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.