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London Charles Knight

London By Charles Knight

Summary

Charles Knight's six-volume work on London, published 1841-4, relies on the skills of eminent artists to bring both the present and the past of London to life. 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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London by Charles Knight

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.

Table of Contents

76. Beer; 77. Banks; 78. The Fleet Prison; 79. Fleet marriages; 80.-84. Westminster Abbey; 85. Old London rogueries; 86. London burials; 87. London fires; 88. Billingsgate; 89. London churches at the end of the fourteenth century; 90. Sketches of the history of crime and police in London; 91. Old St Paul's; 92. Old St Paul's (cont.); 93. Somerset House; 94. The Old Bailey; 95. Public refreshment; 96. New St Paul's; 97. New St Paul's (cont.); 98. Inns of Court; 99. Inns of Court (cont.); 100. The Reading Room of the British Museum.

Additional information

NLS9781108073974
9781108073974
1108073972
London by Charles Knight
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2014-05-08
426
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