A description of Bath : wherein the antiquity of the city, as well as the eminence of its founder, its magnitude, situation, soil, mineral waters, and physical plants, 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, with its new buildings, baths, conduits, hospitals, places of worship, and other public edifices, it gates, bridges, walks, and streets, &c., are respectively treated of : the gods, places of worship, religion, and learning of the ancient Britons occasionally considered : and the limits of the city in its present state, its government, trade, and amusements severally pointed out ... : together with proper plans and elevations from twenty-two copper-plates (1765)

Wood, John, 1704-1754, Bathoe, William, -1768, Lowndes, Thomas, 1719-1784, Hoare, William, 1707-1792 · London : Printed for W. Bathoe, in the Strand, and T. Lownds, in Fleet Street · leaf 27

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