Illustrated Guide for Tourists.

Illustrated Guide for Tourists in Search of Recreation, Health and Information, to the Various Watering Places and Manufacturing Towns in England. By the Author of "Silk Culture in America", "Wine and Wool Raising", "Sheep and Sheep Farming" etc, etc. For 1875-6.

Four original photographs mounted on separate plates, large folding map, illustrated advertisements.

First Edition. 8vo. [187 x 124 x 25 mm]. xi, [i], 246, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth over bevelled boards, the front cover blocked in black and gilt with the title at centre, the rear cover blocked in blind, the spine in black and gilt, light yellow endleaves, plain edges. (Rubbed and a little marked).
London: Richard Hackett, [1875].

With an errata slip before the half-title. There are advertisements throughout the text, and three of the leaves are not included in the pagination. The four photographs are of Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, Shakespeare's House at Stratford-upon-Avon and Washington House (Geo. Wostenholm & Sons, Sheffield). A very good copy.

The Preface is signed "J.A.W." and dated June 1875. There is a pencil note identifying the author as John Warren. COPAC and WorldCat locate only a single copy of this edition, at the British Library. There was also an edition for 1876-77 published by Hackett and Rawlinson, with one copy on COPAC at Birmingham University, and six on WorldCat, including Manchester University. This later edition names the author as "Renwar".

Stock no. ebc7537