Ornament Details
067410010200020_0
(keywords not yet provided)
An essay towards a description of Bath. In four parts. Wherein The Antiquity of the City, as well as the Reality and Eminence of its Founder; the Magnitude of it in its Antient, Middle and Modern State; the Names it has borne; its Situation, Soil, Mineral Waters and Physical Plants; the general Form and Size of its Body; the Shape of its detach'd Parts; its British Works, and the Grecian Ornaments with which they were adorned; its Devastations and Restorations in the Days of the Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans; its additional Buildings down to the End of the Year 1748; its Baths, Conduits, Hospitals, Places of Worship, Court of Justice, and other Publick Edifices; its Gates, Throngs, Bridges, Lanes, Alleys, Terrass Walks, and Streets; its inferior Courts; and its Open Areas of a superiour Kind Are respectively Treated of: The Gods, Places of Worship, Religion and Learning of the Antient Britons Occasionally Considered: And the Limits of the City in its present State; its Divisions, Sub-Divisions, Laws, Government, Customs, Trade and Amusements Severally pointed out. Illustrated with the figure of King Bladud, the First Founder of the City, as described by the Orator Himerius under the Name of Abaris; together with proper plans and elevations from two and twenty copper plates. By John Wood, architect. ...
printed by James Bettenham, in the year 1749, and sold by C. Hitch in Pater-Noster-Row; and J. Leake at Bath
2
212
457