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London, 1775. Copper engraving, 19 x 29 cms, recent hand colour, blank verso; from Harrison’s History of London. Adams, London Illustrated: 57/64 Print

London, 1814. Copper engraving, 26 x 33 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso; from Londina Illustrata. Print

London, 1819. Copper engraving, 24 x 31 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso; from Londina Illustrata. Print

Paris, , 1862. Tinted lithograph, 18 x 27 cms, blank verso. Print

London, 1862. Wood engraving, 33.5 x 50 cms, modern hand-colour, English text on verso. Print

London, c. 1947. Folding map of the City, 42.5 x 71.5 cms, printed in colours, blank verso, folding into original stiff card wraps with 16 pp. index and b/w Underground map on the lower cover; ownership signature of L.W. Turner, dated 11.1.48. A highly detailed map on a scale of 12 inches to one mile, this is also one of relatively few commercial maps to depict the extent of wartime bomb damage. ‘Blitzed City Areas’ account for roughly one third of the City. Book

London, 1756. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 21.5 cms, engraved by W.H. Toms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. From the greatly expanded second edition of Maitland’s History of London. ` Print

London, 1813. Copper engraving, 32 x 26 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso; from Londina Illustrata. Print

London, 1756. Copper engraving, 36.5 x 47 cms, engraved by Benjamin Cole, centrefold and addtional vertical crease, modern hand-colour, blank verso; published in the greatly expanded second edition of Maitland’s History of London. Significant buildings, such as Grocer’s Hall, represented pictorially on the map; views include Guildhall Chapel; with the arms of Aldermen Samuel Fludyer. Hyde, Ward Maps, 53. Map

London, 1756. Copper engraving, 36.5 x 47 cms, engraved by Benjamin Cole, black and white, blank verso; published in the greatly expanded second edition of Maitland’s History of London. Significant buildings, such as Guildhall, represented pictorially on the map; views of Guildhall Chapel, Grocers’ Hall etc, and with the arms of contemporary Alderman Sir Samuel Fludyer, with dedication in lower margin. Hyde, Ward Maps, 53. Map

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1827. 8vo. pp. xv, [i], 687, [i]. With 56 wood-engraved illustrations (many on India paper, pasted in) engraved by George Wilmot Bonner, William Hughes and Abraham John Mason after William Harvey. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed, top edge gilt; late 19th century armorial bookplate of Ernest Hamilton Sharp to front pastedown (probably the Hong Kong-based barrister, 1861-1922), with book label of G.H. Wyatt below, and Wyatt’s ink ownership stamp to free endpaper. Thomson (1794-1865) wrote extensively on London history (including ‘Tales of an Antiquary’ and ‘Secrets of Old St Paul’s’). His father was a wealthy seed merchant and he was probabaly educated privately. ODNB notes that he never attended university, and there is no evidence that he entered any profession before the age of forty, when he was elected librarian to the London Institution through the influnce of his lifelong friend, the architect William Tite.… Read More

London, 1756. Copper engraving, 22.5 x 33.5 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. From the greatly expanded second edition of Maitland’s History of London. Print

London, Geographia Ltd, c. 1960. Pictorial map of London, sheet size 49 x 74 cm, printed in colours, folding into printed paper wrappers which carry a conventional street plan of central London on the verso; trivial wear to wraps. The pictorial map depicts various London ‘types’ in the borders, and shows the Royal Festival Hall (built for the 1951 Festival of Britain) and the Mermaid Theatre at Puddle Dock, which opened in 1959. It seems likely that the map was first printed to concide with the Festival, and this is a later issue, with the theatre added (it does not appear on all copies). An updated picture map by Simon Stern was issued by the Telegraph c. 1970. A price of 2/6 on the cover has been overprinted or coloured over. Map

London, Macmillan &: Co., 1889. First edition, folding lithographed map, 36 x 48.5 cm, printed in colours, dissected into 8 panels and laid on linen, tabbed for inclusion in the first volume of Booth’s ‘Labour and Life of the People in London’. Charles Booth’s ‘poverty’ maps were the most distinctive and original aspect of his socio-economic survey of the metropolis. Shaded to show degrees of wealth and class street by street, they have become defining images of late Victorian London. A set of four larger maps covering the whole of the built-up area accompanied the second volume of the series in 1891, but this map of the East End marked the first occasion on which Booth’s revolutionary new methodology was presented to the public in published form. Booth chose to begin his work in the East End as he expected to prove that other social reformers were guilty of exaggeration in claiming that a quarter of Eastenders were living in poverty. The results of his survey… Read More

London, 1813. Copper engraving, 31 x 25 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso; from Londina Illustrata. Print

London, 1756. Copper engraving, 21.5 x 35 cms, engraved by Benjamin Cole, recent hand-colour, offsetting from facing text, blank verso. From the greatly expanded second edition of Maitland’s History of London. Print

London, 1820. Copper engraving, 25 x 31 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso; from Londina Illustrata. Print

London, 1746. Copper engraving, 49 x 67.5 cm, engraved by Richard Parr, black and white as issued, one or two closed marginal nicks and tears, blank verso. The top-left map-sheet from one of the earliest large-scale surveys of the environs of London. John Rocque (c. 1704-62) was a Huguenot, probably born in Geneva and brought to London as a child. His brother Bartholomew worked as a 'dessinateur des jardins' and Rocque's earliest plans are of parks, gardens and estates. He is credited with completely revitalizing English cartography, particularly large-scale map-making, at a time when many English map-sellers were content to re-issue old and outdated material. He planned his survey of London in the 1730s, and it took him nine years to complete. By 1746 he was able to issue large scale maps of London (24 sheets), and London and environs (16 sheets), the former engraved by John Pine, who was among the leading English engravers of his day. In 1750 Rocque was appointed cartographer to the… Read More

London: Harrison and Sons,, 1891. Royal 8vo (27.5 cm tall). pp. viii, 303, [i] + 25 b/w maps and illustrations (including frontispiece), some folding, and 2 further illustrations in the text. Green publisher’s cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, with gilt inner dentelles; top edge gilt. The verso of the free endpaper is inscribed ‘with the author’s compliments’, and loosely inserted is a signed autograph letter presenting the book to the library at Gaynes Park, Theydon Garnon, Essex. The letter is addressed to Chisenhall-Marsh Esq, presumably William Swaine Chisenhall-Marsh who lived at Gaynes Park 1882-1917. Deeds mentioning Gaynes Park are transcribed in the appendix. Printed for private circulation, Wintone clearly did not anticipate mass readership, but his book does provide a useful glimpse of the turnpike system in its heydey, and the early days of mdern road building. In 1830 John Loudon Macadam ‘the celebrated maker of roads’ (p. 199) was among three applicants… Read More

London , 1800. Copper engraving, 28 x 41 cms, black and white, mounted in the nineteenth century, blank verso. Printed to mark the rebuilding of East India House by the architect Richard Jupp, completed in 1800. The East India Company continued to govern much of India until relieved of its responsibilities by the Crown in the aftermath of the Great Mutiny. Jupp’s building survived until 1929. Print