The London Encyclopaedia - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312052138 ISBN 13: 9780312052133

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1991

Synopsis

A revised and updated reference book, comprised of 5000 entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced. Everything that is important in the history and culture of London is documented, from its first settlement to the present day.

About this title

About the Author:

Authors John and Julia Keay are editors of this third edition of Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert's masterpiece on London.

From Library Journal:

According to Dr. Samuel Johnson, "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." In many senses this fine reference work confirms Johnson's oft-quoted words. With some 5000 entries, ample illustration, and excellent indexes (a general one and one covering people), it is an easily used tool. Well over 100 experts contributed to the book, and the co-editors have done an exceptional job in covering everything from the amusing to the mundane, the largely forgotten past to the vital present. To peruse the work's pages is almost to wear the shoes of George Macaulay Trevelyan as he walked at the side of his relative Thomas Babington Macaulay and had one noteworthy London site after another pointed out, along with a fascinating lecture on its history. Comprehensive, readable in a fashion seldom found in encyclopedias, and transcending anything of this sort heretofore in print, this is a work which belongs in both public and academic libraries.
- Jim Casada, Winthrop Coll., Rock Hill, S.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0312052138
• ISBN 13: 9780312052133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1029
• Editor: Weinreb Ben, Hibbert Christopher