A poetic sketch intended as an accompaniment to an Engraving, just published, (from a drawing by the author), to which is added an address on the means of a further illustration of that beautiful sea-bathing town the town of worthing

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[4], xii, 32, 4pp. With an (apparently additional) lithograph view of Worthing (on india paper, and mounted), preceding the title, a half-title, and two terminal leaves of advertisement for 'publishing a south-east bird's-eye view of the town of Worthing'. Contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked in gilt-tooled red morocco. Worn to corners, edges, rubbing to surfaces. Some spotting internally, occasional marginal loss, with old tape repairs and a recent book-label to FEP, late nineteenth-century ownership inscription to FFEP. An uncommon Clerkenwell-printed Regency versified paean to the virtues of the 'sea-bathingâ town of Worthing, prefaced by an introduction which also notes that the town â " sea-aside - has â her Libraries, and her Reading Rooms, for the intellectual pastime of the Visitorsâ , and such civic institutions as â Benevolent Institutions, and her chools of Charityâ . It appears to have been the work of John Tidey - a teacher and amateur arist, and the father of Royal Academician Henry Tider â " and produced largely to promote the formerâ s engraving of the town, which the lithograph which appears to have been added to this copy reproduces in a smaller form. OCLC locates just three copies worldwide, at BL, Davis and Stanford; COPAC adds three further, at Liverpool, Oxford and Strathclyde. Jackson p.540. Size: 12mo in 6s. N° de ref. del artículo AQ19648

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