Kingsford, Charles Letherbridge The Early History of Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Soho & Their Neighbourhood. Based on a Plan Drawn in 1585.by the London Topographpical Society in 1925 , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925.

Illustrated by 14 Plates, Folding Plan. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo Dust jacket complete in a clear protective sleeve, slight wear & chipped to edges. Cloth spine over boards, bright black titling almost fine condition. No ownership inscription. Folding plan frontis. 14 plates. x, (2), 78pp clean and tight. Scholarly topographical study of this area of Central London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book is based on a plan, drawn in 1585, which is with one possible exception the earliest known plan of any part of London. The first part of the book deals with the history of the land before the erection of houses and with the circumstances under which the plan was made. The second and longer part is concerned with the building of the streets, that is with tracing the process by which within a little over 100 years after the plan was drawn the whole area came to be covered with streets and houses. (Book ref. 124618)  £45.00

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