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'BISHOP'S-GATE WARD' - antique City of London plan/print, published 1755

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'Bishop's-Gate Ward* within and without according to a New Survey'  -  copper engraved antique print, published 1755

"This Plan is most humbly inscribed to Matthew Blakiston Esq., Alderman of Bishops-Gate Ward 1754"

- *(City of London) with vignette views of churches: St. Ethelburga & Gt. St. Helen's (rare survivors of the Great Fire of 1666).  Compass rose at base, with north orientated to the left.

engraved by Benjamin Cole 1754. for William Maitland's 'History of London'.

printed on cream, slightly age-toned hand-laid paper. condition good, but slightly 'nibbled' lower corners (outside the image).

would look splendid in a simple dark picture frame!

Size of image:  15 x 9 ins.   Size of product:  16 x 10 ins.