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The series of five A to Z editions for London and the edition for Georgian Dublin provide the collector the ability to own facsimiles of the rare and less rare maps of great importance in the history of both cities, in a format that is easily storable. Not all of us have plan chests in our houses! The maps concerned have been faithfully reproduced in the original scale (with the exception of one large scale map that has been slightly reduced) on high quality paper and case bound in A4 format together with a dust jacket.
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Title: A to Z of Elizabethan London
Author: Radulphus Agus, Braun & Hogenberg
First Published: c. 1560
ISBN: 0 903541 28 9
Description:
This Atlas contains a key map and reproductions of the Agas Map over 14, two-page sheets, the Copperplate map (reduced) in two sheets and the Braun & Hogenberg's map (reduced) on one sheet. The atlas was compiled by Adrian Prockter and Robert Taylor and contains introductory notes by John Fisher over 7 pages. There is also a Place Name Index (with explanation) over 22 pages and a Symbol Index of Bastions, Churches, Gates, Persons, Wells, Conduits and Pumps and Miscellaneous Features, over 7 pages.
Published in association with Guildhall Library, London.
Pages: 76 pages
Size: A4
Scale: 28 inches to 1 mile
Price: A$79.20 inc GST (A$72 export)

 

Title: A to Z of Restoration London
Author: John Ogilby
First Published: 1676
ISBN: 0 903541 46 7
Description:
The atlas section of this volume contains the 20 sheets from John Ogilby and William Morgan's large scale survey of the City of London, drawn to a scale of 52 3/4" to 1 mile are presented as 40 two-page spreads at full scale. The survey was first published in 1676, ten years after the Great Fire, and shows the City as newly rebuilt. This survey, encouraged by Charles II and financially backed by the Corporation of London would be 'the Glory and Masterpiece of the whole Undertaking' to produce volumes of county maps and town plans under the title Britannia, the first of which was published by Ogilby in 1675. Also included in this volume is an excellent introduction by Ralph Hyde and a key map.
The index section which includes almost 2,000 items, is based on Ogilby and Morgan's Explanation, published in 1677, but has been considerably improved. It will enable users to find any street of the time and the majority of lanes, courts, alleys, yards, passages and quays, as well as many important public building.
Published in association with Guildhall Library, London.
Pages: 104 pages
Size: A4
Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile
Price: A$86.35 inc GST (A$78.50 export)
   
Title: A to Z of Georgian London
Author: John Rocque
First Published: 1746
ISBN: 0 903541 34 3
Description:
In 1738, John Rocque, an obscure French surveyor of English aristocrat's gardens, was selected to undertake a fresh survey of the British metropolis, the first for 56 years. Nine years later he completed it. Rocque's map, magnificently drawn by the King's engraver of Seals, measured approximately six and a half feet by thirteen feet. A contemporary catalogue recommended attaching it to the cornice of the wainscot or converting it into a screen. Inevitably, the map became the standard map of the period. Today, it is rare and expensive. Facsimiles of it published by the London Topographical Society and by Harry Margary for some while have been out of print. Now, in this present volume, Rocque's map is made available once again and in a format that convenient for the modern user. For the first time the 24 map sheets have been supplemented by the 1747 Place Name Index (with explanation) rearranged into one alphabetical sequence over 38 pages. Also included are Introductory Notes by Ralph Hyde and a key map.
Published in association with Guildhall Library, London.
Pages: 98 pages
Size: A4
Scale: 15 inches to 1 mile
Price: A$79.20 inc GST (A$72 export)
   
Title: A to Z of Regency London
Author: Richard Horwood
First Published: 1813
ISBN: 0 903541 36 X
Description:
The 40 sheets of the 1813 Edition of Richard Horwood's "Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark, including their adjacent Suburbs" are reduced in scale to 12" to 1 mile and are each presented as a two-page spread, with an introduction by Paul Laxton and an Index covering some 6,500 place names recorded on the map.
Published in association with Guildhall Library, London.
Pages: 136 pages
Size: A4
Scale: 12 inches to 1 mile
Price: A$86.35 inc GST (A$78.50 export)
   
Title: A to Z of Victorian London
Author: George Bacon
First Published: 1888
ISBN: 0 903541 39 4
Description:
The Atlas consists of 59 map sheets from Bacon's New Large-Scale Ordnance Atlas of London & Suburbs, which appeared in 1888. The introductory notes have been written by Ralph Hyde. The index allows users of the A to Z to find any street, road, lane, wharf, square or public building. The area covered reaches to Mill Hill to the North, Chislehurst and New Bromley to the South, Abbey Wood to the East and Southall to the West, thus taking in the greater part of today's suburbia. Useful detail includes banks, theatres, insurance houses, statues and named terraces.
Two complete maps are included: 34 map sheets covering the central area at 9" scale and 25 covering the wider area at 4" scale. The map sheets are reproduced slightly reduced in scale as page pairs. This atlas is an essential aid to historians, geographers and genealogists.
Published in association with Guildhall Library, London.
Pages: 157 pages
Size: A4
Scale: 9 inches to 1 mile and 4 inches to 1 mile
Price: A$86.35 inc GST (A$78.50 export)
   
Title: The A to Z of Edwardian London
Author: George Bacon
First Published: 1912
ISBN: 978 0 903541 50 3
Description:
This is a facsimile in colour of Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs (revised edition), published in about 1912. In addition to the main map of 34 sheets at a scale of 4" to the mile, there is a key sheet, a large-scale plan of Central London, 7 maps of the Home Counties (Berkshire, Buckingham, Essex, Hertford, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey), 13 special maps of London (Port of London, Postal Districts, Police Divisions and Steam Railways, Water Supply, Electric Supply, Gas Supply and Underground Railway System, County Courts and Omnibus and Tram Routes, Police Courts, Petty Sessions, Parliamentary Divisions, Parliamentary and Metropolitan Boroughs and finally the Unions) and an alphabetical index to Streets, Roads, Squares, Railway Stations, Public Buildings and London Clubs of over 20,000 names.
There is an introduction by M H Port, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary, London University. The maps in this facsimile have been reproduced at almost full size and have retained the original colouring of Bacon's original.
Pages: 169 pages
Size: 10.5" x 14"
Scale: 4 inches to 1 mile
Price: A$86.35 inc GST (A$78.50 export)
   
Title: A to Z of Georgian Dublin
Author: John Rocque
First Published: 1756-60
ISBN: 0 903541 48 3
Description:
The four sheet maps of the City of Dublin map published in 1756, at a scale of 26" to 1 mile, and of the County published in 1760, at a scale of 2" to 1 mile, are reproduced as 32 two-page spreads in an A4 book. The reproduction maps are supported by an introduction by J. F. Andrews, sometime professor of Geography at Trinity College Dublin. The publication is edited by Paul Ferguson, Map Librarian of Trinity College Dublin, who also prepared separate place number indexes for the two maps. Also included are Key Plans for the two maps.
Published in association with Trinity College Library.
Pages: 90 pages
Size: A4
Scale: 26 inches to 1 mile and 2 inches to 1 mile
Price: A$86.35 inc GST (A$78.50 export)