Author: GADD, DAVID
Title: Georgian Summer - Bath in the Eighteenth Century
Description: Bath, Adams and Dart. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0239000838). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 195 pages. 61 illustrations. When Samuel Pepys visited Bath in 1668 the city consisted of no more than 250 houses with a population of less than 1200, and was renowned as much for its innumerable and importunate beggars as for the nude bathing that took place in its Baths. During the 18th century, in a span of less than a generation, it became the centre of the fashionable world, and in its architectural beauty and achievement was compared with Florence. 151. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Georgian Bath, John Wood, Beau Nash, Ralph Allen 0239000838


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