Description: Fleet Street City Of London 1896 Antique Print A black & white print, rescued from a disbound book from 1896 about London, with another picture on the reverse side. Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.4cm x 23.5cm. Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7" or 25.4cm x 17.7cm This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. All prints will be sent bagged and in a tube, large letter size box or board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) FLEET STREET.—However the tide of life in town may ebb and flow elsewhere, Fleet Street is always busy, and its London is always full. The very centre of the newspaper enterprise of England can be marked on a London map very near the middle of Fleet Street—or the spot shown in this view. Within half a mile from this point some of the greatest newspapers in the world work and think for millions of readers. It is curious to contrast the way in which newspaper work is done now with that admirable description of the newspaper office of his time that George Warrington gives Pendennis in one of the most graphic chapters of a wonderful book. There is no dashing up now of late expresses; none of the pomp and circumstance of the old Press days. Electricity and railways have taken the romance out of that, as out of most things. But although it is not so much on the surface as of yore, good, honest, hard work is done in and about Fleet Street, and goes forth to the whole English-speaking race. Fleet Street might also, be called the nursing mother of English literature. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Raleigh, Dryden, Johnson, Goldsmith, and countless names, brilliant even in brilliant times, are closely associated with this famous street. A tavern street, as well as a literary centre, Fleet Street was and is.. The newest fashion of newspaper, and the oldest style of tavern still jostle each other now as they did a century or more ago. Every part of Fleet Street brings to mind some interesting memorials of the earlier history of London. These include ,state pageants and Lord Mayors' processions without number; 'prentice raids and Templar frolics, and a host of other events of more or less importance.
Price: 6.99 GBP
Location: DEREHAM
End Time: 2025-01-21T08:00:46.000Z
Shipping Cost: 17.07 GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 60 days
Size: Small (up to 12in.)
Artist: Photo by Frith & Co
Colour: Black
Style: Vintage
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Material: Lithograph
Date of Creation: Antique (Pre-1900)
Listed by Self-Representing Artist?: No
Year of Production: 1896
Features: Bookplate
Width (Inches): 10
Subject: Cityscapes
Originality: Original
Height (Inches): 7
Print Surface: Paper
Type: Print
