The history of Cheltenham, and account of its environs : containing an inquiry into the discovery and properties of the mineral waters ... with a concise display of the county of Glocester ... intended as a useful and amusing guide to the visitor and traveller.

  • Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847.
Date:
[1803]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Cheltenham : Printed and published by H. Ruff: sold by Payne, Faulder, Evans, Robinsons, and at the Minerva Library, London; Cruttwell, and Meyler, Bath; Hanwell and Parker, Oxford; Smart, Worcester; and by the booksellers in Glocester, [1803]

Physical description

xvi, 358 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : . illustrations (aquatints, wood-engraving), tables ; 22 cm (8vo)

Notes

The first leaf of the first gathering is an added title-leaf, with wood-engraved vignette, reading "The History of Cheltenham And Its Environs ... [etc.] ", dated 1803
Anonymous. By T.F. Dibdin, but with a preface by the publisher H. Ruff implying he compiled it himself
With an advertisement slip concerning the plates.
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Traylen 111 Note: Binding: contemp. mottled calf, repaired, gilt spine

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