Karl Baedeker — London and Its Environs

Leipsic, Karl Baedeker, 1900. Cloth. A charming travel guidebook for touring the iconic city of London, with colour folding maps and with a tailored focus towards galleries and museums. The revised twelfth edition of London and Its Environs, an informative and charming guidebook for travellers wishing to explore the iconic city, written by German publisher and travel writer Karl Baedeker. Published by Baedeker in 1900. First published in 1878.In the publisher's original red cloth, with a colour frontispiece of a folding map of England's railway lines. Contains all four other colour folding maps, as well as eight plates, including four folding, that are site plans of London sites. Collated complete.Wishing to create himself as the publishing authority for tourist guidebooks, Baedeker set out on writing many tourist guidebooks with great success, tailoring his focus on ensuring that the tourist gets the most pleasure out of their time when travelling. In this particular guidebook on London, Baedeker devotes particular attentions to London's collections, such as the Wallace Collections and the British Museum. In the publisher's original red cloth. Externally, smart, with minimal marks to boards. Slight fading and minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. A light crease to rear board. Smudge marks to end papers, and slight creasing to rear end papers. Baedeker's other guidebooks to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning. A closed tear to right extremities of frontispiece folding map. Very Good . Ill.: Unknown. Very Good .