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LONDON STOW (JOHN) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster... Corrected, Improved, and Very Much Enlarged... to the Present Time; by John Strype, 2 vol., A. Churchill [and others], 1720 image 1
LONDON STOW (JOHN) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster... Corrected, Improved, and Very Much Enlarged... to the Present Time; by John Strype, 2 vol., A. Churchill [and others], 1720 image 2
LONDON STOW (JOHN) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster... Corrected, Improved, and Very Much Enlarged... to the Present Time; by John Strype, 2 vol., A. Churchill [and others], 1720 image 3
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LONDON
STOW (JOHN) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster..., 2 vol., A. Churchill [and others], 1720

20 November 2024, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £2,000

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STOW (JOHN) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster... Corrected, Improved, and Very Much Enlarged... to the Present Time; by John Strype, 2 vol., fifth edition, titles printed in red and black, 70 engraved plates and maps (some double-page or folding, some on stubs, some trimmed within platemark but not touching text/image), woodcut arms in the text, modern calf, earlier black and red morocco gilt lettering labels on spines, some abrasions to sides, folio (395 x 245mm.), A. Churchill [and others], 1720

Footnotes

"If John Stow's Survey of London is probably the most famous single work ever written about England's capital, then the enlarged and updated edition of the same book published some 120 years later [1720] ... surely stands as one the most remarkable works of scholarship every produced about the city" (J.F. Merritt, 'The Creation of Strype's Survey of London', in Strype, Survey of London (1720), hriOnline, Sheffield, 2007).

Provenance: William Cowper (1690-1740, of Hertingfordbury Park), bookplate. Cowper was appointed Clerk of the Parliaments in 1712, retaining the position until the end of his life.

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