Author: VAUGHAN, JOHN.
Title: The English Guide Book. c.1780-1870. An Illustrated History.
Description: Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974. 0715359967. 1st ed. "As a record of their age, guide books are in a special category - full of incidental social comment as well as of economic and topographical fact, for which they sometimes provide the only remaining source. Eighty illustrations, selected from well-and lesser-known guides illuminate the main themes of this type of book." Pp.167, 79 illustrations, table of Distances from London to endpapers. Brown cloth, d/w sunning to spine and scuff to internal front fold. VG/G+.

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