Buy this book on-line Anon: : SEASIDE WATERING PLACES.A DESCRIPTION OF HOLIDAY RESORTS ON THE COASTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES,THE CHANNEL ISLANDS,AND THE ISLE OF MAN,INCLUDING THE GAYEST AND THE QUIETEST PLACES.Season 1899-1900LONDON.L. UPCOTT GILL.1899 ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn, no dw/dj,as issued.Publisher's original red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine,and a panel box with bright,crisp,stamped gilt lettered title and price (2/6) within an impressed double-line edged border to upper bd, design without any lettering - repeated to rear bd; with negligible shelf-wear to edge and corners.Head+foot of spine with ubiquitous,inevitable bumping and creasing - one small split/tear at front board's spine's gutter edge.An indeterminate fluid (?) stain to front+rear bd's front+rear lower corner's of spine's gutter edges, causing slight discolouration/leeching/fading to cloth.Some colour bleeding internally to lower edges of both pastedowns - along the length of the external stain to boards,and free endpapers with off-set foxing.Top+fore- edges both slightly aged/toned but generally clean for their age; contents (text body) bright,tight,clean,solid and sound apart from front+rear cracked hinges - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.UK,12mo HB,1st edn,iv-viiipp+2- 560pp [paginated] includes editor's preface,contents list/table,over 250 holiday resort descriptions with contemporary b/w illus and scenic photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,an index and publisher's catalogue (2-13pp paginated) at the rear, plus [unpaginated] a folding b/w map of included described resorts with their principal lines of communication pasted to reverse of front free endpaper,a small tear near it's pasted edge,to same map; title page,some resorts' late entry information erratum slips also interspersed throughout the book,and 3pp other adverts at the rear as last pages.
Accompanying the resort descriptions are full particulars of them and their attractions,and all other information likely to assist persons in selecting places in which to spend their holidays according to their individual tastes; with Business Directory of Tradesmen,so that visitors can send orders in advance of their arrival.
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