|  | London, portrait of a City - Reuel Golden
Condition Very Good
Published by Taschen, Cologne 2012
ISBN 9783836528771
550pp in colour and black and white.
A superb photographic record of the city and its people from 1837 to the present day. A large format book 350x260mm giving the space for the most dramatic use of the material.
# 22518
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|  | London Displayed, Headpieces from the Stationers' Almanacks - Ralph Hyde
Condition Very Good
Published by the London Topographical Society, Publication No. 170, 2010
ISBN 0902087576
These engravings were too attractive to throw away and at the end of the year they were often cut off sometimes not including the caption. This book provides the means to identify them.
80pp in black and white.
# 22098
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 | The Changing East End, Stepney, Bethnal Green & Poplar 1860-1960 - Rosemary Taylor & Christopher Lloyd
Condition Very Good
Soft Covers
Britain in Old Photographs published by Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Glouc. 1998
ISBN 0750915749
160pp of black and white captioned images over a period of 100 years.
# 22129
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|  | Lewisham and Deptford in Old Photographs - John Coulter
Condition Very Good
Soft cover
Published by Alan Sutton, Stroud, Glous. 1990
ISBN 0862998565
159pp of archive black and white images each with extended caption
# 22127
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|  | The Northern Heights of London or Historical associations of Hampstead, Highgate, Muswell Hill, Hornsey and Islington - William Howitt
Condition Fine
Published by Longmans, Green, London 1869
An immaculate full calf binding by Tout
xxvi, 590pp gilt top edge.
Library plate of Sir Alfred Seale Haslam (1844-1927) Engineer, industrialist and MP for Newcastle-under Lyme 190-1906.
# 22094s56
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 | London being an accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and its Neighbourhood to Thirty Miles Extent from an actual perambulation - David Hughson - Volumes 1-6
Condition Good Plus, scarce complete set.
Published by J.Stratford, London 1805/9
Tough buckram library binding with reinforced hinges
The three folding maps present and correct
123 engraved full page plates and numerous woodcuts throughout the texts.
Vol.1-1805, viii, 652pp+index xvi. Folding map, John Evelyn's plan for rebuilding the City of London after the Great Fire 1666
Vol.2-1805, 560pp+index xvi, Folding map, London extending from the Head of Paddington Canal West to the West India Dock, East.
Vol.3-1806, 640pp+index viii
Vol.4-1807, 579pp+index, viii. in addition to plates includes ten full pages of cuts depicting Guild Emblems.
Vol.5-1808, 476pp+index viii. Folding map, London to Thirty Miles Extent
Vol.6-1809, 632pp+index viii
# 22095s54
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|  | The Story of Norwood - J.B.Wilson
Condition Very Good
Jacket Good
Published by London Borough of Lambeth, 1973
ISBN 0950189332
72pp with good archive photographs
#21462
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 | London Lanes - written and illustrated by Alan Stapleton
Condition Very Good
Published by John Lane the Bodley Head, London
First edition 1930
252pp decal edged, with 40 full page pencil drawings by the author.
# 20210sC10
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|  | Croydon 4 volumes, being, Croydon, Pre-historic and Roman - Saxon Croydon - Croydon Old Church, Parish Register and the Whitgift Charity - The Archiepiscopal Palace at Croydon - J.Corbet Anderson
Condition Very Good
Privately published for subscribers between 1874 and 1879
Croydon, Pre-Historic and Roman, 73pp. plates I-VIII plus line illustrations throughout the tex, 1874.
Saxon Croydon, pp.81-156. plates IX-XII + list of subscribers 7pp. 1877
Croydon Old Church, pp. 165-273. plates XIII-XX, ten maps and numerous good illustrations throughout the text. 1878
The Archiepiscopal Palace at Croydon, 281-454. plates XXI-XXII, list of subscribers 8pp. 1879
# 20057
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|  | The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Islington in the County of Middlesex - John Nelson
Condition Very Good
Third Edition published by T.Lester, London 1829
Also includes biographical sketches of the most eminent and remarkable inhabitants, with some account of several objects of interest in the adjoining parishes.
ii, 357pp + index 17.
Twenty three engravings, one of which is a linen backed folding map being a survey of the roads and footpaths of Islington in1735 with all folds being good.
# 20331
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 | Hanoverian London 1714-1808 - George Rude
Condition Very Good
Published by Secker & Warburg, London 1971
ISBN 0436437007
The first of eight volumes scheduled for publication in Secker & Warburg's History of London Series.
271pp with black and white plates.
# 18802sB13
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|  | London's Local Railways - Alan A.Jackson
Condition Very Good
Published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1979
ISBN 0715374796
The backwaters of London's railwat system past and present. Almost 50 lines of varying type and importanceare covered including some of the more interesting unfulfilled schemes.
384pp well illustrated in black and white.
# 20321sB13
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|  | The Eighteenth-Century Pleasure Gardens of Marylebone 1737-1777 - Mollie Sands
Condition Very Good
Published by The Society for Theatre Research, London 1987
ISBN 0854300449
140pp with black and white plates
# 19102sB13
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 | The Eternal Slum, Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London - Anthony S.Wohl
Condition Very Good
Published by Edward Arnold, London 1977
ISBN 0713159456
The definitive study of the housing reform movement in Victorian and Edwardian London and describing what it was really like to live under such appalling conditions.
386pp with black and white plates.
# 20318sB13
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|  | The Bitter Cry of Outcast London - Andrew Mearns
Condition Very Good
Published by Leicester University Press 1970
ISBN 071855003X
The Bitter Cry forced upon the nation the need for urgent action to end the evils of the slums.
With leading articles from the Pall Mall Gazette of October 1883 and articles by Lord Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain and Forster Crozier.
155pp.
# 20329sB13
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|  | The Changing Metropolis, Earliest photographs of London 1839-1879 - Gavin Stamp
Condition Very Good
Published by Viking, London 1984
ISBN 0670800589
The earliest surviving photographs of London date from 1839, the very year in which Daguerre revealed the invention of the first practical form of photography. These delicate images show London in the second year of Vistoria's reign, when the city was very much as the Georgians had left it.
240pp with extended captions to the images.
# 20327sB13
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 | The Records of the Woolwich District, Volumes 1&2 - W.T.Vincent
Condition Good Plus
Published by J.P.Jackson, Woolwich & J.S.Virtue, London 1890
Covers Woolwich, Plumstead, Welling, Erith, Bexley, Wickham, Shooters Hill, Charlton, Kidbrook and Eltham. An amazing compendium of information.
Vol One xlix, 380pp
Vol Two xii, pp 381-823.
Well illustrated throughout in black and white
# 19966
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|  | The London Square - Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
Condition Very Good
Published by Yale University Press, Newhaven & London 2012
ISBN 9780300152012
Modern day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses. These green enclaves, known as squares, are among the most distinctive and admired features of the metropolis and are England's greatest contribution to the development of European town planning and urban form.
334pp sumptiously illustrated in colour and black and white.
# 18844s93
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|  | Relics and Memorials of London Town - J.S.Ogilvy
Condition Very Good
Published by George Routledge, London 1911
x, 316pp gilt top edge
52 full page colour illustrations from watercolours by the author, the subjects selected for their historical interest rather than just the picturesque.
# 19096
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 | Neighbourhood and Society, a London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century - Jeremy Boulton
Condition Very Good
Published by Cambridge University Press 1987
ISBN 0521266696
A pioneering social and economic study of the London parish of St. Saviour's in the early 17th century. It also reconstructs the lives of the inhabitants of Boroughside, one of its districts and goes on to make comparisons with other areas of London at the time.
329pp with graphs and charts.
# 18867s98
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|  | A History of St Mary & St Michael's Parish, Commercial Road, East London including the history of Virginia St Chapel and the formation of St Patrick's Parish, Wapping
Condition Fine
Published by Terry Marsh Publishing, London 2007
ISBN 9780954999926
A rich, varied and often turbulent history and its story could in many ways be said to represent in microcosm the history of the Catholic Church in England re-establishing itself after the Reformation.
360pp illustrated in blak and white.
#18701s97
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|  | Thames-side & South Suburban Reliques of Old London - T.R.Way & H.B.Wheatley
Condition Good
Limited edition published by George Bell, London 1899
Edition limited to 280, this being No. 38 and signed by the illustrator.
Twenty four lithograph drawings by T.R.Way of reliques of old London upon the banks of the Thames and in the suburbs south of the river. A strictly limited edition with the drawings being erased from the stones.
# 18711
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 | Harrow School - edited by Edmund W.Howson & George Townsend Warner, illustrated by Herbert M.Marshall
Condition Very Good
Published by Edward Arnold, London 1898
A series of studies written by various authors through which much new material was available for this edition.
xvi, 291pp gilt all edges.
An attractive diced full calf binding with gilt embellishments.
# 18633s53
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|  | History and Antiquities of Kingston Upon Thames - A.Anderson
Condition Good
Published by C.Yarrow, Kingston, 1818
An account of all the most remarkable occurrences from the yeat 838 to the 'present time'. Also an account of the Charters, Donations etc and a descriptive account of the Monuments, 'Atchievements' etc in the Church.
98pp bound in publishers boards with original label.
# 18554
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|  | The Triple Tree, Newgate, Tyburn and Old Bailey - Donald Rumbelow
Condition Very Good
Pubblished by Harrap, London 1982
ISBN 0245538771
223pp well illustrated in black and white.
Traces the history of Newgate from its beginnings as a Roman Fort to its demolition in 1902.
# 18284s35
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 | A Pictorial Review of Old Loughton - Reginald Fowkes & Peter Lawrence
Condition Very Good
Published by 20/20 Publications, 1987
Soft cover, 24pp plus covers, twin wires.
42 views of old Loughton
# 18283
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|  | Woolwich in Old Photographs - Brian Evans
Woolwich is best knownfor the historic role it played in the manufacture of armaments, for its long standing links with British soldiers and seafarers and for its ferry across the Thames.
Published by Alan Sutton, Stroud, Glos. 1994
ISBN 0750907681
128pp in black and white
# 18285
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