Beschreibung:

London.- Stow (John) A Survay of London, Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Description of that Citie, first edition, mostly black letter, title with woodcut device, woodcut intials, head- and tail-piece, title slightly darkened, wormhole to margin of first gathering, repaired tear to foot of Z2 with loss to a few letters, fore-margins closely trimmed, occasionally touching printed side-notes, but a good copy overall, 18th century calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip, [Pforzheimer 992; STC 23341], small 4to, by John Wolfe, printer to the honorable citie of London: and are to be sold at his shop within the Popes head Alley in Lombard street, 1598. ⁂ The first edition of Stow's landmark chorographic survey of London, "worthy to rank with the topographical works of Lambard and Carew as one of the foundations of English county history." - Pforzheimer. This Pforzheimer's first issue with the title dated 1598, and without the errata to 2H1 verso.