Author: BRACKETT & SONS
Title: A Centenary and Three Generations with a short History of Tunbridge Wells. WITH SPLENDID 'JOHNSONIAN' FRONTISPIECE
Description: [Privately Printed, Tunbridge Wells,, 1928]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a folding coloured frontispiece, 4 plates in monochrome and illustrations in the text; original cerise cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. Published to commemorate the firm's centenary. The frontispiece depicts 'The remarkable characters who were at Tunbridge Wells with Richardson in 1748 from a drawing in his possession'. The characters include Johnson, Tetty Johnson, Mrs. Cibber, Garrick, Mrs. Thrale, Pitt and others. Scarce. Bennett, p.352.

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