LONDON UP TO DATE
Written by George Augustus Sala
Published by Adam & Charles Black
in 1894
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LONDON UP TO DATE
Written by George Augustus Sala.
Stock no. 2133854
1895.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Essays describing scenes and characters by 'an authority on London streets'. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red titles and decorations to front cover. 378 pages. Spine faded and worn with tear in cloth at top. Corners bumped and rubbed. A few faint marks to covers. Newspaper cutting featuring Sala stuck to front pastedown. Endpapers foxed. Pages lightly browned.
Front cover
Contents
- Two P.M: A Levee at St. James's Palace
- A Banquet at Fishmongers Hall
- The Derby
- A First Night at the Lyceum
- Five P.M.: A ballot at a Pall Mall Club
- Five P.M.: A Corner of the World-Westminster
- Ten A.M At Great Grubby Street Police Court
- Three P.M.: A Charity Bazaar
- Noon: A Picture Sale at Christie's
- From Morn Till Midnight: On a 'Bus
- Nine P.M.: After Dinner at the Hotel Brobdingnag
- Five P.M.: A Children's Festival at the Crystal Palace
- Three P.M.: At the National Gallery
- Four P.M.: A Garden Party at the Tower
- Ten P.M.: A Culture Conversazione
- Eight Forty-Five A.M.: Breakfast on Board a Pullman
- Any Hour: Flats
- Travels in Recent Street
- One A.M. at the Morning Mammoth Newspaper Office
- Eight P.M.: Dinner at the Queen's Guard, St. James's
- The Lord Mayor's Show
- Ten-Thirty A.M. at the New Law Courts
- Eight A.M. to Eight P.M.: A Railway Terminus and a Railway Bookstall
- The Thames Embankment-All Hours
- Carthage in the Haymarket