“It is assuredly a delightful book to lose oneself in, and so to think one’s way back into a simpler and perhaps, after all, a merrier England.”—The Bookman.
“A book to be treasured and studied.... The work as a whole is a notable achievement, and will stand as the classical authority on eighteenth-century London.”—The Speaker.
“The vast mass of matter I have got together will open people’s eyes as to the extraordinary coarseness and brutality of that time.”—WALTER BESANT.
The second instalment of Sir Walter Besant’s “Magnum Opus.”
LONDON
IN THE TIME OF THE STUARTS
By Sir WALTER BESANT
In One Volume, Demy 4to, Cloth, Gilt Top, 410 pages. Containing 115 Illustrations, mostly from Contemporary Prints, and a reproduction of Ogilby and Morgan’s Map of London, 1677.
PRICE 30s. NET
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS
History