A FAREWELL TO FLEET STREET by Barson, Susie & Andrew Saint - 1988

London: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England in association with Allison & Busby, 1988. Paperback. Near Fine. Light corner crease to front bottom corner. Black lettering to pink spine, red and white lettering to front of pink and grey illustrated covers. Photograph of Fleet Street, ca. 1890, to rear cover. Illustrated with 2-page map and 36 black and white figures / photographs. Clean, bright, solid binding. 60 pp with notes, further reading and acknowledgements. The results of an historic and architectural study of Fleet Street and the London newspaper industry undertaken by English Heritage's London Division. "The authors trace the development and evolution of the industry in its unique metropolitan setting since 1500 and review the changes taking place to newspapers and newspaper buidings and to the Fleet Street area itself today, (rear cover).