Walter George Bell's "More About Unknown London" is sure to attract the reader who loves to explore old corners of the city as well as the antiquarian and literary historian. Anne Boleyn's letter from the Tower to Henry VIII is reproduced in facsimile, and discussed. Here are pictures of Oliver Goldsmith's last home, a chapter on the cries of old London, stories from old tombstones, and a dozen other chapters by the author of four books of great interest, all about the same city.

Excerpt from More About Unknown London "Why don't you write a book upon London?" I have been asked. I am wholly incorrigible. Not for me are the encyclopaedists. I wrote a book upon a single street in London once - to be exact, upon the 536 yards of Fleet Street that you may measure between Ludgate Circus and Temple Bar - and a truthful reviewer accused me of writing a quarter of a million words. (I mean nothing by the phrase, accepting all reviewers as truthful, else how could they be so kind?) I plead guilty to the quarter of a million words, but I am not writing London complete on the same scale. With serious books, of inordinate length, to ray name, if any reputation I may have surviving them it must be - well, of that kind of person. My great-nieces tell me that only short-sighted people read serious books. Of one such, of which I proudly claim authorship, my artist brother assured me that it was excellent, saying that he read it at nights in bed, before going to sleep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from Unknown London Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows - the things you have known about since childhood, and have been content to leave them at that, knowing little of what they are and still less where they are to be found. I have dealt mostly with the big things that London has in its keeping, such as the Domesday Book (can you tell me off-hand where it is to be seen?); with the Confessor's Shrine (of the crowds who enter Westminster Abbey there is a big leaven who do not even know that it is there); with the massive fragments of London's Roman Wall that still survive; with that spot in Smithfield where martyrs burnt and English history was made; with the Duke of Suffolk's head and its dramatic story; with our Roman baths; with London Stone and odd others - things familiar as household words and as much apart from the average Londoner's life as are the Pyramids of Egypt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is an anthology of literature and graphic illustration that effectively defined a formative moment in the history of London.