Language: English / Subject Terms: London (England) -- History.

1. Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.

Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: [4], 82 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond [graphic] : exhibiting every object on both banks of the river : with a concise description of the most remarkable places and a general view of London.

Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond [graphic] : exhibiting every object on both banks of the river : with a concise description of the most remarkable places and a general view of London.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 22 x 168 cm, accordion folded to 22 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.

Creator:: Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: viii, 571 p., [23] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., plan : 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. An historical description of the tower of London and its curiosities : giving an account 1. Of its foundation, gradual increase, and present state. 2. Of its government, customs, and privileges. 3. Of its antiquities, records, and curiosities. 4. Of the lions, and other wild beasts kept there. 5. Of the spoils of the Spanish Armada, with the history of the Spanish Invasion in 1588. 6. Of the small armory, in which are arms for 100,000 men. 7. Of the Royal Train of Artillery, comprehending a variety of cannon, mortars, &c. &c. 8. Of the horse armory; with a concise history of the Kings fitting there on horseback, in full armour, from William the Conqueror to George II. 9. Of the Jewel-Office, and the regalia used at coronations, with a full account of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal them. 10. Of the mint, and the manner of stamping money : written principally to direct the attention of strangers to what is most curious in this Repository, and to enable them afterwards to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 60 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. London : being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood : to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation / by David Hughson ...

Creator:: Hughson, David, active 19th century
Date:: 1805-1809
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

Creator:: Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:: MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, [2], 316, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Tallis's illustrated London : in commemoration of the Great exhibition of all nations in 1851 : forming a complete guide to the British metropolis and its environs : illustrated by upwards of two hundred steel engraving from original drawings and daguerreotypes / with historical and descriptive letterpress by William Gaspey, Esq. Vol. I <-II>.

Creator:: Gaspey, William, 1812–1888
Date:: <1851-52>
Physical Description:: 2 v. (vii, <1>, 320 p., <74> leaves of plates (1 folded); vii, <1>, 304 p., <86> leaves of plates (2 folded)) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

Creator:: Parton, John, d. 1821
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 427, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map, plan ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

Date:: [1769]
Physical Description:: [2], 682, [10] p., [68] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., map, plans ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

Creator:: Percy, Sholto, 1788–1852
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., port., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent / by Thomas Allen.

Creator:: Allen, Thomas, 1803–1833
Date:: 1827-1828
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Henage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Domestic union, or, London as it should be : containing observations on the present state of the municipality of London;--with hints for it's extention and improvement ; together with remarks on the West-India Docks in the Ilse of Dogs;--the Wapping Docks;--the projects for improving London Bridge, and for making a new iron bridge across the Thames; the canal on the south side of the river, and the several new streets under present contemplation. / By the author of the Portentous Globe.

Creator:: Stonestreet, George Griffin
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], 67, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

Creator:: Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:: 184-?]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 203, [1] p., 1 leaf, vi, [2], ii, 158 p. front., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Repertorium ecclesiasticum parochiale Londinense : an ecclesiastical parochial history of the diocese of London : containing an account of the bishops of that sea, from the first foundation thereof : also, of the deans, archdeacons, dignitaries and prebendaries, from the conquest : and lastly, of the several parish-churches ... within the limits of that diocese, and of their patrons and incumbents : and also the endowments of several vicarages, and likewise of the several religious houses that were within the same : continu'd to the year of Our Lord, MDCC : in an alphabetical order / by Ric. Newcourt ...

Creator:: Newcourt, Richard, d. 1716
Date:: 1708-1710
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The history and antiquities of the Tower of London : with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished persons, deduced from records, state papers, and manuscripts, and from other original and authentic sources / by John Bayley, Esq., F.S.A. of the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, and one of His Majesty's Sub-Commissioners on the Public Records ; in two parts ; Part I[-II].

Creator:: Bayley, John, -1869
Date:: 1821-1825
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Holmes's Great metropolis : or, Views and history of London in the nineteenth century. Being a grand national exhibition of the British capital. With historical and topographical notices of each place / Ed. by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and Thomas Harrel [!] ...

Creator:: Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:: [1851?]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 211 p. 34 pl. incl. front. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts adjacent ... / by Robert Seymour ... ; the whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, i.e. to the present year ...

Creator:: Mottley, John, 1692–1750
Date:: 1734-1735
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms, map ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The Thames panorama : London seen from the river / created, designed and photographed by Misha Anikst ; text by William Underhill.

Creator:: Anikst, Misha
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([39] panels) : illustrations ; sheet end-to-end 21 x 202 cm, accordion folded to 21 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

20. London. Edited by Charles Knight.

Creator:: Knight, Charles, 1791–1873
Date:: 1841-1844
Physical Description:: 6 v. front., illus., (incl. plans) 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The history of London : from its foundation to the present time ... including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the bill of mortality ... / by William Maitland ...

Creator:: Maitland, William, 1693?-1757
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 2 v. (viii, 1410 p.) : ill., map, plans, coats of arms ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. London, old and new : including contemporary watercolours by Juan Sevilla Saez / edited by John Cadfryn-Roberts.

Creator:: Cadfryn-Roberts, John
Date:: 1960
Physical Description:: [2], V-VIII, [12] pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Views and history of London in the nineteenth century : being a series of illustrations of the most interesting objects in the British metropolis and its vicinity / from original drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd.

Creator:: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:: [183-?]
Physical Description:: 316, xlii p., [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. This day is published, number XCIV, with a view of the city gates : (to be continued weekly, price six-pence) : the sixth edition of Stow's survey of London and Westminster : and of the borough of Southward : being the best topography of those cities : together with the distinct history of them : in two large volumes, folio : containing their original, antiquity, increase, present state, and government : written at first by John Stow, citizen and native of London ; several times reprinted and augmented, then corrected, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by J. Strype, M.A. ; and the history and survey now brought down to this present time by careful hands ; illustrated with exact maps of all the wards and out-parishes both of London and Westminister ; with other draughts of the most eminent and public edifices and monuments.

Date:: November 29, 1755
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page (incomplete)) ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Londinopolis : an historicall discourse; or, Perlustration of the city of London, the imperial chamber, and chief emporium of Great Britain: whereunto is added another of the city of Westminster, with the courts of justice, antiquities, and new buildings thereunto belonging / by Jam Howel ...

Creator:: Howell, James, 1594?-1666
Date:: 1657
Physical Description:: [10], 124, 301-407, [8] p., 3 leaves of plates : port., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. London, by Sir Laurence Gomme, F. S. A.

Creator:: Gomme, George Laurence, 1853–1916
Date:: 1914
Physical Description:: xiv, 381 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Mayfair and Belgravia: being an historical account of the parish of St. George, Hanover square. By George Clinch ... With numerous illustrations.

Creator:: Clinch, George, 1860–1921
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: xii, 183, [1] p. incl. map. front., illus., plates, ports. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. London afternoons : chapters on the social life, architecture and records of the great city and its neighbourhood / by W. J. Loftie.

Creator:: Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839–1911
Date:: 1901
Physical Description:: xii, 292 p. : front., plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Old London bridge / by Gordon Home.

Creator:: Home, Gordon, 1878–1969
Date:: [1931]
Physical Description:: xviii, 382 p. : ill. (incl. facsims.) plates (part fold.) ports., plans. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. The history of East london, from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century, by Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith.

Creator:: Smith, H. Llewellyn (Hubert Llewellyn), 1864–1945
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: xxxii, 308 p. illus. (incl. maps) 20 pl. (incl. front.,facsims., plan) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. Where London sleeps; historical journeyings into the suburbs.

Creator:: Bell, Walter George, 1867–1942
Date:: [1926]
Physical Description:: 248 p. illus. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

32. The London life of yesterday, by Arthur Compton-Rickett.

Creator:: Compton-Rickett, Arthur, 1869–1937
Date:: 1909
Physical Description:: x, 400 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. The governance of London; studies on the place accupied by London in English institutions, by George Laurence Gomme. With maps.

Creator:: Gomme, George Laurence, 1853–1916
Date:: 1907
Physical Description:: 2 p. 1., vii-xii, 418., 1 l. fold. plans. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

34. London and its celebrities.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1901
Physical Description:: 3 v. illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. London triumphant, by Sydney R. Jones.

Creator:: Jones, Sydney R. (Sydney Robert), 1881–
Date:: [1942]
Physical Description:: 278 p. illus. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. London and the kingdom; a history derived mainly from the archives at Guildhall in the custody of the corporation of the city of London. By Reginald R. Sharpe ... Printed by order of the corporation under the direction of the Library committee.

Creator:: Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson), b. 1848
Date:: 1894-95
Physical Description:: 3 v. illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Tide of London; a study of London and its river.

Creator:: Savill, Mervyn
Date:: [1951]
Physical Description:: 176 p. illus. (part col.) 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. Medical London : city of diseases, city of cures / by Richard Barnett ; edited by Mike Jay.

Creator:: Barnett, Richard
Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: [8] v. : ill. ; 15-21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. The London stage, 1660-1800; a calendar of plays, entertainments & afterpieces, together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment. Compiled from the playbills, newspapers and theatrical diaries of the period.

Date:: 1960-68 [v. 1, 1965]
Physical Description:: 5 v. in 11. illus., ports., facsims. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. A dictionary of London; being notes topographical and historical relating to the streets and principal buildings in the city of London, by Henry A. Harben, F.S.A.; with six plans.

Creator:: Harben, Henry Andrade, 1849–1910
Date:: 1918
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., vii-xxiv p., 2 l., 641 p. 6 fold. plans (inc. front., 2 in pocket) 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. 2000 years of London: an illustrated survey.

Creator:: Hanson, Michael
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: 232 p. illus., maps, plans, facsims. 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. The lost rivers of London : a study of their effects upon London and Londoners, and the effects of London and Londoners upon them / Nicholas Barton.

Creator:: Barton, Nicholas, FRCS
Date:: 1992
Physical Description:: 167 p. : ill., maps (1 folded) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. The history of Horselydown : a paper read before a meeting of the Surrey Archaeological Society, held at Horselydown in Southwark, October 30, 1855 / by G.R. Corner.

Creator:: Corner, George Richard, 1801–1863
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 24 p., [2] fold. leaves of plates : ill. (some fold.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. London.

Creator:: Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: xiv, 403 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Old time Aldwych, Kingsway, and neighbourhood; by Charles Gordon.

Creator:: Ashton, John, 1834–1911
Date:: 1903
Physical Description:: xiii, 367 p. incl. illus., maps, plans. (part fold.) 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. South London / by Walter Besant ; with an etching by Francis S. Walker, and 119 illustrations.

Creator:: Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: xii, 332 p. front., illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

47. Early London, prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman; by Sir Walter Besant.

Creator:: Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
Date:: 1908
Physical Description:: x, 370 p. front., illus., plates, facsim. 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

48. Cripplegate : one of the twenty-six wards of the city of London / by Sir John James Baddeley.

Creator:: Baddeley, John James, Sir, 1842–1926
Date:: 1921
Physical Description:: xix, 339 p. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

49. London and its celebrities : a second series of Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Heneage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Eighteenth-century London life [by] Rosamond Bayne-Powell.

Creator:: Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, 1879–
Date:: [1937]
Physical Description:: vii, 385 p. front., plates. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

51. London.

Creator:: Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839–1911
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: 223 p. front. (fold. map) 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

52. Modern history of the city of London; a record of municipal and social progress, from 1760 to the present day. By Charles Welch... With illustrations drawn and selected by Philip Norman, F.S.A.

Creator:: Welch, Charles, 1848–1924
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., xi, 492, [3] p. front., illus. 33 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

53. Tide of London; a study of London and its river.

Creator:: Savill, Mervyn
Date:: [1951]
Physical Description:: 176 p. illus. (part col.) 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

54. Down Thames street, a pilgrimage among its remaining churches, written and illustrated by Mark Rogers, R.B.S. 162 drawings and many transcripts.

Creator:: Rogers, Mark, 1848–
Date:: [1921]
Physical Description:: xi, [13]-200 p. front., illus. 25 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

55. Old London illustrated.

Creator:: Brewer, Henry William, 1836–1903
Date:: [1962]
Physical Description:: 68 p. plates. 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

56. A history of London. By W. J. Loftie, with maps and illustrations.

Creator:: Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839–1911
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: 2 v. fold. fronts., plates (partly fold.) maps (partly fold.) plans (partly fold.) 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

57. London mystery & mythology.

Creator:: Kent, William, 1884–1963
Date:: [1952]
Physical Description:: 254 p. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

58. Literary and historical memorials of London.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1901
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

59. The London rich : the creation of a great city, from 1666 to the present / Peter Thorold.

Creator:: Thorold, Peter
Date:: c1999
Physical Description:: 336 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

60. City & river / text by Chris Ellmers ; edited by Caroline Williamson ; photography by John Edwards [and others].

Creator:: Ellmers, Chris
Date:: 1989
Physical Description:: 16 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

61. The Museum of London / designed by David Stuart ; illustrations by John Gorham.

Creator:: Museum of London
Date:: 1976
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio (12 unnumbered sheets) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David K. Thompson

62. London's archaeological secrets : a world city revealed / edited by Chris Thomas with Andy Chopping and Tracy Wellman.

Date:: 2003
Physical Description:: 160 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

63. The making of London / by Laurence Gomme.

Creator:: Gomme, George Laurence, 1853–1916
Date:: 1912
Physical Description:: 255 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

64. The story of London; by Henry B. Wheatley ;illustrated by W. H. Godfrey [and others]

Creator:: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838–1917
Date:: 1909
Physical Description:: vvi, 411 p. illus. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

65. London, 1900-1964 : armorial bearings and regalia of the London County Council, the Corporation of London and the metropolitan boroughs.

Creator:: Beningfield, T. J
Date:: [1964?]
Physical Description:: 180 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

66. Unknown London and More about unknown London. With 39 illus. comprising contemporary prints, plans and drawings.

Creator:: Bell, Walter George, 1867–1942
Date:: [1951]
Physical Description:: 334 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

67. London's story / by Claud Mullins.

Creator:: Mullins, Claud, 1887–1968
Date:: 1920
Physical Description:: xvi, 187 p. : front., ill., plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

68. Museum of London / Valerie Cumming, Nick Merriman and Catherine Ross.

Creator:: Cumming, Valerie
Date:: 1996
Physical Description:: 128 p. : ill., (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

69. Signs and taverns round about old London Bridge, including Gracechch Street, Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street, by Kenneth Rogers

Creator:: Rogers, Kenneth, 1870–
Date:: [1937]
Physical Description:: 166 p. front., xv pl. (incl. plans) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

70. The history of London.

Creator:: Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: 256 p. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

71. London stories: being a collection of the lives and adventures of Londoners in all ages, ed. by John O'London [pseud.]

Creator:: Whitten, Wilfred, 1864–1942
Date:: [n.d.]
Physical Description:: 2 v. fold. front. (v.1) illus. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

72. The history of the squares of London, topographical & historical, by E. Beresford Chancellor. With thirty-six illustrations.

Creator:: Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868–1937
Date:: 1907
Physical Description:: xvii, 420 p. front., plates, plans. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

73. Indigenous London : native travelers at the heart of empire / Coll Thrush.

Creator:: Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970–
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: xii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

74. London, how the great city grew / George Rose Emerson..

Creator:: Emerson, George R. (George Rose)
Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: vi, 313 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

75. The city of London; a book reprinted from the special number of The Times.

Creator:: Times (London, England)
Date:: [1927]
Physical Description:: 231 p. illus. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

76. Haunted London / by Walter Thornbury ; illustrated by F.W. Fairholt.

Creator:: Thornbury, Walter, 1828–1876
Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: xv, 518 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

77. London in the eighteenth century, by Sir Walter Besant.

Creator:: Besant, Walter, 1836–1901
Date:: 1902
Physical Description:: xvii p., 1 l., 667 p. front., illus., pl., port., fold. map. 29 X 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

78. London signs: a reference book of London signs from earliest times to about the mid-nineteenth century.

Creator:: Lillywhite, Bryant
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: iii-xx, 696, [25] p.; illus. (some col.), col. coats of arms, facsims. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

79. Memorials of St. James's street ; together with, The annals of Almack's / by E. Beresford Chancellor.With sixteen illustrations.

Creator:: Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868–1937
Date:: 1922
Physical Description:: 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

80. London, the western reaches.

Creator:: James, Godfrey
Date:: [1950]
Physical Description:: x, 406 p. plates, port., fold. map. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

81. Ludgate Hill : past and present : a narrative concerning the people, places, legends, and changes of the great London highway / [W. P. Treloar].

Creator:: Treloar, William Purdie, Sir, bart., 1843–1923
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: 144 p. (incl. plates) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

82. Londoners, then and now, as pictured by their comtemporaries, with commentary by Malcolm C. Salaman, ed. by Geoffrey Holme.

Creator:: Salaman, Malcolm C. (Malcolm Charles), 1855–1940
Date:: [1920]
Physical Description:: viii, 167 p. incl. plates (part col.) 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

83. A London anthology selected by Norman G. Brett-James.

Creator:: Brett-James, Norman G. (Norman George), 1879–
Date:: [1928]
Physical Description:: 255 p. front. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

84. The story of Charing Cross and its immediate neighbourhood, by J. Holden Macmichael.

Creator:: Macmichael, J. Holden
Date:: 1906
Physical Description:: 344 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

85. Fleet street in seven centuries; being a history of the growth of London beyond the walls into the western Liberty, and of Fleet street to our time, by Walter George Bell, with a foreword by Sir William Purdie Treloar, bt. Forty-six illustrations; drawings by T. R. Way, Hanslip Fletcher, R. Anning Bell, T. E. Knightley; reproductions of old prints, maps, original documents, and photographs.

Creator:: Bell, Walter George, 1867–1942
Date:: 1912
Physical Description:: xiv, 608 p. front., illus., plates (1 fold.) ports., plans (1 fold.) facsims. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

86. London, past and present : its history, associations, and traditions / by Henry B. Wheatley ; based upon the Handbook of London, by the late Peter Cunningham.

Creator:: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838–1917
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: 3 v. ;c 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

87. London : portrait of a city / compiled by Roger Hudson.

Creator:: Hudson, Roger
Date:: c1998
Physical Description:: 272 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

88. London : the biography / Peter Ackroyd.

Creator:: Ackroyd, Peter, 1949–
Date:: c2000
Physical Description:: xxvi, 801 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

89. The Victoria history of London, including London within the Bars, Westminster, & Southwark; ed. by William Page. Volume one.

Date:: 1909
Physical Description:: xxvii, 588 p. illus., plates (part. col.) maps (part. fold.) 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

90. The Londoner [by] Lady Nicholson. With 8 plates in colour and 20 illustrations in black & white.

Creator:: Nicholson, Dorothy Lamb Brooke, Lady
Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: 47 p. illus., col. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

91. Essays on old London, by Sydney Perks.

Creator:: Perks, Sydney
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: viii, 78 p. illus. 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

92. The historical charters and constitutional documents of the city of London.

Creator:: London (England)
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: xlviii, 338 p. 27 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

93. London west of the Bars.

Creator:: Newton, W. Douglas, (Wilfrid Douglas), 1884–1951
Date:: [1951]
Physical Description:: viii, 336 p. illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

94. London; the story of the city from Roman times to our own day, by E. Beresford Chancellor.

Creator:: Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868–1937
Date:: [1928]
Physical Description:: 64 p. illus. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

95. London town past and present; with a chapter on The future in London by F.M. Hueffer. Profusely illus. from old prints and from photos and drawings.

Creator:: Hutchings, W. W
Date:: 1909
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., illus., plates, ports., maps, plans, facsims.
Collection:: Reference Library

96. London, a social history / Roy Porter.

Creator:: Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: xv, 431 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

97. Source book of London history from the earliest times to 1800 / edited by P. Meadows.

Creator:: Meadows, Percival
Date:: 1914
Physical Description:: viii, 195 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

98. Old London city; a handbook, partly alphabetical, by Lilian and Ashmore Russan.

Creator:: Russan, Lilian
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: 246 p. plates (part fold.) 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

99. History of London,

Creator:: Douglas-Irvine, Helen
Date:: 1912
Physical Description:: viii, 396 p. front. (fold. plan) plates. (1 fold.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

100. Illustrated London / Peter Ackroyd.

Creator:: Ackroyd, Peter, 1949–
Date:: c2003
Physical Description:: [256] p. : il. (some col.) ; 27 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.

2. Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond [graphic] : exhibiting every object on both banks of the river : with a concise description of the most remarkable places and a general view of London.

3. Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.

5. London : being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood : to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation / by David Hughson ...

6. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

8. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

9. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

10. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

11. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent / by Thomas Allen.

12. Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Henage Jesse.

14. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

17. Holmes's Great metropolis : or, Views and history of London in the nineteenth century. Being a grand national exhibition of the British capital. With historical and topographical notices of each place / Ed. by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and Thomas Harrel [!] ...

18. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts adjacent ... / by Robert Seymour ... ; the whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, i.e. to the present year ...

19. The Thames panorama : London seen from the river / created, designed and photographed by Misha Anikst ; text by William Underhill.

20. London. Edited by Charles Knight.

21. The history of London : from its foundation to the present time ... including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the bill of mortality ... / by William Maitland ...

22. London, old and new : including contemporary watercolours by Juan Sevilla Saez / edited by John Cadfryn-Roberts.

23. Views and history of London in the nineteenth century : being a series of illustrations of the most interesting objects in the British metropolis and its vicinity / from original drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd.

25. Londinopolis : an historicall discourse; or, Perlustration of the city of London, the imperial chamber, and chief emporium of Great Britain: whereunto is added another of the city of Westminster, with the courts of justice, antiquities, and new buildings thereunto belonging / by Jam Howel ...

26. London, by Sir Laurence Gomme, F. S. A.

27. Mayfair and Belgravia: being an historical account of the parish of St. George, Hanover square. By George Clinch ... With numerous illustrations.

28. London afternoons : chapters on the social life, architecture and records of the great city and its neighbourhood / by W. J. Loftie.

29. Old London bridge / by Gordon Home.

30. The history of East london, from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century, by Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith.

31. Where London sleeps; historical journeyings into the suburbs.

32. The London life of yesterday, by Arthur Compton-Rickett.

33. The governance of London; studies on the place accupied by London in English institutions, by George Laurence Gomme. With maps.

34. London and its celebrities.

35. London triumphant, by Sydney R. Jones.

36. London and the kingdom; a history derived mainly from the archives at Guildhall in the custody of the corporation of the city of London. By Reginald R. Sharpe ... Printed by order of the corporation under the direction of the Library committee.

37. Tide of London; a study of London and its river.

38. Medical London : city of diseases, city of cures / by Richard Barnett ; edited by Mike Jay.

39. The London stage, 1660-1800; a calendar of plays, entertainments & afterpieces, together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment. Compiled from the playbills, newspapers and theatrical diaries of the period.

40. A dictionary of London; being notes topographical and historical relating to the streets and principal buildings in the city of London, by Henry A. Harben, F.S.A.; with six plans.

41. 2000 years of London: an illustrated survey.

42. The lost rivers of London : a study of their effects upon London and Londoners, and the effects of London and Londoners upon them / Nicholas Barton.

43. The history of Horselydown : a paper read before a meeting of the Surrey Archaeological Society, held at Horselydown in Southwark, October 30, 1855 / by G.R. Corner.

44. London.

45. Old time Aldwych, Kingsway, and neighbourhood; by Charles Gordon.

46. South London / by Walter Besant ; with an etching by Francis S. Walker, and 119 illustrations.

47. Early London, prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman; by Sir Walter Besant.

48. Cripplegate : one of the twenty-six wards of the city of London / by Sir John James Baddeley.

49. London and its celebrities : a second series of Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Heneage Jesse.

50. Eighteenth-century London life [by] Rosamond Bayne-Powell.

51. London.

52. Modern history of the city of London; a record of municipal and social progress, from 1760 to the present day. By Charles Welch... With illustrations drawn and selected by Philip Norman, F.S.A.

53. Tide of London; a study of London and its river.

54. Down Thames street, a pilgrimage among its remaining churches, written and illustrated by Mark Rogers, R.B.S. 162 drawings and many transcripts.

55. Old London illustrated.

56. A history of London. By W. J. Loftie, with maps and illustrations.

57. London mystery & mythology.

58. Literary and historical memorials of London.

59. The London rich : the creation of a great city, from 1666 to the present / Peter Thorold.

60. City & river / text by Chris Ellmers ; edited by Caroline Williamson ; photography by John Edwards [and others].

61. The Museum of London / designed by David Stuart ; illustrations by John Gorham.

62. London's archaeological secrets : a world city revealed / edited by Chris Thomas with Andy Chopping and Tracy Wellman.

63. The making of London / by Laurence Gomme.

64. The story of London; by Henry B. Wheatley ;illustrated by W. H. Godfrey [and others]

65. London, 1900-1964 : armorial bearings and regalia of the London County Council, the Corporation of London and the metropolitan boroughs.

66. Unknown London and More about unknown London. With 39 illus. comprising contemporary prints, plans and drawings.

67. London's story / by Claud Mullins.

68. Museum of London / Valerie Cumming, Nick Merriman and Catherine Ross.

69. Signs and taverns round about old London Bridge, including Gracechch Street, Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street, by Kenneth Rogers

70. The history of London.

71. London stories: being a collection of the lives and adventures of Londoners in all ages, ed. by John O'London [pseud.]

72. The history of the squares of London, topographical & historical, by E. Beresford Chancellor. With thirty-six illustrations.

73. Indigenous London : native travelers at the heart of empire / Coll Thrush.

74. London, how the great city grew / George Rose Emerson..

75. The city of London; a book reprinted from the special number of The Times.

76. Haunted London / by Walter Thornbury ; illustrated by F.W. Fairholt.

77. London in the eighteenth century, by Sir Walter Besant.

78. London signs: a reference book of London signs from earliest times to about the mid-nineteenth century.

79. Memorials of St. James's street ; together with, The annals of Almack's / by E. Beresford Chancellor.With sixteen illustrations.

80. London, the western reaches.