Author: Fearnside, William Gray & Thomas Harral [editors]
Title: THE HISTORY OF LONDON: Illustrated by Views in London & Westminter engraved by John Woods from original Drawings [Bound with] SELECT ILLUSTRATED TOPOGRAPHY of thirty miles around London.
Description: London, Orr & Co.+ Simkin, Marshall, Ackermann, J. Woods and Co. 1840 approx according to COPAC Steel engraved plates (34 +34 =68) including both engraved titlepages with vignette views. . 2 VOLUMES IN ONE Quarto blue pictorially gilt & blindstamped cover & spine (rebacked with most of old spine relaid/lower cover slightly damp faded/lower cover faded/upper sl.marked) All Edges Gilt. Frontis +engraved title +printed title + [2]pp illustrations + 211pp +[1]p index, Vol.2 Engraved Frontis + engr. pictorial title + ii Introductions +158pp. Endpapers are newer, frontis is torn but without touching printed area + Barking church plate is torn into the plate but without loss. Most tissue guards are present there is some isolated foxing and a few finger marks but a generally neat tight copy. Plates as listed except that Frontispiece of vol.2 is not named but it is listed as "Hall of Mirrors" described at p107. The plates are fine full page engravings and are ex-pagination.

Keywords: topography London illustrated 2 works in One volume


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