Beschreibung:

Phillips (Richard, publisher). Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis, printed for Richard Phillips 1805, engraved folding panorama as frontispiece, folding map, 21 engraved plates, section-title 'Description of the Plates, representing the Itinerant Trades of London in their Ordinary Costume; with Notices of the Remarkable Places Given in the Background', followed by 31 hand-coloured etched plates each with accompanying description leaf (these plates with Ivy Mill watermarks 1807, the description leaves watermarked 1803), all other text-leaves present as called for including final advertisement leaf, text (aside from description leaves) slightly browned and with occasional marginal spotting, coloured plates slightly offset, one (Mackerel') spotted, all other text-leaves present as called for small marginal worm-track to last few leaves, attempted repair to final advertisement leaf, contemporary tan calf gilt by J. Forsyth of Elgin (oval ticket to front pastedown), 4to (26.2 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Abbey 271 (for the colour plates only); Tooley 370; binder not in Ramsden, Outside London. Tooley identifies six issues of the colour plates, which are by William Marshall Craig, and describes three of them as having been issued separately from Modern London, but none of them conforms exactly to the plates in this copy. Abbey describes the colour plates as a 'supplement' to Phillip's work, which was first published in 1804.