The Story Of The London Parks..
Original green cloth, gilt. A little wear at extremities. Front hinge cracked and one gathering a little proud otherwise a good copy.
£50.00
Publisher
Chatto and Windus, London.,
Date
n.d. but c.1875.
Item Description
[iv] + 490 pp. + 4 hand-coloured plates and occasional illustrations to the text + 48 pp. illustrated catalogue.
Notes
Not simply a history of the parks but brimming with anecdotes about the people who used and were associated with the parks, their fashions, their foibles, their pastimes, their crimes, attempts at assassination and much more. Fascinating.
[Stock No. 14988]
