Pleasures and People of Bath

This short social history describes Bath as a Georgian spa and resort rather than as a political capital. Hudson follows visitors from the hot springs and Pump Room to the assembly rooms, theatre, walks, and lodging houses built for a seasonal crowd. He treats Richard Nash's code of polite behaviour, the calendar of balls and card parties, and the mix of invalids, fortune-hunters, and residents who used the town. The Woods' streets and crescents, the baths themselves, and the later fading of fashion appear as the setting for how people spent their days. The book is local history of manners and pleasure, not a novel and not a full civic chronicle.

Bound in glazed paper printed in colour. Pale orange endleaves, Sixteen pages of colour reproductions of prints and photographs of Bath. No jacket or slipcase. Folio miniature -michael Joseph in association with the Folio Press.