Billingsgate (Bygone Series) Tapa dura - 1989

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Very Good. Offered by the UK charity Langdon: Supporting people with disabilities. Dispatched within one working day

Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1989-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.7766 in x 24.8731 in x 19.0355 in.

United Kingdom: Phillimore & Co Ltd. 128 pages. Clean slim hardback with a dust jacket. Bygone Billingsgate . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1989.

Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1989-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

Great Britain: Phillimore & Co Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1989. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto 0850336899 Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. Bygone Billingsgate. Printing mark to title page. Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Price clipped to D/J. The visual richness of the photographs is interpreted by informed descriptions: while the text surveys Billingsgate's long association with fish, from the Middle Ages, though successive centuries of gradual regulation of the trade by statute and of growth of the market's dominance. The 19th century saw great improvements, including the great Victorian market hall, now safely preserved but bereft of the distinctive atmosphere which the fish trade long contributed to the neighbourhood. The former sights, sounds and smells of the old market have gone, but thias book will delight all who knew the place and its trade as a powerful reminder of a vanished aspect of the City's life. It is also… Leer más