A View of London: in the Time of Pepys

by Wenceslaus Hollar

$20 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

Softcover, Horizon Press, 1971. Very Good+. Fold-out black and white illustration. This 'Long Bird's-Eye View of London from Bankside' was engraved in 1647, when Samuel Pepys was fourteen years old. Here is the thriving London, minutely rendered, in which he grew up, a city that less than twenty years hence would be swept away before his eyes in the Great Fire. This is a supplement to Horizon, Summer, 1971. Ships same or next

• Binding: Softcover

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