Wallbrook and Dowgate Wards, London, England 1756

Contains dedication to Slingsby Bethell, Alderman for Walbrook, 1749-58, and Sir Richard Glynn, Alderman for Dowgate, 1750-53; with their coats of arms, lower left and left centre. First published in History of London by W. Maitland, 1756, vol. 2. Date in imprint taken from Ward maps of the city of London by R. Hyde. Includes 2 crests, decorative cartouche and 2 views: of St Stephen Walbrook and St Michael Paternoster Royal, right portion of plate. Prominent buildings shown pictorially. Title oriented landscape; map oriented portrait with north to the upper left. Also available online from the British Library. ( http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/crace/w/007zzz000000008u00041000.html ) Indexed in:Crace, John Gregory, A catalogue of maps, plans and views of London, Westminster and Southwark collected and arranged by Frederick Crace (1878), no. 41, p. 48. Hyde, Ralph. Ward maps of the city of London, no. 107, p. 80. Worms, Laurence, Baynton-Williams, Ashley. British map engravers: a dictionary of engravers, lithographers and their principal employers: to 1850, p. 153. Gift of Michael M. Katzman