The Strangers Guide to London and Westminster, exhibiting all the various Alterations & Improvements complete to the Present Time.

MOGG, Edward

Verlag: Published by Edward Mogg, No.51 Charing Cross, January 1st, 1827., London,, 1827

Beschreibung

For the Stranger to late Georgian London Hand-coloured engraved plan, dissected and mounted on linen, list of hackney coach fares to verso, housed within original paper slipcase, with publisher's label, rubbed and scuffed. The plan shows the limits of the City of London in red; the sight of the Bethlem (or Bedlam) Hospital in St George's Fields, which when opened in 1815 contained no glass in the windows due to the "disagreable effluvias peculiar to all madhouses", although it was furnished with a library and a ballroom for the inmates. Also depicted is the gradual construction of Sir Robert Smirke's remodelling of the British Museum. The building site was at the time one of the largest in Europe, the work taking some 25 years to complete. Edward Mogg (fl.1803-1860) was a cartographer, engraver, and publisher, active in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Rather unusually for the time he not only drew his own maps, but also engraved them. The business was mainly based upon the production of pocket travel guides and maps. Scale: 4 inches to 1 statue mile. Intermediate state between Howgego 238 5d and 5e. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2463

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Strangers Guide to London and ...

Verlag: Published by Edward Mogg, No.51 Charing Cross, January 1st, 1827., London,

Erscheinungsdatum: 1827