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    By Warwick Wroth; Arthur Edgar Wroth
    London   Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
    9" by 6" xviii [2], 335 pp.
    A first edition of Warwick Wroth’s richly illustrated history of London’s eighteenth-century pleasure gardens, with colour plates.
    By Warwick Wroth; Arthur Edgar Wroth

    1896 The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century

    London   Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
    9" by 6" xviii [2], 335 pp.
    A first edition of Warwick Wroth’s richly illustrated history of London’s eighteenth-century pleasure gardens, with colour plates.
    £90.00
    : 1kgs / : 976H1
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    Description

    Colour Plates, First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    In the publisher's original cloth binding.

    This volume is a first edition. 

    This volume contains two maps (one double-page), six additional double-page plates (two in colour), and eleven further plates (one in colour), making a total of twenty plates, including the coloured frontispiece. Collated, complete.

    This is a comprehensive study of London’s pleasure gardens during the eighteenth century and their role in the society and culture of the time, drawing together scattered references from newspapers, prints, songs, and urban histories, and with material from his own collections.

    Warwick William Wroth (1858-1911), was a distinguished British Museum curator and numismatist, he authored this work with assistance from his brother Arthur Edgar Wroth.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart Slight fading to extremities. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. The odd very slight handling mark to boards. Spine slightly faded. Minor rubbing to boards and spine, more so to upper extremities of rear spine. Front hinge cracked, with binding materials slightly exposed, but firm. The off spot to endpapers with slight offsetting. Internally, firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained in places, but holding. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, one or two minor handling marks with scattered spotting to first and last few leaves.

    Very Good

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