The Great Fire of London in 1666

First published in 1920, this history reconstructs the fire that began in a Pudding Lane bakery in September 1666 and burned across the City of London. Bell tracks the flames street by street from parish records, official orders, and witnesses such as Pepys, noting the destruction of churches, the Guildhall, and old St Paul's, the failure of firebreaks, and the king's and the lord mayor's parts. He then turns to the homeless, rumours of plots, and the first plans for rebuilding. The book is a topographical narrative of one disaster, not a general Stuart history and not a biography of Wren.

Bound in red and gold design blocked black cloth. Black slipcase.