Tuesday 20 November 2018

Antique London Street Map 1862
























Extensive antique street map of London with decorative border including vignettes of The Houses of Parliament, St Paul's Cathedral, Crystal Palace, National Gallery, Buckingham Palace, British Museum, Bank of England, Mr. Wyld's Model of Earth in Leicester Square, London Bridge, General Post Office, Her Majesty's Theatre.

Titles, keys and scales in French and German. A woodcut print originally published for the Great Exhibition of 1851, there were several subsequent versions.

Good selection of antique maps of London here