[Rarebooks] FS: A defective but invaluable record of Tudor London. 1633

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(ENGLAND) Stow, John. THE SURVEY OF LONDON: Containing the Original, 
Increase, Modern Estate and Government of That City... Begun First by... John 
Stow, in the Year 1598. Afterwards Enlarged by A. M. [Anthony Munday] in the 
Year 1618. And Now Completely Finished by... A. M., H. D. [Humphrey Dyson] and 
Others, This Present Year 1633. Whereunto... Are Annexed Divers Alphabetical 
Tables... The First, an Index of Things. The Second, a Concordance of 
Names. London: Printed for Nicholas Bourn. 1633. Folio. 
(14),534,(527)-652,(655)-770,(773)-940,(24)pp. Indices. Profusely illustrated with the woodcut 
coats-of-arms of the "Temporall Government," "Spirituall Government" and Companies 
of Merchants (including the full-page woodcut of the "Merchants of 
Virginia"). Very nicely rebound in full dark brown suede. This copy lacks the 
frontispiece (A1, the Arms of London), leaf 293/4, and 2 leaves of the first 
index. One leaf 295/6 is defective. The first 5 leaves have an old water stain 
and the sixth leaf has been remargined.     $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
An invaluable record of Tudor London. A separate title on page 757, reads: 
"The Remaines or Remnants... Which Should Have Had Their Due Place... in 
This Worke, If Promising Friends Had Kept Their Words. But They Failing... They 
Are Here Inserted, to Accompany My Perambulation Foure Miles About London." 
It bears the imprint: "London: Printed by Elizabeth Purslow and are to bee 
sold by Nicholas Bourne... 1633." STC 23345.

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