London (England) -- Description and travel books

The Survey of London

John Stow

The Survey of London is a seventeenth‑century antiquarian topography that blends personal reminiscence with…

Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places

Walter Thornbury

Walter Thornbury’s Old and New London is a sprawling, encyclopedic narrative that stitches together the…

Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves

The work is a Victorian‑era social survey that sets out to chart the hidden world of London’s common lodging…

London City

Walter Besant

The work is a detailed topographical survey of the City of London, written by Sir Walter Besant and his…

London parks and gardens

Mrs. Evelyn Cecil

This work is a comprehensive survey of London’s parks and gardens as they existed within the County of London…

Ricordi di Londra

De Amicis, Edmondo; Simonin, Louis

Il volume raccoglie due testimonianze di viaggio sulla Londra dell’epoca: quella dell’italiano Edmondo De…

The Uncommercial Traveller

Charles Dickens

The Uncommercial Traveller is a Victorian travelogue that blends observation with social commentary,…

The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events

Leigh Hunt

The work is a sprawling, unabridged survey of London’s historic core, concentrating on the stretch between St…

A Walk from London to Fulham

Thomas Crofton Croker

The work is a nostalgic topographical memoir that records a once‑familiar route from central London to the…

Roundabout Papers

William Makepeace Thackeray

Roundabout Papers is a loosely structured series of observations that blends travelogue, historical…

Highways and Byways in London

Emily Constance Baird Cook

Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties

Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting…

Palace and Hovel; Or, Phases of London Life

Daniel Joseph Kirwan

South London

Walter Besant

Father Thames

Walter Higgins

London Souvenirs

Charles William Heckethorn

Saunterings in and about London

Max Schlesinger

Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present

Thomas Miller

Mystic London; or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis

Charles Maurice Davies

The Inns of Court

Cecil Headlam

A Morning's Walk from London to Kew

Sir R. (Richard) Phillips

The Lure of Old London

Sophie Cole

Unnoticed London

Elizabeth Montizambert

Nooks and Corners of Old London

Hemstreet, Charles; Hemstreet, Marie Mumford Meinell