LONDON AND LONDONERS IN THE EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES AND SIXTIES
Written by Alfred Rosling Bennett
Published by Adelphi Company
in 1925
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LONDON AND LONDONERS IN THE EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES AND SIXTIES
Written by Alfred Rosling Bennett.
Stock no. 2134220
1st USA.
1925.
Hardback.
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.
Front cover
Contents
- 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