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Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
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Timbs, John, 1801–1875
5
Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, 1879–
2
Gronow, R. H. (Rees Howell), 1794–1865
2
Holmes, Martin Rivington, 1905–
2
Pendrill, Charles
2
Savill, Mervyn
2
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949–
1
Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
1
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), 1862–1940
1
Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel), 1915–2008
1
Bakewell, David
1
Bennett, Alfred Rosling, 1850–1928
1
Blackham, Robert James, 1868–
1
Boulton, William B. (William Biggs)
1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, 1891–
1
Burke, Thomas, 1886–1945
1
Coke, David
1
Corporation of London
1
Douglas-Irvine, Helen
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20th century
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19th century
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21st century
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18th century
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pictorial cloth binding
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London (England) -- Social life and customs.
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London (England) -- History.
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London (England) -- Description and travel.
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Thames River (England)
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Europe -- History -- 1789–1900.
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Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558–1603.
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London (England) -- History -- 16th century.
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London (England) -- History -- 18th century.
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London (England) -- History -- To 1500.
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London (England) -- Social conditions.
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London (England) in art.
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Paris (France) -- Social life and customs.
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Streets -- England -- London.
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Amusement parks -- Great Britain.
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Amusements -- England -- London.
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Amusements.
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Architecture, Domestic -- England -- London.
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Art -- England -- London.
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Art and society -- England -- London.
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Hyde Park (London, England)
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Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
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Garrick, David, 1717–1779
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Laroon, Marcellus, 1653–1702
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Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
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London eats out
1999
2
Wagner, Leopold, 1858–
London inns and taverns,
[1925]
3
Timbs, John, 1801–1875
London and Westminster: city and suburb
1868
4
Smith, Charles Manby
Curiosities of London life;
1853
5
Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
London
1892
6
Phillips, Hugh, 1886–
The Thames about 1750
1951
7
Holmes, Martin Rivington, 1905–
The London of Elizabeth I
1960
8
Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839–1911
London afternoons
1901
9
Holmes, Martin Rivington, 1905–
The London of Elizabeth I
1959
10
Marshall, Francis
London West
[1944]
11
Pendrill, Charles
London life in the 14th century,
[1925]
12
Gronow, R. H. (Rees Howell), 1794–1865
The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow
c1984
13
Howells, William Dean, 1837–1920
London films
1905
14
Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, 1879–
Eighteenth-century London life
[1937]
15
Fox, Celina
Londoners
1987
16
Ward, Edward, 1667–1731
The history of the London clubs, or, The citizens' pastime ..
1896]
17
Gronow, R. H. (Rees Howell), 1794–1865
The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow
c1985
18
Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
Early London, prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman;
1908
19
McSheffrey, Shannon
Marriage, sex, and civic culture in late medieval London
c2006
20
Massingham, Hugh
The London anthology
[1950]
21
Savill, Mervyn
Tide of London;
[1951]
22
Savill, Mervyn
Tide of London; a study of London and its river
[1951]
23
Sykes, Christopher Simon, 1948–
Private palaces
1985
24
Kent, William, 1884–1963
London in the news,
[1954]
25
Lejeune, Anthony
The gentlemen's clubs of London
[1979]
26
Timbs, John, 1801–1875
Curiosities of London;
1868
27
Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
East London,
1901
28
Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895–1979
Three tours through London in the years 1748, 1776, 1797,
1941
29
Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing), 1820–1898
About London
1860
30
Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
The Spectator in London;
1896
31
Sims, George Robert, 1847–1922
Living London;
32
Timbs, John, 1801–1875
The romance of London;
[1924]
33
Snowden, W. Crawford
London 200 years ago
[1946?]
34
Ridge, W. Pett (William Pett), d. 1930
London types taken from life,
[1926]
35
Morton, H. V. (Henry Vollam), 1892–1979
May Fair
1927
36
Pendrill, Charles
Old parish life in London
1937
37
Timbs, John, 1801–1875
The romance of London;
[1928?]
38
Newman, Sarah
Around Bunhill Row
c2002
39
Blackham, Robert James, 1868–
London for ever : the sovereign city ;
[1932?]
40
Pedicord, Harry William
The theatrical public in the time of Garrick
1954
41
Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838–1917
Hogarth's London
1909
42
Coke, David
The muse's bower: Vauxhall Gardens, 1728-1786
1978]
43
Harling, Robert
The London miscellany,
1937
44
Gay, John, 1685–1732
Trivia: or, The art of walking the streets of London
1922
45
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, 1891–
Winter in London;
1951
46
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949–
London
c2000
47
Nicholson, Dorothy Lamb Brooke, Lady
The Londoner
1944
48
Harvey, William, 1796–1866
London scenes and London people
1864
49
Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel), 1915–2008
The shows of London
1978
50
Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
Medieval London,
1906
51
Russan, Lilian
Old London city;
1924
52
Douglas-Irvine, Helen
History of London,
1912
53
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), 1862–1940
Hyde Park, its history and romance,
1908
54
Timbs, John, 1801–1875
Walks and talks about London
1865
55
Boulton, William B. (William Biggs)
The amusements of old London;
1901
56
Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
London in the eighteenth century,
1902
57
Bennett, Alfred Rosling, 1850–1928
London and Londoners in the eighteen-fifties and sixties
[1924]
58
Humphreys, Arthur Lee, 1865–1946
Crockford's;
[1953]
59
Williams, Montagu Stephen, 1835–1892
Round London;
1892
60
Nevill, Ralph, 1865–1930
Piccadilly to Pall Mall,
1908
61
Johnson, Nichola
Eighteenth century London
c1991
62
Salaman, Malcolm C. (Malcolm Charles), 1855–1940
Londoners, then and now,
[1920]
63
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
London, a social history
1995
64
Shesgreen, Sean, 1939–
The Criers and hawkers of London
1990
65
Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826–1884
London
1971
66
Gavarni, Paul, 1804–1866
Sketches of London Life & character
[187-?]
67
Burke, Thomas, 1886–1945
The streets of London through the centuries
[1949]
68
Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, 1879–
Eighteenth-century London life
1938
69
Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862–1943
Love, marriage and romance in old London,
[1936]
70
Bakewell, David
Fitzrovia: London's bohemia
c1999
71
Corporation of London
Memorials of London and London life, in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth centuries
1868
72
James, Godfrey
London, the western reaches
[1950]
73
Towards a modern art world
1995