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London: Printed by J. M'Creery, Black Horse-Court, 1815. Hardcover. Good+. Two works bound together. The interesting copy of the first being: additional engraved title in 4 states (two of these colored), the 32 engraved plates including portrait as called for, and with a number of additional plates in duplicate, bringing the total to over 40 plates. Folio, 12 3/4x10 1/4 inches, contemporary calf rebacked, original spine laid down, rubbed; several plates printed on India paper and laid down, some offsetting and occasional staining, but overall the plates are in excellent condition. Bound at the rear is a suite of etchings of Remarkable Beggars. Engraved title page and 42 plates (of 48). The plates are from the later but fuller collection of plates (23 in the original edition), strikes on wove paper watermarked 1827.

First editions of Ancient Topography of London Containing Not Only Views of Buildings, Which in Many instances No Longer Exist, and For the Most Part Were Never Before Published, but Some Account of the Places and Customs Either Unknown, or Overlooked by the London Historians and Vagabondiana, or Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers throught the Streets of London bound together in one volume. Ancient Topography of London, published at 4 Chandos Street, Covent Garden, London, 1815. Complete with 33 fine etchings by Smith from his own drawings, of buildings and interiors around London, plus frontispiece with hand-coloured heraldic devices of London guilds.Begun October 24 1810 (date of hand-coloured frontispiece) and completed in 1815 (date of title page). It was originally intended as "an additional accompaniment to Thomas Pennant's Some Account of London." Now valued for its detailed architectural drawings of Norman, medieval and Tudor buildings, many of which were already ruins or to be demolished in… Read More