London: World Bibliographical Series, Volume 189

Heather Creaton’s Bibliography of Printed Works on London History to 1939 (Reference Reviews 95/555) contains over 21,000 entries and costs £80, her present work has only 600 for £32. This one, though, is not a mere filleted version of the earlier work (quite properly noted in the appropriate place here). A random, but systematic, comparison suggests that 60 per cent of the new entries are not in the earlier more substantial bibliography, though some of them might well have been worth including in it, and the new material includes books and articles on London since 1939, together with a...