From the collection of the late Lord Dewar. Famous coaching Inns / by J.C. Maggs. Reproduced for Messrs. John Dewar & Sons, Ltd., Dewar House, Haymarket, London, S.W.1.
Old English Coaching Inns by J. C. Maggs / from the Collection of the Late Lord Dewar [cover title]
Imprint
London: John Dewar & Sons Ltd., Dewar House, Haymarket, [c.1910]
Physical Description
[33] p. : ill. ; 27 x 48 cm.
General Note
"Reproduced and printed by Gilbert Whitehead & Co. Ltd., art printers, New Eltham, S.E.9." [t.p.].
Contents
White Horse, Chelsea -- Elephant and Castle, Brighton Road -- General Post Office, St. Martin-Le-Grand -- The Hand and Shears, Smithfield -- Catherine Wheel, Southwark -- The Bull and Mouth, Aldersgate Street, E.C. -- The Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane -- The George, York -- White Horse Cellar, Hatchetts, Piccadilly -- The Marine Parade, Brighton -- Gloucester Coffee House, Piccadilly -- The Tabard, Southwark -- Wych Street, Strand, Days of Hogarth -- Entrance to La Belle Sauvage Inn Yark, Ludgate Hill -- The Old Star and Garter, Richmond Hill -- The Cock Tavern, Bishopsgate Street
Summary Note
Sixteen full-page, full-colour plates of celebrated English Coaching Inns; fourteen in greater London, one in York and one in Brighton.
Copy Note
Presented to the RA Library by the Athenaeum Club Library. The front pastedown carries a 19th century Athenaeum Club library bookplate inscribed "This Book was presented to the Athenaeum by Messrs. Dewar & Sons on the 1st day of October 1938." The title page carries a blind-stamp embossed "Athenaeum Library 1938."