The publisher and writer Charles Knight (1791-1873) was apprenticed
to his printer father, but later became a journalist and then
proprietor of various periodicals and magazines, many of which were
driven by his concern for the education of the poor. As an author,
he published a variety of works, including The Old Printer and the
Modern Press (also reissued in this series). He claimed that this
six-volume work on the architecture and history of London,
published between 1841 and 1844, was neither a history nor a survey
of London, but looked 'at the Present through the Past, and at the
Past through the Present'. It relies on the skills of eminent
artists to bring both the present and the past of London to life,
and is arranged thematically rather than chronologically or
geographically. This is a fascinating account of what was then the
greatest city in the world.
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