THE LOST RIVERS OF LONDON : A study of their effects upon London and Londoners, and the effescts of London and Londoners upon them.

This copy is in as new condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a small inscription to the f.e.p. The unclipped dust wrapper is in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Nicholas Barton’s The Lost Rivers of London (1982) is a foundational, richly illustrated study of the capital’s buried waterways, explaining how these vanished rivers shaped London’s topography, boundaries, roads, industry, and sewerage. It remains the most comprehensive historical survey of London’s subterranean rivers. Barton traces the courses of streams such as the Fleet, Tyburn, Walbrook, Effra, Westbourne, and others that once flowed openly across the city but are now culverted, absorbed into the sewer system, or only visible in fragments. Ref BBB 4.…