Adam Dant studied at the Royal College of Art, London and the MS University Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, India. He creates dense, elaborate narrative drawings that examine and depict public contemporary life, space, mythologies and histories. These works are thoroughly researched, with the artist drawing on a deep well of historical and visual sources to create his wittily perceptive detailed drawings. Dant lives and works in London.

Introduction 8

Division 10

The Mother of Parliaments 12

The Government Stable 14

Johnson's London 20

The Ministry + Passion of J.C 22

British Left Groups 24

Stop That Brexit 28

Ruritanian Europe 30

The Invasions of the British Isles 32

Quitting Europe: Some Anecdotes 34

Rudimentary London 38

The London Rebus 40

Viral London 42

Iconoclastic London 44

The London Calendar 46

The Universal London Underground Map 48

The Critic's Perpetual Drinking Calendar 50

Jewish Spitalfields 52

Club Row Through the Ages 54

Guardians of London's Lost Rivers 62

Civil War Defences 64

Argonautica Londinensi 66

Triumph of Debt, Royal Exchange Square 68

Triumph of Debt, Canary Wharf 70

Moneyscrape 72

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 74

Presidents of the United States of America 76

Cockney Rhyming America 78

New York Tawk 80

Paris Argot 82

The Oxford Meridian 84

Metaphysical Cambridge 94

Theatreland 96

A Map of the National Gallery: London's Collection of Subliminal Images 98

Tulip Fever 102

Coco-opolis 104

Scottish London 106

A Walk Round the End of the World 108

Lindon: A Map of London as it Might Have Been 110

The Mind of East London 112

The Gentle Author's Tour of Spitalfields 114

The Paradise of Sleaze 116

The Great British Beast Chase 118

The Meeting of the Old & the New East End in Redchurch St 120

Operation Owl Club 122

An Encyclopedy of Ye Age of Enlightenment Citizens & Kings 124

Stanfords World of Covent Garden 126

Acknowledgements and Credits 128