Picard, Liza - Restoration London, Everyday Life in London 1660-1670 - ( Item 135733 )
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Picard, Liza - Restoration London, Everyday Life in London 1660-1670 - ( Item 135733 )
Published in London by Folio Society. 2012. First Thus. Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Near Fine slipcase. Very slight marks to slipcase. Introduced by Jenny Uglow. Bound in cloth. Blocked with a design by Neil Gower. Set in Janson. 344 pages. Frontispiece and 24 pages of colour and black & white plates. Book size: 9.5" × 6.25". In 1660, London seethed with a population of 300,000. In Europe only Paris and Constantinople were larger. King Charles II – a lover of women and of good living – was on the throne, and the streets were crowded with velvet-clad noblemen making their way to the reopened theatres. Watermen plied their trade along the River Thames between the Palace of Westminster and the City, and in the newly fashionable St James's Park, Londoners took the air by day and sought other – illicit – pleasures at night. A lawyer by training with a self-confessed passion for 'primary evidence', Picard devoted years to examining household accounts, legal records, conduct books, reports from visitors and diplomats, contemporary newssheets, as well as the diaries of John Evelyn and, of course, Pepys. Our edition is filled with paintings and pictures of evocative objects from coins to road maps, and pictorial endpapers show London as it appeared before the Great Fire. As Jenny Uglow writes in a new introduction: 'With the ebullient, scholarly Liza Picard as your guide, welcome to Restoration London – a world to enjoy.'
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