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London souvenirs / by Charles William Heckethorn.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1899 Hecketh
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heckethorn, Charles William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London (England)--Social life and customs.
- London (England).
- London (England)--History--1800-1950.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1899.
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1899.
- Publishers' advertisements -- 1900.
- Physical Description:
- 354 p. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chatto & Windus, 1899.
- Contents:
- Gambling-clubs and high play
- Witty women and pretty women
- Old London coffee-houses
- Old M.P.s and some of their sayings
- Famous old actors
- Old judges and some of their sayings
- Some famous London actresses
- Queer clubs of former days
- Curious stories of the stock exchange
- Wits and beaux of Old London society
- London seen through foreign spectacles
- Old London taverns and tea-gardens
- The galleried taverns of Old London
- Old London tea-gardens
- William Paterson and the Bank of England
- The old doctors
- The lost rivers of London
- Rogues assorted
- Bars and barristers
- The sublime Beefsteakers and the Kit-Kat and Rota clubs
- Hsmpton Court Palace and its masters.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in faded red cloth with image of an upper-class English man smoking a pipe and reading a letter, in black and white. Image signed J.A.D. Title and author in white on cover and in gold on spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Publisher's catalogue (32 p.), dated Mar. 1900, at end.
- OCLC:
- 404814
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