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Creator:
Mottley, John, 1692–1750
Title(s):
A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts adjacent ... / by Robert Seymour ... ; the whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, i.e. to the present year ...
Published/Created:
London : Printed for J. Read ..., 1734-1735.
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms, map ; 40 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A D 78
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates by Thomas Bowles and Thomas Gardner.
"A list of the subscribers": ([2] p.) after p. [2] in v. 1.
Includes index.
T.p. printed in red and black; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
John Mottley, "under the pseudonym of Robert Seymour ... edited in 1734 (perhaps with the assistancew of Thomas Cooke) Stow's Survey of the cities of London and Westminster."--DNB.
Paging irregular: v.1, p. 170-171 numbered 174-175; v.2, no. 237-256 omitted (text is complete despite irregularity)
Upcott, W. English topography, p. 620-623
Adams, B. London illustrated, 30
Howgego, J. Printed maps of London (2nd ed.), 78
Subject Terms:
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1734–1735.
London (England) -- Antiquities.
London (England) -- Description and travel.
London (England) -- History.
London Region (England) -- Description and travel.
Read, J. -- Publisher.
Severn, John Cheesment -- Bookplate.
Westminster (London, England) -- Description and travel.
Woodcut -- Specimens -- 1734–1735.
Contributors:
Bowles, Thomas, b. ca. 1712, engraver.
Gardner, Thomas, engraver.
Stow, John, 1525?-1605. Survey of the cities of London and Westminster.
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