Knights Cyclopedia of London: A collection of 36 engravings with narrative about London in the 19th century.
by Charles Knight
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Pages clean and bound well, some bumping, small tears and marks to external covers, spine and some pages.
Some repairs and preventative work carried out, covers recovered with marbled paper.
The volume is sectioned into 36 'topics' covering the following London icons:
Parks
Gardens
Royal palaces
Westminster
The Tower
Westminster Abbey
St Paul's
Asylums
Schools
Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums
Learned Societies
Churches
Inns of Court
Lambeth Palace
Port of London
Bridges
Docks and the Thames Tunnel
Companies
Royal Exchange
Banks and Stock Exchange
Guildhall
Courts of Law
British Museum
Exhibitions of Art
Squares, Streets and shops
Markets and Clubs
Theatres
Railway stations
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- Bookseller
- ebygum (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127
- Title
- Knights Cyclopedia of London
- Author
- Charles Knight
- Format/Binding
- Leather and marbled paper cover and spines with faded gilt title on edge.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Woodfall
- Date Published
- 1851
- Pages
- 860
- Weight
- 2.43 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Engravings; United Kingdom;
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