A Descriptive Account of the Guildhall of the City of London: Its History and Associations, Compiled from original documents, with facsimile charters, maps and other illustrations, [Some say a guildhall here was recorded in the Domesday Book, others say the City of London continued without one until the reign of Henry VI. This book consists of documentary evidence from its earliest days, through the little damage done during the Great Fire of London, to the [recent] excavations revealing parts of the ancient building], Many extracts, and most of the earlier documents in Latin,

Price, John Edward, (Hon. Member of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society),

Published by published by the Corporation of the City of London, 1886,

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first edition, 385x285mm with a 70mm-wide spine and wrist-wrenchingly heavy, vii,298pp + separately-printed documents, title page printed red and black, 45 illustrations, printed single-sided on card, original documents with initial capitals in colour, contemporary engravings throughout its ages, including a very detailed pictorial survey on Civitas Londinum in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, a tinted 1750 plan of the Guildhall and its surroundings, engravings, drawings, aquatints and chromolithographs of the various aspects of the exterior and the interior, statues, the crypt, the chapel, tipped in a double-page full colour painting of the Aldermen's court room with a loose tissue guard beteen the two pages, another coloured double-page of its painted ceiling, and one of the Council Chamber with full attendance, an engraving of the Common Council Chamber, one of the procession of Her Majesty (Victoria) to the State Hall, (one of these plates, rubbed on fore-edge, is loose but the weight of the book holds it in place), smaller woodcuts in text of architectural details, etc., a large (approx. 21 x 21 inches linen-backed folding plan of the Guildhall in 1884 with the new council chamber outlined in red, some spotting on the title page and in the margins of the preface, by and large the text pages are clean but here and there, particularly around some of the inserted plates on card there are some spots in the margins, tinted endpapers a little rubbed on fore-edge, original cloth with the title and view of the main entrance gilt-blocked on upper board, a little faded in places, re-backed in grained leather to tone, with 'Guildhall' and the date gilt, top cut edge gilt.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Descriptive Account of the Guildhall of the City of London: Its History and Associations, Compiled from original documents, with facsimile charters, maps and other illustrations, [Some say a guildhall here was recorded in the Domesday Book, others say the City of London continued without one until the reign of Henry VI. This book consists of documentary evidence from its earliest days, through the little damage done during the Great Fire of London, to the [recent] excavations revealing parts ...
• Publisher: published by the Corporation of the City of London, 1886,
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: see description