Peter Thorold THE LONDON RICH First Edition
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Peter Thorold THE LONDON RICH First Edition
First edition first print hardback of THE LONDON RICH (The Creation of a Great City, From 1666 to the Present) by Peter Thorold and published by Viking in 1999. Full numberline is 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.The book is in very good condition (green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with light bumping to the corners. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket which has light creasing to the edges. Small tear to the edge of the front endpaper. Very light age spotting to the page edges. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or inscriptions.
After the great fire of 1666, a new London thrust out from the old confines of the city and the narrow precinct of Westminster. The rich were eager to escape the pollution of the riverside, the overcrowding and the slums. They colonized the surrounding country villages and built over the cornfields and pasture and market gardens, claiming them as their own and dictating their character for centuries to come. Where they went depended on who they were: different districts appealed to different groups. The patricians clustered in St. James's and later in Belgravia to be near the Court; the colonials from the East and West Indies settled Marylebone, convenient as it was for the City. The Jewish community chose Bayswater and Hampstead.
403 pages including Illustrations, Sources and Index
ISBN: 0670874809
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