The Halls of the Livery Companies of the City of London

176pp. Blue faux leather-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine. Top edge a little dusty. Illustrated endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. . 4to. Based on an original manuscript by the late W A D Englefield, and rewritten and edited by Peter J A Lubbock. Illustrated with reproductions of the original pencil drawings by the late Howard Penton. (1882-1961) A large number of City of London Livery Halls were destroyed during the Second World War, this book is a recording of those buildings, illustrated by Richard Howard Penton whose work assumes an historical as well as aesthetic quality as much of his work was commissioned to record landmarks in London when so much else was changing.