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LONDON (ILLUSTRATED) A COMPLETE GUIDE
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134070
Published by Henry Herbert, Publisher. 1875. Almost very good condition.

To the places of amusement, objects of interest, parks, clubs, markets, docks, principal railway routes and leading hotels: Also A Directory, in a concise form, of First Class Reliable Houses in the various Branches of Trade. Fourth year of publication. Large format. Green cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; fraying/tearing to cloth with a bit of loss to spine and corners. Marks and spots to covers. Joints are cracked. Publisher information plate pasted to front pastedown. Damp marks to edges of some pages. Some foxing and margin marks.

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THE LONDON APPRENTICE AND THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER OF THE WEST CHEPE;
Written by Pierce Egan.
Stock no. 2134069
Published by W.S. Johnson. 1st 1852. Good condition.

Volumes 1, 2 and 3 complete and bound together in dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Fold-out frontis. B/w illustrations. Spine is browned with chipping/fraying to cloth along edges. Damp stain to rear cover. Other marks to covers. Tape to front joint. Inscription in ink and pencil inscription to front endpaper. Rear joint cracked. Page edge browning; some foxing. All parts and plates are present, including frontispiece (which is absent from many copies). Frontis has tape repairs to verso.

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FIFTY YEARS OF LONDON SOCIETY 1870-1920
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134068
Published by Brentano's. 1st USA 1920. Good condition.

Cloth spine with title label. Brown mottled covers. American edition. SIGNED by Hamiliton Hadden (Polo player) to front endpaper, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Grubby marks to spine. Bumping and chipping along cover edges. Half-title page has a couple of inch tear next to spine at top. Page edge browning.

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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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FIFTY YEARS OF FIRE FIGHTING IN LONDON
Written by Jack While; Edgar Wallace.
Stock no. 2134063
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1931. Good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Jack While was an unofficial Recorder of the London Fire Brigade. Foreword by Wallace. B/w illustrations. Ex-lib. with some markings and stamps. Heavy wear to covers; uneven fading, some scuffing and some fraying to cloth. Foxing.

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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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REAL LIFE IN LONDON (2 VOLUMES)
No author listed.
Stock no. 1820499
Published by Jones And Co.. Circa 1822. Good condition.

Or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, The Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners and amusements in High and Low Life by An Amateur. Leather spine and corners, marbled paper boards. Vol 1: hand coloured frontispiece, title page and 17 plates plus Tom and Bob catching a Charley napping. Vol 2: hand coloured frontispiece, title page and 11 plates plus St Georges Day presentation. One of the better imitations of the hugely popular 'Life in London' by Pierce Egan, portraying with accuracy 17th century London society, scenes and buildings. Leather spine & corners, title label with gilt title to spine, marbled paper boards. First Edition, later printing e.g. contains 'A word to the wise' in vol II. Covers heavily scuffed and worn at edges. Slight loss to title blocks. Leather missing from one front corner. Joints cracked. Title pages have been swapped by the binder i.e. volume one contains title page for volume two and vice versa. All plates present. Text block browned. Contents browned and foxed. Plates nice and bright with browning and foxing mainly to margins.

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THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX THROUGH LONDON, OR THE PLEASURES AND MISERIES OF THE METROPOLIS.
Written by Doctor Syntax.
Stock no. 1820498
Published by J. Johnston. 1st 1820. Good condition.

A poem. Leather spine & corners, marbled paper boards. Gilt title and tooling decorations to spine. Marbled text block. 19 hand-coloured plates plus title page. Boards rubbed and worn at edges. Marbling to text block fading. Front hinge cracked. Contents grubby. All plates are present, nice and bright but margins browned.

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READING THE RUINS: MODERNISM, BOMBSITES AND BRITISH CULTURE
Written by Leo Mellor.
Stock no. 2134010
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards with gilt title to spine. From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions - the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to World War II, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. ISBN: 9781107009295.

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LONDON AND THE CIVIL WAR
Written by Stephen Porter; et al.
Stock no. 2134008
Published by Macmillan Press Ltd. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, with gilt title to spine. A collection of essays from different authors about London and the Civil War. ISBN: 0333622790. Page edge browning.

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THE INVASION OF 1910 WITH A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LONDON
Written by William Le Queux.
Stock no. 2134006
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1906. Fair condition.

Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w maps and plans. Ex-lib. with many markings. Covers are heavily worn and marked. Library labels stuck to front endpaper and pastedown; edge/corner of endpaper is torn off. Page edge browning. Text is still in good, reading condition.

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