Lot 130: STOW, JOHN.

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 (395 x 240mm.), title printed in red and black, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 68 engraved plates and maps (33 double-page, 2 folding), woodcut illustrations, contemporary English panelled calf, black morocco label with Courtenay arms gilt on upper covers, rebacked with later spine gilt in compartments with morocco lettering-pieces, Caleb Lowdham's copy, with first and last names added in manuscript at foot of gatherings C and L, some wormholes at start of vol.2, small tear to map of Spittle Fields in vol.2, small hole in G2 of book VI, bindings rubbed and scraped, joints of vol.2 cracking