1920 Imperial Album of London Views

Description

Illustrated

An album in the publisher's original pebbled cloth binding, with a black-and-white plate inset to the front board.

Previous owner's ink inscription to the front paste down, dated 1920.

Illustrated with a plate to the front board, an illustrated title page and twenty-six tipped-in collotype plates of black-and-white photographs. Collated, complete.

A collection of prints of photographs of famous sights in London, as they were in the early twentieth century. Alongside each plate are descriptions, with historical and architectural details, of the views opposite.

The views included in this work comprise: Bird's-eye View of the City of London; Ludgate Hill; The Thames Embankment; The British Museum; The Completed Constitution Hill Arch at Hyde Park Corner; Cheapside; Marble Arch; Blackfriars Bridge; The Horse Guards, Whitehall; Trafalgar Square; Westminster Bridge; The Royal Exchange; Hyde Park Corner; Tower Bridge; Regent Street; London Bridge; Aldwych; Westminster Abbey; The Queen Victoria Memorial; The Mansion House; The Roman Catholic Cathedral; The Royal Courts of Justice; The Tower of London; St. Paul's Cathedral; The Houses of Parliament; and Piccadilly Circus.