Up The River From Westminster to Windsor and Oxford; A Descriptive Panorama of Thames Scenery. [c.1879]

£75.00

Up The River From Westminster to Windsor and Oxford; A Descriptive Panorama of Thames Scenery.

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[ANON]. Up The River From Westminster to Windsor and Oxford; A Descriptive Panorama of Thames Scenery.

2 folding maps (closed tearing and tearing at creases), illustrations within the text.

Interior: (Sporadic light soiling in places, occasional spotting, general internal wear).

Exterior: Publisher’s red pictorial cloth, gilt (wear to cloth, including staining and fading, corners bumped).

Binding: generally sound though loosening a little in places (splitting to gutter at rear paste-down).

8vo. London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, [n.d. c.1879].

PROVENANCE: Arthur E. Preston (Bookplate to front paste-down). Arthur E. Preston (1852-1942) was the MAYOR OF ABINGDON-ON-THAMES and also an antiquarian and historian.

Chapters include: Westminster to Kew, Kew to Richmond, Richmond to Hampton Court,  Hampton Court to Windsor, Windsor to Eton, Windsor to Henley, Henley to Oxford.

Includes fascinating adverts of the period bound in at the rear for such things as: Hotels, Corsets and a Boot Warehouse!

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Weight0.50 kg
Dimensions24.2 × 16 × 1.3 cm
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