Found - in Axle, a short lived magazine, from June 1963 this amusing and intriguing portrait of a sixties type (or archetype.) It was writt...

Henry Harben's Dictionary of London is a detailed gazetteer of over 6000 street and place names in the City of London; their location,...

Found - a city guide book from 1948 - the year of the London Olympics. The tone is upbeat. There is no mention of the war or austerity, the...

Between 29 June and 29 July 1956 the National Book League (whatever happened to this?) staged an exhibition entitled ‘London after Dark’ o...

One of the most crass and insensitive planning decisions made in 2012 was the demolition of Dollis Hill House in NW London. The fact that...

Found in a box of books is this photocopy of a typewritten guide to a ‘pub crawl’ (walk no 41) of various late Victorian ‘gin palaces’ in No...

So many of the world weary observations in James Beresford's  brilliant best-seller of 1806 ( The Miseries of Human Life, or The last Gr...

Found - in London Cries Illustrated for the Young  (Darton & Co, London, circa 1860). 11 charming hand-coloured plates depicting str...

A bookmark of the much loved Pan Bookshop in Fulham, London. In late 1997 its landlord accepted a high offer from a grocer and the bookshop ...

London Night and Day , illustrated by Osbert Lancaster, edited by Sam Lambert (Architectural Press, 1951) Surely one of the most ente...

Best known as the venue for the most prestigious antiques fair in the world, the Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House Hotel (opened 1929)...

Samuel Charters was a London based American writer on the Blues and ethnic music. He was also a poet and on Sunday, February 11, 1973 he dec...

Having just sold this art catalogue we would like to record it's passing by archiving the catalogue entry. A rare John Fowles item, amon...

Gordon Selfridge's  The Romance of Commerce was published by John Lane-The Bodley Head in 1918. It has chapters on ancient commerc...

From Walking Essays by A.H. Sedgwick. (Edward Arnold 1912) Many of the observations in this book hold true today e.g. 'there...

The Aquarian Guide to Occult, Mystical, Religious, Magical London and Around . Francoise Strachan [Aquarian Press, London 1970] ...