London - Urban explorers and commentators

The West End

Introduction

German publisher Karl Baedeker, born in 1801, became renowned for his company’s authoritative tourist guidebooks, famous, in turn, for their detail and accuracy. Baedeker died in 1859. This extract is taken from the volume London and its Environs.

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