London--A collection

a collection of separately published maps and plans of london.

This remarkable composite atlas brings together a selection of some of the most important and scarcest printed maps and plans of London from c. 1666 to 1746, pre-eminent among them John Rocque’s Plan of London and Westminster, in its first state, with the accompanying index map, and his map of the environs of London, both published in 1746, the terminus ante quem for the composition of this volume.

1. Wren, Christopher. A Plan of the City of London, after the Great Fire in the year of our lord 1666 [title repeated in Latin]. London: Paul Fourdinier, 1744, 480 x 675mm.
2. Rocque, John. A Plan of the Cities of Westminster and the Borough of Southwark. London,  [c. 1746], double-page index map and 24 engraved mapsheets, each sheet approx. 370 x 675mm., Howgego 95 & 96 (1)
3. Hollar, Wenceslas. A Map of the Groundplot of the Citty of London. London: sold by John Overton, 1666, 269 x 340mm., loss at upper edge and to central fold, Howgego 19 (1)
4. Overton, J. A New and Plaine Mapp of the Citty of London Shewing the Streets, Lanes, Allies, Courts, Churches, Halls and other remarkable places as they are now rebuilt 1676. London: printed and sold by John Overton, [1676], 434 x 572mm., loss at upper left and right, Howgego 29 (2)
5. [Hollar, W., attrib.] A New Mapp of the Cittyes of London and Westminster with the Borough of Southwark… Drawne by W. Holler… Sold by Robert Greene. London, [1685], 580 x 955mm., tear to bottom left, Howgego 35
6. Smith, J. New and Exact Plan of the City of London and Westminster & the Borough of Southwark. London: J. Smith, 1725, 580 x 950mm., Howgego 71 (2)
7. [Untitled ground plan of Westminster School, and parts of the grounds of Westminster Abbey. c. 1715], 550 x 685mm., engraved plan by John Kip after William Dickinson
8. Prince, J. A Design of ye Buildings already begun to be Built, in ye Parish of St. Mary la Bonne. London, 1719, 510 x 680mm., large scale plan centred on modern Oxford Circus and Upper Regent Street, engraved by Sutton Nicholls
9. Lediard, Thomas, Jnr. A Plan of part of the ancient City of Westminster from College Street to Whitehall. London: Paul Fourdinier, 1740, 478 x 715mm., large-scale plan centred on Parliament Square
10. Bowles, Thomas. A New and Exact Plan of the City of London and Westminster & the Borough of Southwark. London: T. & J. Bowles, 1728, 590 x 980mm., large folding map on two sheets joined, coloured in outline, this state not in Howgego, but cf. 63 (4)-(5), this example equating to state (3), but dated 1728
11. Rocque, John. An Exact Survey of the City's of London, Westminster, ye Borough of Southwark. London, 1746, title printed in red and black, index leaf pasted to the verso of the title and 16 double-page engraved mapsheets, each sheet approx. 470 x 640mm., Howgego 94 (2)
12. Bowles, T. A New & Correct Map of Thirty Miles round London. London, c. 1720, 630 x 940mm., circular map in outline colour with side panels of key, Howgego 87, noting one example only
13. Morden, Robert. A Map Containing the Towns Villages Gentlemens Houses Roads Rivers and other Remarks for 20 Miles round London. London, 1686, 550 x 570mm., small tear