WESTGARTH PRIZE ESSAYS.

Essays on the re-alignment, reconstruction, and sanitation of central London, and the re-housing of the poorer classes. To which prizes offered by William Westgarth were awarded by the Society of Arts, 1885.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1886. 8vo. vi[iv], 276pp, 2 multi-folding part-coloured plans, 5 further plans (3 folding), 2 folding sections, text tables, head and tail-pieces, decorated capitals. Original maroon cloth gilt, black eps, uncut. Spine darkened; small neat repairs to spine cloth; soiling to margins of pages beside the large plans; repaired closed tears to gutter-margins and adjoining panels of multi-folding plans. Royal Institution of Great Britain blind-stamp to title-page with Society of Arts presentation letter tipped in to ffep recto.

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Book number: 37969

Catalogue: Town Planning

Keywords: Town Planning London

PEARSON, S. Vere.

London's Overgrowth, and the causes of swollen towns.

London: The C W Daniel Co, N.D. [1939.] 8vo. 192pp, frontis, 5 plates, text maps, plans and figures, title-page printed in red and black. Original red cloth gilt. Spine slightly faded; small area of wear to upper joint; prelims browned and spotted; a few sections with red crayon underlining; marginal pencil notes in a small neat hand.

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Book number: 30736

Catalogue: Planning

Keywords: Planning London