PLAN OF THE LATE FIRE IN CORNHILL
by Payne, M
- Used
- Condition
- Light browning but overall very good.
- Seller
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Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
1748.. Light browning but overall very good.. 4-3/4" x 6-3/4"- 12 x 17.1 cm. . London: Gentlemans Magazine, A hand coloured copper engraved map. Jolly GENT-56 A good 18th century map of London showing the streets and buildings between Corn Hill, Lombard Street and Birchin Lane affected by the fire. Accompanied by a single leaf text legend naming tenants burnt out of their dwellings. The fire started in an Exchange Alley at a peruke (wig) makers shop on March 25, 1748 and quickly spread to surrounding buildings and streets. It devastated between 90-100 structures including coffee and ale houses, dwellings, and the house in which the poet Gray was born. Map, London, Road Map, City Map, Fire, London Magazine
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- Bookseller
- Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1186
- Title
- PLAN OF THE LATE FIRE IN CORNHILL
- Author
- Payne, M
- Book Condition
- Used - Light browning but overall very good.
- Date Published
- 1748.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian Map-British Isles;
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Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB
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Port Hope, Ontario
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