Item #47741 The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles. Jasper SPRANGE.

The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles.

Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange, 1808 [1809]. TWENTY-FIRST ISSUE. Octavo, pp.xi; 336. With 14 engraved plates, some folding, including frontispiece. Also with a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. In recent quarter vellum with hand-written titles in black ink to spine. Marbled paper-covered boards; top edge red. Housed in a colourful paper-covered slipcase. Some considerable tears to several plates, repaired with archival tape. Likely trimmed for re-binding. Occasional light browning and spotting. Good overall, in an attractive recent binding. Jasper Sprange published the first Tunbridge Wells Guide in 1780. The 1808 edition (not to be confused with the 1808 re-issue of the 1797 edition) was the first genuinely new edition since that of 1797, which had been massively over-printed, and was therefore re-issued several times over the following years. Item #47741

Goulden, 'Kent Town Guides', 21.

Price: £350.00

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