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. By John Stow, citizen and native of London. Since reprinted and augmented by A.M. H.D. and other. Now lastly, corrected, improved, and very much enlarged: and the survey and history brought down from the year 1633, (being near fourscore years since it was last printed) to the present time; by John Strype, M.A. a native also of the said city. Illustrated with exact maps of the city and suburbs, and of all the wards; and likewise of the out-parishes of London and Westminster: together with many other fair draughts of the more eminent and publick edifices and monuments. In six books. To which is prefixed, the life of the author, writ by the editor. At the end is added, an appendiz of certain tracts, discourses and remarks, concerning the state of the city of London. Together with a perambulation, or circuit-walk four or five miles round about London, to the parish churches: describing the monuments of the dead there interred: with other antiquities observable in those places. And concluding with a second appendix, as a supply and review: and a large index of the whole work.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stow, John, 1525?-1605.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Survey of London

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--History.

London (England)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

2v.,plates, : illustrations,maps ; 2⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward, 1720.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Titlepage in red and black.

Each of the 6 'books' has its own pagination, and is introduced by a drop-head title.

A separate titlepage in Vol.2 reads: 'An appendix of certain tracts, discourses, and other remarks, concerning the State of the City of London. .. London: Printed in the year MDCCXX.'.

First published as 'A survay of London'.

William Bowyer printed Book 2.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

Cited in:

Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 584

English Short Title Catalog, T48975.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.