The new Bath guide; or, useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this antient city. Giving an account of the first discovery of its medicinal waters by King Bladud; Saron and Roman Antiquities, Nature and Efficacy of the Warm Baths and Sudatories. With the Rules and Prices of Bathing and Pumping. The Virtues of the Bath Waters used internally and externally. Lists of the Body Corporate, Attornies, Medical Faculty, Artists, Inns and Taverns, Lodging-Houses, Boarding ditto, Price of Lodgings, Mail and other Coaches, Chairmen's Fares, Waggons, Carriers and Post, Barges to and from Bristol, &c. Institution and present State of the General Hospital; Description of the Assembly-Rooms, Publick Charities, Churches, Chapels, and other Edifices. The Principal Roads to different Parts of the Kingdom; with a Description of the City of Bristol, and the Hotwells; Monuments of Antiquity, and Gentlemen's Seats, in the Environs of Bath. Directions for Passing the Severn into Wales; And many other Particulars worthy Observation. (embellished with six Copper-Plate Engraving's, viz. Portraits of both Masters of the Ceremonies, Plan of the City, Elevation of the Town-Hall, View of the Crescent, and Portrait of Richard Nash, Esq.) To which is added, the life, character, &c. of Richard Nash, esq; who presided over the Amusements of this City upwards of Fifty Years

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bath printed by R. Cruttwell, for A. Taylor, bookseller and stationer, No. 12, Argyle-Street. Sold also by all the booksellers in Bath and Bristol; by R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster-Row, and E. Newbery, Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, London 1799, 1799
Edition:A new edition, improved and much enlarged
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Item Description:Braces in imprint. - English Short Title Catalog, T142402. - Horizontal chain lines. - Price from imprint: Price One Shilling. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The imprint to the portrait of James King reads 'Bath: published .. by W. Taylor, 20 Novr. 1786'. - With an initial advertisement leaf for Anna Taylor and a final leaf containing 'An account of the days and hours the post sets out from and arrives at Bath'
Physical Description:Online-Ressource ([2],80,[2]p.,plates) ill.,ports.,map 8°