Buy this book on-line ANDERSON, JANICE & SWINGLEHURST, EDMUND: : The Victorian & Edwardian SEASIDELONDON.BOUNTY BOOKS/OCTOPUS PUBLISHING GROUP Ltd,2005. ISBN 0752711427.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,ex-lib,illustrated,1st edn thus. [Originally and firstly published by Country Life Books,in 1978,this edn thus,in 2005 by Bounty Books,a division of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.,London.] An ex-public library book,so no owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£14.99) to dw/dj.Front free endpaper has a 'WITHDRAWN FROM PLYMOUTH LIBRARY SERVICES' red inked library stamp - which could stand sympathetic replacement - and this the ONLY library notations/indications to the entire book.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - no foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Dw/dj design repeated to bright,crisp,clean,publisher's sharp-cornered bds and near immaculate plain white endpapers - aforementioned library notation excepted.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,ex-public library,illustrated,1st edn thus,6-160pp [paginated] includes 9 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w illus/prints and b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,a Bibliography,Acknowledgements, photographs+illustrations credits/thanks and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, and a Contents list/table.
Described honestly and fairly - even as an ex-library book,with the ONE listed imperfection - it's still in an exceptional condition and state.
The British,notoriously averse to cold water,avoided their own sea-shores for many centuries.Then,the mid-eighteenth-century claim that seawater was good for one, especially if drunk or bathed in,took the fashionable and wealthy from inland spas to seaside watering places.
Royal patronage helped: The Prince Regent at Brighton,and George III at those south coast towns which could now proudly add 'Regis' after their names,spread the idea that the seaside was there to be enjoyed.
Later the paddle-steamer and the development of the railway encouraged the invasion of the hitherto genteel seaside resorts by hordes of day-trippers in search of amusement away from the industrial city surroundings.
With its carefully researched collection of contemporary prints,photographs, postcards & posters,this book takes the reader on a seaside excursion,tracing the many aspects of how the resorts of Victorian and Edwardian Britain blossomed into lively and wonderfully garish places packed with people intent on enjoyment.
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