London of To-Day: An Illustrated Handbook of the Season

Charles Eyre Pascoe

Verlag: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, London, 1890

Beschreibung

A smart copy of this scarce 1890 guide to London and the social season, illustrated throughout and with fascinating contemporary advertisements. The sixth annual edition of this scarce title.The work offers a fascinating insight into the London season of the late nineteenth century, offering advice on where to stay, where to dine and where to shop, as well as information on presentation at court, concerts, May meetings, the Races, and other events and activities.Illustrated throughout with numerous amusing full page and vignette illustrations.With contemporary advertisement to front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers, and with a further fourteen pages of advertisements to the start of the work, and a fourteen to the rear. With further advertisements throughout the work. With advertisements for Brown's Hotel, Liberty Fabrics, the Savoy Theatre, and a number of tailors and hotels. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with discolouration to back strip, and two small folds in the cloth to the tail of the front board. Hinges strained, and a touch tender to heads. Internally, binding lightly strained. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd instance of spotting. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 879F45

Bibliografische Details

Titel: London of To-Day: An Illustrated Handbook of...

Verlag: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1890

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Not Stated

Zustand: Good

Art des Buches: book