THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE
Published by J. Sprange
in 1817
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THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE
Stock no. 597673
1817.
Hardback.
Small format.
Very good condition.
An Account of the Ancient & Present State of That Place With a Particular Description of All the Towns, Villages, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Ancient & Modern Seats, Founderies, Etc. Within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles With Accurate Views of the Principal Objects. Small format. 7 x 4". Black leather spine and corners. Marbled boards and edges. 12 b/w plates of which 8 are large folding. Illustrated title page. xx + 332 pages. Rebacked. Corners rubbed. Contents very good indeed except for title page which is lightly browned.
Front cover
Contents
- ADAM's Well, account of
- Amusements of the Company in the time of the season
- Anecdotes
- Air of Tunbridge-Wells
- Assembly Rooms - and other places of amusement, first at Rusthall Common and Southborough
- Bishops-Down described
- Buildings and improvements, the progress of them, to the present time
- Chapel built
- Cold Baths, account of
- High Rocks
- Harrison Rocks
- Introduction
- Lodging Houses list of
- Mails, arrival and going out
- Mount-Ephraim
- Mount-Pleasant
- Mount-Sion Hill
- Parade
- Roads
- Royal family
- Rules and regulations published by the Master of Ceremonies
- Stage Coach and wagons
- State of the place described during the first thirty years after the discovery
- Waters - the medicinal one, first discovered