Without an A to Z most people (even Cockneys), can get lost in London. 'The A to Z of Victorian London' will enable its readers to find their way about the streets of London as it was one hundred years ago.
The atlas consists of fifty-nine map sheets from Bacon's ‘New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of London and Suburbs', which appeared in 1888. The index allows users to find any street, road, land, wharf, square of public building. The area covered reaches to Mill Hill to the north, Chislehurst and New Bromley to the south, Abbey Wood to the east, and Southall to the west, thus taking in the greater part of today's suburbia. Useful details include banks, theatres, insurance houses, statues, and named terraces.
Two complete maps are included: thirty-four map sheets covering the central area at 9" scale and twenty-five covering the wider area, indicated above at 4" scale. The map sheets are reproduced slightly reduced in scale as page pairs.
The 'A to Z of Victorian London' represents the latest volume in a successful series issued by the publishers. Earlier volumes were:
- The A to Z of Elizabethan London
- The A to Z of Georgian London
- The A to Z of Regency London
Like those titles the Victorian volume will be invaluable for historians, geographers and genealogists.
Contents:
G.W. Bacon and his Atlases of London
Further Reading
Publishers' Note
Key Maps
Atlas (Plates 1 to 59)
Index
