Markets & Marketplaces of Britain
Markets & Marketplaces of Britain
$19.95
Hallett, Anna
Pap. Buckinghamshire, 2009
Book ID: 79627
This book charts the history of markets in the British Isles from the small rural fairs selling harvested crops, to the teeming markets of London's Covent Garden, Smithfield and Camden. The author surveys the historic buildings and sites where these markets took place, and describes how they worked and what they sold.
128 pp., color illus.