The London cityscape has been intensely chronicled in photographs from daguerreotype to digital and is a visual laboratory for understanding the evolution of the modern city. This wonderful collection of images spans the city's entire history, from ancient byways to beloved icons like St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, and the neon lights of Piccadilly Circus. Much of modern London was built as recently as the nineteenth century and captured by the immediacy of photography. Included are such paradigm-shifting moments ...
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The London cityscape has been intensely chronicled in photographs from daguerreotype to digital and is a visual laboratory for understanding the evolution of the modern city. This wonderful collection of images spans the city's entire history, from ancient byways to beloved icons like St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, and the neon lights of Piccadilly Circus. Much of modern London was built as recently as the nineteenth century and captured by the immediacy of photography. Included are such paradigm-shifting moments as the rebuilding of Westminster Palace after the devastating fire of 1834 into the Houses of Parliament we know today, the construction of the world's first underground transportation system, and even the latest architectural wave that has been radically transforming contemporary London, such as Norman Foster's Swiss Re Tower (aka the Gherkin). Witness how this dynamic city was built (and rebuilt), becoming the popular destination known today for its royal palaces, lively outdoor markets, lavish department stores, peaceful garden squares, naturalistic parks, and many magnificent museums. This is the perfect book for Anglophiles and for anyone who has fallen for London's many charms.
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Very Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION-VERY GOOD light wear and scuff marks to boards, dent to corners/edges of boards, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Illustrated in color and black & white. 304 pages. Folio. Hardcover: pictorial boards. The dust jacket has a 1" tear on the rear fold. Fine/Very Good.
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Various Contributors. New in New jacket. Book 1st. Edition 2007, Hardcover in the dust jacket, 304 page book with many black & white illustrations. Condition: NEW and still in the publishers shinkwrap. Size: Folio-over 12"-15" tall.
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Very Good. Very small tear to bottom left-hand corner of front dustjacket, minor shelfwear to dustjacket and its extremities, otherwise fine. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Frontispiece.
