VIC LEE'S LONDON: A City of Amazing Streets & Tall Tales

A work of art for lovers of London life and its special places, here are Vic Lee's inimitable, intricate illustrations, unusual typography in various fonts, striking black backgrounds and extraordinary pen and ink drawings in these large glamorous pages from the fine art publisher Frances Lincoln. The neighbourhoods and their shopfronts, pubs, cockney rhyming slang, nightclubs, Battersea, the original home of football, the first market street in the UK to have electric street lights Electric Avenue, the Underground, Dulwich Village and the origins of its name and as a resort for 'taking the waters' with its green lanes and flowery meadows, woodlands which hid gypsies and highwaymen, and places where Byron once played and Charles I hunted. Our favourites are the markets of Portobello Road, Exmouth Market, Broadway, Kingsland Road, Columbia Road, and Brixton, and included are St Paul's Cathedral, Soho, Battersea, Mayfair, the Southbank Centre, the Tate, Clerkenwell and Shoreditch, Crouch End and Clapham to Maida Vale and more. 176 very large pages. 22 x 28cm.
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