Wren's London
by de Mare, Eric
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Folio Society, 1975 Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Thus.. Beautifully printed and bound volume describing the transformation of London after the Great Fire of 1666. " De Mare explores the time before the fire .the fire itself and the devastation it wrought, the realities of reconstruction, the fifty-one new churches built, by Wren, the new St Paul's Cathedral, and a final view of the city as it looked at Wren's death. 128p.Illustrated with contemporary pictures.including endpapers with plans of the city before and after the fire. [Would make a nice gift].
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30473
- Title
- Wren's London
- Author
- de Mare, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- LONDON GREAT FIRE CHRISTOPHER WREN ARCHITECTURE CHURCHES FOLIO SOCIETY
- Bookseller catalogs
- England; London; Architecture;
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