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![ROCQUE, John To Martin Folkes Esq[ui]r[e] President of the Royal Society: This Plan of the Cities of London](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1482_1H.jpg?x57028)
A reduction of Rocque’s monumental map of Georgian London upon 24 sheets
To Martin Folkes Esq[ui]r[e] President of the Royal Society: This Plan of the Cities of London
with the Contiguous Buildings; is humbly Inscribed by his most Humble Servants John Pine and John Tinney.
London,
Published according to Act of Parliament and Sold by the Proprietors John Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, John Pine at the Golden Headin King Street near St. Ann's Church, Soho, and Thomas Bowles next the Chapter House in St, Paul's Church Yard. Where may likewise be had the Original Plan before mentioned,
20th May, 1749.
Engraved plan, title and text below, mounted on linen.
655 by 982mm (25.75 by 38.75 inches).
1482
notes:
The text below the plan states that the map was taken from Rocque's great survey of the city, the surveying of which was begun in March of 1737, and took nine years for Rocque to complete. The map is dedicated by John Pine and John Tinney to the president of the Royal Society, Martin Folkes. John Pine, who described himself as Bluemantel Pursuivant at Arms & Engraver of Seals, etc. to His Majesty, engraved the original 24-sheet map and the reduction. John Tinney was respons...
bibliography:
Howgego 100 (1).
