Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rd to lend to hisfriends. And this library, as we learn from ACentury of Anecdote, had but a small beginning—the accidental purchase of a chance volume Pimlico.) A GIGANTIC LIBRARY. 49 picked up for a few pence at a bookstall, andabout which Mr. Heber was for some time indoubt whether to buy it or not. The catalogueof Mr, Hebers library v.as bound up in five thickoctavo volumes. Dr. Dibdin once addressed tohim a letter, entitled Bibliomania ; but he wasno bibliomaniac, but a ripe and accomplishedscholar. Mr. Heber took an active part in foundingthe Athenaeum Club, and he was also a member drawing the courtiers from Portland Place andPortman Square to the splendid mansions built byMessrs. Basevi and Cubitt, in wliat was knowTi atthat time, and long before, as the Five Fields.It seems but the other day, he adds, that thewriter of this brief notice of the place played atcricket in the Five Fields, w^here robbers lie inwait, or pulled bulrushes in the cuts of theWillow Walk, in Pimlico.
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THE OLD CllELSLA MANOR HOUSE. of several other literary societies ; indeed, to usethe phrase of Dr. Johnson, He was an excellentclubber. Pie was the half-brother of ReginaldHeber, Bishop of Calcutta, and died a bachelor in1833, in the sixtieth year of his age. His extensivelibrary was dispersed by auction in London. Thesale commenced upon the loth of April, 1834, andoccupied taw hundred and hvo days, and extendedthrough a period of more than two years. Thecatalogue of this remarkable sale filled more thantwo thousand printed octavo pages, and containedno less than 52,672 lots. Mr. Peter Cunningham, in noticing the growth of this locality in his Hand-book of London, says : George IV. began the great alterations in Pimlico by rebuilding Buckingham House, and 197 As might be naturally expected, the removal ofKing William and his Court from St. Jamess toBuckingham Palace, on his accession.to the thronein 1830, gave a considerable impetus to the im-provement of Pimlico, although a town of

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