Listed below are the London Atlases; the other categories are displayed on seperate pages - select from the list below:
In the Shelving column, "Roll" means item is in the Rolling stacks in the Gibson Room of the Town Library, with row number, stack column letter and shelf number. "Tall" means item is on the Tall shelves in the Gibson Room. You will need to ask a member of staff to bring items from the Gibson Room. |
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date | Notes | Reference | Shelving |
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Ralph Agas | Civitas Londinum | Ralph Agas | [1597] (1874) | Civitas Londinum (an oblique view) | C349 | Roll 7D7 |
Anon | The Pedestrian's Companion, Fifteen Miles round London | E Grattan | 1810? | Extra map bound in. No railways, uses Greenwich for Meridian, has 3 penny post boundary. Estimate early 1800s. | C1241 | Tall B6 |
Anon | Plan of London from Actual Survey 1832 | United Kingdom Newspaper | 1832 | Presented to readers of UK Newspaper. Many vignettes around edge | C1241 | Tall B6 |
AP Marks | The Map of mid-sixteenth century London | London Topographical Society | 1964 | Reproduction of plates from the Agas (c1563), the "Copperplate" (c1557) and Braun & Hogenberg (c1559) maps of London, and a discussion of ttheir relationships | 912.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Darlington & Howgego | Printed Maps of London, 1553-1850 | George Philip & Son | 1964 | Cartobibliography of London maps; extensive listing and many printed examples | C479 | Roll 8A3 |
Adrian Prockter & Robert Taylor | The A to Z of Elizabethan London | London Topographical Society | 1979 | Reproduction and description of three maps of London: Agas (c1563), the "Copperplate" (c1557) and Braun & Hogenberg (c1559) | 911.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Ralph Hyde | The A to Z of Georgian London | London Topographical Society | 1982 | 24 sheets of Rocque's 1747 detailed map of London | 912.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Paul Laxton | The A to Z of Regency London | London Topographical Society | 1985 | Richard Horwood's map of 1799, reproduced on 40 sheets | 912.421 | Roll 29C4 |
- | The Village London Atlas | Alderman Press | 1986 | 192 maps across Victorian London, using OS maps published 1805 to 1904 (2 copies) | 912.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Ralph Hyde | The A to Z of Victorian London | London Topographical Society | 1987 | GW Bacon's New Large-Scale Ordnance Atlas of London & Suburbs, 1888, on 59 maps, at 9 inches to a mile and 4 inches to a mile | 912.42109 | Roll 29C4 |
Felix Barker & Peter Jackson | The History of London in Maps | Barrie & Jenkins | 1990 | 78 maps of parts of London, from 1572 to 1989 | 911.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Ralph Hyde | The A to Z of Restoration London | London Topographical Society | 1992 | Ogilby & Morgan's Map of London of 1676 | 911.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Ralph Hyde | Ward Maps of the City of London | London Topographical Society | 1999 | Maps of 25 wards | 912.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Ann Saunders | The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps, 1939-1945 | London Topographical Society | 2005 | 100 maps covering London, coloured for scale of bomb damage | 912.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Ann Saunders | The A to Z of Edwardian London | London Topographical Society | 2007 | GW Bacon's New Large-Scale Ordnance Atlas of London & Suburbs, 1912, with 7 county maps, 13 thematic maps of London, and 34 4 inch maps of London | 912.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Peter Barber | London: A History in Maps | London Topographical Society & BL | 2012 | Many maps of London, from c1250 onwards | 911.421 | Roll 29C4 |
Peter Barber & Ralph Hyde | The A to Z of Charles II's London of 1682 | London Topographical Society | 2013 | William Morgan's 1682 map of London, on 56 reproduced pages | 911.421 | Roll 29C4 |