ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, this off-beat and beautifully illustrated guidebook aimed to give visitors to the capital a proper insight into the city and its people. Modern readers can enjoy a new introduction by Peyton Skipwith, and a nostalgic look back at a lost London – to a time when the correct bowler hat was ‘as essential to the young man about town as a pair of trousers’ (£6.95; Thames & Hudson).
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