Margaret Wells — Tunbridge Wells

London, Faber and Faber , 1937. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this illustrated work exploring the town of Tunbridge Wells by Margaret Barton. The first 1937 edition of this historical work by Margaret Barton. An excellent volume defined by the author as a "biography of a town" which has played an important part in English social life for centuries. Margaret's vivid writing brings the stories of the private lives of public people to life, and throws new illumination upon social history of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. A well documented book, starting from the discovery of the medicinal waters trickling through Lord Bergavenny's deer-forest, and developing decade by decade from a camping site to a hamlet of cottages, and eventually to a town of brick and stone. A fascinating account of the history of Tunbridge Wells. Illustrated with sixteen lovely full plates reproduced in collotype, and a folding map of Tunbridge Wells to the rear. With the unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Inserted, the publisher's subscription slip dated 1937. The dust wrapper is unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear and a minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor faint spotting to the endpapers, otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with sixteen lovely full plates reproduced in collotype, and a folding map of Tunbridge Wells to the rear. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good.