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Title: Twelve Views of Matlock
Description: London, Newman & Co. ND (1870). 1st edition.Oblong 12mo, Stiff card covers show light wear & soiling; else in g/vg cond,Faint tide stain to bottom margin (not affecting images) of most pages. Hinges slightly cracked, but no pages are loose. The town of Matlock sits astride the River Derwent, in Derbyshire, on the edge of the Peak District National Park. It was a popular destination in the 19th century for those wishing to visit a spa and 'take the waters'. One view, for example, shows patrons in the dining room of 'Mr. Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment.'. Ill.: twelve engravings. An unpaginated album of engraved views of the spa and village at Matlock; the engravings being dated between 1859 and 1869.

Keywords: Spa;Hydropathy;Hydrotherapy;;;;;; twelve engravings


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