Shelfmark
Ie8.3.11
Author
Title
A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent. Containing, I. The original foundation, and the antient and modern state thereof. II. An exact description of all wards and parishes; parish - churches, palaces, halls, hospitals, publick offices, edifices, and monuments, of any account, throughout the said cities, borough, &c. III. A particular account of the government of London, ecclesiastical, civil, and military; of all charters, liberties, privileges and customs; and of all livery and other companies, with their coats of arms. IV. Lists of all the officers of His Majesty's revenues, and houshold; and those of the rest of the royal family; together with the salaries thereunto belonging. By Robert Seymour, Esq; The whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's, and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, &c. to the present year; and retrenching many superfluities, and correcting many errors in the former writers. Illustrated with several copper plates. Vol. I.[-II].
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for J. Read in White-Fryars, Fleet-Street., M,DCC,XXX,IV. [i.e.[1733]-35.].
Physical description
2 v., plates (1 folded) : coat of arms, ill., map ; 42 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Pagination: [6], 821, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded); v.2: [4], 236, 257-918 p., [1] leaf of plates.
Note
Signatures: v.1: pi⁵ B-9X² 9Y1; v.2: [A]² B-10S⁴ 10T1.
Note
Volume 1 is dated 1734 but has an additional title page (pi1) dated 1733; v.2 is dated 1735.
Note
Volume 1 has the dedication to the king signed with two rows of asterisks. A variant has the dedication to the king in v.1 signed "James Read", instead of asterisks.
Note
Volume 2 is dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole. The dedication is signed with two rows of asterisks.
Note
Robert Seymour = John Mottley.
Note
Largely based on Stow's "Survey of London", but considerably augmented and updated.
Note
Issued in parts.
Note
Title pages are printed in red and black and within double rule border.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T150144
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College, undated, on front pastedown.
Binding
?18th-century brown calfskin over ?pasteboards. Covers undecorated except for gilt rolls on board edges. Spine with six sewing supports, decorated with gilt tools and titling ("Survey of London and Westminster" ; "Seymour 1734"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of marbled and undecorated laid paper; three flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock, none at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Two volumes bound in one. The dedication to the king is signed with two rows of asterisks.
Subject
London (England) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--title
Survey of London.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52972