The First Herald
Query #26 - The First Herald
15/07/1933
A friend of mine, looking through some old photographs, has found a copy of "The Bath Herald and General Advertiser," dated March 3rd, 1792 (No. 1 Gratis), also a copy of the New Bath Guide of 1797. The Guide contains a New Plan of the City of Bath at that date, also a picture the famous Richard Nash, Esq., M.C. for nearly 50 years. The guide is a quaint affair, with its pictures of the Guildhall and different things. I wonder if any other reader the paper has copies of a previous date to these? —Interested, Trowbridge.
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22/07/1933
The first copy of the "Bath Herald "is probably a reproduction issued in 1892, in its centenary year. Recently I saw the first five volumes of " The Bath Herald," together with the notice of starting the paper, in a Bath collection.—J.G.M., Bath.