1889 Bemrose's Guide to Paris, and the 1889 Exhibition. Part I. Paris and Environs. How to get there; and what to see when you are there. with Information on Everything that an English Traveller Requires. Map, Plans, Phrases, Metric System and Money.

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper boards.

A complete edition. 

Illustrated with monochrome plates throughout and two large fold-out maps loosely inserted. Collated, complete. 

A late-Victorian travel guide in two parts, issued for visitors to the Exhibition of 1889, offering practical information for travellers together with descriptions of Parisian monuments, museums, boulevards, hotels, restaurants, transport, entertainment, and the newly constructed Eiffel Tower.

Written by Sieverts Drewett, a travel writer and journalist whose handbooks for Bemrose were aimed at British tourists and emphasised straightforward navigation of foreign cities during the height of European World’s Fairs.

With 13 pages of publisher’s advertisements to the front, followed by a page of common French phrases.