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Title

The history of London, from its foundation by the Romans, to the present time. :Containing a faithful relation of the publick transactions of the citizens; accounts of the several parishes; parallels between London and other great cities; its governments, civil, ecclesiastical and military; commerce, state of learning, charitable foundations, &c. With the several accounts of Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, and other parts within the Bill of Mortality. In nine books. The whole illustrated with a variety of fine cuts. With a compleat index.

Authors

• Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.

Call number

*U Eng Maitland 12049.F
(Philadelphia, The Library Company of Philadelphia)

Publisher

The Library Company of Philadelphia

Language

Primary language: English.

Origin

Date

1739

Place

London [England]: : Printed by Samuel Richardson, in Salisbury-Court near Fleetstreet., MDCCXXXIX. [1739]

Summary

It is a stately folio volume covering the history of London "from its foundation by the Romans, to the present time" illustrated with twentyfive splendid plates. To this volume Collinson added manuscript notes and engravings from other sources over a period of time ranging (judging from those notes that are dated) from the mid-1750s almost up to his death in 1768. The most extensive annotations are on blank leaves inserted at the front of the book. At the head of one of these leaves he wrote: "Peter Collinson, F.R.S., S.A.S., [etc.] observes more remarkable publick edifices, buildings & inlargements has happened in his memory from the year 1702 (I was then eight years old) to the year 1759 then in any era of that number of years before." At the head of another leaf he wrote, "Stow the indefatigable antiquary [whose 1598 Survey of London is the precursor to Maitland's History] remarks how much the ground has been raised in Leaden Hall Street. I have taken notice of the same in laying the foundation of St. Katharine Coleman [when it was rebuilt in 1741] in Fenchurch Street was 17 feet before they came to the virgin soil." These were the two most common themes of his notes: the inconceivable antiquity of London and its transformation in his lifetime. Other notes are more personal, such as his account of the horrifying experiences of his grandmother Hall during the great plague of 1665 and the great fire of 1666. This is supplemented by his insertion of a large Engraved frontispiece from John Fothergill, Some Account of the Late Peter Collinson (London, 1770). Gift of John Dickinson Logan, 1871. 4 15 folding plate from the mid-18th century showing a plan of London in Queen Elizabeth's day contrasted with a view of the ruins of the city after the fire of 1666. He took a great interest as well in London's smaller fires, inserting detailed printed maps of the destruction caused by fires in his neighborhood in 1748 and 1765. In 1765 fire struck close to Collinson's house in Gracechurch Street, and he was able to make several corrections to this engraved plan of the damaged properties. Still other notes are updates, corrections, or supplements to Maitland's text, based on personal knowledge or other published sources. An example is the long note next to the illustration of the ancient Bishops Gate, another landmark in his neighborhood, giving much additional detail, and concluding with a final "pulled down anno 1760." Collinson A Plan of all the Houses destroyed and damaged by the Great Fire which began in Bishopsgate Street on Thursday Novr. 7. 1765 (London, 1765), inserted in William Maitland, History of London (London, 1739), Peter Collinson's copy, purchase. One of the many views set into Maitland's text shows one of the old gates in the London wall, which Collinson noted as "pulled down anno. 1760." 6 17 clearly did not think Maitland had the last word on the city's history. He also added a number of engravings from other books, including a nicely colored copy of a foldout "General View of the City of London" (London: John Bowles, 1764?) and another view of London that he noted as "Taken from James Howel's History of London 1697." These inserted views call attention to the fact that most of the illustrations originally included in the book are views of single buildings, and there is no overall view of the city in its then-current state. The Preface admits the book's most glaring defect, the lack of an up-to-date map. Collinson corrected that by inserting a 1762 "New and Accurate Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, including the New Roads & New Buildings." ~ from The Annual Report of the Library Company of Philadelphia for the year 2012 (The Library Company of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, 2013) http://www.librarycompany.org/about/annualreports/AR2012_web.pdf

Extent

Bound to: 43 cm (folio)

Subjects names

• Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768

Subjects topical

• London (England)

Subjects geographic

• London (England)

Genres

• Intaglio prints

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• cover — Annotations
• cover — Annotations
• cover — Annotations
• cover — Annotations
• cover — Annotations
• cover — Annotations
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• (3)v — Verso of plate, annotations
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• front — Newspaper advertisements
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• subscribers — Annotations
• p. 4 — Annotations
• p. 5 — Annotations
• p. 15 — Annotations
• p. 16 — Annotations
• p. 17 — Annotations
• p. 18 — Annotations
• p. 21 — Annotations
• p. 23a — Annotations
• p. 23b — Annotations
• p. 23c — Annotations
• p. 29 — Annotations
• p. 36 — Annotations
• p. 29-1 — Annotations
• p. 33-1-a — Newspaper clipping insert, annotations
• p. 33-1-b — Folded newspaper article and illustration
• p. 33-1-c — Unfolded newspaper article and illustration
• p. 33-1-f — Newspaper clipping insert 1907, annotations
• p. 83 — Annotations
• p. 84 — Annotations
• p. 91 — Annotations
• p. 92 — Annotations
• p. 142 — Annotations
• p. 164 — Annotations
• p. 168 — Annotations
• p. 172 — Annotations
• p. 174 — Annotations
• p. 178 — Annotations
• p. 182 — Annotations
• p. 183 — Annotations
• p. 185 — Annotations
• p. 189-a — Annotations
• p. 189-b — Annotations
• p. 189-c — Annotations
• p. 206 — Annotations
• p. 220 — Annotations
• p. 262b — Insert of handwritten text, annotations
• p. 262c — Verso of insert, annotations
• p. 288 — Annotations
• p. 293a — Verso of plate, newspaper clipping pasted in, annotations
• p. 296 — Annotations
• p. 304 — Annotations
• p. 306 — Annotations
• p. 307 — Annotations
• p. 308 — Annotations
• p. 309 — Annotations
• p. 329 — Annotations
• p. 332 — Annotations
• p. 333 — Annotations
• p. 363 — Annotations
• p. 365 — Annotations
• p. 369 — Annotations
• p. 382a — Annotations
• p. 382b — Verso of printed insert, annotations
• p. 382c — Insert, list of inhabitants, annotations
• p. 383 — Annotations
• p. 392 — Annotations
• p. 393 — Annotations
• p. 395c — Annotations
• p. 401 — Annotations
• p. 402 — Annotations
• p. 404 — Annotations
• p. 407 — Annotations
• p. 424 — Annotations
• p. 427 — Annotations
• p. 428 — Annotations
• p. 435 — Annotations
• p. 437 — Annotations
• p. 439a — Newspaper clipping insert, annotations
• p. 439b — Verso of newspaper insert, annotations
• p. 444b — Verso of insert, annotations
• p. 452a — Annotations
• p. 455 — Annotations
• p. 460a — Annotations
• p. 460c — Verso of plate, newspaper clipping pasted in, annotations
• p. 461 — Annotations
• p. 465 — Annotations
• p. 467 — Annotations
• p. 468 — Annotations
• p. 479a — Loose handwritten scrap of paper, annotations
• p. 479b — Verso of loose handwritten scrap of paper, annotations
• p. 479c — Annotations
• p. 481 — Annotations
• p. 482b — Verso of plate, annotations
• p. 503 — Annotations
• p. 504 — Annotations
• p. 506 — Annotations
• p. 507 — Annotations
• p. 533 — Book III
• p. 558 — Book IV
• p. 572 — Annotations
• p. 597 — Book V
• p. 600 — Annotations
• p. 607 — Annotations
• p. 608 — Annotations
• p. 616 — Annotations
• p. 620 — Annotations
• p. 621 — Annotations
• p. 622a — Annotations
• p. 622b — Annotations
• p. 622c — Annotations
• p. 635 — Book VI
• p. 638 — Annotations
• p. 639 — Annotations
• p. 642 — Annotations
• p. 647 — Annotations
• p. 655 — Annotations
• p. 662c — backside of plate
• p. 666b — Verso of plate
• p. 674b — Verso of plate
• p. 675 — Annotations
• p. 676c — Verso of plate
• p. 677a — Inserts, annotations
• p. 677b — Verso of inserts
• p. 677c — Newspaper clipping, annotations
• p. 677d — Verso of newspaper clipping
• p. 678c — Verso of plate
• p. 683a — Letter insert, annotations
• p. 683c — Letter insert, annotations
• p. 683d — Verso of letter Insert, annotations
• p. 683e — Handwritten insert
• p. 684 — annotations
• p. 685a — Handwritten insert
• p. 685c — Handwritten Insert, annotations
• p. 685e — newspaper clipping, annotations
• p. 686b — Handwritten insert, annotations
• p. 686c — Verso of handwritten Insert, annotations
• p. 686d — Handwritten Insert, annotations
• p. 686e — Verso handwritten Insert, annotations
• p. 686f — Verso of plate, annotations
• p. 686g — Page 1 of "A Perspective View of the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster"
• p. 686h — Page 2 of "A Perspective View of the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster"
• p. 717 — Annotations
• p. 720 — Annotations
• p. 721 — Annotations
• p. 730a — Annotations
• p. 731 — Annotations
• p. 737 — Annotations
• p. 738a — Annotations
• p. 739 — Annotations
• p. 741 — Annotations
• p. 743a — Inserts: Noblemen's Homes, Persons of Note, Charity Schools
• p. 744 — Book VIII
• p. 746 — Annotations
• p. 749 — Annotations
• p. 754 — Annotations
• p. 760 — Annotations
• p. 764 — Annotations
• p. 765 — Annotations
• p. 766 — Annotations
• p. 771 — Annotations
• p. 776 — Annotations
• p. 779 — Annotations
• p. 781 — Annotations
• p. 783 — Annotations
• p. 784 — Book IX, annotations
• p. 785a — Handwritten Insert, annotations
• p. 785b — Annotations
• p. 785c — Annotations
• p. 786 — Annotations
• p. 787 — Annotations
• p. 788 — Annotations
• p. 790 — Annotations
• p. 792 — Annotations
• p. 793 — Annotations
• p. 794 — Annotations
• p. 796 — Annotations
• p. 798 — Annotations
• p. 800 — Annotations
• back cover — Back Cover
• back cover — Back Cover
• spine — Spine

Decorations

• (1) — Illustration of London, annotations
• (2) — Illustration of bridge plan, annotations
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• (3) — Folded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• (4) — Map and list, annotations
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• (5) — Map of London, annotations
• (6) — Unfolded illustration of London, annotations
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• front — Unfolded illustration and map, annotations
• front — Map and backside of list, annotations
• front — Illustration of London, 1560
• p. 33-1-e — Illustration of London Bridge, annotations
• p. 238b — Map of city and suburbs of London
• p. 293b — Map of London, annotations
• p. 395a — Illustration of church, newspaper clipping pasted in, annotations
• p. 433b — Illustration of guild hall
• p. 440b — Illustration of The Monument
• p. 444c — Insert, plan of houses, annotations
• p. 444d — Insert, illustration of ruins of St. Peter's Church, annotations
• p. 452b — Illustration of Bow Church, annotations
• p. 460b — Illustration of The Lord Mayor's House, annotations
• p. 466b — Illustration of The Royal Exchange
• p. 482c — Top half of The West Prospect of St. Paul's Cathedral
• p. 482d — Bottom half of The West Prospect of St. Paul's Cathedral
• p. 493b — Illustration of The Tower of London, annotations
• p. 660b — Illustration of Bethlehem Hospital, annotations
• p. 660e — Illustration of Bridenrell
• p. 660g — Illustration of The Charter-House Hospital
• p. 662b — Illustration of Christ's Hospital
• p. 666c — Illustration of Guy's Hospital
• p. 674c — Illustration of "A perspective View of St Bartholomen's Hospital"
• p. 676b — Illustration of St George's Hospital
• p. 678b — Illustration of St Thomas's Hospital
• p. 730c — Page 1 of Illustration of Church of St Martin
• p. 730d — Page 2 of Illustration of Church of St Martin
• p. 738b — Illustration of St James's Palace and Parts Adjacent, annotations