Edited Alan Bott (3 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hardcover without dust jacket, Second Edition, 220 pages including hundreds of contemporary monochrome engravings; gently used, not abused, tight in binding, but showing its nine decades with only light shelf wear to cover edges but considerable fading and waterstaining to covers, page edges age toned, dust speckled and showing scattered foxing spots, but interior very clean and unmarked, no foxing, pages looking almost as new. For something completely different, see also our listings for James Hamilton's A Strange Business: Art, Culture, and Commerce in 19th [Nineteenth] Century London, or perhaps Fraser Harrison's The Dark Angel: Aspects of Victorian Sexuality.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. Fist Edition. Foxing to end inside covers. Marks to cloth. Slight wear to top edge of spine of cloth. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: 'Girl of the Period': A Preface. Somebodies and Nobodies. 'The English Live at Home'. Down Among the Masses. Into the Open. Towards Emancipation. Good Works and Sweet Charity. 'Steel-Bound and Whalebone-Lined.' Illustrated. 220 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Corners slightly bumped. Yellow-Green cloth with red lettering. This is a book to inspire nostalga among Londoners and sometimes Londoners all over the world. It ranges over most quarters of London, as well as attractive parts of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, Essex, Herts, Berks and the southern sea-coast, including Brighton. A section is devoted to London's River. Opposite each Plate a Note, written after a special visit, records the background, local history, character and human outlook of the place and district. Illustrated. 191 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).