Statia's Elite Hotel List Guide for the United States and Canada
first edition
1881 · Washington, DC
by STATIA, W.E. (comp.)
Washington, DC: J.H. Soule, 1881. First edition for this year. 16mo. (4), 132 pp. Illus., wood engraved views of prominent American hotels, seven railroads maps, six folding, two folding plates of views, one a panorama of the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Hotel, Warrenton, Virginia. Includes a list of hotels by city or town within each state, noting the "best in town," "first class hotels," room rates, and population; interesting small towns included in the southern states; other than California, only a few are listed for each western state and territory. For this edition, OCLC locates two copies (Illinois, Duke). Original gilt-stamped red cloth (rubbed). Agent's stamp on endpaper and title page, one ink manuscript correction to text, but a good solid copy. (1953). (Inventory #: 55070)