GOOD to VERY GOOD
CONDITION
This sale is for a vintage hardback edition entitled “And So to Bath,” by Cecil
Roberts (1892-1976), with 7 illustrations in COLOUR and 6 in black and
white and endpapers decorated with the Route from London to Bath.
It was published by Hodder and Stoughton, of London, in 1943 (the FIRST
EDITION was published in 1940).
A novel about a three-month long journey of a hundred miles on an
English road.
Roberts lived in Oxfordshire and was familiar with the Old
Bath Road as far as Maidenhead at which point he would turn off.
After meeting the apocryphal Austrian Rudolph he has a revelation that
there is an untold story of the old coaching route. Rudolph visits Roberts in
London wishing to see the house of Samuel Richardson in Hammersmith.
Together they find a hidden gem and this and Rudolph's naive belief that the
signs "To Bath" indicate swimming-pools spur Roberts on to take the
road to Bath. He takes three months for the journey (instead of the three
hours it can be motored in) and gives potted histories of the people and places
en route.
These include people such as Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count
D'Orsay and Sir William Herschel.
The places visited include:
· The Ghost of
Kensington
· Chiswick
· Brentford
· Syon House, Hounslow
· Osterley Park
· Windsor
· Slough
· Maidenhead
· Great Marlow
·
· Newbury
· Hungerford
·
· Calne
· Chippenham
· Corsham
·
… and more …
The book measures 8.25
inches x 5.75 inches x 1.3 inches and has 415 pages + colour illustrations.
The book is in
good, neat condition for its age, with minor wear/bumps to the original cloth
hardback cover, with a previous owner’s 1943 gift inscription at the front, a
little light foxing near the covers/rims, and no other ink or pencil markings
in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing pages. There is no dust-jacket.
A wonderful, illustrated
vintage edition.
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