Lot 97: 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 very much enlarged: and the survey and history brought down from the year 1633... to the present time by John Strype. London: A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward, 1720

Condition Note:

2 volumes, folio (400 x 243mm.), titles in red and black, engraved dedication as frontispiece, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 42 engraved plates (7 double-page), 41 engraved maps (2 folding, 26 double-page), woodcut illustrations (mostly coats-of-arms), contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-pieces, red speckled edges, small marginal tear in L2 of book 2, marginal paper repair on G3 of book 5, bindings rubbed and scraped

From the library of I.A. Shapiro

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.