Item #17338 Where to Stay. Official Guide to the Best Hotels in the United Kingdom and Abroad. Gordon Hotels Ltd. travel guide.

Where to Stay. Official Guide to the Best Hotels in the United Kingdom and Abroad. Gordon Hotels Ltd. travel guide.

London: Gordon Hotels Publicity Department, 1908. With an index of countries, including Australian cities Brisbane, Mount Victoria and Sydney, with b&w photographs of the Belle Vue Hotel, "opposite Parliament House"; the Hotel Imperial, Mount Victoria: "the nearest and best route to the Jenolan Caves is from Mount Victoria"; and the Hotel Australia in Sydney. With many advertisements for railway companies (includes a L. & N. W. Railway map); steam ship companies, and destinations: "New Zealand, Britain's Most Prosperous Colony"; "Boulogne Sur Mer, France, the Favourite Seaside Resort; Atlantic City, New Jersey, America's greatest all the Year Health and Pleasure Resort". With a twenty page section "Where to Shop in London", with many b&w photographs of shop facades and interiors; with a full page for Messrs. Liberty & Co., Regent Street: "the firm has largely aided the revival of the British Silk Industry". Sml 8vo, 272pp, profusely illustrated in b&w, teg. Color lithographic illustrated wraps. Front cover with title in deep yellow on off white banner, with vignettes of steam ship, train and destination cities. Rear cover with ad for "P & O" conveying his Majesty's mails. Passenger services to Egypt, India, China, Japan and Australasia", and full color illustration of sail boat and steam ship in tropical harbor. Very good condition. Item #17338

Price: $125.00

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