London
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
- Author: Charles Knight
- Date Published: May 2014
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- isbn: 9781108074001
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The publisher and writer Charles Knight (1791–1873) was apprenticed to his printer father, but later became a journalist and then proprietor of various periodicals and magazines, many of which were driven by his concern for the education of the poor. As an author, he published a variety of works, including The Old Printer and the Modern Press (also reissued in this series). He claimed that this six-volume work on the architecture and history of London, published between 1841 and 1844, was neither a history nor a survey of London, but looked 'at the Present through the Past, and at the Past through the Present'. It relies on the skills of eminent artists to bring both the present and the past of London to life, and is arranged thematically rather than chronologically or geographically. This is a fascinating account of what was then the greatest city in the world.
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- Date Published: May 2014
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108074001
- length: 2630 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 178 x 139 mm
- weight: 4.88kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Analytical table of contents
Introduction
1. The silent highway
2. Clean your honour's shoes
3. Paul's Cross
4. The Tabard
5. London Bridge
6. Midsummer-eve
7. St Mary Overies
8. Street noises
9. Roman London
10. The old spring-time in London
11. The parks
12. The parks (cont.)
13. Underground
14. Suburban milestones
15. Lambeth Palace
16. The Roman remains
17. Piccadilly
18. Crosby Place
19. Old Whitehall
20. New Whitehall
21. Ben Jonson's London
22. Ben Jonson's London (cont.)
23. Ranelagh and Vauxhall
24. Street sights
25. The Monument. Volume 2: Analytical table of contents
26. The buildings of St Paul's
27. The College of Physicians
28. The priory and church of St Bartholomew
29. The priory and church of St Bartholomew
30. The House of Commons
31. The House of Commons (cont.)
32. Milton's London
33. The Charter House
34. St John's Gate
35. The Strand
36. The Strand (cont.)
37. London antiquaries
38.-42. The Tower
43. Old Royal Exchange and its founder
44. The Royal Exchange and the South Sea House
45. Smithfield
46. Christ's Hospital
47. Some features of London life in the last century
48. St James's Palace
49. Spitalfields
50. The Custom House. Volume 3:
51. Bermondsey
52. Modern Bermondsey
53. The Mint
54. The Thames Tunnel
55. The docks
56. Westminster Bridge
57. Strawberry Hill
58. Blackfriars Bridge
59. Clerkenwell
60. Strawberry Hill (cont.)
61. Vauxhall, Waterloo and Southwark bridges
62. Barber-Surgeons' Hall
63. The College of Surgeons
64. The Royal Academy
65. The Royal Academy (cont.)
66. London astrologers
67. St Giles's, past and present
68. The Post Office
69. Pall Mall
70. The Temple church
71. Scotsmen in London
72. The Foundling Hospital
73. The Corn Exchange
74. Ely Place
75. Goldsmiths' Hall. Volume 4:
76. Beer
77. Banks
78. The Fleet Prison
79. Fleet marriages
80.-84. Westminster Abbey
85. Old London rogueries
86. London burials
87. London fires
88. Billingsgate
89. London churches at the end of the fourteenth century
90. Sketches of the history of crime and police in London
91. Old St Paul's
92. Old St Paul's (cont.)
93. Somerset House
94. The Old Bailey
95. Public refreshment
96. New St Paul's
97. New St Paul's (cont.)
98. Inns of Court
99. Inns of Court (cont.)
100. The Reading Room of the British Museum. Volume 5:
101. Doctors' Commons
102. The Temple Church
103. Advertisements
104. The East India House
105. Historical recollections of Guildhall
106. Civic government
107. The Excise Office
108. The companies of London
109. Covent Garden
110. The Admiralty and the Trinity House
111. The churches of London
112. The churches of London (cont.)
113. The churches of London (cont.)
114. The Horse Guards
115. The old London booksellers
116. Exeter Hall
117. The gardens of the Zoological Society
118. The theatres of London
119. The Treasury
120. The Horticultural and Royal Botanic Societies
121. Prisons and penitentiaries
122. London newspapers
123. The Society of Arts, etc., in the Adelphi
124. Medical and surgical hospitals and lunatic asylums
125. London shops and bazaars. Volume 6:
126. Education in London, ancient
127. Education in London, modern
128. The Old Jewry
129. Old trading companies
130. Public statues
131. The College of Arms
132. Houses of the old nobility
133. Buckingham and Old Westminster palaces
134. Westminster Hall and the new Houses of Parliament
135. The Lord Mayor's Show
136. The British Museum
137. Music
138. The squares of London
139. The Stationers' Company
140. Bills of mortality
141. The National Gallery and the Soane Museum
142. The metropolitan boroughs
143. Exhibitions of art
144. The Stock Exchange
145. Railway termini
146. Military London
147. Charities of London
148. Tattersall's
149. Learned societies
150. Courts of
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