John Stow | Survey of London and Westminster, 1720, 2 volumes

John Stow

A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster: containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities... now lastly corrected, improved, and very much enlarged... by John Strype. London: A. Churchill et al., 1720

2 volumes, folio (391 x 247 mm.), title-pages in red and black to each volume, engraved dedication as frontispiece to first volume, list of subscribers, 41 engraved maps (some double-page or folding) and 30 engraved plates (only, of 42 called for, lacking the 12 plates of coats of arms), further in-text woodcut illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, eighteenth-century calf, spines with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco labels to second compartments, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, some old repaired closed tears at margins (not affecting plates or text), upper joint of vol.2 starting, extremities slightly rubbed

Originally published in 1598, this is the fifth edition of Stow's famous Survey. Most of the topographical illustrations for this much expanded edition were by Johannes Kip, a Dutch printmaker.

PROVENANCE:

John Grove, eighteenth-century ownership inscription to titles and upper margin of a1v in each volume; O. Warren, eighteenth-century ownership inscription to titles; Viscount Gage, armorial bookplate

LITERATURE:

ESTC T48975