First edition, first printing. 252pp. Dark blue publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth is worn, rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, sunned over spine with some mild mottling around spine and front panel. A little toning on free endpapers, two previous owner's inscriptions inked on half title page, one dated 1924 and the second dated 1970, else internally neat, clean and tight.
A comprehensive history of drinking establishments in London, starting monastic institutions and their provision of the earliest guest houses followed by an area by area survey of vanished, famous, notorius and popular inns and taverns as well as other centres of entertainment.
