In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 152pp. Col.frontis.& 68 b/w plates and drawings (incl.3 by R.CALDECOTT). In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; in removable plastic cover. Small marks. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Slight foxing to early and late pages. Else a clean and tight copy. The history of the Spa, in England from Roman times onward, through the height of the Georgian spa movement. The author covers the great spas, Bath, Tunbridge, Harrogate and the smaller provincial ones, many of which no longer exist. He quotes from Smollett, Austen, Goldsmith, Walpole etc. A fascinating history of a social and health facility.

BATSFORD PUBLICATIONS WILLIAM ADDISON, English Spas, Roman, Georgian, Bath, Tunbridge, Harrogate, Smollett, Austen, Goldsmith, Walpole, social, health,