Panorama of the Thames : a riverside view of Georgian London

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Label

Panorama of the Thames : a riverside view of Georgian London

Title remainder

a riverside view of Georgian London

Statement of responsibility

John R. Inglis & Jill Sanders

Creator

• Inglis, J. R., (John R)

Contributor

• Sanders, Jill

Subject

• England -- London
• England -- Thames River
• History
• Illustrated works
• London (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Pictorial works
• Thames River (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Pictorial works
• 1700 - 1799

Genre

• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• History

Language

eng

Summary

This historical gift book is a reincarnation of a guide to the river Thames first published 1829 by Samuel Leigh. The original was a concertina of 45 printed and hand-coloured sheets, glued together to form a magnificent 60ft depiction of the rivers north and south banks or Middlesex and Surrey banks, as they were then from Westminster Bridge to Petersham Meadows in Richmond. Among the buildings that stood along this 30-mile stretch of river in those days were many that no longer exist including the Houses of Parliament before they burned down in 1834, or the factory owned by the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel but others still stand today. A great deal of the original panorama shows just trees and foliage, so for this book it has been edited down to feature the most interesting sections. These are grouped into 19 villages, each with a short 200-word introduction. The buildings are captioned (in the present tense, for vivid appeal), and there is an AZ detailing landmarks and key buildings in each section.0Written in collaboration with local experts and various local history societies, these descriptions are richly informative and include information on the waterway, the landscape, and the people who lived and worked on the banks of the river at the end of the Georgian era

Cataloging source

ERASA

Dewey number

942.1

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

DA682

LC item number

.I54 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography