Eighteenth-Century London
by Nichola Johnson

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Softcover 48 pp. 7 3/4in. x 9-3/4 in.
ISBN: 0112904483
Pub. Date: August 1991
Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London
Condition: NEW (Unread).

From original book jacket description: "Noisy, smelly, brash, dangerous, yet refined, stylish and orderly... 18th-Century London was all these things. It was a city of dramatic and often disturbing contrasts. Narrow streets in the City - where fortunes were being made and lost - led through the desperately overcrowded Holborn parishes to new exclusive squares in the West End. The great medieval food and livestock markets continued to flourish while, not far away, the smart shopping areas of the Strand and Oxford Street sold the latest fashions to those at the more elegant end of the social spectrum. You could be hanged for stealing a handkerchief, or become an officer in the first modern police force. And people of many ethnic origins were arriving in the capital, whilst native Londoners were traveling all over the globe in search of new territories.

Lavishly illustrated with both contemporary engravings and museum exhibits, this booklet provides compelling insights into the lives of Georgian Londoners, during the city's great transition from medieval to modern city."