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MASON, William Henry. Fashionable Hand-Book for Visitors of Brighton. Brighton: W.H. Mason, [?1845]. 8° (163 x 102mm). Hand-coloured lithographed portrait frontispiece and 5 folding hand-coloured plates, one additional plate tipped-in at end, one leaf of publisher's advertisements (minor even browning, a little thumb-soiling). Publisher's cloth gilt (extremities a little rubbed). Second edition.
BUTTON, John V. The Brighton and Lewes Guide. Lewes: J. Baxter, 1805. 12° (166 x 104mm). Folding engraved frontispiece, vignette of Lewes Castle on title, 2 plates and one map (outer margin of title soiled, a few leaves detached, lightly browned throughout). Late 19th-century wrappers. Provenance: Cornelius Paine (ownership inscription on pastedown and title) -- John Brown (bookplate) -- W. H. Willis (bookplate on verso of title and rear pastedown).
With 4 others on Brighton, including R. Sicklemore's History of Brighton and its Environs (Brighton, 1827, fifth edition) and John Bruce's The History of Brighton with the latest Improvements to 1831 (Brighton, ?1832). (6)
BUTTON, John V. The Brighton and Lewes Guide. Lewes: J. Baxter, 1805. 12° (166 x 104mm). Folding engraved frontispiece, vignette of Lewes Castle on title, 2 plates and one map (outer margin of title soiled, a few leaves detached, lightly browned throughout). Late 19th-century wrappers. Provenance: Cornelius Paine (ownership inscription on pastedown and title) -- John Brown (bookplate) -- W. H. Willis (bookplate on verso of title and rear pastedown).
With 4 others on Brighton, including R. Sicklemore's History of Brighton and its Environs (Brighton, 1827, fifth edition) and John Bruce's The History of Brighton with the latest Improvements to 1831 (Brighton, ?1832). (6)
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