Owning Mayfair
David Cannadine, 2 April 1981
Survey of London. Vol. 40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2. The Buildings
edited by F.H.W. Sheppard.
Athlone, 428 pp., £55, August 1980,0 485 48240 1 Show More
edited by F.H.W. Sheppard.
Athlone, 428 pp., £55, August 1980,
“... the LCC drastically reformed the whole series. They appointed a professional historian, F.H.W. Sheppard, as full-time general editor, and provided him with a research staff whose massive, unflagging archival researches have been vital to the Survey’s rejuvenation. Unlike its closest cousin, the VCH, which has remained – despite valiant efforts ... ”
