GORE, John. The Ghosts of Fleet Street
GORE, John. The Ghosts of Fleet Street. With illustrations by Joseph Pike. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. n.d. [1928]. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine panel and in black to upper board. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In the scarce original dust jacket. A fine, very well-preserved example, the book clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout with all 16 gravure plates present and fine, plus numerous other illustrations. The dust jacket price-clipped with some minor bumps to extremities and horizontal indentation to centre of spine, but certainly forgivable.
A rather detailed account of London's Fleet Street. "No part of London has more lanes and courts than Fleet-street, and you cannot make their acquaintance in better informed company than that of Mr Gore. Fleet-street, he reminds you, was the habitation of men 1,500 years before the first house rose in Piccadilly, when Charing was still a village of inns and stables; under Shoe-lane, the first known Roman cemetery was recently unearthed ... while, when we come to the eighteenth century, it would seem that the ghosts of the great men must jostle each other in the narrow courts of famous taverns" (Daily News, 26th April 1928). Scarce in the wrapper.
GORE, John. The Ghosts of Fleet Street. With illustrations by Joseph Pike. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. n.d. [1928]. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine panel and in black to upper board. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In the scarce original dust jacket. A fine, very well-preserved example, the book clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout with all 16 gravure plates present and fine, plus numerous other illustrations. The dust jacket price-clipped with some minor bumps to extremities and horizontal indentation to centre of spine, but certainly forgivable.
A rather detailed account of London's Fleet Street. "No part of London has more lanes and courts than Fleet-street, and you cannot make their acquaintance in better informed company than that of Mr Gore. Fleet-street, he reminds you, was the habitation of men 1,500 years before the first house rose in Piccadilly, when Charing was still a village of inns and stables; under Shoe-lane, the first known Roman cemetery was recently unearthed ... while, when we come to the eighteenth century, it would seem that the ghosts of the great men must jostle each other in the narrow courts of famous taverns" (Daily News, 26th April 1928). Scarce in the wrapper.
GORE, John. The Ghosts of Fleet Street. With illustrations by Joseph Pike. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. n.d. [1928]. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine panel and in black to upper board. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In the scarce original dust jacket. A fine, very well-preserved example, the book clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout with all 16 gravure plates present and fine, plus numerous other illustrations. The dust jacket price-clipped with some minor bumps to extremities and horizontal indentation to centre of spine, but certainly forgivable.
A rather detailed account of London's Fleet Street. "No part of London has more lanes and courts than Fleet-street, and you cannot make their acquaintance in better informed company than that of Mr Gore. Fleet-street, he reminds you, was the habitation of men 1,500 years before the first house rose in Piccadilly, when Charing was still a village of inns and stables; under Shoe-lane, the first known Roman cemetery was recently unearthed ... while, when we come to the eighteenth century, it would seem that the ghosts of the great men must jostle each other in the narrow courts of famous taverns" (Daily News, 26th April 1928). Scarce in the wrapper.