Beschreibung:

BOWLES, Thomas & John (publishers). London described, or the most noted Regular Buildings both Publick and Private, with Views of several Squares in... London & Westminster... Engraved after Drawings... By an able Artist. To which are added the Prospects of the Royal Palaces of England, of Chelsea Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Blenheim House and of the Famous Light House built on Edystone Rock, &c. London: Bowles, [1737 or later]. 2° (530 x 347mm). Without text, engraved and mounted on guards throughout. Title in English and French, 47 double-page maps and plates [?] only. (The majority torn at the fold, 13 of these with the tear running into the image, the final plate of Eddystone lighthouse creased.) Contemporary half sheep (scuffed). Provenance : note at front in 18th-century hand 'Wants Chelsea & South west prospect of St Pauls'. A fine selection of the Bowles's engravings of London. The two maps are A Plan of London as in Q. Elizabeths Days... London. Sold by John Bowles with integral views, and A Pocket Map of the Cities of London. Westminster. & Southwark. with the Addition of the new Buildings to this Present Year 1727... Sold by John Bowles The four plates of the palaces appear to have originally been a single large plate; they show St.James', Kensington, Hampton Court and Windsor. The majority of the work consists of fine perspective views of the principal buildings and bird's-eye views of the main squares. There is a single view of Blenheim, followed by the final view of Eddystone lighthouse. D. Loggan, H. Terasson and Sutton Nicholls are given as the engravers to a few plates, but the majority of the views remain unsigned. Cf. Berlin Kat. 2335