Extremely Rare 1815 Guide To Brighton With Two Maps And Two Plates
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:54912 | County: Sussex |
| City: Brighton | Original/Reproduction: Antique Original |
| Country/Region: England | Year: 1815 |
The Three Grand Routes from Brighton to London, and topography of that fashionable watering place … including every thing worthy of remark in the routes to the metropolis, by Cuckfield, Lewes and Horsham.
Printed by J Forbes, For W Saunders, St James’s Street and may be had of Baldwin, Craddock and Joy Paternoster Row, London, 1815
An extremely rare guide to Brighton, including a description of the interior of the Marine Pavilion from the year Nash began his development...s, and the main road routes, including towns, farms and inns along the route.
Includes two maps - one of and one of . Two plates of
Possibly the second edition, Worldcat lists an earlier 1811 edition printed in Lewes.
Seemingly very rare with Worldcat and Copac listing the 1811 only at the V&A and the 1815 at the British Library. One other edition know of at the Brighton Museums.
Condition Report8vo, half calf over marbled boards, blue speckled edges; pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], [iv]-viii (poss. lacking half-title), 96, [2 (Errata, Directions to Binder)]; large folding map frontis of "Brighthelmstone", folding map of roads leading to London, hand-coloured, cut too close with loss of margin and small loss to side of map, two plates (as called for in directions). Binding worn with cracking to joints, though boards still attached, internally spotted and stained but still good.
Printed by J Forbes, For W Saunders, St James’s Street and may be had of Baldwin, Craddock and Joy Paternoster Row, London, 1815
An extremely rare guide to Brighton, including a description of the interior of the Marine Pavilion from the year Nash began his development...s, and the main road routes, including towns, farms and inns along the route.
Includes two maps - one of and one of . Two plates of
Possibly the second edition, Worldcat lists an earlier 1811 edition printed in Lewes.
Seemingly very rare with Worldcat and Copac listing the 1811 only at the V&A and the 1815 at the British Library. One other edition know of at the Brighton Museums.
Condition Report8vo, half calf over marbled boards, blue speckled edges; pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], [iv]-viii (poss. lacking half-title), 96, [2 (Errata, Directions to Binder)]; large folding map frontis of "Brighthelmstone", folding map of roads leading to London, hand-coloured, cut too close with loss of margin and small loss to side of map, two plates (as called for in directions). Binding worn with cracking to joints, though boards still attached, internally spotted and stained but still good.
