Online Books

Books on Google, http://books.google.co.uk/ A significant number of books on the history of Leamington from the nineteenth century are available on the Google website. Each one is a scanned full version of the book and it is possible to search the texts. Google has prepared a new view of each of the books since this page was first posted. We have left the old links so that you will have a choice of views.
Just click on the title and then follow the links on the Google page which appears. 14 of them are listed below.–

Descriptive Guide to Leamington Priors, James Bisset, 1814
New Guide to Leamington, W Field  1816
Visitors New Guide, William Thomas Moncrieff, 1818
Memorandum of Leamington Priors, John Merridew, 1822
Visitors Descriptive Guide to Leamington, Sarah Medley, 1826
An historical and descriptive guide to Leamington, Francis Smith, 1827
A Practical Dissertation on the Waters of Leamington Spa, Charles Loudon, 1828
Beck’s Leamington Guide, 1839
New Guide to Royal Leamington Spa, Reeve, 1839
Spas of England Volume 2,  AB Granville, 1841
The History of Leamington Priors: From the Earliest, Richard Hopper, 1842
The Character of Leamington, as a Village by SF, 1847 – the first 27 pages mainly relate the history of health provision in the town and the remainder is poetry praising the likes of Jephson and Warneford.
Black’s Guide to Leamington and its Environs, 1868
From Chaos to Charter, A Complete History of Royal Leamington Spa, Thomas Dudley, 1896