A. AND C. BLACK 4 SOHO SQUARE LONDON W.
Demy 4to., cloth. Price 30/- net. Gilt top.
LONDON
IN THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
By SIR WALTER BESANT.
With many Illustrations from Contemporary Prints and a Map.
Some Press Opinions.
"To praise this book were superfluous. Sir Walter was ideally suited for the task which he set himself. He was an antiquarian, but not a Dryasdust; he had the topographical sense, but he spared us measurements; he was pleasantly discursive; if he moralized he was never tedious; he had the novelist's eye for the romantic. Above all, he loved and reverenced London. Though only a Londoner by adoption, he bestowed upon the capital a more than filial regard. Besant is the nineteenth-century Stow and something more.... This remarkable volume."—Daily Telegraph.
"Turn where you will in his pages you get some interesting glimpse which opens up the past and illumines the present."—Contemporary Review.