1839 Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles Round London; Comprising Views of Various Places Within this Circuit

Description

Folding Maps, Illustrated, Leather Binding

An early edition of this work, with one copy held at Bishopsgate Institute dated 1838. 

Bound in half green morocco, with marbled paper covered boards. 

Describing points of interest found across London, including Windsor Castle, Vauxhall Gardens, Tottenham-mills, Richmond, Greenwich Hospital and others. 

Illustrated with thirty-one engraved plates, including a frontispiece and engraved title page, and a folding map of the district. After original drawings by Charles Marshall, J. W. Allen, G. B. Campion and other artists. Collated, lacking three of the plates.

With topographical and historical notices of each place by William Edward Trotter. 

With the previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, illustrated by English genre artist Frederic 'Fred' Roe.