Set in a Silver SeaA social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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cornices and pediments of the new , the broad high streets with driven cattle and umbrellaed market tables , the fine trees casting their shade over garden walls , the pillared market - halls . Such towns crowned nearly a thousand years ...
cornices and pediments of the new , the broad high streets with driven cattle and umbrellaed market tables , the fine trees casting their shade over garden walls , the pillared market - halls . Such towns crowned nearly a thousand years ...
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Stretching from Shadwell and Wapping in the east it extended along both banks of the Thames as far as outer Chelsea and Battersea : thence a double line of villas ensconced among trees and large gardens continued almost to Hampton Court ...
Stretching from Shadwell and Wapping in the east it extended along both banks of the Thames as far as outer Chelsea and Battersea : thence a double line of villas ensconced among trees and large gardens continued almost to Hampton Court ...
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... the , 281 " Cock ' tavern , the , 219 Cold Bath Fields , 131 Coleman Street , 29 Colosseum , 225 Copthall Court , 29 Cornhill , 30 Covent Garden , 30 , 37 , 43 , 223 Cremorne , 271 Crockford's Club , 156 , 190 “ Crooked Billet " ...
... the , 281 " Cock ' tavern , the , 219 Cold Bath Fields , 131 Coleman Street , 29 Colosseum , 225 Copthall Court , 29 Cornhill , 30 Covent Garden , 30 , 37 , 43 , 223 Cremorne , 271 Crockford's Club , 156 , 190 “ Crooked Billet " ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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| Title | Set in a Silver Sea Anchor A680 Volume 680 of Anchor books Doubleday anchor books English social history |
| Author | Arthur Bryant |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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