London : the biography / Peter Ackroyd
2000, First Edition. London : Chatto & Windus. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.Includes previous owner's inscription. Item #345721
ISBN: 1856197166
Physical description; xxiii, 822 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 781-793) and index. Contents; The city as body -- From prehistory to 1066 -- The Early Middle Ages -- London contrasts -- The late medieval city -- Onward and upward -- Trading streets and trading parishes -- A London neighbourhood -- London as theatre -- Pestilence and flame -- After the Fire -- Crime and punishment -- Voracious London -- London as crowd -- The natural history of London -- Night and day -- London's radicals -- Violent London -- Black magic, white magic -- A fever of building -- London's rivers -- Under the ground -- Victorian megalopolis -- London's outcasts -- Women and children -- Continuities -- East and south -- The centre of empire -- After the Great War -- Blitz -- Refashioning the city -- Cockney visionaries. Subjects; Manners and customs. London (England) Social conditions. London Great Britain Local history. Essex. Kent. London. Middlesex. Surrey. London (England) Social life and customs. London (England) History. London (England) Civilization. London (England) History. London (England) Civilization. London (England) Social life and customs. London (England) Social conditions. England, London History. London (England) Description and travel. London (England) History. London (England) Social life and customs. Ancient history. Middle Ages. Modern history. Everyday life. Fire. Crime. Markets. Rivers. Culture. Sociology. Women. Children. People. London historyurban myths folktales biography. London : English history. London History. London Topography. History History of London - City Planning: Social & E. major british writers. London. Great Britain - Social history. Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated.
Price: €21.95