London 6 Volume Set

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Onbekend, 2630 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2014
ISBN13: 9781108074001
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The publisher and writer Charles Knight (1791–1873) was apprenticed to his printer father, but later became a journalist and then proprietor of various periodicals and magazines, many of which were driven by his concern for the education of the poor. As an author, he published a variety of works, including The Old Printer and the Modern Press (also reissued in this series). He claimed that this six-volume work on the architecture and history of London, published between 1841 and 1844, was neither a history nor a survey of London, but looked 'at the Present through the Past, and at the Past through the Present'. It relies on the skills of eminent artists to bring both the present and the past of London to life, and is arranged thematically rather than chronologically or geographically. This is a fascinating account of what was then the greatest city in the world.

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ISBN13:9781108074001
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:onbekend
Aantal pagina's:2630

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Volume 1: Analytical table of contents; Introduction; 1. The silent highway; 2. Clean your honour's shoes; 3. Paul's Cross; 4. The Tabard; 5. London Bridge; 6. Midsummer-eve; 7. St Mary Overies; 8. Street noises; 9. Roman London; 10. The old spring-time in London; 11. The parks; 12. The parks (cont.); 13. Underground; 14. Suburban milestones; 15. Lambeth Palace; 16. The Roman remains; 17. Piccadilly; 18. Crosby Place; 19. Old Whitehall; 20. New Whitehall; 21. Ben Jonson's London; 22. Ben Jonson's London (cont.); 23. Ranelagh and Vauxhall; 24. Street sights; 25. The Monument. Volume 2: Analytical table of contents; 26. The buildings of St Paul's; 27. The College of Physicians; 28. The priory and church of St Bartholomew; 29. The priory and church of St Bartholomew; 30. The House of Commons; 31. The House of Commons (cont.); 32. Milton's London; 33. The Charter House; 34. St John's Gate; 35. The Strand; 36. The Strand (cont.); 37. London antiquaries; 38.-42. The Tower; 43. Old Royal Exchange and its founder; 44. The Royal Exchange and the South Sea House; 45. Smithfield; 46. Christ's Hospital; 47. Some features of London life in the last century; 48. St James's Palace; 49. Spitalfields; 50. The Custom House. Volume 3: 51. Bermondsey; 52. Modern Bermondsey; 53. The Mint; 54. The Thames Tunnel; 55. The docks; 56. Westminster Bridge; 57. Strawberry Hill; 58. Blackfriars Bridge; 59. Clerkenwell; 60. Strawberry Hill (cont.); 61. Vauxhall, Waterloo and Southwark bridges; 62. Barber-Surgeons' Hall; 63. The College of Surgeons; 64. The Royal Academy; 65. The Royal Academy (cont.); 66. London astrologers; 67. St Giles's, past and present; 68. The Post Office; 69. Pall Mall; 70. The Temple church; 71. Scotsmen in London; 72. The Foundling Hospital; 73. The Corn Exchange; 74. Ely Place; 75. Goldsmiths' Hall. Volume 4: 76. Beer; 77. Banks; 78. The Fleet Prison; 79. Fleet marriages; 80.-84. Westminster Abbey; 85. Old London rogueries; 86. London burials; 87. London fires; 88. Billingsgate; 89. London churches at the end of the fourteenth century; 90. Sketches of the history of crime and police in London; 91. Old St Paul's; 92. Old St Paul's (cont.); 93. Somerset House; 94. The Old Bailey; 95. Public refreshment; 96. New St Paul's; 97. New St Paul's (cont.); 98. Inns of Court; 99. Inns of Court (cont.); 100. The Reading Room of the British Museum. Volume 5: 101. Doctors' Commons; 102. The Temple Church; 103. Advertisements; 104. The East India House; 105. Historical recollections of Guildhall; 106. Civic government; 107. The Excise Office; 108. The companies of London; 109. Covent Garden; 110. The Admiralty and the Trinity House; 111. The churches of London; 112. The churches of London (cont.); 113. The churches of London (cont.); 114. The Horse Guards; 115. The old London booksellers; 116. Exeter Hall; 117. The gardens of the Zoological Society; 118. The theatres of London; 119. The Treasury; 120. The Horticultural and Royal Botanic Societies; 121. Prisons and penitentiaries; 122. London newspapers; 123. The Society of Arts, etc., in the Adelphi; 124. Medical and surgical hospitals and lunatic asylums; 125. London shops and bazaars. Volume 6: 126. Education in London, ancient; 127. Education in London, modern; 128. The Old Jewry; 129. Old trading companies; 130. Public statues; 131. The College of Arms; 132. Houses of the old nobility; 133. Buckingham and Old Westminster palaces; 134. Westminster Hall and the new Houses of Parliament; 135. The Lord Mayor's Show; 136. The British Museum; 137. Music; 138. The squares of London; 139. The Stationers' Company; 140. Bills of mortality; 141. The National Gallery and the Soane Museum; 142. The metropolitan boroughs; 143. Exhibitions of art; 144. The Stock Exchange; 145. Railway termini; 146. Military London; 147. Charities of London; 148. Tattersall's; 149. Learned societies; 150. Courts of

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