"The work fascinates me more than anything I have ever done."—Sir Walter Besant.
LONDON
IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
BY
SIR WALTER BESANT.
IN ONE VOLUME, DEMY 4to., CLOTH, GILT TOP, CONTAINING 104 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM CONTEMPORARY PRINTS AND A MAP.
Price 30s. net.
"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 spares 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."—Daily Telegraph.