1851 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

Description

Illustrated, Rebound

Second edition. Originally published in 1838 under the title 'The History of London', with thirty plates. 

Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. 

Rebound in a contemporary full blind-stamped cloth, with gilt decorations to the front board and spine.

Illustrated with fifty-one steel-engraved plates, including engraved title page. Collated, complete. 

A delightful 19th-century survey of London, with descriptions of points of interest including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Hospital and Abbey, Somerset House, the Coal Exchange and the Royal Exchange, among others.

Edited by William Gray Fearnside and Thomas Harrel.