About this title: The London of Elizabeth I has much in common with the London of Elizabeth II, according to Liza Picard's entertaining history. There's a real estate boom, people were desperate for diverting entertainment (hence the popularity of theater), and it was a city of immigrants. After a massive research job, Picard brings the past to life as she illuminates not only the expected topics of politics and the smallpox epidemic but the minutiae of daily life: what people ate, wore, talked about, worked at, and did for fun.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2004-07-01
ISBN-13:9780312325657ISBN:0312325657
Description: Very Good. Some wear to edges of dust jacket, Remainder Mark--This picture of the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) is the result of Lia Picard's Curiosity about the practial details of daily life that almost every history book ignores. She begins with the River Thames, the lifeblood of Elizabethan London. The city, on the north bank of the river, was still largely confined within old Roman walls. Upriver at Westminster were the royal palaces, and between them and the crowded city the ... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780753817575ISBN:0753817578
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion
Date Published: 2004
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Griffin
Date Published: 2005-06-01
ISBN-13:9780312325664ISBN:0312325665
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2005
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press 2004
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780312325657ISBN:0312325657
Description: ISBN 0312325657. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780753817575ISBN:0753817578
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 400 pages. (400 pages) the everyday realities and practical details of daily life in elizabethan london, which most history books ignore-a sunday times bestseller. 26 b/w photoillu(s), 19 colour photoillu(s), 1 map(s) edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780297607298ISBN:0297607294
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Nice clean copy with a tight binding. Slight lean. 342 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2004-07-01
ISBN-13:9780312325657ISBN:0312325657
Description: Near Fine in Very Good + jacket. Nice 1st US Edition/1st printing. No writing, highlighting, marks, or creased page corners to text. Cover corners square. Slight bump to bottom of spine. Binding square and tight. Jacket is glossy with light surface wear. Not price clipped. NO publisher's/remainder mark. Items selling for $7 or more ship bubble wrapped and boxed; under $7 in a bubble mailer. All items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation. read more
Description: Pub by St. Martin's Press, 2003. Hardcover with DJ. Book is clean and tight. Light shelf wear to DJ. Fine book in Near Fine DJ. ISBN: 0-312-32565-7. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2004-07-01
ISBN-13:9780312325657ISBN:0312325657
Description: New in New jacket. COLLECTIBLE. STATED FIRST U.S. EDITION JUNE 2004. ALSO FIRST PRINTING WITH FULL 10 DIGIT NUMBER LINE. New hardcover with dust jacket from bookstore in excellent condition. Beautifully illustrated. Nice tight bright book. Text is clean and unmarked. No remainder marks. Sent in box with tracking number in US. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Gift Messaging available. Satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Edition: First US Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780312325657ISBN:0312325657
Description: New in New dust jacket. 0312325657. New 2004 stated first U. S. Edition, first printing cloth hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover.; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.4 Inches; 342 pages. read more
Description: New York, St. Martin's Press, (2004). Reprint. Cloth, fine in d/w, colour and b&w illust., pp. xxiv, 342. ISBN 0 312 32565 7. "A warts-and-all portrayal of the sights, stinks and cries of this vibrant, teeming and unsanitary city" (Living History). First American edition. read more
"If you happen to be doing research on Elizabethan life (as I am, for my upcoming graphic novel) then this book is an excellent resource. With the internet now allowing you access to online information and the ability to source suitable hard-copy texts from around the planet, there is no excuse for getting the details wrong! (Gosh, I hope I don't get them wrong....
-It won't be for lack of trying!)
This book is so engagingly written it is a pleasurable read even, if you're not researching anything. And speaking of pleasure, there is something about holding a book and turning a page that a glowing web-browser will never replace!"
"I found this a lively though not very scholarly guide to London in the time of Elizabeth I. Picard adopts a chatty tone which is very readable and often funny, and she includes lots of quotes from primary sources. However, I often wanted her to try to go deeper into her subject. For instance, after spending an entire chapter on the poor of London and concluding that "there was a splendid, comprehensive, welfare system in place," she quotes a primary source which wonders why "the streets yet swarm with beggars," and says that she has no answer. It seems as though this should be the starting point, not the ending. But I'm probably asking too much of a work of popular history, and even with that quibble, I did enjoy Picard's evocation of Elizabethan London and would certainly read her books on London in other time periods."
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