[British Isles] Modern London: Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis London: Printed for Richard Phillips 1804. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with folding frontispiece, folding plan of London, 20/21 plates (lacking plate 16, St. Paul's Cathedral, at p. 308), and 31 first-issue hand-colored plates in rear of the Itinerant Traders of London. Sometime 20th century three-quarter red morocco, stamped in gilt, over crimson paper-covered boards, joints lightly rubbed; top edge stained red, other edges untrimmed; frontispiece and title-page toned and foxed; two repairs to frontispiece; descriptive leaf for plate 29 at rear bound upside down; text leaves toned; scattered foxing to same. Tooley 370.
[British Isles] Modern London: Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis London: Printed for Richard Phillips 1804. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with folding frontispiece, folding plan of London, 20/21 plates (lacking plate 16, St. Paul's Cathedral, at p. 308), and 31 first-issue hand-colored plates in rear of the Itinerant Traders of London. Sometime 20th century three-quarter red morocco, stamped in gilt, over crimson paper-covered boards, joints lightly rubbed; top edge stained red, other edges untrimmed; frontispiece and title-page toned and foxed; two repairs to frontispiece; descriptive leaf for plate 29 at rear bound upside down; text leaves toned; scattered foxing to same. Tooley 370.
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