Author: Sir Walter Besant
Title: London & South London
Description: London, Chatto & Windus, 1898-1901. Cloth. The new edition illustrated volumes of this chronicle of London from Sir Walter Besant. Two volumes. New edition. Written by Sir Walter Besant, an English novelist and historian. This set includes: London, 1898. A detailed commentary on historical London, with chapters on the Romans, the Saxons, the Normans, Plantagenet, the Tudor era, and the reigns of Charles II and George II. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one hundred and twenty-five images. South London, 1901. A historical study on South London, with chapters on the first settlements, royal houses, the pilgrims, the pleasure gardens, and South London today. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Francis S. Walker, an Irish painter, illustrator, and etcher, and one hundred and nineteen in-text images. Publisher's catalogue to the rear of each volume. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Front hinge starting but firm to London. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light scattered spotting. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers of both volumes and preface of South London. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown of South London. Good . Ill.: Francis S. Walker. Good .

Keywords: London South London Besant Walker South London Francis S. Walker


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