Lost London. Being a description of landmarks which have disappeared pictured by J. Crowther circa 1879-87 by Chancellor, E. Beresford - 1926

[London]: Printed At The Chiswick Press For Constable & Company Lmt. And Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Limited Edition of 1,250 copies. Small quarto, brown cloth, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; 131 pages. With 60 Illustrations by J. CROWTHER.. Very Good (covers bright; contents clean & tight with ex-library markings from the Schauffler Memorial Library at the Mount Hermon School).

Chiswick Press, 1926. hardcover. Pictured by J. Crowther circa 1879- 1887 and described by Beresford. 59 full-page plates, some in color, each with a lettered paper guard. xiii, 131pp of text. Short thick 4to, original gilt-lettered brown cloth (covers are a bit soiled and scratched but internally clean); uncut edges, t.e.g. Printed at the Chiswick Press for Constable and Company, 1926. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Limited edition of 1025 copies.<br/><br/>

Printed at the Chiswick Press for Constable and Company Limited and Houghton Mifflin Company. 1926. Hardcover. sm4to. 25cm, xiii,131p., limited edition of 1025 copies, colour frontis and 59 plates (many in colour), captioned tissue guards, full tan brown fine grain book cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, a fine copy (tr). ~ An attempt to preserve in picture and writing features and landmarks in late 19th century London before becoming prey to "improvement and development

London: Constable and Company, Chiswick Press, 1926. TEG. This edition limited to 1025 copies. Full-page drawings, 59 in number, many in color, all with captioned tissue-guards. Sir C.E.H. Chadwyck-Healey employed the artist J. Crowther to make water-color drawings of London landmarks likely to soon be "prey to the necessities of improvement and development" from about 1879-87. This book of illustrations and accompanying text is the result of that endeavor. 131pp.. Limited Edition. Tan Cloth Lettered in Gilt.. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket.. Quarto.

[London] : At the Chiswick Press, for Constable & Co. and Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First edition : limited to 1,025 copies. The artist John Crowther was commissioned either side of 1880 by Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey to make water-colours of London buildings under threat from redevelopment - Beresford Chancellor describes a selection of sixty of them in a circular tour - Chelsea (where Crowther was living in 1881), Westminster, Whitehall, the Strand, the Borough, and home via Stockwell, Vauxhall and Battersea. Crown 4to (27cm). (xiv),(132),[ii]pp. Sixty plates, many in colour. Original buckram, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; lightly worn, a little bruised and slightly dulled; a few slight marks; front endpaper replaced; a few leaves roughly opened, but a reasonable copy of an attractive production.

The Chiswick Press for Constable & Co, 1926. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, large octavo, 10 1/4" x 8", brown cloth lettered gilt, top edge gilt, remaining edges rough-trimmed, lightly rubbed at head of upper joint, two small faded spots to bottom leading corner of upper board, limited minor foxing to pre-lims, the binding remains tight, bookplate of a previous owner on front pastedown, the text is clean and unmarked, fifty-nine coloured and b&w plates, xiii + 131 pp. Published in an edition limited to 1025 un-numbered copies..

London: Constable and Company Limited; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 8". J. Crowther. An intriguing first edition volume detailing London's lost buildings, featuring the artwork of John Crowther. In the late nineteenth century Charles Chadwyck-Healey, a barrister later knighted, commissioned artist John Crowther to record in watercolour buildings about London likely to be torn down during the Victorian expansion and modernisation of the capital, leading to Crowther to produce over 440 paintings. When E. Beresford Chancellor was approached to provide descriptions for this work, he organised the 'journey' the reader would take and provided an almost continuous narrative to guide them through a London lost to the twentieth century. First edition. Limited edition; only 1025 copies produced. With dust-wrapper. With 59 illustrated plates, both colour and monochrome, collated complete. A charming travelogue through a lost history, this work… Read More