London
Volume 6
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
- Author: Charles Knight
- Date Published: May 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108073998
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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: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108073998
- length: 432 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.75kg
- contains: 95 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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 law.
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