The picture of London, enlarged and improved: being a correct guide for the stranger, and useful compendium for the inhabitant, relative to every object of general curiosity, and embracing every particular connected either with business or amusement, in the metropolis of the British Empire. Together with a description of the environs, within twenty-five miles.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
18/501
Edition
The twenty-second edition.
Imprint
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Browne, Paternoster-Row, [1821?]
Physical Description
frontis., vi, 474 p.: maps (fold.); 145 mm.
General Note
This work has two folded maps, the first of which serves as the frontispiece and covers the City and Westminster and parts south of the river, and the other (between pages 352 and 353) shows the environs.
Provenance
The front pastedown has the signature 'Robert Hayward Dalston' in black ink. The book was presented by Alfred Hayward in 1953.
Binding Note
The book is bound in brown leather with the spine title in gilt, 'Picture of London'.