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Bacon's Large Scale Plan of the City of London. ...Completely revised up-to-date. Price 4/- cloth.
by BACON, G.W., & Co. Ltd
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: G. W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., 30 Museum Street [1948]. Map dimensions 38 x 67 cm, overall dimensions 42 x 71 cm. Folding plan of the City, on a scale of 12 inches to the mile. The plan shows the extents from Farringdon down to Southwark and Aldgate across to Aldwych. The whole backed on linen, folding into original brown printed card wrapper with Underground map printed on verso, 16 pp. Index booklet to inner cover A fine copy. A serial number y/8 appears next to the copyright at the bottom left margin, presumably 1948. Certainly a post war issue as it highlights "Blitzed City Areas" (Cf. Boyle, 445.)
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- Bookseller
- Robert Frew Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43274
- Title
- Bacon's Large Scale Plan of the City of London. ...Completely revised up-to-date. Price 4/- cloth.
- Author
- BACON, G.W., & Co. Ltd
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London: G. W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., 30 Museum Street [1948]
- Keywords
- CARTOGRAPHY London (folding maps) F43274.jpg
- Product_type
- Map
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About the Seller
Robert Frew Ltd
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London, London
About Robert Frew Ltd
Robert Frew has been trading in antiquarian books since 1975, starting out from an open market in Camden Lock, followed by shops in Primrose Hill, in Great Russell Street by the British Museum, Maddox Street Mayfair and now on the borders of South Kensington and Knightsbridge. Not to mention stints in Portobello Road and Safe Store Battersea.We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, of which Robert Frew is a past president.We Exhibit at most of the major international ILAB fairs in America, often in Europe and sometimes in the Middle and Far East. We are also members of the PBFA, exhibiting in London and occasionally in the provinces.
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