STOW (John) & STRYPE (John). A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster... Now Lastly Corrected, Improved and very much enlarged by John Strype.1720

London: Printed for A. Churchill, Fifth edition, 2 vols., folio (396 x 240 mm), [4], xlii, [2], 308, 208, 285, [1]; [2], 120, 459, [1], 93, [3], 143, [1], 26, [26, index]pp., title pages printed in red and black, 70 engraved plates, maps and plans (35 of which folding), woodcut illustrations including numerous armorials, text and plates crisp and bright, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked. Stow's most famous work, first published in 1598, and here greatly enlarged and improved by John Strype. "If John Stow's Survey of London is probably the most famous single work ever written about England's capital, then the enlarged and updated edition of the same book published some 120 years later [1720] by the famous ecclesiastical historian John Strype surely stands as one of the most remarkable works of scholarship ever produced about the city, and is regarded even today as a standard and invaluable work of reference for historians of the capital."—Merritt. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Rt. Hon. Charles Bathurst, Lydney Park. Adams, London Illustrated, 25; Merritt, Strype's Survey of London.