Product Description: For centuries London has had shops, Londoners have gone shopping and people have visited London to do the same. Many familiar shop names have their beginnings as early as the eighteenth century, and many historic shop buildings are still used for the same purpose as they always were...read more

Product Description: London's modest eighteenth-century houses - those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London - can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from the eighteenth century and sheds new light on both the era's urban architecture and the lives of a culturally distinctive metropolitan population...read more

Product Description: London's West End has a rich and unique collection of theatres, ranging in date from the early 19th century to the end of the 20th; more than fifty are located within an area of two square miles. This book celebrates the working buildings at the heart of the British theatrical industry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A short history of the building and architecture of Bevis Marks, London, the oldest synagogue in Britain, now celebrating its tercentenary.

Product Description: This text presents a comprehensive new photographic survey of London's churches, the first undertaken since the 1920s. The photographer presents the buildings inside and out, showing their principal glories and beautiful details. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)