c1876 The Story of the London Parks

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

An illustrated history of parks in London, from Dutch writer Herman Diederik Johan van Schevichaven, here writing under the pseudonym Jacob Larwood.

With frontispiece and three further plates, all in colour and the work of George Cruikshank, the famed British caricaturist and book illustrator. Collated, complete.

Originally published as a two volume work in 1872, this history of London's parks travels through William the Third to George III to the nineteenth century, while also discussing specific parks including Mulberry Gardens, Green Park and St James's Park.

Dated circa 1876 via Durham University and the University of London.

With a library blind stamp to the head of the front free endpaper.

With the armorial bookplate of H E Sherwin Holt to the front pastedown.