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NEWCOURT, Richard (bap. c.1610-1679). An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs . London: 1653 [but Edward Stanford, 1863]. Very striking and rare, 19th-century derivative of Richard Newcourt’s famous pre-fire map of London, originally engraved by William Faithorne (c. 1620-1691). Newcourt's cartography represents the first complete survey of London since the 1550s, and shows the city and its surrounding countryside in the closing years of the Commonwealth. Most buildings are depicted in a repetitive, conventionalised manner, although more important buildings, such as churches and livery halls, are given an individual treatment and cross-referenced by a numbered key. Of great interest is the map's depiction - even before the Great Fire - of the spread of the suburbs to the northwest and east, where development was already spreading along the roads and connecting previously independent villages. With the destruction of the city, this development accelerated as those made homeless by the conflagration of 1666 settled outside the traditional walls. Howgego 12, derivative b; Glanville, pl. 9. Very large folding map, engraved from the original by George Jarman, extending to 1040 x 1930mm, dissected and mounted on linen and edged with blue silk, insets of St Paul's and Westminster Abbey (some faint offsetting), folding up into a quarto (280 x 230mm) volume bound in publisher's purple embossed morocco, panelled in gilt and blind with gilt arms of the Livery Companies surrounding the gilt title, blue and gilt glazed endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, joints more heavily).