Justin Croft Antiquarian Books : (LONDON). TIMBS, John. - Curiosities of London exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis with nearly sixty y...

(LONDON). TIMBS, John. Curiosities of London exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis with nearly sixty years’ personal recollections... a new edition, corrected and enlarged. London: Virtue & Co., 1876.

Large 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 871, [1]. Original cloth, gilt. Early gift inscription. Slightly rubbed and quite shaken, but sound.

First published in 1855 Timbs’s Curiosities is a wonderful catalogye of London facts and eccentricities: alchemists, coffee houses, Chelsea buns, fogs, law courts, railway termini, prisons - they’re all here.

£75.00