The A to Z of Regency London - Joseph Wisdom, Paul Laxton

This A to Z of the streets of London represents the third in a handy series of historical atlases, the A to Z of Elizabethan London having been published in 1979 and the A to Z of Georgian London in 1982. Based on a survey of the capital originally undertaken by Richard Horwood in 1792-9 and updated by William Faden in 1813, it not only shows all the streets, lanes, courts, yards, and alleys in what was then the largest city in the world, but attempts to show every individual building with its street number. For this volume Hor-wood’s 40 large sheets have been photographically reduced and a reference grid overlaid. Horwood’s original index, which consisted of approximately 1,750 entries, is replaced by a newly compiled index of over 6,000 entries.

The A to Z of Regency London presents the London of Charles Lamb, Thomas Lawrence, Edmund Kean, Beau Brummell, and the Prince Regent in astonishing detail. It should prove an indispensable reference tool for historians, geographers, and genealogists.