This beautiful and informative volume, inspired by the pioneering 1904 A&C Black book Familiar London, offers a new way of looking at the sights and social history of a much-loved city. Every painting from the original book has been rescanned and enlarged, presenting them as they have not been seen for a hundred years.

Opposite each painting is a page containing full-colour images relating to the painting, from period maps and postcards to paintings and railway tickets, together with a text placing the painting in its contemporary context.

The new introduction sets the historical scene for an Edwardian London at the heart of a global empire, attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists each year, and in the midst of far-reaching economic, social and technological change.

The introduction is written by Mary Anne Evans, well-known London author and compiler of the monthly Where London magazine.

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Original Text

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61 paintings by Rose Barton

Introduction by Mary Anne Evans

Text by Colin Inman, David Boyle, Mary Anne Evans and Susie Green

Worth Press Ltd, October 2006

270mm x 245mm

176 pages in full colour

£14.99

ISBN  978 1 903025 45 1