12 Vols London: History Life and Literature 18791926
1879977H21London; Edinburgh: Chapman and Hall; The Religious Tract Society; Chatto & Windus; Everett & Co. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; Hand and Heart Publishing Offices; W. & R. Chambers; Herbert Jenkins; T. Werner Laurie 1879-1926. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Various; Arthur G. Bell; M. V. Wheelhouse; Donald Mawell; W. J. Roberts. A richly illustrated collection of eleven works on London"s history culture and character spanning 1879-1926. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. This eleven volume collection provides a series of late 19th- and early 20th-century works on London"s history culture and character many of which are richly illustrated.This collection consists of: Two copies of Romance of the London Directory by Charles W. Bardsley 1879. Illustrated with a frontispiece. The Story of The London Parks by Jacob Larwood 1881. This copy is a new edition with illustrations. The Romance of London. Historic Sketches Remarkable Duels Notorious Highwaymen Rogueries Crimes and Punishments and Love and Marriage by John Timbs c1889. This copy is undated dated here using Jisc from copies held at the University of East Anglia Library University of Edinburgh Libraries and Hathi Trust Digital Library. Illustrated throughout. Dibs: A Story of Young London Life by Joseph Johnson c1887. This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc from copies held at the British Library Bishopsgate Institute and Manchester Metropolitan University. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and two monochrome plate illustrations. Collated. complete. The Chronicles of Newgate by Arthur Griffiths 1896. Literary London by Elsie M. Lang with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton c1906. This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. Illustrated with 20 monochrome photographic plates including a frontispiece taken by W. J. Roberts. Collated complete. The Skirts of The Great City by Mrs. Arthur G. Bell 1908. Illustrated with 16 colour plates with numerous monochrome plates including a colour frontispiece. Collated complete. London in The Sixties With a Few Digressions by "One of the Old Brigade" 1909 Illustrated with six monochrome plates including a frontispiece. Collated complete. Nights in Town by Thomas Burke 1919. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Holly House and Ridges Row a Tale of London Old and New by May Baldwin 1924. Illustrated by M. V. Wheelhouse with a colour frontispiece and eleven colour plates. Collated complete. A Short History of the Tower of London by Major-General Sir George Younghusband 1926. Illustrated by Donald Mawell with numerous full-page illustrations and a frontispiece. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally smart. slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to spines. Previous owner"s inscription to front paste down of "Brief History of the Tower of London." Front and rear hinges of "Romance of London" cracked with binding materials slightly exposed holding but somewhat loose. Previous owner"s inscription to front free endpaper of "Romance of London" "The Romance of the London Directory" and "Literary London." Bookplate from Charles S. Burdon to front free endpaper to "Skirts of the great City." Previous owner"s red pencil inscription to rear paste down of "Holly House" with prie plate to front paste down from Bostall Lane school awarded to Hellie Wallace 1924. Prize plate to front paste down of "Dibs" from Primitive Methodist Sunday School. Internally generally firmly bound. Higes slightly strained in places to the odd copy but holding firm. Library stamp from Gloucestershire County Library and library annotations to printing page and front paste down of "London Parks". Paper and glue residue to front endpapers of "London Parks" with slight loss and rubbing to front paste down. Final two pages of the lighter blue cloth bound copy of "Romance of the London Directory fully disbound with rust staining to gutters from stapled binding. Very Good Chapman and Hall; The Religious Tract Society; Chatto & Windus; Everett & Co. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; Hand and Heart Publishi hardcover
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