A New Pocket Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster:
with the borough of Southwark: Comprehending the New Buildings and Alterations to the Year 1803.
London,
Published by W. Faden, Geographer to the King and to the Prince of Wales, Charing Cross,
1803.
Engraved plan on two sheets, original outline hand-colour, manuscript annotations to map with manuscript key to right margin, a few old tears skilfully repaired and old folds reinforced.
465 by 1030mm (18.25 by 40.5 inches).
1473
notes:
The plan gives information on parishes, in Westminster, Surrey, and Middlesex, with the Bills of Mortality. A coloured key shows the limits of the City of London, the intended buildings or new streets not finished, the Liberties of Westminster, and Rules of the Bench and Fleet. The border is divided into miles and furlongs based on St Paul's, and intended and unfinished development includes the area east of the Edgware Road and south of Euston Road; a circus at the east end...
bibliography:
Howgego 186 (8).
provenance:
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First Western Map of Quantung
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“more knowledge of the Eastern Seas than perhaps any other man”
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Admiralty chart of the South East Coast of China
The Great Southern Continent
The final phase of the Peninsular War
Large plan of 1930s Hong Kong showing the cyclone scale
“such parts of the coast of Madagascar as you may conceive not to have been accurately ascertained” 


