Large plan of London.

Stow, John (1525-1605)/ Strype, John (1643–1737): A New and Exact Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark, with the additional Buildings to the Year 1756.

W.Innys and J.Richardson [et al] London 1756

copper engraved map; overall 42 x 73 cm, plate 35 x 73 cm. 2 sheets joined; folds as issued; some foxing, staining and off-set; some discolouration in centrefold ; paper imperfections and thinning; some soft creases; 2 repaired tears in lower margin, into image; cropped to platemarks right and left; o/w vg cond.

First published in 1720, Strype’s re-issue appears as a much larger and expanded, 2 volume publication of Stow’s ‘Survey’ which, originally, was published in 1598. Strype added to Stow’s original account numerous information about customs, institutions, monuments, charities, events like the Great Fire of London, the guilds and wards as well as detailed descriptions of the parish churches, and the city itself, and used a lot of Stow’s original 17th century material that was excluded by Stow himself.

Detailed map of London, engraved by Seale, from Strype’s ‘A Survey of the Cities of Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark. Containing The Original, Antiquity, Increase, present State and Government of those cities. Written in the Year 1698….[corrected to 1598 in Vol II] Corrected, Improved, and very much Enlarged, in the year 1720, By John Strype….’. Covering the area of Hyde Park to Rotherhithe, and New Riverhead to Lambeth; with a compass rose to the top left and scale below the map. Some buildings are shown pictorially.

John Strype was the son of Huguenot immigrants from Brabant who was educated at St. Paul’s School and later at Jesus College,Cambridge. After completing his studies in 1669, he became curate of Theydon Bois and afterwards in Leyton.Though never being inducted, he was licensed by the Bishop of London ‘to preach and expound the word of God, and to perform the office of priest and curate while it was vacant’. In 1711, he obtained the sinecure of West Tarring, Sussex. He died in Hackney where he held a position as lecturer until 1689, at the age of 94. – The Survey is one of his major works.

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