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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition stated on copyright page. Very good or better no markings, light wear in a used jacket protected in an archival sleeve. A classic reference work in the first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tall 8vo, i-xi, 343 pp, coloured and black and white illustrations throughout. Very good in a rather worn and marked dust wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Edited by Willam Ward. Contributions by A.R. Orage - Will Dyson - Sir Harold Bowden - W.T. Symons - Philip McDevitt - The Earl of Tankerville - The Dean of Canterbury ( Hewlett Johnson ) The Rt Hon. Thomas Johnston - C. Marshall Hattersley - Major C H Douglas - A.L. Gibson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st edition. VG+ in Fair dw. 8vo, 212pp (plus plates), printed boards with printed dustwrapper. 1 of 500 stated copies of this double final issue in book format of this classic title, with a stellar roster of contributors. Includes floral insert by Gypsy Lou Webb. Unmarked copy, solid with a little light spotting; dustwrapper missing most of spine and an adjacent margin of the back cover; light spotting to insert slip. Not Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Various; Arthur G. Bell; M. V. Wheelhouse; Donald Mawell; W. J. Roberts (illustrator). A richly illustrated collection of eleven works on London"s history, culture, and character, spanning 1879-1926. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.This eleven volume collection provides a series of late 19th- and early 20th-century works on London"s history, culture, and character, many of which are richly illustrated.This collection consists of: Two copies of Romance of the London Directory by Charles W. Bardsley (1879). Illustrated with a frontispiece. The Story of The London Parks by Jacob Larwood (1881). This copy is a new edition, with illustrations. The Romance of London. Historic Sketches, Remarkable Duels, Notorious Highwaymen, Rogueries, Crimes, and Punishments and Love and Marriage by John Timbs (c1889). This copy is undated, dated here using Jisc, from copies held at the University of East Anglia Library, University of Edinburgh Libraries and Hathi Trust Digital Library. Illustrated throughout. Dibs: A Story of Young London Life by Joseph Johnson (c1887). This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held at the British Library, Bishopsgate Institute and Manchester Metropolitan University. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and two monochrome plate illustrations. Collated. complete. The Chronicles of Newgate by Arthur Griffiths (1896). Literary London by Elsie M. Lang with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton (c1906). This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from a copy held at the British Library. Illustrated with 20 monochrome photographic plates, including a frontispiece, taken by W. J. Roberts. Collated, complete. The Skirts of The Great City by Mrs. Arthur G. Bell (1908). Illustrated with 16 colour plates with numerous monochrome plates, including a colour frontispiece. Collated, complete. London in The Sixties (With a Few Digressions) by "One of the Old Brigade" (1909) Illustrated with six monochrome plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Nights in Town by Thomas Burke (1919). Illustrated with a frontispiece. Holly House and Ridges Row, a Tale of London Old and New by May Baldwin (1924). Illustrated by M. V. Wheelhouse with a colour frontispiece and eleven colour plates. Collated, complete. A Short History of the Tower of London by Major-General Sir George Younghusband (1926). Illustrated by Donald Mawell, with numerous full-page illustrations and a frontispiece. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Externally, smart. slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to spines. Previous owner"s inscription to front paste down of "Brief History of the Tower of London." Front and rear hinges of "Romance of London" cracked, with binding materials slightly exposed, holding but somewhat loose. Previous owner"s inscription to front free endpaper of "Romance of London," "The Romance of the London Directory", and "Literary London." Bookplate from Charles S. Burdon to front free endpaper to "Skirts of the great City." Previous owner"s red pencil inscription to rear paste down of "Holly House," with prie plate to front paste down from Bostall Lane school, awarded to Hellie Wallace, 1924. Prize plate to front paste down of "Dibs" from Primitive Methodist Sunday School. Internally, generally firmly bound. Higes slightly strained in places to the odd copy, but holding firm. Library stamp from Gloucestershire County Library and library annotations to printing page and front paste down of "London Parks". Paper and glue residue to front endpapers of "London Parks" with slight loss and rubbing to front paste down. Final two pages of the lighter blue cloth bound copy of "Romance of the London Directory fully disbound, with rust staining to gutters from stapled binding. Very Good. book.