TALES OF THE CITY OF LONDON PROSPECTUS. UNDER the title of "Tales of the City of London," a series of volumes has been published, which, while interesting and pleasing as works of fiction will at the same time be found correct delineations of the manners, customs, and habits of the citizens of London at various periods of history. The Tales chiefly have connection with the great City Companies, of which sq many traces of wealth and liberality remain, and of one or other of which each citizen was in former times a member. The events of the Tales are laid in different periods, so that the whole comprises a distinct and connected account (without repetitions) of the customs and costume, the houses and the habits, and the modes of thought and action, of the London citizens from the time of the Plantagenets to that of the Stuarts. No pains have been spared to render these pictures accurate in every particular, and to each Tale are added a number of notes, historical and descriptive, elucidatory of the text; and also an account of the particular Company to which the Tale refers Each Volume is complete in itself, and contains about six engravings, carefully executed, in which the costume, architecture of each period, &c., are accurately represented. This series is now complete, and will not be further extended. VOLUME I. OSBERT OF OF ALDGATE: A TALE OF THE GOLDSMITHS' COMPANY. Handsomely printed in fcap 8vo, 160 pages, with Six Engravings. VOLUME II. QUEEN PHILIPPA AND THE HURRER'S DAUGHTER: A TALE OF THE HABERDASHERS' COMPANY. ORNAMENTAL BOARDS, 18. CLOTH GILT, 18. 6d. VOLUME III. CLARIBEL, THE SEA-MAID: A TALE OF THE FISHMONGERS' COMPANY. VOLUME IV. THE BRIDE OF BUCKLERSBURY: A TALE OF THE GROCERS' COMPANY. VOLUME V. WHITTINGTON AND THE KNIGHT A TALE OF THE VINTNERS' COMPANY. VOLUME VI. FITZ ALWYN, THE FIRST LORD MAYOR: A TALE OF THE DRAPERS' COMPANY. |