Full calf leather folio binding.
The first volume of Stow's Survey of London which includes the first three books entitled;
A description of London in General
Containing a particular inspection into the thirteen wards on the East side of Walbrook
Containing a particular inspection into the twelve wards on the west of Wallbrook
The work is illustrated with decorative head and tail pieces, illuminated initals, in text illustrations and four further plates two of which are folding.
The title page is missing and we are therefore unable to date this edition. The book begins with the dedication to the King.
John Stow (c. 1525–6 April 1605), was an English historian and antiquarian.
The son of Thomas Stow, a tallow-chandler, he was born about 1525 in London, in the parish of St Michael, Cornhill. His father's whole rent for his house and garden was only 6s. 6d. a year, and Stow in his youth fetched milk every morning from a farm belonging to the convent of the Minories. He did not follow his father's trade, but was apprenticed as a merchant tailor, being admitted to the Merchant Taylor's company in 1547 and, by 1547, had established a business at a house near the well within Aldgate, between Leadenhall and Fenchurch Street. In the 1570s, he removed to a house in St Andrew's parish, in Lime Street ward, where he lived till his death. In about 1560 he entered upon the work with which his name is associated.
The work for which Stow is best known is his Survey of London, published in 1598, not only interesting from the quaint simplicity of its style and its amusing descriptions and anecdotes, but of unique value from its minute account of the buildings, social condition and customs of London in the time of Elizabeth I. A second edition appeared in his lifetime in 1603, a third with additions by Anthony Munday in 1618, a fourth by Munday and Dyson in 1633, a fifth with interpolated amendments by John Strype in 1720, and a sixth by the same editor in 1754. The edition of 1798 was reprinted, edited by WJ Thorns, in 1842, in 1846, and with illustrations in 1876. Through the patronage of Archbishop Matthew Parker, Stow was able to print the Flores historiarum of Matthew of Westminster in 1567, the Chronicle of Matthew Paris in 1571, and the Historia brevis of Thomas Walsingham in 1574.
CONDITION
The binding is tight and firm and all pages are attached. Both covers are detached but present. There is wear to the extremities including some rubbing with damage to the surface of the leather and bumping with damage and loss to the corners. The spine is rubbed with a few cracks in the leather and small chips to the top and bottom of the spine. Internally the book is generally clean but has some spotting and handling marks in places. There is some staining in places with cockling to the pages. The staining is worse to the rear pages and the last few pages have pink staining. The final page has some loss to the top affecting the text. The title page is missing and the book begins with a dedication to the King, all other previous pages are missing. This is volume I of II only. Overall the book is in good condition.
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