Battersea Parish Church History & Guide Book

Battersea, The Parochial Church Council, 1972. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Extensively illustrated booklet. VG throughout in clean card covers. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000959

Catalogue: London

Boyle's Fashionable Court and Country Guide and Town Visiting Directory (Corrected for May 1910)

London, The Court Guide Office, 1910. Hardcover. The 236th edition (!) of this extraordinarily comprehensive guide to central London's residents, with fold-out map and street-by-street index. Much additional information on Lords, MPs, government offices, etc, as well as the classified list of 'His Majesty's And Other First-Class London Tradesmen'. Good selection of period advertisements. Al in general good internal order. Front hinge opening but all holding well. A little minor marking and spotting, but pages clean and bright otherwise. Gilt to all edges, this is a little marked. Red cloth with gilt titling worn to edges and lightly faded to spine. 16mo. 1184pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010107

Catalogue: London

A Bygone Holborn

London, The Leadenhall Press, 1898. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Well-illustrated and scarce local history of the Holborn area with much on the liquor enterprises of James Buchanan and Co in the area. Landscape format. All in VG internal order. Half vellum boards with green paper on which is bright gilt titling and Holborn arms. White vellum a little grubby. c.215x135mm. 41pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002041

Catalogue: London

A Bygone Holborn

London, The Leadenhall Press, 1898. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Well-illustrated and scarce local history of the Holborn area with much on the liquor enterprises of James Buchanan and Co in the area. Landscape format. All in good internal order. Half vellum boards with green paper on which is gilt titling and Holborn arms. Covers grubby and front board dented to fore edge. c.215x135mm. 41pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002042

Catalogue: London

Catalogue of Exhibition Illustrating the History of Islington Past and Present June25th - June 30th 1923

London, Islington Public Libraries, 1923. Soft cover. No.42 from an edition of 50. Fascinating catalogue listing all sorts of Islingtonia. In VG internal condition, crisp and bright on hand-make rough cut paper. Hand tied. Vellum covers a little creased. Scarce and interesting. 8vo. 24pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005296

Catalogue: London

Keywords: Islington

Charterhouse Mission (S. Hugh, Southwark) Ladies' Guild Twenty-Seventh Annual Report, 1924

London, Charterhouse Mission Ladies' Guild, 1924. Soft cover. Attractive small format booklet providing interesting snapshot of the Mission and its Ladies' Guild's work among the poor of Southwark. Bar a little rust marking from staples, all is in VG order throughout. 24mo. 28pp . Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010653

Catalogue: London

Keywords: Social History

Cries of London

London, The Ariel Press, 1972. Hardcover. Attractive edition of Wheatley's Cries, with 12 full colour plates reproduced. All in VG order throughout. 8vo. 9pp + plates . Ill.: Francis Wheatley. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 106305

Catalogue: London

Keywords: Francis Wheatley Social History

An Historical Description of Westminster Abbey; Its Monuments and Curiosities

London, A K Newman And Co, 1814. Hardcover. Entertaining volume "designed chiefly as a guide to strangers". Scarce in this early edition. All in good order bar toning to pages and sporadic foxing throughout. Frontispiece offsetting to title page. Bindings a little shaken and endpapers split. Publisher's original printed boards, stained to front and heavily worn, with minor loss to spine. Better than it sounds! 16mo. 183pp + index . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010350

Catalogue: London

Keywords: Architecture Antiquarian

The Home Counties Magazine Vol. VII Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks,Surrey and Kent

London, F E Robinson & Co, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Vol. 5 of this fascinating periodical. Some spotting to early pages but otherwise VG condition internally, clean and bright and extensively illustrated with drawings, photography, fold-out plans. Green cloth boards lightly bumped and worn. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000236

Catalogue: London

Keywords: Topography London Home Counties

London Buses (1972 Edition)

Shepperton, Ian Allan, 1972. 1st Edition . Soft cover. All in VG/good internal order. Covers a little worn. 12mo. 64pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002207

Catalogue: London

The London of Charles Dickens

London, London Transport, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Excellent A to Z guide of Dickens' London locations. Forward by Monica Dickens. In VG+ internal order, clean and bright throughout. Smart red boards with bright gilt titling to front and spine. Good unclipped d/j, faded to spine. 12mo. 166pp . Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 010477

Catalogue: London

London Comprehensive Schools a Survey of Sixteen Schools

London, London County Council, 1961. 1st Edition . Soft cover. The first comprehensive school opened in London in 1954 and by 1961 there were 59. This report studied 16 representative schools to see how this new approach to secondary eduction was working. Stock lightly toned, but otherwise in VG clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Fold-out appendices to rear. Pictorial card covers a little dulled and lightly worn. Scarce. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 4to 80pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 104553

Catalogue: London

Keywords: Social History

Quindici Giorni in Londra Alla Fine Del 1815, Del Signor ***

Milan, Batelli e Fanfani, 1818. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Translated from the second French edition and first thus. Two hand coloured engravings, these clean and bright, as is most of text with just occasional foxing. Rough cut pages with some corner folds. Small closed tear at foot of title page. Stain to bottom right corner of final 25 pages, but this not a major issue. In publisher's original paper covers. These well worn with some minor loss to spine. 8vo. 255pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010353

Catalogue: London

Keywords: Social History Antiquarian

The Remarkable and Unique Tate Modern Extension

Ramboll, 2016. Hardcover. Well produced commemorative volume from structural engineers Ramboll to celebrate the completion of the Tate Modern extension. In fine, clean, crisp and bright internal order. Smart pictorial boards with minor mark to rear. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 4to. 35pp . Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 102544

Catalogue: London

Keywords: Architecture

St Martin-in-the-Fields a Short History

1943. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Illustrated booklet in VG internal order. Orange card covers a little marked. Second printing. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000960

Catalogue: London