London an Illustrated Companion Guide - Softcover

Piper, David

9780002162876: London an Illustrated Companion Guide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0002162873 ISBN 13: 9780002162876

Publisher: Collins, 1980

Guides visitors through the various sections of the city, describing palaces, monuments, parks, and other sights of historical or cultural interest

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About the Author:

DAVID PIPER was an art historian, director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from 1973-1985, and before that director of the National Portrait Gallery, London; FIONNUALA JERVIS, who revised the guide, has edited and contributed to numerous historical and art historical publications, and in the course of this revision has walked every step of the way in David Piper's footprints from her home in Kensington.

Review:

It is surely remarkable to write of a guidebook that is difficult to put down. But it is certainly true of this one. --Economist

Calls our attention to everything beautiful, historic or curious left in the heart of London. --Sunday Times

Urbane, charming and supremely elegantly written, it contrives to impart lustre even to Leicester Square. --House and Garden

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