The new Bath guide
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Type of record: Book
Title: The new Bath guide
Other titles: New Bath guide, or, Memoirs of the B-r-d family, in a series of poetical epistles; Memoirs of the B-r-d- family
Classmark: Bedford Collection D246
Creator(s): Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Additional creator(s): Sainsbury, Philip (Writer of preface); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Cayme Press (Printer)
Publisher: Re-printed at the Cayme Press, in Stanhope Mews West, and published by them
Publication city: Kensington
Date(s): 1927
Language: English
Size and medium: xv, 118 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719171
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007662299705181
Description
Reprint, in part, of the first edition of 1766.
"... the first edition has been followed where possible... wood engravings ... are from the edition of 1804 ... and the lithographs ... are from the edition of 1807"--Page vii.
A view from the Parades at Bath, with some account of the dramatis personae -- Mr. B-n-r-d's reflections on his arrival at Bath - The case of himself and co. - The acquaintance he commences, & c. & c. -- The birth of fashion, a specimen of a modern ode -- A consultation of physicians -- Salutations of Bath, and an adventure of Mr. B-r-d's in consequence thereof -- Mr. B-n-r-d gives a description of the bathing -- A panegyric on Bath, and a Moravian hymn -- Mr. B-n-r-d goes to the rooms - His opinion of gaming -- A journal -- Taste and spirit - Mr. B-n-r-d commences beau garcon -- A description of the ball, with an episode on Beau Nash -- A modern head-dress, with a little polite conversation -- A public breakfast -- Miss Prudence B-n-r-d informs Lady Betty how she has been elected to methodism by a vision -- Serious reflections of Mr. B-n-r-d - His bill of expenses - The distress of the family - A farewell to Bath -- Criticism and the guide's conversation with three ladies of piety,
learning and discretion -- A letter to Miss Jenny W-d-r at Bath; from Lady Eliz. M-d-ss, her friend in the country, a young lady of neither fashion, taste, nor spirit -- The conversation continued. The ladies' receipt for a novel. The ghost of Mr. Quin.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at D246: Leaves unopened from pages 95-96.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at D246: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TPT/3.
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