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[Anon] William Darton, Johannes Blaeu, Wenceslaus Hollar illusBiblio.com

Old London Views and Maps

1820ref. Flo54719th century scrapbook of old maps and views of London Includes a large folding map of the City of London in the time of the Anglo-Saxon era about the year 1000 by William Darton from 1810 in fine handcolour Another fine folding map of Middlesexia by the Dutch mapmaker Johannes Blaeu from 1662 showing the centre of London surrounded by the villages of Putney Shoreditch Chelsea Kensington etc. With 79 large and small engraved landscape views of London the river Thames bridges stately homes churches villages Hampton Court Carlton House Westminster Abbey St Paul's Cathedral Southwark Cathedral Globe Theatre Bedlam Hospital etc. Views by artists such as Richard Gardnor Jr. Roberts Charles Wild Wenceslaus Hollar. About 40 engravings cut from William Thornton's New Complete and Universal History of the City of London 1780s. Two engravings Globe Theatre and St Faith's Church in the crypt of the old St Paul's Cathedral by Wenceslaus Hollar 17th century. Compiled in the Victorian era by Josephine Dockar-Drysdale of Wick Hall Radley Oxford. The daughter of Scottish businessman William Dockar who bought the manor in 1850 she was already a widow when she moved into the house in 1882. According to family reports she was 'fearsome' 'an horrendous woman' and 'a terror.' Interview with granddaughter Louise Curtis in Radley History Club. Scrapbooking and sentimental poetry may have been her only pleasures. She looks quite miserable in her portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer. Green cloth scrapbook with a decorated front cover bookplate of compiler Josephine Dockar-Drysdale on front endpaper 81 maps and engravings mounted on hinged card handwritten poem The Unhappy Lady of Hackney on blue paper many engravings trimmed to edge of image age-toning to pages and endpapers. Fascinating and unusual album of London history. hardcover

Florilegius · JapãoUS$ 500,00≈ € 446,71

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