The Companion Guide to London [new edn]
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480 Pages

21.6 x 13.8 cm

16 b/w, 25 line illus.

Series: Companion Guides

Imprint: Companion Guides

The Companion Guide to London [new edn]

by David Piper and Fionnuala Jervis

Revised by Fionnuala Jervis

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Has strong claims to be among the best guidebooks ever written. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

It is surely remarkable to write of a guidebook that it is difficult to put down. But it is certainly true of this one. ECONOMIST
Calls our attention to everything beautiful, historic or curious left in the heart of London. SUNDAY TIMES

David Piper's classic book is the most elegant, lyrical and stimulating of all guides to London, written with undisguised enthusiasm, intimacy and affection. It traverses London from Regent's Park to Lambeth, from the Tower of London to Kensington, with excursions on the river and forays to outlying points of interest, each chapter covering an area which can be comfortably walked in a day. The author draws out the individual character of each district through history, literature, art and architecture and his own informed and entertaining comments. This is an essential guide for those who really want to understand how London has developed; it has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition.

DAVID PIPER was an art historian, director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from 1973-1985, and before that director of the National Portrait Gallery, London; FIONNUALA JERVIS, who revised the guide, has edited and contributed to numerous historical and art historical publications, and in the course of this revision has walked every step of the way in David Piper's footprints from her home in Kensington.
"It is surely remarkable to write of a guidebook that is difficult to put down. But it is certainly true of this one." ECONOMIST
"Calls our attention to everything beautiful, historic or curious left in the heart of London." SUNDAY TIMES
"Has strong claims to be among the best guidebooks ever written." SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
"Urbane, charming and supremely elegantly written, it contrives to impart lustre even to Leicester Square." HOUSE AND GARDEN
"That unremittingly excellent work of topography, David Piper's Companion Guide.... GUARDIAN [Smallweed]" .

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9781900639361

October 2000

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Title Details

480 Pages

2.16 x 1.38 cm

16 b/w, 25 line illus.

Series: Companion Guides

Imprint: Companion Guides