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Late Printing Of This Two-Sheet Plan
SMITH, Joseph.
'A New and Exact PLAN of the CITIES of LONDON & WESTMINSTER, and the Borough of
SOUTHWARK, Note the Line mark'd thus [symbol] (in y.e Map) encompasses y.e City of London &.c as it
was in Q. Elizabeth's Reign by which the vast increase of y.e Buildings since that time may be nearly
estimated. [rule] London. Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69, S.t Pauls Church Yard, as the Act directs.'
London: Henry Carington Bowles & Samuel Carver, [ca. 1795]; copperplate engraving, on two sheets joined.
A light impression, but overall a good example.
Rare two-sheet plan of London, first published by Smith, in his edition of Leonard Knyff's (but colloquially
known as 'Kip's', after the engraver) 'Nouveau Théâtre De La Grande Bretagne ...', of 1724. This example,
the third recorded state, bears the imprint of Bowles and Carver, who succeeded Carington Bowles,
following his death on 20th June 1793.
Despite the time lag, Bowles and Carver have made only a token effort to update the map, with
'Westminster Bridge' and 'Black Friars Bridge' depicted in vignette view, with London Bridge re-engraved
to match, but the new bridges without their approach roads.
It is interesting to ponder what an informed Londoner would have made of this map - it is altogether more
informative about eighteenth century publishing practices (of certain firms anyway) rather than of London
in the 1790s.
Howgego: Printed Maps Of London, 71, (3), noting only one institutional location. £1,400
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Unrecorded State Of Rocque's Single-Sheet Plan Of London
ROCQUE, John.
[Untitled Plan Of London] 'Isaac Basire engraved the Plan R.W. Seale [engraved the] Letters.'
'[the text ends:] Published according to Act of Parliament 20.th May 1763 and Sold by the Proprietors
John Ryall, at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, John Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill, ___ and
Thomas Bowles next the Chapter House in S.t Paul's Church Yard, Where may likewise be had the Original
Plan before mentioned.'
London: John Ryall, John Bowles & Son & Thomas Bowles (II), 20th May 1763; copperplate engraving,
border: 463 x 909 widest: 499 x 909 platemark: 520 x 951mm, in black and white.
Old folds, but never bound, with one short tear horizontally across the centrefold restored.
The paper a little grubby, else a good example.
John Rocque's two surveys of London published in 1746, a sixteen-sheet map of the environs of London to
a radius of about ten miles and a twenty-four sheet plan of London proper, are the defining maps of London
of the period. However, as with all wall-maps, they were both very expensive and not very utilitarian.
So, the publishers of the 24-sheet plan published two reduced versions, one on eight sheets and this large
single-sheet version, both utilising the same survey information.
The single sheet version was first published on 24th May 1749; this fifth state has the date in the imprint
advanced to 1763; the map now marks the New Kent Road, labelled 'NEW ROAD', and Westminster Bridge
Road, labelled 'THE NEW ROAD' and 'NEW ROAD', extending across St. George's Fields.
This state not recorded in Howgego: Printed Maps Of London, but cf. 100, intermediate between (2) & (3).
£2,000
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