Margate!!! : or sketches amply descriptive of that celebrated place…

Posted on May 4, 2023 by km55

printed title page

Author: Pilkington, Mrs. (Mary), 1766-1839.
Title: Margate!!! : or sketches amply descriptive of that celebrated place of resort, with its environs, and calculated to inculcate in the mind of youth a fondness for the productions nature and art. / by Mrs. Pilkington.
Publication: London : Printed for J. Harris, at the Juvenile Library, corner of St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1813.
Manufacture: [London] : H. Bryer, printer, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, London.

64 M33 813

Acquired May 2022

Journal of a tour through part of France, Flanders, and Holland

Posted on May 2, 2022 by km55

book, printed text

Author: Stevenson, Seth William, 1784-1853, author.
Title: Journal of a tour through part of France, Flanders, and Holland : including a visit to Paris, and a walk over the field of Waterloo: made in the summer of 1816 / by Seth William Stevenson.
Publication: Norwich : Printed (not for sale) at the Norfolk Chronicle Press, by Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson, 1817.

82 817St

Acquired May 2021

Posted on March 15, 2021 by km55

Author: Planta, Edward, author.
Title: A new picture of Paris ; or, the stranger’s guide to the French metropolis ; accurately describing the public establishments, remarkable edifices, places of amusement, and every other object worthy of attention … To which is added, a description of the environs of Paris, with correct maps, and an accurate plan of the city … / by Edward Planta …
Edition: New edition enlarged and improved.
Publication: London : Printed for Samuel Leigh by W. Clowes, Northumberland-Court Street, MDCCCXIV [1814]

82 814Pl v.1

Acquired February 2020

Posted on March 9, 2021 by km55

Author: Planta, Edward, author.
Title: A gazetteer of France : containing a geographical description of the cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, & c within the French empire : with an account of the soil, produce, manufactures … : and a correct map to which is added a geographical account of the Island of Elba / by Edward Planta.
Publication: London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, MDCCCXIV [1814]
Manufacture: [London] : (Clowes, printer, Northumberland-Court, Strand).

82 814Pl v.1

Acquired February 2020

Posted on May 15, 2018 by km55

Author: Lee, John, of Daventry.
Title: A tour from Northamptonshire to London : down the River Thames to the Isle of Thanet, from thence to Dover and the coast of France; interspersed with anecdote and sentiment; and an agricultural review of both countries, with observations on the cattle and the management of the soil / by John Lee.
Publication: London : Published by R. Carlile, Fleet Street, 1827.

63 827 L47

Acquired November 2017