Some images from Volume V of London, edited by Charles Knight (1841).
There is a complete copy of the text and images from this book: The Perseus Project, Bolles Collection, but it is copyrighted and the images can only be reused for personal or educational purposes. If there are any images there that you would like to see me scan and place in the public domain, let me know (tell me the volume number and full image title; I have all six volumes).
The images here are all in the public domain.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Charles Knight.
Title: London (Volume V)
City: London
Date: 1843
Total items: 2
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Old Shop, corner of Fleet Street and Chancery Lane in 1799
The general character of shops in olden London was to have the wares exposed openly to the street, without any barrier of glass between the buyer and seller. Wherever our old topographers and chroniclers give a representation of a London shop—at least [before] the time of Queen Anne [1702 – 1714]—this was the observable feature. The shop, too, unlike [...] [more...]
Some images from Volume V of London, edited by Charles Knight (1841).
There is a complete copy of the text and images from this book: The Perseus Project, Bolles Collection, but it is copyrighted and the images can only be reused for personal or educational purposes. If there are any images there that you would like to see me scan and place in the public domain, let me know (tell me the volume number and full image title; I have all six volumes).
The images here are all in the public domain.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Charles Knight.
Note: If you got here from a search engine and don’t see what you were looking for, it might have moved onto a different page within this gallery.