Title:
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LONDON PAST AND PRESENT 3 VOLUME PAPERBACK SET
ITS HISTORY, ASSOCIATIONS, AND TRADITIONS |
By: |
Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham |
Format: |
Multiple copy pack |
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£113.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1108028098 |
ISBN 13: |
9781108028097 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
Pub. date: |
14 January, 2011 |
Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General |
Pages: |
1828 |
Description: |
This fascinating topographical dictionary of London, published in 1891, provides a valuable record of many places now lost to redevelopment. |
Synopsis: |
The bibliographer and editor Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917) produced a prodigious number of books and articles on a wide range of topics, literary, historical, bibliographical and artistic. He worked for many years for the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Arts, was a founder member of the Library Association, and produced an edition of Pepys' diary which was not superseded until the 1970s. London Past and Present was published in 1891, expanding and updating Peter Cunningham's Handbook of London of 1849. It is a three-volume topographical and historical dictionary of London places and landmarks, and the people who lived there. Based on historical, literary and architectural sources, it reveals many fascinating details as it traces the development of the metropolis from medieval times to the time of writing. Nineteenth-century London was experiencing rapid change, and this work preserves the memory of many buildings now lost. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
Returns: |
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