The History of London from its Foundation to the Present Time: Containing I. The Original Constitution of London.II. Historical and Particular Accounts of the City Governments, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military.III. Accounts of the Several Incorporations of Merchants and Trades.IV. Accounts of the Present State of Learning and of the Colleges, Schools, Inns of Court.V. Full and Particular Accounts of All the Hospitals, Alm-houses, amd Other Charitable Foundations.VI. The Ancient and Present State of the Tower : and Including the Several Parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, &c. Within the Bill of Mortality.

Maitland, William

Published by R. Baldwin and J. Osborne and J. Shipton

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Printed for R. Baldwin, 1754 (volume 1) and London: Printed for J. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756 (volume 2). In two small volumes (416mm x 258mm) recently and beautifully rebound in quarter black morocco and marbled boards. New endpapers. Volume 1: [10], iii - viii, 3-712. Volume 2: [4], 713 - 1392, 1387* - 1931*, 1394 - 1410, [2]. Complete with the frontispiece, title, dedication, list of subscribers, contents, text, frontispiece to volume 2, title to volume 2, contents of volume 2, text, appendix to both volumes, index to both volumes, and instructions to the binder. Illustrated with 121 magnificent full-page engraved plates, including several folding. Two plates called for in the Instructions, Tower Street Ward and East India House, are not present; however, two plates not called for, Merchant Taylor's School and St. George Hospital, are present. Included among the illustrations are A View of London about the Year 1560, a Plan of London Fortified by the Parliament, Plan of London in Ruins After the Fire, The Tower of London, London Bridge, Views of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, a Map of Ten Miles Circumference, and many more. The title page for volume 2 incorrectly states Volume 1, even though all other information of the page is correct. A few pages with corners professionally repaired with no text loss, and aside from short tears at the fore-edge of a few leaves, a fine, clean, remarkably preserved copy of this monumental work. 0.

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• Title: The History of London from its Foundation to the Present Time: Containing I. The Original Constitution of London.II. Historical and Particular Accounts of the City Governments, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military.III. Accounts of the Several Incorporations of Merchants and Trades.IV. Accounts of the Present State of Learning and of the Colleges, Schools, Inns of Court.V. Full and Particular Accounts of All the Hospitals, Alm-houses, amd Other Charitable Foundations.VI. The Ancient and Present ...
• Publisher: R. Baldwin and J. Osborne and J. Shipton
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine