Walks through Bath describing every thing worthy of interest… including Walcot and Widcombe and the surrounding vicinity… also an excursion to Clifton and Bristol hot-wells. Bath: Meyler and Son, 1918
The author of ‘Boxiana’ and of the hugely successful ‘Life in London’, which was illustrated by Cruikshank, Pierce Egan was also the most popular sportswriter of his day and a masterly recorder of Regency sporting slang. This is one for the Janeites and Heyer-heads.
Condition & Materials
12mo. pp. xii, 329, [i] + 21 plates engraved by Henry Sargant Storer, occasional trivial spotting, uncut in the original cloth-backed printed publisher’s boards, somewhat rubbed with rounded corners.
