Great Britain; handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker, with 15 maps, 30 plans, and a panorama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karl Baedeker (Firm)

Contributor:

Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton), 1853-1934.

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Baedeker's Reisehandbücher

Baedeker's guide books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Description and travel--Guidebooks.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Handbooks and manuals.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

King, A. B. (autograph) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

lxiv, 540 pages : maps (colored, some folded) plans (partly folded) ; 16 cm.

Edition:

Second edition revised and augmented.

Manufacture:

Leipsic : Printed by Breitkopf & Härtel.

Other Title:

Baedeker's Great Britain

Place of Publication:

Leipsic : K. Baedeker ; London : Dulau and Co., 37 Soho Square, 1890.

Notes:

"The 'Handbook to Great Britain.' which was published in response to repeated requests from English and American tourists, and now appears in a second edition, is intended to help the traveller in planning his tour and disposing of his time to the best advantage, and thus to enable him the more thoroughly to enjoy and appreciate the objects of interest he meets with. The writer is Mr. J. F. Muirhead, M. A., who has for several years taken part in the preparation of the English editions of Baedeker's Handbooks, and has personally visited the greater part of the districts described."--Preface.

Red cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. All edges marbled.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxii) and index.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy has disbound front free endpaper.

Frost Colllection copy has autograph of A. B. King.

OCLC:

4111991