CONTENTS
CHAP. Preface Introductory I. Thackeray’s Early Homes II. Thackeray and the Charterhouse III. Pendennis-land, Cambridge, and the Temple IV. The Neighbourhood of Thackeray’s London Homes—1. Tyburnia; 2. Bloomsbury V. The Neighbourhood of Thackeray’s London Homes—3. St. James’s and Mayfair VI. Thackeray’s Clubs and some Bohemian Resorts VII. The Neighbourhood of Thackeray’s London Homes—4. Kensington; 5. Brompton VIII. Thackeray in Paris IX. Thackeray on the Continent X. Thackeray in America Index
THE
FASCINATION OF LONDON
Edited by SIR WALTER BESANT
Foolscap 8vo. Price 1/6 net each, Cloth
Bound in Limp Leather, price 2/- net each
Each Volume contains a Map of the district and a Frontispiece
VOLUMES READY
CHELSEA
CLERKENWELL
and St. Luke’s
HACKNEY
and Stoke Newington
HAMMERSMITH
Putney and Fulham
HAMPSTEAD
and Marylebone
HOLBORN
and Bloomsbury
KENSINGTON
MAYFAIR
Belgravia and Bayswater
SHOREDITCH
and the East End
STRAND
THE THAMES
WESTMINSTER
SOME PRESS OPINIONS
“We have here, in fact, just what will give people who do not know their London a new interest in every walk they take, and indicate to those who want more the lines on which their studies may be conducted.”—Times.
“It is scarcely necessary to write any words of commendation when the great knowledge of the editor and the literary charm with which he always writes of London are taken into consideration.”—Pall Mall Gasette.
“The book, and the series of which it is a part, will be welcomed by those who already possess that detailed knowledge of London and its associations in which Sir Walter Besant delighted, and a perusal of its pages by those less fortunate will do much to add to the number of his disciples.”—County Council Times.
THE
ROMANCE OF LONDON
By GORDON HOME
Containing 12 full-page Illustrations in Colour and 6 Line Drawings in the text. Fcap. 4to., Cloth
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PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
The Romance of London, as the title is intended to convey, is a book designed to bring before the reader pictorially, and with interestingly written descriptive matter, the survivals of the London of the Middle Ages, of Tudor times, and of the picturesque seventeenth century.
That these relics are so numerous will surprise many people who have not cared to explore London’s antiquities. How many, for instance, have seen all the Norman buildings in the City? The Keep of the Tower, with its perfectly-preserved Chapel, is the chief of the Norman structures; but besides this there is the grand old Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, West Smithfield, the crypt of St. Mary-le-Bow Church in Cheapside, and the newly-discovered Norman portions of the crypt beneath the Guildhall.
The magnificent Norman nave of St. Paul’s which survived the Great Fire of 1666, was unfortunately demolished when the scheme of restoration was abandoned.
The 12 illustrations in colour include Westminster Abbey, The Tower, St. Paul’s, The Temple, Lincoln’s Inn, Cloth Fair, and the Pool of London, and amongst those in black and white are Charterhouse, the old houses in Holborn, details of Westminster Abbey and the Tower, and St. John’s Gateway, Clerkenwell.