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This volume brings together extensive recollections of authors,
publishers, auctioneers and booksellers from 1779 to 1853, based on
the author's personal acquaintance with the prominent writers,
artists and book publishers of the period. The book is in three
sections, each one concentrating on a given area of London and the
literary scene centred upon it. They are Paternoster Row, Fleet
Street and The Strand. Attention is paid to different forms of
publication, such as the early magazines, in which books were
published by instalments, and to key personalities. There is also
detailed background to some of the most important publishing
houses, such as Longman, and works which were considered pivotal to
their success, such as 'Rees' Cyclopaedia' and the 'Annual Review'.
Engagingly written from a personal perspective, this book will be
of value to historians of literature and publishing, and others
interested in London's literary past.
The antiquarian and topographer John Britton (1771 1857) is best
remembered for his multi-volume series of The Beauties of England
and Wales. A self-taught author and scholar, he was attracted by
the work of John Aubrey (1626 97), who was born in the same
Wiltshire village as him, and had very similar interests as an
antiquarian and biographer, famous for his Brief Lives and for his
surveys of and writings on Avebury and Stonehenge. Britton's
research on Aubrey's life induced him to write a fresh account,
using surviving manuscripts as well as printed sources, which would
clear up the contradictions and errors of earlier versions. This
1845 book is a fascinating portrait of a sickly child who ended up
a pauper because of family debts and lawsuits, but was a diligent
and intelligent scholar, scientist and occultist, and a close
friend of Thomas Hobbes and Robert Hooke."
This two-volume work which was first published in 1825-8 presents
London's most important buildings at a time of rapid urban
transformation. Aiming to project a vision of London as a dynamic
city of integrated courtly and commercial power, the 70 entries
span a historical range from the medieval (Westminster Hall) to the
early nineteenth century (Soane's Museum) and a diversity of
building types from palaces and churches to banks, theatres,
prisons and bridges. Edited by John Britton, a leading
topographical authority of the period, and Auguste Charles Pugin,
an Anglo-French architectural draughtsman, the volumes contain 146
engravings of the selected buildings, correctly scaled from
different perspectives and including interior scenes as well as
external plans. This was a landmark publication in its time and
remains a vivid portrait of the London's built environment
immediately before the advent of the railway. This new edition
includes an extended introduction by Stephen Daniels, Professor
Emeritus of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham.
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County - The Beauties Of England And Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, And Descriptive, Of Each County; Volume 3 (Hardcover)
John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County - The Beauties Of England And Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, And Descriptive, Of Each County; Volume 3 (Paperback)
John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer
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