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ANECDOTES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF LONDON DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (2 VOLUMES)
Written by James Peller Malcolm.
Stock no. 2134926
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees And Orme. 2nd 1810. Fair condition.

Including The Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements of the Citizens of London During That Period; With a Review of the State of Society In 1807. To which is added a sketch of the domestic architecture and of the various improvements in the Metropolis. Illustrated with 45 engravings. Second Edition. Cloth spine with paper title onlay. Blue boards. Volume II front cover and prelim pages are almost detached, some other pages are loose, where stitching is starting to come undone. Marks and heavy bumping and wear to cover edges. Some foxing and browning. Possibly good candidate for rebinding! At the moment, a reading set only.

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THE GREAT METROPOLIS (2 VOLUMES)
Written by James Grant.
Stock no. 2134925
Published by Saunders and Otley. 3rd 1838. Fair condition.

Leather bindings, raised bands to spines, gilt titles. Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons. First Series, third edition. Covers of volume 1 are detached, but still present. Front cover of volume 2 held on by endpapers. Heavy wear with scuffing to covers; some tears/chips and a little loss to spine. A few pages are paper taped in. Foxing and browning to pages, but contents are still very readable. A few margin nicks/tears. Working copies ONLY!

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HOGARTH AND THE SHOWS OF LONDON
Written by Andrew Stevens.
Stock no. 2134879
Published by University of Wisconsin Press. 1996. Very good condition.

Large square format. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0932900429. Foxing and browning to covers; some creasing to corners.

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ORIGINAL VIEWS OF LONDON
Written by E. Beresford Chancellor. Illustrated by Thomas Shotter Boys.
Stock no. 2134868
Published by The Architectural Press. 1st 1926. Good condition.

As It Is by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842. A Reissue of the Complete Set of These Scarce and Valuable Delineations of London With Descriptive Notes to Each Plate and a Short Introduction by Chancellor. List of subscribers. 25 b/w plates. Dark red boards, gilt titles. Large format. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very uneven fading to covers and spine; bumping and some chipping with a bit of loss. Fraying to cloth at top of spine, with tear. Foxing throughout, but contents are generally still very good.

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ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY, PARTS XV, XVI, XVII (LONDON VOLS I, II, III)
Written by George Laurence Gomme.
Stock no. 2134859
Published by Elliot Stock. Circa 1904. Very good condition.

The Gentleman's Magazine Library Series. Titles to spines: The Topography of London. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Spines are darkened. A few marks to covers. Uncut page edges are creased with foxing.

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A SURVEY OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, AND THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK (2 VOLUMES)
Written by John Stow; John Strype.
Stock no. 2134858
Published by W. Innys And J. Richardson. 1754. Fair condition.

Very large, heavy format. Leather spines and corners; marbled boards. Containing the Original, Antiquity, Increase, Present State and Government of those Cities, written at first in the year 1698 by John Stow. Corrected, Improved and very much Enlarged in the year 1720 by John Strype. Illustrated with exact maps of the city and suburbs and all of the Wards; and, likewise, of the Out-Parishes of London and Westminster, and the Country ten miles round London. Together with many fair Draughts of the most Emiment Buildings. Sixth Edition. Heavy wear and some loss of colour to leather spine and corners; chipping. A couple of splits to spines. Scuffing to covers. Small white labels to bottom left hand corners of front covers. Foxing and browning; some pages have chipping/bookworm holes. Musty odour to both volumes (From age). A few pages are detached, or almost detached, but loosely inserted. Over 90% of the plates have been removed and page 21/22 of Volume 2 is missing as well (probably accidentally removed when a plate was removed).

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A STORY TELLER FORTY YEARS IN LONDON
Written by W. Pett Ridge.
Stock no. 2134807
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1923. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. 1880-1920. B/w plates. Spine and cover edges are browned. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. What appears to be a red stain to bottom corner of front cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning.

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JOHN GAY'S LONDON
Written by William Henry Irving.
Stock no. 2134803
Published by Harvard University Press. 1st 1928. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with white title label to spine. Illustrated from the poetry of the time. Spine is bumped and browned. Some spotting to covers. Half of fold-out map is torn off and loosely inserted to rear. Contents are generally very good. Wrapper is in two pieces, torn down one edge; other tears and chips; some loss; tape marks to base of spine.

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LAYS OF A LONDONER
Written by Clement Scott.
Stock no. 2134802
Published by David Bogue. 1st 1882. Almost very good condition.

Peach cloth with gil title and dark brown vignettes. Book of verse. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some grubby marks to covers. Foxing and page browning.

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LONDON IS MY LUTE
Written by Winifred James.
Stock no. 2134801
Published by Chapman & Hall Ltd. Circa 1930. Almost very good condition.

Chapman and Hall's Centenary Year. Green cloth with white title label to spine. Spine and cover edges are faded. Marks to covers. Title label is creased with some scuffs of wear. Foxing and page browning to outer page edges.

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THE SOUL OF LONDON: A SURVEY OF A MODERN CITY
Written by Ford Madox Hueffer.
Stock no. 2134800
Published by Duckworth & Co.. 1911. Very good condition.

The Readers' Library Series. New binding; black cloth with gilt title to spine. New binding/endpapers. Bumping to spine and corners. Page browning.

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ROLLO IN LONDON
Written by Jacob Abbott.
Stock no. 2134795
Published by Homewood Publishing Company. Almost very good condition.

Red pictorial cloth, black titles. B/w plates. Spine is faded. A little fraying to cloth on spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning. Some margin browning.

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