Author: TAYLOR Tom
Title: Leicester Square: Its Associations and Its Worthies
Description: London, Bickers and Son 1874 viii, 495pp, many plates, some folding, some tissue-guarded, 4pp publishers notices tipped in. 20x14, green cloth, front and back decorated with ornate glt drawing, glt text and black decoration on spine. Spine cloth marked, some shelf rubbing, good thus. Splendid history of the London square - where the publishers had their office, incidentally - from its association with the highest echelons of London society in the 18th century to the lowpoints of the 1860s when Savile House was destroyed in a fire. The year this book was published was marked by the saving of the central garden in the Square by the MP Albert Grant, who bought it and donated to the Metropolitan Board of Works (perhaps this largesse was an attempt to deflect attention from his removal from his seat in Parliament in the same year for bribery and election expenses offences).

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