Some pages from this guide that I publish a reprint of to share with you all today.These cheap Victorian guides to Ramsgate are incredibly difficult to obtain they are about as common as rocking horse droppings. One of the most interesting parts of them are the advertisements for local businesses of that time. The publisher of the guide would have used them to finance the printing. You will notice that a different typeface is used on nearly every line of them. I imagine that at a time when it was expensive to produce illustrations, the choice of type design was a major selling point to the proprietors of our local businesses.
I imagine that it was a successful venture as J Bear went on to produce a guide to the Isle of Thanet and one to Margate, that I know of, although I expect it will be difficult to get copies of them to reprint I will do my best
Click here for the pages from the guide
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