Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805
Title:
The new Bath guide, or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d family : in a series of poetical epistles / by Christopher Anstey, esq.
Alternate Title(s):
New Bath guide
Edition:
New edition / with a biographical and topographical preface, and anecdotical annotations, by John Britton ...
Published / Created:
London : Hurst, Chance, & Co., 1830.
Physical Description:
lxxvi, 176 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3316.A3 A7 1830
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Wood engraving by Samuel Williams. Etchings by George Cruikshank.

Printed by J. Moyes, Took's Court, Chancery Lane.

With an added engraved title page.

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 34

BEIN: First issue, with the Cruikshank illus. printed on India paper.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary purple cloth. Cruikshank illustrations printed on India paper. 24 p. numbered catalog, dated May 1830 of Hurst & Co.'s publications, tipped in at front. [4] p. of publisher's advertisements for J. Britton's Cathedral antiquities of England at end. Binder's label: W. Smith, Bookbinder, Ivy Lane. Bookplate: George W. Agnew. Inscribed: To J.B. Nichols esq., with the editor's compliments.
Subject Terms:
Bath (England) -- Description and travel. | Bath (England) -- Social life and customs. | City and town life -- Poetry. | Bath (England) -- Poetry. | Poetry of places -- England -- Bath. | Blunderhead family. | Hurst, Chance, & Co. -- Publisher. | Moyes, J. -- Printer. | Agnew, George W. -- Bookplate. | Smith, W. -- Bookbinder. | Nichols, J. B. -- Pres. insc. from the editor. | Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Poems. | Biographies -- England -- 1830. | Binders' tickets (Binding) -- W. Smith. | Publishers' advertisements. | Etchings -- 1830. | Wood engravings -- 1830.
Contributors:
Britton, John, 1771–1857. | Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878. | Williams, Samuel