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; 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 medical faculty, artists, attornies, inns and taverns, lodging-houses, boarding ditto, price of lodgings, chairmen's fares, coaches, waggons, carriers, post, &c. &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. (The whole embellished with six copper-plate engraving, viz. portraits of the 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 presiden[t] over the amusements of this city upwards of fifty years

Bibliographic Details

Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bath Printed by R. Cruttwell, for W. Taylor, bookseller, Church-Street, Kingston-Buildings. Sold also by all the booksellers in Bath and Bristol; and by R. Baldwin, Pater-noster-Row, London 1792, 1792
Edition:	A new edition, improved and much enlarged
Subjects:	Bath (england) / Guidebooks
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1424400100?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa