. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 2524.—Edward Gibbon. 2523.—John Wesley. 373 37 4 OLD ENGLAND. [i500K Yin. We must say one word on the street architecture of London, asubject that cannot be entirely passed over. Owing to the vicioussystem of letting land for building on short leases, which for a longtime prevailed and to a large extent yet prevails, the streets ofLondon were doomed to present the shabbiest, ugliest, and filthiestaspect producible by brick and mortar—for the plain reason, that aman who had but a few year
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 2524.—Edward Gibbon. 2523.—John Wesley. 373 37 4 OLD ENGLAND. [i500K Yin. We must say one word on the street architecture of London, asubject that cannot be entirely passed over. Owing to the vicioussystem of letting land for building on short leases, which for a longtime prevailed and to a large extent yet prevails, the streets ofLondon were doomed to present the shabbiest, ugliest, and filthiestaspect producible by brick and mortar—for the plain reason, that aman who had but a few years property in land could not be inducedto lay out much money in building on it. To some not inconsider-able extent this evil has been remedied, and in consequence we havehad of late years a very remarkable, though by no means a general,revolution in the aspect of new street buildings and shops. Archi-tecture has, in fact, descended to the consideration of shop-fronts,in the design of which talent of no ordinary kind has been shops to public offices was but a step; but it has proved
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