Bath Printed for M Melyer, Abbey Churchyard 1831

181 +[2]pp, including fold out frontispiece, title page with vignette of Bath Abbey, 3 further plates and 2 folding maps one of the extent of the city and the other the surrounding countryside. Short tear in the city plan. In original blue paper printed boards with advert on the front with details of version of the guide book available. Worn on spine. Gatherngs sewn. First gathering detached. Internally good. Signature of owner G J Wood, Upwey, Dorset [ later owner of Athelhampton Hall ]on verso of end paper dated Bath, February 23rd 1832. Includes description of the city at the height of the Regency period, gentleman's seats close by and a list of paintings at Corsham House. Includes a short description of Victoria Park which had opened the year before in 1830. Guides to Bath were regularly published. The origins of this guide book can be traced back to the 18th century and the New Bath Guide, published from the 1760s. Meyler, bookseller, printer and civic activist in the city also published the Bath Chronicle and The Bath Herald amongst other titles. His memorial is in Bath Abbey.