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LONDON PRIDE: SONGS OF THE CITY
Written by M. Melville Balfour.
Stock no. 1820952
Published by The Homeland Association. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

Songs in honour of the Guilds of London. Blue cloth spine, blue paper boards, dark blue titles. 52 pages. Boards browned and scuffed. Name in red ink to front endpaper. Minor foxing.

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LONDON IDYLLS
Written by W.J. Dawson.
Stock no. 1820950
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1895. Very good condition.

Burgundy cloth boards iwth gilt titles and vignettes to front. Floral endpapers. A few marks to boards, edges lightly rubbed. Joints starting to crack. Grubby pencil erasure to first blank page which is uncut from half-title page. One or two random foxspots.

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LONDON THEN LONDON NOW
Written by David Whitehead.
Stock no. 1820912
Published by Dalton Watson. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The London scene changes: the camera does not forget. B/w photos. 192 pages. ISBN: 090156401X. Front board bowed. Board edges lightly rubbed. Text block browned. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges and lightly browned.

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QUEEN SQUARE: ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD & ITS INSTITUTIONS
Written by Godfrey Heathcote Hamilton.
Stock no. 1820910
Published by Leonard Parsons. 1st 1926. 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.

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LONDON AND LONDONERS IN THE EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES AND SIXTIES
Written by Alfred Rosling Bennett.
Stock no. 2134220
Published by Adelphi Company. 1st USA 1925. Good condition.

Red cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w plates. American edition. Damage to base of spine - roughly 2" square cloth tear, with some fraying to cloth. Spine is also faded. Marks to covers. Bumping to corners. Inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning.

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THE CANTING CREW: LONDON'S CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD 1550-1700
Written by John L. McMullan.
Stock no. 1820768
Published by Rutgers University Press. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A volume in the Crime, Law and Deviance series. Reconstructing the criminal underworld in Elizabethan and Stuart London - an underworld of thieves, pickpockets, confidence cheats, prostitutes, and fences. Analyzing the organizational features of crime. Blue cloth boards, black title to spine. ISBN: 0813510228. Grubby mark to front pastedown. Date stamped to rear endpaper. Text block a little grubby. Price-cut blue pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and worn with a few closed tears and small chips, grubby to rear panel.

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LONDON IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Written by Percy H. Boynton.
Stock no. 1820763
Published by University of Chicago Press. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. Top edge gilt. Board edges lightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some light foxing to margins.

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ARTEMUS WARD IN LONDON, AND OTHER PAPERS
Written by Artemus Ward; Charles Farrar Browne. Illustrated by J.H. Howard.
Stock no. 1820755
Published by G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers. 1st 1867. Very good condition.

With comic illustrations by J.H. Howard. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, embossed decoration to boards. 6 b/w plates. Spine browned & worn at top & tail. Corners lightly worn. Front joint just starting to crack. Some light browning.

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LONDON STATISTICS 1932-33 VOL. XXXVII
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134150
Published by London County Council. 1934. Almost very good condition.

Dark green/blue cloth with white titles to front cover and gilt title to spine. Statistics of the Administrative County of London, and of the public services carried on therein; together with certain statistics of the adjacent districts. Ex-lib. with some usual markings to spine and prelims. Remains of white label stuck to front cover. Corners and spine are bumped. New endpapers. Page edge browning. Some grubby marks to outer page edges and page margins.

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LONDON STATISTICS 1931-32 VOL. XXXVI
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134148
Published by London County Council. 1933. Almost very good condition.

Dark green/blue cloth with white titles to front cover and gilt title to spine. Statistics of the Administrative County of London, and of the public services carried on therein; together with certain statistics of the adjacent districts. Ex-lib. with some usual markings to spine and prelims. Corners and spine are bumped. New endpapers. Page edge browning.

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LONDON STATISTICS 1911-12 VOL. XXII
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134147
Published by London County Council. 1912. Almost very good condition.

Dark green cloth with white titles. Statistics of the Administrative County of London, and of the public services carried on therein; together with certain statistics of the adjacent districts. Ex-lib. with some usual markings to spine and prelims. Scuffing to covers. Corners and spine are bumped. New endpapers. Page edge browning.

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LOST LONDON
Written by E. Beresford Chancellor. Illustrated by J. Crowther.
Stock no. 2134139
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1926. Very good condition.

Being and description of Landmarks which have disappeared pictured by J. Crowther circa 1879-87 and described by E. Beresford Chancellor. Large format. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Colour plates. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; a few marks to covers. Small nick to top of spine. Foxing to prelims, endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. All plates present. Cigarette smoke odour.

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