Bygone Pleasures of London
by Scott, W.S
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- Hardcover
- first
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Great Leighs, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Published by Marsland Publications Limited, London, 1948, 1st edition. Grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, no dustwrapper. 9.75ins x 7.5ins, endpapers as maps, 127pp plus colour frontis and 4 tipped-in colour plates. 32pp b&w plates within the pagination and other smaller illustrations within the text. Book is about Londons Pleasure Gardens with information on 20 of them including White Conduit House, Marylebone Gardens, Bagnigge Wells, Sadler's Wells, Bermondsey Spa, Florida Gardens, Hornsey Wood House, the Flask Tavern, Beulah Spa and Royal Cremorne. VG.
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- Title
- Bygone Pleasures of London
- Author
- Scott, W.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- VG
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Gilt
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