QUEEN SQUARE: ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD & ITS INSTITUTIONS
Written by Godfrey Heathcote Hamilton
Published by Leonard Parsons
in 1926
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QUEEN SQUARE: ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD & ITS INSTITUTIONS
Written by Godfrey Heathcote Hamilton.
Stock no. 1820910
1st.
1926.
Hardback.
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.
Front cover
Contents
- I. Origins of Queen Square. The Church of St. George the Martyr
- II. Queen Square in the Eighteenth Century. Extract from the Poor-Rate Book, 1750
- III. Queen Square in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Extract from the Poor-Rate Book, 1850
- IV. Queen Square. Its Neighbourhood
- Verses: "Queen Square." By R. H.
- Appendix A. The Alexandra Hospital. St. John's and St. Thomas's House. Examination Hall of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. The Imperial Cancer Research Fund. The Trade School for Girls. The Italian Hospital. St. Katherine's Convent
- Appendix B. The London Homoeopathic Hospital
- Appendix C. The National Hospital, Queen Square
- Bibliography
- Engraved Views
- Index