Name: LONDON AND LONDONERS IN THE EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES AND SIXTIES
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LONDON AND LONDONERS IN THE EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES AND SIXTIES

by Alfred Rosling Bennett

Published by Adelphi Company. 1st USA. 1925

Good condition. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w plates. American edition.

Damage to base of spine - roughly 2" square cloth tear, with some fraying to cloth. Spine is also faded. Marks to covers. Bumping to corners. Inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning.

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Chapter I Early Days
Chapter II Southward HO!
Chapter III Street Types of the 1850s
Chapter IV Old-time Street Scenes
Chapter V The Diorama of the Street
Chapter VI Street Entertainers
Chapter VII Street Passengers - Costumes and Customs
Chapter VIII Still on the Queen's Highway#
Chapter IX Pearls and Divers Matters-Fi9rst Tremor of the World-Quake
Chapter X Buildings, Beer, and Bears' Grease
Chapter XI Big Ben Booms-Donati Looms
Chapter XII Father Thames
Chapter XIII The Biggest Ship Since the Ark
Chapter XIV Bridges - Gardens - Churches - Parsons
Chapter XV Belgian Civic Guards - Whitebait at Greenwich - Lord Palmerston
Chapter XVI The Historian Himself Becomes History - of Various Matters Regal to Ragged
Chapter XVII Two Great Inventions - Everyday Things that were
Chapter XVIII Sixpenny Telegrams Sixty Years Ago - The Bicycle's Ancestors
Chapter XIX 1852-7 - Life's Kaleidoscope - Franklin - Indian Mutiny
Chapter XX 1857 - A Good Man Gets His Chance - London's Odours
Chapter XXI 1858- The Pantomime Jogs on - Invading the Ocean Bed
Chapter XXII 1858-9 - Crystal Palace - Spain Poises the Javelin
Chapter XXIII 1860 - Gladiators, Ha'pence, Murders, Wrecks, and Trams
Chapter XXIV 1860 - Longitude 0degrees 0' 0"
Chapter XXV 1861 - Greenwich Sixty Years Since
Chapter XXVI 1861 (continued) Scull and Oar
Chapter XXVII 1861 (continued) - Mostly Ecclesiastical
Chapter XXVIII 1861 (continued) - Federals and Confederates - Perilous Moments