Bygone Billingsgate

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 a significant and attractive contribution to the published history of London. Illustrated throughout. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .