-companion; necessary for all persons residing at, or resorting to, this antient and opulent city. [ . . . ]
Author: City of Bath

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[iv], 60 pages + plate. The pagination matches ESTC T231354, but the imprint on the title page varies from that given on ESTC. Bound in modern paper covered boards with vellum spine. Modern bookplate to the front pastedown together with an ink note. Modern ink name to the front free end paper. The frontispiece portrait of Nash has been trimmed and laid down on another sheet of paper. The tip of the upper outer corner of the title page has been torn away. Soiling and creasing to some pages. ESTC suggest the date of publication as 1762?

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Title in full - The new Bath guide, or, useful pocket-companion; necessary for all persons residing at, or resorting to, this antient and opulent city. Giving an account of its antiquity, and first discovery of its waters; a Description of the City and its Buildings down to the present Time; and a much more correct Account than any yet publish'd of the going out and coming in of the Post, Machines, Waggons, Carriers, &c. With every other Particular worthy Observation. To which is added, a sketch of the life, character, &c. of the late Richard Nash, Esq. Master of the Ceremonies at Bath and Tunbridge upwards of Fifty Years.

Author City of Bath

Date 1762?

Publisher Printed by C. Cope and sold by him and the booksellers of Bath and Bristol

Price: £125.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

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