- A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Bournemouth & Guide to the Isle of Wight

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, c1921-1950. Cloth. Two smart later editions of these illustrated guides to Bournemouth and the Isle of Wight, with folding maps. Two volumes. Two detailed and comprehensive guides to areas across the British Isles, with commentary on places of importance, history, literary associations, geological and geographical notes, walks in the areas, excursions by road, and much more. With a directory of hotels and boarding houses. This set contains: A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, The Avon Valley, Salisbury, and The New Forest, c1921. Fifteenth edition. Illustrated with a folding map frontispiece, one plan, three folding maps, and eighty illustrations across forty plates. Collated complete. Guide to the Isle of Wight, c1950. Twenty-fifth edition. Illustrated with a folding map frontispiece, five folding maps, six sketch maps in-text, and sixteen plates. Collated complete. With publisher's advertisements to the front and rear of each text. Dated from the British Library. in the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and discolouration to the extremities. Minor fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. A 3" closed tear to the front folding map of Isle of Wight. Further spotting to the first and last few pages with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of Isle of Wight. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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