1-158-856 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

Scene from Old St Paul's by William Harrison Ainsworth, 1855. A romantic historical novel set in 1665 and 1666 during the Plague of London and the Fire of London. Leonard Holt tying a packet of letters to the bottom of a rope so that the grocer Bloundel can pull them up into his house which he has shut up to save his family from the Plague of London. From Old St Paul's by William Harrison Ainsworth. (London, 1855). First edition, London 1841.