Engraver:
John Stow
Title:
A MAPP of the Parsish of ST. ANNS. Taken from the last Survey, with Corrections, and Additions.
Stock Code:
9447
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
John Strype
Colouring:
Hand coloured
Atlas:
A Survey of the Cities of London & Westminster
Size: (W x H):
18.6cm x 32cm
7½ inches x 12½ inches
Date:
c.1755
Price:
£120
John Stow’s, A Survey of London, was first published in 1598, with a second edition following in 1603. Stow’s most famous work, it is an evocative ‘perambulation’ of the streets of the Tudor capital, which forms the main framework of the book. The huge growth of the metropolis, the devastation wrought by the Great Fire of 1666 and the subsequent rebuilding of the City made an updating of the Survey highly desirable. It was to answer this need that John Strype (1643-1737), the ecclesiastical historian and biographer, published a new, hugely expanded version of Stow’s Survey of London in 1720.
Good condition