WARD, E. St Dunstan’s Clock A Story of 1666.
“It is such a sight as sure no man will look upon twice…the flames roaring like the sea in a mighty tempest, and towering up to the very sky in great pillars of flame”.
“It was a hot, breathless evening, late in August. The sun had been shining all day with that pitiless glare that accompanies a dry and scorching east wind”.
“WHO’LL buy? Who’ll buy? Best clocks and watches in all London town! Clocks that never go wrong! Clocks alway right! Come and see! There’s the church to check them by; and who ever heard of St Dunstan’s being wrong”.
“The two old timber-houses in Fleet Street, which suggested this story, were pulled down while it was passing through the press. They stood to the east of the Church of St Dunstan’s in-the-West, and marked approximately the point at which the great fire of 1666 was arrested”.
Interior: Occasional spotting and foxing in places throughout, general internal wear. Frontispiece, and 7 plates (some plates detached-but present).
Exterior: Publisher’s blue pictorial cloth, gilt (wear and rubbing).
8vo. London, Seeley and Co. Limited, 1893.
PROVENANCE: Sheffield School Board, school prize label to front pastedown with presentation inscription dated Nov 30th 1894.
A fictional account/novel depicting life experienced at the time and during the fire of London in 1666. Scarce victorian novel.
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