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Title: A Handbook for Travellers in North Wales
Description: London, John Murray, 1885. Cloth. The fifth edition of this nineteenth century travel guide to North Wales. With four maps. The fifth edition of this travel guide to Northern Wales, produced by London-based publisher John Murray. With three folding maps, one plate, and a map in a sleeve to the rear, collated and complete. In 1836, at a time when exhaustive planning was emerging as an ideal in the British Tourist Industry, London-based publisher John Murray began to produce travel guide books for destinations across Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. Alongside a historical introduction to the region and descriptions of the physical landscapes, the handbook offers twenty eight routes across Northern Wales, with information about accommodation and transportation. Includes a glossary of Welsh words. Prior owner's ink inscription to the title page, 'John Paces&apos. 'Constance Paces' is inscribed beneath in pencil. Four pages of publisher's adverts to the front and rear paste downs and endpapers. With a fifty page catalogue of hotel advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. A little rubbed to the joints and the extremities. Rubbed to the spine, with some bumping to the tail of the spine, and a little loss of cloth to the head. The front and rear hinges are starting, but firm. Internally, firmly bound, with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Not stated. Very Good .

Keywords: North Wales A Handbook for Travellers in North Wales Murrays Travel Guide Fifth Edition A Handbook for Travellers in North Wales Not stated


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