Index to Rocque's Plan of London

An exceptionally bright copy of this facsimile edition of the 1747 'Alphabetical Index' to John Rocque's map of London. Illustrated with a folding plate. Collated, complete.John Rocque's 1746 Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark displayed Georgian London on a scale of twenty-six inches to a mile. Consisting of twenty-one sheets and taking nearly ten years to survey, engrave and publish, the work has been celebrated as 'one of the greatest and most handsome plans of any city'.The Index that is presented in facsimile here was first published the following year. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Minor bump to spine tail, otherwise externally fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine.