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A Street Map of London 1843
An early detailed coloured street map of London from the time of Oliver Twist and the young Queen Victoria. Showing street names, prominent buildings, docks factories, canals and the earliest railways.
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Bacon's Street Map of London 1902
A detailed colour map of London published a century ago at the end of the expansive Victorian era. Tram routes, new underground railways and recent development in London's docks.
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Baedeker's Great Britain 1890
The ultimate guidebook for the Victorian Tourist. Seventy two tours of Great Britain from Scilly to Shetland described in detail for visitors at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Baedeker's London & its Environs 1900
A must for anyone visiting London a century ago with tours in London and further afield. Packed with facts, directions, descriptions, travel arrangements and prices etc. Coloured maps.
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Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1888
Explore the London of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and Sherlock Holmes. A guide book containing 700 detailed entries which capture the atmosphere of the largest city in the world.
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Dickens's Dictionary of The Thames, 1887
A fascinating guide book to life on and beside the river at the height of its Victorian prosperity describing both the carefree era of regattas and the busy tideway at the centre of the Empire's trade.
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Enquire within upon Everything 1890
We know when and where the Victorians lived. This fascinating book, which contains masses of guidance in domestic and personal matters, explains a great deal about how they lived. By 1890 it had sold over one million copies.
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Fopdoodle and Salmagundi
Words and meanings from Dr Johnson’s dictionary that time forgot.
A revealing selection of over 1400 entries in Dr Johnson’s famous dictionary first published 250 years ago that show how meanings have changed, words have slipped out of use and attitudes have been transformed often with hilarious consequences.
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Great Fire of London Map 1666
Great Fire of London started at the king’s bakery in Pudding Lane and before the last flames were extinguished 5 days later 436 acres, 13,200 houses and 87 churches, including St Paul’s Cathedral, lay in ruins.
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London Railways Map 1897
A coloured map of London and its suburbs showing branch lines, underground lines, tram lines and the mainline and suburban stations that served the needs of the first commuters in the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
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London Stories 1910
A cornucopia of anecdotal gems that allows us to wander through the past and meet some of the remarkable people whose colourful lives helped define the character of greatest city the world had ever seen.
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London Street Maps 1863
All of London with the surrounding countryside and the outlying villages of Hampstead, Stratford, Merton and Beckenham. At a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile these maps are so detailed that they show individual buildings, the gardens of suburban houses, separate platforms of the new railway stations and even individual statues in London’s squares. In four sheets produced facsimile from the original hand coloured maps.
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Map of the River Thames 1893
From the heyday of steam launches and boating parties, a very detailed one inch to the mile map of the river from its source to London Bridge describing riverside towns and even the best places to fish.
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Murray's Guide to Modern London 1860
A guide for anyone wishing to explore London during the first half of Victoria's reign that contains pretty well everything a tourist might wish to know. Packed with well researched facts and statistics, it allows us to explore the capital as well as learn much about how daily life then differed from today.
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The British Empire Map 1905
A detailed colour map showing the possessions, trade and growth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen at its heyday.
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The Confessions of a Poacher 1890
The tips and tricks of a true countryman who started dabbling in the fine art of poaching as soon as he was old enough to slip unseen through a copse at dusk or slither along the river bank to a trout filled pool.
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The English Companion
A perceptive and witty tour of all that defines the English character by Sunday Times columnist Godfrey Smith.
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The Lady’s Dressing Room 1892
The indispensable companion of every well-bred lady at the close of the nineteenth century.
In chapters on each part of the female form copious details guide the reader through such imperfections as wrinkles, sunburn, warts and even baldness – for which a concoction of rum and onion is prescribed – without ever venturing upon too much scientific explanation.
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Victorian Maps England and Wales 1897
Early coloured Ordnance Survey Maps 4 miles to the inch. In nine sheets showing railways and canals, conurbations and hamlets, stately homes and coastal features all in remarkable detail.
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