1840 - The Visitor's Handbook to Cheltenham

This guide to Cheltenham provides the reader with information on the town's spas, pump rooms, churches and places of fashion and amusement. As stated in the 'advertisement', the author intends to avoid 'those grandiloquent descriptions of scenery and objects which generally distinguish the adulatory style of provincial Guides, aiming rather to be correct than elegant.'

1840 - Handbook to Cheltenham

The Visitor's Handbook - Advertisement

The Visitor's Handbook - Frontispiece

The Visitor's Handbook - Title page

The Visitor's Handbook - Picturesque p.1

The Visitor's Handbook - Landscape p.2

The Visitor's Handbook - Musical promenades p.20

The Visitor's Handbook - Delightful p.21

The Visitor's Handbook - Fairy illusions p.22

The Visitor's Handbook - Dress code p.23

The Visitor's Handbook - History p.67

The Visitor's Handbook - History 2 p.68

The Visitor's Handbook - History 3 p.69

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