Author : Edited by John O'London Year of publication: C1910 Format: Hardback Signature: No First edition :Yes Condition: Fair Category: History Cost of book: £15 (includes P+P) Price negotiable: No
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LONDON STORIES Vol 1 - JOHN O’LONDON - ILLUSTRATED LONDON STORIES VOLUME 1 Edited by JOHN O’LONDON ILLUSTRATED TC and EC Jack, London and Edinburgh c.1910 18cms x 25cms Fully illustrated in Black and White. Illustrated red hardback cover (worn) with 512 pages (heavy paper) Average condition, complete, tightly bound, although the front cover is starting to come a little loose. Some spotting, particularly at the beginning and end. 6 page sized poster folded up at the beginning (see photo) Postage and packaging included Wilfred Whitten was a British writer and editor. His pseudonym was John O'London, from which the influential John O'London's Weekly obtained its name. Whitten worked for the Daily Mail from 1916 to 1919, when he founded the magazine John O'London's Weekly. The stories which appear in the London Stories collection first appeared as articles in this magazine. Recognising that contemporary guide books didn't focus on the people living in the places they talked about, Whitten focused on the quirky stories of some of London's most famous residents and events. LONDON STORIES provides considerably more than three hundred stories of the lives, adventures, triumphs, follies and eccentricities of Londoners in all ages. Stories include " Tyburn Tree and its Fruit," "Stand and Deliver!" "The Cock Lane Ghost," "The Pillory in London," "Gunpowder ^ Plot," and " The Candle-Light Duel at the Star and Garter", "The Old Street Cries of London," "The Ferryman's Daughter," "Mine Host in Old Southwark," " A Woman's Name on a Wall," " The Old London May Day,""The Pouting Place of Princes." "A King's Flight and Folly," "The Tragedy of Whitehall," and " The Romance of the London Lotteries " "The Cato Street Conspiracy," " Chaucer at the Customs House "
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