The Survey of London

STOW, John.  THE SURVEY OF LONDON.

London: Printed by Elizabeth Purslow, 1633. Folio. Contemporary full-calf, respined. Frontispiece, (xiv), 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, (29) pages. First folio edition.

"Contayning The Originall, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Government of that City, Methodically set downe...As also all the Ancient and Moderne Monuments erected in the Churches, not only of those two famous Cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) Four miles compasse."  First published by Stow in 1598, this is the fourth edition, but first in folio, with additions by Anthony Munday and Humphrey Dyson.  The work as Stow composed it is an invaluable record of the Tudor city, observed in close detail before the major changes following the Great Fire.  Pagination is erratic, but collates with ESTC.  Filled with numerous woodcut coats of arms for the leading London guilds starting with the arms for the city of London as the frontispiece.  Included are the arms for the Merchants of Virginia

who founded the colony in Virginia in 1607.  Their coat of arms became the colonial coat of arms for the royal colony.  New endpapers, else very good.

 

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