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The new, complete, and universal history, description, and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and the parts adjacent. ... By a society of gentlemen, the whole revised, corrected, and improved, by William Thornton, ...
Date: 1784- Books
London fog : the biography / Christine L. Corton.
Corton, Christine L., 1958-Date: 2015- Books
Hidden treasures of London / Michael McNay ; with photographs by Stephanie Wolff.
McNay, MichaelDate: 2015- Books
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A survey of the cities of London and Westminster: containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities. Written at first in the year MDXCVIII. By John Stow, citizen and native of London. Since reprinted and augmented by A.M. H.D. and other. Now lastly, corrected, improved, and very much enlarged: and the survey and history brought down from the year 1633, (being near fourscore years since it was last printed) to the present time; by John Strype, M.A. a native also of the said city. Illustrated with exact maps of the city and suburbs, and of all the wards; and likewise of the out-parishes of London and Westminster: together with many other fair draughts of the more eminent and publick edifices and monuments. In six books. To which is prefixed, the life of the author, writ by the editor. At the end is added, an appendiz of certain tracts, discourses and remarks, concerning the state of the city of London. Together with a perambulation, or circuit-walk four or five miles round about London, to the parish churches: describing the monuments of the dead there interred: with other antiquities observable in those places. And concluding with a second appendix, as a supply and review: and a large index of the whole work.
Stow, John, 1525?-1605.Date: 1720- Books
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The history of London, from its foundation by the Romans, to the present time. Containing A Faithful Relation of the Publick Transactions of the Citizens; Accounts of the several Parishes; Parallels between London and other Great Cities; its Governments, Civil, Ecclesiastical and Military; Commerce, State of Learning, Charitable Foundations, &c. With the several Accounts of Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, And Other Parts within The Bill of Mortality. In nine books. The Whole Illustrated with a Variety of Fine Cuts. With a Compleat Index. By William Maitland, F. R. S.
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]