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Vintage Pictorial Guides to London’s Westminster Abbey, Poet’s Corner
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Includes a colorful vintage pictorial guidebook to Westminster Abbey, the most famous church in the British Isles. In the heart of London, near the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, it is the traditional place of coronation (and burial) for English (and British) monarchs. Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100. (From Pitkin Pictorial, 1969)And a pictorial guidebook to Poet’s Corner, in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey, where many Anglophone poets, playwrights and writers are buried or commemorated (including such greats as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, Laurence Olivier, David Garrick, Edmund Spenser, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Lord Byron, George Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, D.H. Lawrence, John Keats, Lewis Carroll, Henry James, A.E. Housman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dylan Thomas and many more) (from English Counties Periodicals Limited, circa 1970).