This is a delightful old book about London, England. It is filled with wonderful black and white, vintage photographs. The book was published in 1951 by Nicholas Kaye, London. The book measures 6 ¼ inches by 9 inches and contains 210 pages. The dust jacket has a lovely water color type rendition by Hanslip Fletcher. The dust jacket shows minor signs of wear, just a bit tattered around the edges and is in good condition. The red cloth cover of the book has the title in gilt on the front and down the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of the book itself is very good.

Contents:

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

1. First Contacts with London
2. Early London
3. Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century London
4. Nineteenth Century London
5. London in the Twentieth Century
6. The Future of London

Excerpt – First Contacts with London:
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” averred one of the most famous of Londoners, the immortal Samuel Johnson, who, on another occasion, observed that, while Fleet Street presented an animated appearance at noon, the full tide of existence was to be seen at Charing Cross. Yet contemporary prints of Charing Cross reveal a vast expanse with a solitary human being in the centre and a single hackney-coach crawling past.

In Johnson’s day, London was little more than the City, Westminster, and Southwark, with a cluster of villages within easy reach, across fields or through lanes…
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