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Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
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A very detailed large panorama of London as it stood in 1543. The original work is attributed to Anthony van den Wyngaerde who uses a similar style. This edition was engraved by N.Whittock and is drawn from the manuscript which was in the Bodleian Library but now resides in the Ashmolean Museum, both in Oxford. The view contains a key below of 128 points of interest. The period illustrated is that of Henry VIII and it extends from Westminster Palace in the west to the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs in the east. Ralph Hyde attributes a date of 1896 to this edition, but it may be earlier. A very pleasing, large-scale and detailed early view, printed on vellum paper. Darlington & Howgego (1964) pp. 6-8, 16.
WYNGAERDE, Anthony van den
London, Westminster and Southwark, as they appeared A.D. 1543. From a Drawing by Anty. van den Wyngrerde Sutherland Collection Bodleian Library, Oxford
Whittock & Hyde, London, c.1896
Folio (530 x 400 mm.), contemporary half calf, marbled boards with gilt calf title label affixed to the upper board. Large folding two sheet panorama 400 x 1440 mm. Minor 10 mm split to lower centrefold, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 7750
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