London (Gift Books) - Softcover

This elegant little book gives fascinating insights into London over time, including little-known facts about its inhabitants, their multifarious activities, and the artists who have documented its rich history. Illustrations include work by artists such as Frank Auerbach, William Blake, Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, John Constable, George Cruikshank, Auguste Dore, Thomas Gericault, James Gillray, Thomas Girtin, William Hogarth, Wenceslaus Hollar, Henry Moore, C. R. W. Nevinson, William Nicholson, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Cyril Power, Thomas Rowlandson, Paul and Thomas Sandby, George Scharf, J. M. W. Turner and James McNeill Whistler.

Sheila O'Connell is an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, where she specializes in British prints before 1900. She is the author of London 1753 (BMP 2003) and The Popular Print in England (BMP 1999). The photographer Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch is the author of The Monuments of Ancient Egypt (BMP 2001) and has published five other books illustrated with his own photographs.