The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century

First Edition. 8vo. pp xviii, (i), 335. Coloured frontispiece (with browned tissue), 5 double-page plates, 1 double-page map, 31 full-page illustrations and plates (including plans and layouts), many vignettes in the text. Publisher's dark greenish-blue cloth, gilt lettering to the spine. No internal markings, gutters strong, boards clean and bright. Scattered blotches of foxing. A mine of information on not only how Londoners of all classes spent their leisure hours at these establishments, but also what they and the literati of the day thought of them. Gardens covered including those at Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Bermondsey, Kilburn Wells, Highbury Barn, Yorkshire Stingo, Bayswater Tea Gardens and many, more.