CAPITAL HISTORIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF LONDON
Written by Patricia L. Garside.
Stock no. 1820962
Published by Ashgate. 1st 1998. Fine condition.

Red cloth boards, gilt titles and wrap-around vignette. B/w photos and illustrations. 117 pages. ISBN: 1840146540.

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LONDON THEN LONDON NOW
Written by David Whitehead.
Stock no. 1820912
Published by Dalton Watson. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The London scene changes: the camera does not forget. B/w photos. 192 pages. ISBN: 090156401X. Front board bowed. Board edges lightly rubbed. Text block browned. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges and lightly browned.

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QUEEN SQUARE: ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD & ITS INSTITUTIONS
Written by Godfrey Heathcote Hamilton.
Stock no. 1820910
Published by Leonard Parsons. 1st 1926. Very good condition.

Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. Page edges uncut. Gift inscription in ink to front pastedown above bookplate of John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd (an antiquarian researcher, public servant and notable figure in the memoirs of many notable figures of the twentieth century, including Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell). A few grubby marks to margins.

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HADRIAN'S WALL IN THE DAYS OF THE ROMANS
Written by Frank Graham. Illustrated by Ronald Embleton.
Stock no. 1820884
Published by Frank Graham. 1st 1984. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

What the Roman Wall was like when in use, the soldiers who built and garrisoned it and the civilians who lived in the towns and villages scattered along its length. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0859831779. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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A HISTORY OF THE UNIFORMS OF THE BRITISH ARMY VOLUME V
Written by Cecil C.P. Lawson. Illustrated by Cecil C.P. Lawson.
Stock no. 1820882
Published by Kaye & Ward. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This volume covers not only the Napoleonic wars but also the strife between Canada and America concentrating on the Regular Infantry and of Volunteer and Militia units at home and abroad. There is a large section on Canada. Three colour plates and many b/w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. 184 pages includes index. ISBN: 071820204X. Top of spine bumped and corresponding light crease to inside corners of contents. Some foxing present mainly to gutter edges also plate margins. Pink pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine and lightly creased at top edge.

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THE CANTING CREW: LONDON'S CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD 1550-1700
Written by John L. McMullan.
Stock no. 1820768
Published by Rutgers University Press. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A volume in the Crime, Law and Deviance series. Reconstructing the criminal underworld in Elizabethan and Stuart London - an underworld of thieves, pickpockets, confidence cheats, prostitutes, and fences. Analyzing the organizational features of crime. Blue cloth boards, black title to spine. ISBN: 0813510228. Grubby mark to front pastedown. Date stamped to rear endpaper. Text block a little grubby. Price-cut blue pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and worn with a few closed tears and small chips, grubby to rear panel.

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LONDON IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Written by Percy H. Boynton.
Stock no. 1820763
Published by University of Chicago Press. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. Top edge gilt. Board edges lightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some light foxing to margins.

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CARDIFF YESTERDAY No. 11
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1319730
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1985. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807644. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed.

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JIPPING STREET: CHILDHOOD IN A LONDON SLUM
Written by Kathleen Woodward. Illustrated by Leon Underwood.
Stock no. 2134066
Published by Harper And Brothers. 1st USA 1928. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth spine and corners; paper covered boards. Tipped-in frontis by Underwood. American edition. Paper title label to spine is starting to unstick. Browning. Bookplate to front pastedown. Wrapper is torn and chipped with some pieces of loss; browned with some foxing.

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BEYOND THE MOTHER COUNTRY: WEST INDIANS AND THE NOTTING HILL WHITE RIOTS
Written by Edward Pilkington.
Stock no. 2134064
Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. This book examines an important missing chapter in the history of post-war Britain. ISBN: 1850431132. Page browning. Wrapper has some edge-creasing.

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BABYLON THE GREAT: A DISSECTION AND DEMONSTRATION OF MEN AND THINGS IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Robert Mudie.
Stock no. 1820501
Published by Charles Knight. 1st 1825. Good condition.

A book about London, 'in its confusion of tongues, of people, and of employments, it is Babylon; and in all its attributes it is "Babylon the Great."' A two volume set. Leather spine and corners, marbled paper boards. Raised bands and gilt title label to spines. Boards scuffed and worn at edges. Volume II is cracked to outside front spine edge with slight loss of leather to top. Contemporary inscription in ink to front endpapers. Volume II has insect damage to gutter edge of prelims. Scattered foxing and age marks throughout.

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LONDON AT SCHOOL: THE STORY OF THE SCHOOL BOARD 1870-1904
Written by Hugh B. Philpott.
Stock no. 1820500
Published by T. Fisher Unwin. 1st 1904. Good condition.

The story of the London School Board. Red cloth boards, black titles. B/w photos. Ex-lib with usual marks mainly to text block and front endpapers. Boards a little grubby. Spine browned and marked. Front joint starting to crack from base. Hinges pulled but binding tight. Text block browned. Contents generally clean.

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