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London : John Walker & Co., 1917. Third edition. An attractive and clearly laid-out London atlas (first produced in 1908), the principal maps showing London from Wood Green and Tottenham down to Tooting and Streatham, and from Ealing, Acton and Chiswick across to East Ham and Barking on a scale of three and one quarter inches to the mile. Additional smaller scale maps cover the electric railways, the theatres, and the environs, with an index map, plans of St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, the Tower and the metropolitan boroughs, and there is also statistical information, including population figures for the boroughs, etc., and a complete index to streets, public buildings, etc. Pencilled ownership inscription.
Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,64,68,[iv]pp - the sixty-four principal map pages printed in colour, with the omnibus and tram-routes given a distinctive hue. Original cloth; lightly sunned, with small mark to spine; a little shaken; endpapers slightly cracked, but a good and serviceable copy.

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Edinburgh : John Bartholomew & Son, 1963. Twelfth edition. A fine London atlas, giving the central area on a scale on ten inches to the mile, the suburbs at four inches to the mile, and the outlying areas (north to St. Albans, east to Upminster, south to Caterham, and west to Eton) at two inches to the mile. There are also maps of the postal districts, the parliamentary constituencies, the Metropolitan Police area, the main thoroughfares, the underground railways, etc.
Medium 8vo. xxxii,(302),[ii]pp. 155 double-page and two single-page coloured maps. Original cloth; a few minor marks to cloth and edges, but otherwise a very good copy in a much worn and repaired but substantially complete dust-jacket. From the library of the distinguished London artist and historian Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923-2004), with his ownership inscription.

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London : printed by George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1857. [Second edition]. London was first divided into postal districts in 1857-1858 to a plan devised by Sir Rowland Hill in 1856 - a circle of roughly twelve miles radius from the General Post Office in St. Martin's-le Grand being split into ten districts, "each to be treated, in many respects, as a separate town". The present alphabetical index and guide first appeared in 1856, but for this edition was furnished with maps of the districts, converting it into one of the very earliest London street atlases. A folding index map covers the whole area, followed by individual maps of the whole of the Eastern Central (EC) and Western Central (WC) districts, and further maps of the innermost portions of the Northern, North Eastern, Eastern, South Eastern, Southern, South Western, Western and North Western districts - these corresponding very roughly to the modern head districts - N1, E1, SE1, SW1, W1 and NW1. The North Eastern and Southern districts were abolished in the 1860s following a report by Anthony Trollope - hence no modern S or NE London postcodes.
Royal 8vo (25cm). 78,[ii]pp. One folding and ten single-page maps, the rectos only included in pagination. The index with alphabetical thumb-guides. Original drab printed boards, neatly rebacked in a match of the original sheep; some occasional mild spotting, but a very good copy. Contemporary ownership inscription of W. M. King - "Northern District of Scotland".

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London : George Newnes, [1947]. First edition. A charming sequence of twelve picture maps, with historical notes and the occasional witty aside, of different portions of central London - the West Strand, Fleet Street, the Royal Exchange area, St. James's Park, the East Strand, Mayfair, Hyde Park Corner, the Tower of London, Blackfriars and New Bridge Street, Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square, Westminster, and Piccadilly. Originally produced for the "Strand Magazine" in 1946-1947 and here in a separately published version. Jack Sayer produced a number of similar maps used as railway posters in the interwar years.
Long demy 4to (21 x 29cm). [24]pp. Coloured illustrations and maps throughout. Original stapled wrappers; a few nicks; staples a little rusted, not affecting images, but a very good copy of a scarce and ephemeral item. Only the Guildhall Library copy located on COPAC.

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