Publisher’s details in margin at bottom left continuing on bottom right. In left, right and bottom margins are engravings of 33 London landmarks. The engraving of the Colosseum has been re-sited at lower left. The map shows the London & Greenwich Railway, the London & Birmingham Railway, and the Hungerford Suspension Bridge.

John Shury (or Sherry) is mentioned in a letter from Richard Phillips, a distinguished chemist and member of the Royal Society, to Michael Faraday, dated 4 September 1821: “Send to the engraver to wait upon you for the plate – he is a civil but rather a stupid dog – his name is Shury, Charterhouse House [sic] Street, Charterhouse Square.” (Letter 148, ‘The correspondence of Michael Faraday’, by Michael Faraday, Frank A. J. L. James)

The present map is an intermediate state between Howgego 343 states (4) and (5). The map bears the imprint of Orlando Hodgson as in the fourth state, but with the date in the title changed to 1839.

Scale: 3 3/4 in to 1 statute mile.