London

This is not really one for the reference collection, more for the lending stock, but perhaps it is worth more than just a passing glance. This is an attractive large format well illustrated book at a reasonable price. Its two main features commend it: its text and illustrations. The text is written to be read and is elegant and lively, without being just (or even) a purple‐prose description of the city, but instead a fund of fact and anecdote written by somebody who lived in London for 50 years before becoming “exiled” to New York as the art critic of...