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1. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country, taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral; to be published in four engravings. By Thomas Hornor.

Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country, taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral; to be published in four engravings. By Thomas Hornor.
Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785-1844
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
31 p. 3 fold. plates (incl. front.) 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.

Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
[4], 82 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.

London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.
Date:
[1841-1844]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front., ill., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. London : a pilgrimage / by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold.

London : a pilgrimage / by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold.
Creator:
Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826-1884
Date:
1872
Physical Description:
[14], xii, 191, [1] p., [52] leaves of plates ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex : consisting of a set of topographical maps from actual surveys, on a scale of two inches to a mile ... / by J. Edwards, topographer.

A companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex : consisting of a set of topographical maps from actual surveys, on a scale of two inches to a mile ... / by J. Edwards, topographer.
Creator:
Edwards, James, 1756-1816
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
[3],viii, [1], 31, 86, [3] p., [15] leaves of plates, ([2] folded) : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The microcosm of London : this work already honoured ...

The microcosm of London : this work already honoured ...
Date:
[1808-10]
Physical Description:
3 v. : col. ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Some account of London / Thomas Pennant.

Some account of London / Thomas Pennant.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
vi, [4], 479, [9] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.

Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.
Creator:
Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767-1840
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
viii, 571 p., [23] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., plan : 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...

Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...
Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
1828 [i.e. 1827-1830]
Physical Description:
vi, ii, 172 p., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Londres / par Louis Énault ; illustré de 174 gravures sur bois par Gustave Doré.

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Creator:
Enault, Louis, 1824-1900
Date:
1876
Physical Description:
[4], 434 p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

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Creator:
Orlebar, Mary, 1730-1821
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities : illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others : and a new complete map, engraved by Lowry.

No cover image available
Creator:
Weale, John, 1791-1862
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
910 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

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Creator:
Haxell, Edward Nelson
Date:
[1884]
Physical Description:
[10], 122, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Cruchley's New plan of London improved : including the East and West India docks.

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Creator:
Cruchley, G. F
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 51 x 100 cm., folded to 17 x 11 cm., in case 18 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : containing the original, antiquity, increase, present state and government of those cities : written at first in the year 1698 [i.e. 1598] / by John Stow ... ; corrected, improved, and very much enlarged, in the year 1720, by John Strype ..., the survey and history brought down to the present time ... ; the life of the author, written by Mr. Strype is prefixed ... added, an appendix of certain tracts, discourses, and remarks on the state of the city of London ...

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
1754-1755
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Londinium redivivum, or, An ancient history and modern description of London / compiled from parochial records, archives of various foundations, the Harleian mss. and other authentic sources ... by James Peller Malcolm.

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Creator:
Malcolm, James Peller, 1767-1815
Date:
1803-07
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., map, port. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Holmes's Great metropolis : or, Views and history of London in the nineteenth century. Being a grand national exhibition of the British capital. With historical and topographical notices of each place / Ed. by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and Thomas Harrel [!] ...

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Creator:
Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:
[1851?]
Physical Description:
3 p.., 211 p. 34 pl. incl. front. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

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Creator:
Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:
184-?]
Physical Description:
3 p.., 203, [1] p., 1 leaf, vi, [2], ii, 158 p. front., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A new critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. With some reflections on the use of sepulchral monuments; as also a scheme shewing the dimensions of St. Peter's Church at Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral at London; and a preface, being an essay on taste. To all which is added, an Appendix, containing a dispute between the Weekly miscellany and the author; and a compleat Alphabetical index.

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Date:
1736
Physical Description:
3 p. l., vi, 91, [5] p. fold. table. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. An account of what seem'd most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons vizt. Messieurs Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill & Forrest : begun on Saturday, May 27th, 1723 and finished on the 31st of the same month / with an introduction by Nick Savage and vinyl engravings by Michaela Kidney.

No cover image available
Creator:
Forrest, Ebenezer, active 1774
Date:
1989
Physical Description:
[36] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Views within twelve miles round London / drawn and engraved by James Peller Malcolm ; this work tends to preserve the perishable forms of many a building and monument of antiquity, whose fate has been pronounced, and whose remembrance shall only be had from this and similar works.

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Creator:
Malcolm, James Peller, 1767-1815
Date:
[180-?]
Physical Description:
[30] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. London scenes, or, A visit to Uncle William in town : containing a description of the most remarkable buildings and curiosities in the British metropolis : illustrated by seventy-eight copperplate engravings ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1824]
Physical Description:
xvi, 211 p., [23] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The public buildings of the city of London described. : With twelve engravings. / By the author of "Public buildings of Westminster described."

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Creator:
Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781-1857
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
[8], 259 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. London lions for country cousins and friends about town: being all the new buildings, improvements and amusements in the British metropolis ... By Horace Wellbeloved ...

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Creator:
Wellbeloved, Horace
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
viii, 112 p. fold. col. front., ill. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A description of London; containing a sketch of its history and present state, and of all the most celebrated public buildings, &c. Embellished with engravings.

No cover image available
Date:
[1824]
Physical Description:
36 p. front., plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Hackney coach & cabriolet fares : regulations and acts of Parliament.

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Date:
[ca. 1832-1834]
Physical Description:
1 printed handkerchief : on silk ; 87 x 90 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. Originally written by -----Ralph, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions.

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Date:
1783
Physical Description:
xxxi, 209 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. London. Edited by Charles Knight.

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Creator:
Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
Date:
1841-1844
Physical Description:
6 v. front., illus., (incl. plans) 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys. &c. contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : with the contiguous buildings / engraved by John Pine ... from an actual survey by John Rocque, and printed on twenty-four sheets of imperial paper, with references for finding the said places ; adapted likewise to a contracted copy of the above mentioned plan, printed on eight sheets of paper ...

No cover image available
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
vi [i.e. vii], [1], 46, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The new picture of London : being a complete guide & hand-book to all that can amuse, interest, and instruct in this vast metropolis : and a useful and entertaining companion to the exhibitions and public buildings, sights and amusements, for the stranger, resident, and visitor.

No cover image available
Date:
[1841]
Physical Description:
xii, 276 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Bowles's New pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1790.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 48 x 94 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Gardiner's exhibition almanack for 1851.

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Creator:
Gardiner, John, 1813 or 1814-1883
Date:
[1850?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 51 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. London: a descriptive poem, in four parts. Adorned with eight copper plates.

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Date:
1812 [i.e. 1813]
Physical Description:
28, [4] p. 8 plates. 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. London and its environs described : containing an account of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity or use, in the city and in the country twenty miles round it. Comprehending also whatever is most material in the history and antiquities of this great metropolis : decorated and illustrated with a great number of views in perspective, engraved from original drawings, taken on purpose for this work : together with a plan of London, a map of the environs, and several other useful cuts ...

No cover image available
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., map, plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Topographical survey of the Borough of St. Marylebone as incorporated & defined by Act of Parliament 1832 : embracing and marking the boundaries of the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, & Paddington : also the extents & limits of the principal landed estates within the borough and plans and elevations of the public buildings / engraved by B.R. Davies from surveys and drawings of F.A. Bartlett under the direction of John Britton ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Bartlett, F. A
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 97 x 114 cm., folded to 30 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. London : oder Beschreibung der merkurïrdigsten gebäude, denkmäler und anstaften der hauptstadt grossbritanniens.

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Creator:
Bergk, Johann Adam, 1769-1834
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
iv, 44 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Notes sur mon voyage en Angleterre (Ier) et ... en Irelande et Ecosse : du 3 juin 1835 au 9 aout.

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Creator:
Lefort, Pierre Alexandre Francisque, 1809-1878
Date:
1835, June 3-1851, September 12
Physical Description:
1 v. (86, [28] p.) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Picturesque sketches of London : past and present / by Thomas Miller ; with numerous engravings of churches, public buildings, antiquities, street views, &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Miller, Thomas, 1807-1874
Date:
[1852]
Physical Description:
306, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Anne Fletcher diary, 1844-1855.

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Creator:
Fletcher, Anne, 1814-1857
Date:
1844-1855
Physical Description:
1 volume (88 pages, some blank) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. De Londres et de ses environs.

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Creator:
Cambry, Jacques, 1749-1807
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
2 p.., v [i.e. iv], 147 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Angliæ metropolis, or, The present state of London : with memorials comprehanding a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof ... / first written by ... Tho. Delaune ... and continued to the present year by a careful hand ...

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Creator:
Delaume, Thomas, d. 1685
Date:
1690
Physical Description:
[10], 444 p. : coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. London's lost rivers / Paul Talling.

London's lost rivers / Paul Talling.
Creator:
Talling, Paul
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
190, [2] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. London exhibited in 1851 : elucidating its natural and physical characteristics, its antiquity and architecture : its arts, manufactures, trade, and organization : its social, literary, and scientific institutions : and its numerous galleries of fine art : with 205 illustrations, executed by Mr. Robert Branston, Mr. O. Jewitt, Mr. J.R. Jobbins, and others : including a newly-constructed map, engraved by Mr. Wilson Lowry.

No cover image available
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
910, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Glossary of place-names in and around London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pocklington, Joseph, 1736-1817
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 v. ([15] p.) ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Londina illustrata : Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern & present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London & Westminster.

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Creator:
Robert Wilkinson (Publisher)
Date:
1819-25
Physical Description:
2 v., pl. : plans. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Walks through London : including Westminster and the borough of Southwark with the surrounding suburbs : ... forming a complete guide to the British metropolis / by David Hughson ...

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Creator:
Hughson, David, active 19th century
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 v. (414 p., [97] leaves of plates) : ill., plans, folded map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A new pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations, to the year 1790.

No cover image available
Creator:
Faden, William, 1749-1836
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 47 x 91 cm., folded to 18 x 12 cm., in case 19 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
1827 [i.e. 1827-1830]
Physical Description:
vi, ii, 172 p., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Descriptive particulars of the ancient and present state of the palace of the Savoy : now the scite of the bridge of Waterloo : the greatest in the world, with the dimensions of the same / by B. Johnson ...

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Creator:
Johnson, B
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
19 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Knight's cyclopaedia of London, 1851.

No cover image available
Date:
[1851]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Letters from London.

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Date:
1808
Physical Description:
[2], 52 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts adjacent ... / by Robert Seymour ... ; the whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, i.e. to the present year ...

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Creator:
Mottley, John, 1692-1750
Date:
1734-1735
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms, map ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A survey of London, by a party of tarry-at-home travellers : a new game to amuse & instruct a company of friends.

No cover image available
Date:
[1820]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 50 x 40 cm, folded to 17 x 14 cm, in slipcase 18 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. London exhibited in 1852 : elucidating its natural and physical characteristics, antiquity and architecture, arts, manufactures, trade, and organization, social, literary, and scientific institutions, and numerous galleries of fine art / with two hundred and five illustrations executed by Mr. Robert Branston, Mr. O. Jewitt, Mr. J.R. Jobbins, and others, including a newly-constructed map engraved by Mr. Wilson Lowry ; edited and published by John Weale.

No cover image available
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
910 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., port., plans, map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. An entire new plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mogg, Edward
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 46 x 91 c., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 17 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places / by Walter Thornbury.

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Creator:
Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
Date:
[1873-1878]
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., ports., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The carriers cosmographie, or, A briefe relation, of the innes ordinaries, hosteries, and other lodgings, in and neere London : where the carriers, waggons, foote-posts and higglers, doe usually come, from any parts, townes, shires, and countries, of the kingdoms of England, principality of Wales, as also from the kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland : with nomination of what daies of the weeke they do come to London and on what daies they returne, whereby all sorts of people may find direction how to receiue or send, goods or letters, into such places as their occasions may require : as also where the ships, hoighs, barkes, t[i]ltboats, barges and wherries, do usually attend to carry passengers ... / by Iohn Taylor.

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Creator:
Taylor, John, 1580-1653
Date:
1637
Physical Description:
24 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. I love London : 30 assorted latex free children's plasters.

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Date:
[not after 2013]
Physical Description:
1 tin box (30 plasters) ; 7 x 10 x 2 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

60. The original picture of London : enlarged and improved : being a correct guide for the stranger, as well as for the inhabitant, to the metropolis of the British empire : together with a description of the environs.

No cover image available
Creator:
Feltham, John, fl. 1797-1799
Date:
[1829?]
Physical Description:
liv, 498 p., [30] leaves of plates (2 fold.) : ill., map, plan ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

61. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

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Creator:
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718-1785
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

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Creator:
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Cruchley's New plan of London : shewing all the new and intended improvements to the present time.

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Creator:
Cruchley, G. F
Date:
[1834]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 45 x 62 cm., folded to 15 x 11 cm., in case 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
1633
Physical Description:
[16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

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Creator:
Measom, George S
Date:
[1864]
Physical Description:
lii, 475, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. How to enjoy London, or, The elegant economist : showing the various means of enjoying London on incomes of from 25 to 500 a year : adapted equally to the married and the single / arranged with great care according to the existing state of the metropolis, and the present modes of life by the author of the "Book of economy".

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Date:
1836
Physical Description:
36 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A new pocket plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

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Creator:
Faden, William, 1749-1836
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 46 x 92 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 16 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

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Creator:
Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. A month in London; or, Some of its modern wonders described. By Jefferys Taylor ...

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Creator:
Taylor, Jefferys, 1792-1853
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
3 p. ., 182 p. front., plate. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

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Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
vi, 381 p. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

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Creator:
Cromwell, Thomas, 1792-1870
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
2 p. ., [iii]-viii, 448, v p. front., plates, fold. maps. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with descriptive accounts of each edifice : supplement : containing the new subjects and descriptions incorporated in the second edition / by W.H. Leeds.

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Creator:
Leeds, W. H. (William Henry), 1786-1866
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
xii, 136 p., [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Description de Londres et de ses édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objects d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J.-B. Barjaud, et C.P. Landon ...

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Creator:
Barjaud, Jean Baptiste Benoît, 1785-1813
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
1 p.., [v]-viii, 239, 4 p. : front. (fold. map) plates, ports. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Tallis's London street views, exhibiting upwards of one hundred buildings in each number, elegantly engraved on steel; with a commercial directory corrected every month, the whole forming a complete stranger's guide through London ... To which is added an index map of the streets ...

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Creator:
Tallis, John, 1817-1876
Date:
[1838-40]
Physical Description:
88 pts. ill., double plans. 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The history and survey of London and its environs : from the earliest period to the present time ... / by B. Lambert ...

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Creator:
Lambert, B
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. An antiquarian ramble in the streets of London : with anecdotes of their more celebrated residents / by John Thomas Smith ; edited by Charles Mackay.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. London : being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood : to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation / by David Hughson ...

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Creator:
Hughson, David, active 19th century
Date:
1805-1809
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, walls, gates, bridges ... and many other curious matters in antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the difference between the ancient and present state of these two famous cities. By N.B.

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Creator:
Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742
Date:
1722
Physical Description:
3 p.., 244 p. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster : containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities / written at first in the year MDXCVIII ... since ... augmented by the author, and afterwards by A.M., H.D., and others ; now lastly corrected ... and ... brought down from ... 1633 ... to the present time by John Strype ... ; to which is prefixed the life of the author, writ by the editor ... added an appendix ... concerning the state of the city of London ...

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
MDCCXX [1720]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., maps, plans ; 41 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Tallis's illustrated London : in commemoration of the Great exhibition of all nations in 1851 : forming a complete guide to the British metropolis and its environs : illustrated by upwards of two hundred steel engraving from original drawings and daguerreotypes / with historical and descriptive letterpress by William Gaspey, Esq. Vol. I <-II>.

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Creator:
Gaspey, William, 1812-1888
Date:
<1851-52>
Physical Description:
2 v. (vii, <1>, 320 p., <74> leaves of plates (1 folded); vii, <1>, 304 p., <86> leaves of plates (2 folded)) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. London and its environs : including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

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Creator:
Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Date:
1878
Physical Description:
x, 366 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., maps ; 17 cm.+ [1] folded map (73 x 94 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

83. Glimpses and gatherings, during a voyage and visit to London and the Great Exhibition, in the summer of 1851. By William A. Drew, Commissioner of the State of Maine...

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Creator:
Drew, William Allen, 1798-1879
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
404 p. front. (port.) 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The parlour table-book, or, Pictorial miscellany : containing a choice collection of historical and landscape illustrations, finely engraved on steel.

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Date:
[184-?]
Physical Description:
[2], 96, [42] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. (one col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Tallis's street views and pictorial directory, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a faithful history and description of every object of interest, by William Gaspey ...

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Creator:
Tallis, John, 1817-1876
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 3-88 p. front., ill., 18 double plans. 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. An exact surveigh of the streets, lanes and churches comprehend[e]d within the ruins of the city of London : first described in six plats 10 Decemr. Ao Dom. 1666 : by the order & directions of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, & common councell of the said city / Iohn Leake, Iohn Iennings, Willm. Marr, Willm. Leybourn, Thomas Streete, Richard Shortgrave, surveyors ; & reduced into one intire plat by Iohn Leake, for the use of the commisioners for the regulation of streets, lanes, &ct.

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Creator:
Leake, John
Date:
[1723]
Physical Description:
1 map on 2 sheets ; 106 x 125 cm, sheets 55 x 72 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. London / illustrated by Sarah McMenemy.

London / illustrated by Sarah McMenemy.
Creator:
McMenemy, Sarah
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (32 unnumbered panels) : color illustrations, 2 color maps ; 11 x 160 cm, folded to 11 x 10 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

88. The Londoniad: (complete.) Giving a full description of the principal establishments, together with the most honourable and substantial business men, in the capital of England &c., &c. By James Torrington Spencer Lidstone ...

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Creator:
Lidstone, James Torrington Spencer
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
iv, 112 p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. A new view of London, or, An ample account of that city, in ... eight sections : being a more particular description thereof than has hitherto been known to be published of any city in the world ...

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Creator:
Hatton, Edward, b. 1664?
Date:
1708
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map, plan ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with historical and descriptive accounts of each edifice ... / By J. Britton ... and A. Pugin ...

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771-1857
Date:
1825-28
Physical Description:
2 v. ill., plates, map. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. [Some account of London: By Thomas Pennant, esq.

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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Date:
1805]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 415, [8] p. 16 plates (incl. map, ports.) 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Views and history of London in the nineteenth century : being a series of illustrations of the most interesting objects in the British metropolis and its vicinity / from original drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd.

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Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
[183-?]
Physical Description:
316, xlii p., [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...

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Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
vi, ii, 172 p., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. City scenes, or, A peep into London for children.

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Creator:
Taylor, Jane, 1783-1824
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
72 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. National history and views of London and its environs; : embracing their antiquities, modern improvements, etc., etc. from original drawings by eminent artists. /Edited by C. F. Partington ... In two volumes ...

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Creator:
Partington, Charles Frederick, d. 1857?
Date:
[1837]
Physical Description:
2 v., 112 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. This day is published, number XCIV, with a view of the city gates : (to be continued weekly, price six-pence) : the sixth edition of Stow's survey of London and Westminster : and of the borough of Southward : being the best topography of those cities : together with the distinct history of them : in two large volumes, folio : containing their original, antiquity, increase, present state, and government : written at first by John Stow, citizen and native of London ; several times reprinted and augmented, then corrected, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by J. Strype, M.A. ; and the history and survey now brought down to this present time by careful hands ; illustrated with exact maps of all the wards and out-parishes both of London and Westminister ; with other draughts of the most eminent and public edifices and monuments.

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Date:
November 29, 1755
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page (incomplete)) ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A series of prints exhibiting the most interesting scenes in London and Westminster : drawn from the most striking points of view, and executed in aquatinta, by T. Malton, Jun.

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Date:
March, 1781
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Londinopolis : an historicall discourse; or, Perlustration of the city of London, the imperial chamber, and chief emporium of Great Britain: whereunto is added another of the city of Westminster, with the courts of justice, antiquities, and new buildings thereunto belonging / by Jam Howel ...

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Creator:
Howell, James, 1594?-1666
Date:
1657
Physical Description:
[10], 124, 301-407, [8] p., 3 leaves of plates : port., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. William Stringer diary, 1881-1885.

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Creator:
Stringer, William, 1858-1892
Date:
1881-1885
Physical Description:
1 volume (90 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The Rhinebeck panorama of London / introduction by Ralph Hyde ; keys by Peter Jackson.

The Rhinebeck panorama of London / introduction by Ralph Hyde ; keys by Peter Jackson.
Date:
1981
Physical Description:
6 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 63 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ralph Hyde