There are as many different impressions of the City of London in Victorian and Edwardian times as there were artists and writers to convey them. Cruikshank and Dore, Dickens and Douglas Jerrold, Eugene Lami, J.H. Shepherd and T.S. Boys all created their own versions of the city, personal and different from the rest. Contemporary photographers also recorded the City, and as their medium was less liable to distortion, the pictures in this book are more authentic than were the more imaginative works of artists and writers...