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Title: Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman

Author: Walter Besant


Release date: March 28, 2018 [eBook #56865]

Language: English

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LONDON
IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS
With 146 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Agas’ Map of London in 1560.

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“A vivid and fascinating picture of London life in the sixteenth century—a novelist’s picture, full of life and movement, yet with the accurate detail of an antiquarian treatise.”—Contemporary Review.

LONDON
IN THE TIME OF THE STUARTS
With 116 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Ogilby’s Map of London in 1677.

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LONDON
IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
With 104 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Rocque’s Map of London in 1741-5.

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MEDIÆVAL LONDON
VOL. I. HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL
With 108 Illustrations, mostly from contemporary prints.
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With 108 Illustrations, mostly from contemporary prints.

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The Survey of London

EARLY LONDON

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