- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Transatlantic Press (30 Oct 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1907176721
- ISBN-13: 978-1907176722
- Product Dimensions: 38.4 x 29.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 129,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Well, the photographs are so stunningly reproduced that you can almost smell the street life in this amazing collection of photographs. Yes, there are plenty of books on Victorian this and Victorian that and Edwardian this and Edwardian that - and London of course features loud and clear in most of them - but somehow this one has the edge. It's revealing, it's honest, and it's magnificent. The book is BIG - very - and the pages are BIG; the photographs are BIG - and that's one of the lovely things about it. It's a pleasure to look at. The details are as clear as crystal. No need for the magnifying glass here. This is more than nostalgia. This is an important work of social history, because there are all too few volumes that manage to place the reader at the very heart of the subject in quite the way that this one does. Historian Philip Davies is to be congratulated on this handsome book, and it deserves to be popular with both libraries and schools and punters alike, and the price tag is astonishingly modest for the wonders to be found between the covers. It's a splendid companion to the same author's other feast of the past: LOST LONDON. One word of warning: PANORAMAS OF LOST LONDON is backbreakingly heavy: a coffee-table book that weighs more than the coffee table. BUT DON'T LET THAT PUT YOU OFF. It's worth a few visits to the gym and the physio to be able to revel in it again and again. --Green Knight
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Nearly 300 spectacular photographs of Londons lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buidings, some of them historic masterpieces, captured in location just before their destruction between 1870-1945
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Following the phenomenal success of the previous Lost London, comes a big and even more immersive successor. (There have been some exhibitions in between too, which passed me by completely, and mysteriously.) As you might guess from the title this is a bigger book and it's in landscape rather than portrait format. So, even more than its predecessor, it's as close to a time-travelling virtual-reality tour of Edwardian London as you could hope for - all unvarnished reality, fog and horse dung. And shop signs and posters and adverts a-go-go! The larger and sharper (and tweaked?) photos give us even more joy of lettering this time. Edwardian London really was a place where the walls and windows shouted at you, almost all the time it seems. There's many a mystery here, like what did all the purveyors of horse feed and bedding do when the use of horses so rapidly declined, why don't you get peacock feather shops anymore, and why did R. White's stop making their clove flavour drink? Personal pleasures include two photos of Broadway Market, around the corner from where I was born 50-odd years later, and a truly grimy shop in Pitfield Street, near where I lived and very near where I worked, for years. But there's really fascination and revelation on every page.
NB This book duplicates (in larger format) 180 photos from the previous volume, adding 100 new ones.
NB This book duplicates (in larger format) 180 photos from the previous volume, adding 100 new ones.
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Well, the photographs are so stunningly reproduced that you can almost smell the street life in this amazing collection.
Yes, there are plenty of books on Victorian this and Victorian that and Edwardian this and Edwardian that - and London of course features loud and clear in most of them - but somehow this one has the edge. It's revealing, it's honest, and it's magnificent.
The book is BIG - very - and the pages are BIG; the photographs are BIG - and that's one of the lovely things about it. It's a pleasure to look at. The details are as clear as crystal. No need for the magnifying glass here.
This is more than nostalgia. This is an important work of social history, because there are all too few volumes that manage to place the reader at the very heart of the subject in quite the way that this one does.
Historian Philip Davies is to be congratulated on this handsome book, which deserves to be popular with libraries and schools and punters alike - and the price tag is astonishingly modest for the wonders to be found between the covers. It's a splendid companion to the same author's earlier feast of the past: LOST LONDON.
Bear in mind that while some of the images appear in both volumes, over a hundred have been added to this new work.
One word of warning: PANORAMAS OF LOST LONDON is backbreakingly heavy. It's a coffee-table book that weighs more than the coffee table. DON'T LET THAT PUT YOU OFF. It's worth a few visits to the gym and the physio to be able to revel in it again and again.
It's superb.
Yes, there are plenty of books on Victorian this and Victorian that and Edwardian this and Edwardian that - and London of course features loud and clear in most of them - but somehow this one has the edge. It's revealing, it's honest, and it's magnificent.
The book is BIG - very - and the pages are BIG; the photographs are BIG - and that's one of the lovely things about it. It's a pleasure to look at. The details are as clear as crystal. No need for the magnifying glass here.
This is more than nostalgia. This is an important work of social history, because there are all too few volumes that manage to place the reader at the very heart of the subject in quite the way that this one does.
Historian Philip Davies is to be congratulated on this handsome book, which deserves to be popular with libraries and schools and punters alike - and the price tag is astonishingly modest for the wonders to be found between the covers. It's a splendid companion to the same author's earlier feast of the past: LOST LONDON.
Bear in mind that while some of the images appear in both volumes, over a hundred have been added to this new work.
One word of warning: PANORAMAS OF LOST LONDON is backbreakingly heavy. It's a coffee-table book that weighs more than the coffee table. DON'T LET THAT PUT YOU OFF. It's worth a few visits to the gym and the physio to be able to revel in it again and again.
It's superb.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is such a good book! I bought it as a gift for my grandparents who grew up in east London and they absolutely love it.
Highly recommended! You really do get a lot for your money here.
Highly recommended! You really do get a lot for your money here.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Warning...
This book is an excellent collection of top-quality photographs of London, mostly from about a century ago. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Paul of London
Excellent Book and I'd definitely recommend it!!!
I received the book as a gift and I am absolutely chuffed to bits with it!! The pictures are excellent.
I can't wait for the next one!! :)
I can't wait for the next one!! :)
Published 2 months ago by TracieM
panorama of london
This is a beautiful book. I bought it for my mum who has Alzheimers and it has helped her talk about the old days. The photographs are absolutely stunning. Read more
Published 2 months ago by bfm
`London History
I bought this book because I had previously purchased the other book "Lost London".
In both cases, I bought the books because having beeen doing Family History research... Read more
In both cases, I bought the books because having beeen doing Family History research... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ms. Linda F. Smith
Vast and delightful, a leap into the past
This is really a ''second, revised and enlarged'' edition of the author's ''Lost London''..I bought them both despite warnings that the two are very similar, with only ''100 new... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Oakleaf
Photo's of London
'Quite a large, heavy book but a wonderful selection of pictures of London in the past, a book you can browse through time and again. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Joan S. Denham
Gorgeous photographs
This book is a gorgeous collection of photographs from the London County Council of buildings that were going to be destroyed from the 1870s-1940s. Read more
Published 4 months ago by melanie strong
magnificent book ,
just saw this magnificent book in a book shop ,was so amazed of the size and weight of it ,but when opening it was stunned to view the pin sharp pictures , every one is supurb of... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Edwardbutler
Beyond Fantastic!
Having already bought "Lost London" I was slightly worried that I might be wasting my money on this book. I needn't have worried. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Scooby Doo
Wonderfully evocative book
I bought this book for my husband as a Christmas present and he's very pleased with it. He's interested in old photos of London and most of the ones in the book he hasn't seen. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Gml Alberici
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