Sights near London.
Contributors: Thomas Nelson & Sons
Series: Nelsons' pictorial guide-books for tourists
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: London (England) -- Description and travel.; London (England) -- Guidebooks.
Genres: Guidebooks.
Notes: Date based on statement on p. 20 describing the Woolwich Dockyard: " ... But by a recent decision of the Admiralty, the Dockyard (founded in 1512) has been closed, as well as that at Deptford, the Government work being now confined to Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Pembroke".  The Woolwich Dockyard was closed in 1869.  Cf. Wikipedia online.

T.p. printed within thin rule border.

Text and wood-engraved illustrations within the text printed in dark brownish purple. Illustrations are unsigned.

At head of t.p.: "Nelsons' Pictorial Guide-Books for Tourists.".

Plates are unsigned "Nelson prints", i.e. pen-and-ink lithographs printed in a brownish purple ink with the ground and sky coloured by two wood blocks. For more on this process, see Gascoigne, Bamber. How to identify prints, 1986, p. 30-31.

All plates are with lithographed captions.

Includes small circular map entitled "Environs of London." on t.p. verso.

MASS copy: Bound in red sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover with large rectangular glazed paper onlay wood-engraved with illustration similar to plates within the text. Illustration includes title.  Upper cover blocked in gold with series title: "Pictorial Guide Books".  With pastel blue painted endpapers.  With presentation inscription dated 1893.