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_With 146 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Agas’ Map of London in 1560._
“For the student, as well as for those desultory readers who are drawn by the rare fascination of London to peruse its pages, this book will have a value and a charm which are unsurpassed by any of its predecessors.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._
“A vivid and fascinating picture of London life in the sixteenth century—a novelist’s picture, full of life and movement, yet with the accurate detail of an antiquarian treatise.”—_Contemporary Review._
_With 116 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Ogilby’s Map of London in 1677._
“It is a mine in which the student, alike of topography and of manners and customs, may dig and dig again with the certainty of finding something new and interesting.”—_The Times._
“The pen of the ready writer here is fluent; the picture wants nothing in completeness. The records of the city and the kingdom have been ransacked for facts and documents, and they are marshalled with consummate skill.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._
_With 104 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Rocque’s Map of London in 1741-5._
“The book is engrossing, and its manner delightful.”—_The Times._
“Of facts and figures such as these this valuable book will be found full to overflowing, and it is calculated therefore to interest all kinds of readers, from the student to the dilettante, from the romancer in search of matter to the most voracious student of Tit-Bits.”—_The Athenæum._
[Illustration: EDWARD IV. AND HIS COURTIERS.
From MS. in British Museum. Royal 15 E4.]
7. WEALTH AND STATE OF NOBLES AND CITIZENS 259
Edward IV. and his Courtiers _Frontispiece_
Henry Fitzailwyn, Knt., First Lord Mayor of London 14