The Custom House

by Thomas Shotter Boys

$475 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A very fine image from Boys' 'London As It Is': a work 'of considerable importance' Abbey . Abbey writes of the work London As It Is from which this beautiful image comes: apart from the beauty of its plates, it records London at a period when good pictorial records were few. The London of the 1840's is probably more difficult to reconstruct than at any other period in the nineteenth century Abbey Life 239 . High production costs and changing fashion caused aquatint to

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