Holborn Bars, Old Houses in Holborn
London
Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.
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Opposite Gray's Inn Road is Staple Inn, a quaint and picturesque old Inn of Chancery, celebrated like Barnard's Inn, by Dickens. The Hall of Staple Inn has been recently restored.
Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote "Rasselas" here. [text accompanying photograph]
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The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].
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