A New View of London;

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A handsome copy of Hatton's New View of London with two large folding maps pleasantly clean and legible. The first map shows London at the time of Queen Elizabeth I, and the second shows the progress made up to 1707. Edward Hatton was a surveyor and compiled this contemporary account of London in response to similar works he encountered in Paris. He covers ample descriptions of the roads, churches, schools, museums, civic buildings, discussing both architecture as well as feel and economic occupancies. Full title: I. Containing the names of the streets, squares, lanes, markets, courts, alleys, rows, rents, yards and inns in London, Westminster and Southwark; shewing the derivations thereof, quality of building and inhabitants; dimensions, bearing and distance from Charing Cross, St. Paul's Cathedral, or the Tower of London. II. Of the churches; their names, foundation, order of building, ornament, dimensions, altitude of steeples, and number of bells therein; benefactors, monuments, tombs, cenotaphs, c. decribed; with their epitaphs, inscriptions, mottos, arms, c. The nature and value of livings and tythes, what each are rated in the Queen's books, and the names of the patrons, impropriators, rectors, vicars, lecturers; the hours of prayer, organs, c. Also the number of ward and parish officers, the contents or bounds of every parish and number of houses therein. III. Of the several companies, their nature, halls, armorial ensigns blazoned, c. Guild-hall, Exchanges, East Indi

• Binding: Hardcover

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