Margate Local History: Margate Books
Many historical guides to Margate are available for free at
Archive.org and at
Google Books. They include:
| Adam and Eve. A Margate Story in verse. By ADAM, London 1824 |
| All about Margate and Herne Bay , W. Kent & Co., 1865 |
| An excursion to Margate, in the month of June, 1786: interspersed with a variety of anecdotes of well-known characters. By Hardwicke Lewis, Esq , London, 1787 |
| A short description of the Isle of Thanet by Robert Edward Hunter, Margate, 1796 |
| A tour through the Isle of Thanet, by Zechariah Cozens , London, 1793 |
| Delineations historical and topographical, of the Isle of Thanet , Volumes 1-2
Edward Wedlake Brayley , 1817
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| Farther excursions of the observant pedestrian, exemplified in a tour to Margate, by the author , Volume 3, 1801 |
| Hall's new Margate and Ramsgate guide by Joseph Hall, Margate,1790 |
| Margate!!! Or Sketches amply descriptive of that place of resort, by Mary Pilkington , London, 1813 |
| Mockett's Journal, John Mockett, Canterbury, 1836 |
| Picture of Margate and its vicinity, by Walley Chamberlain Oulton, London, 1820 |
| Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate. by George Keate, London, 1790 volume 1 |
| Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate. by George Keate, London, 1790 volume 2 |
The history and antiquities ecclesiastical and civil of the Isle of Tenet . by John Lewis, London, 1st edition, 1723 |
| The history and antiquities of Rochester and its environs: to which is added, a description of the towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and ancient buildings, situate on, or near the road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover. by Samuel Denne, 1817 |
| The Kentish traveller's companion, by Thomas Fisher, 1776 |
| The Margate steam yachts' guide, by R. B. Watts, 1820 |