SOUTH LONDON
Written by Walter Besant
Illustrated by Francis S. Walker
Published by Chatto & Windus
in 1899
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SOUTH LONDON
Written by Walter Besant.
Illustrated by Francis S. Walker.
Stock no. 585971
1st.
1899.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles and vignette. Numerous b/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Book: book plate to front pastedown. A few scattered foxspots throughout.
Front cover
Contents
- I. The First Settlements
- II. Early History
- III. A Forgotten Monastery
- IV. The Royal Houses of South London
- V. Pageants and Ridings
- VI. A Forgotten Worthy
- VII. The Bombardment of London
- VIII. The Pilgrims
- IX. The Lady Fair
- X. St. Mary Overies
- XI. The Show Folk
- XII. Below Bridge
- XIII. The Later Sanctuary
- XIV. In the Eighteenth Century
- XV. The Debtors' Prison
- XVI. The Pleasure Gardens
- XVII. South London of To-Day