A slip-song in twelve stanzas; first line: Ye whimsical people of fair London town,., The statue in question, torn down in 1737 along with the Stocks Market to make room for the Mansion House, is alleged in this verse to have represented, at various times, Oliver Cromwell (Great Noll), King John Sobieski of Poland, and King Charles II., Printed area measures 33.3 x 7.5 cm., Library Company copy is pasted to the verso of a plate and facing p. 461, in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with his MS. note.
Date
[1737]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.11
"A scale of 880 yards or 1/2 a mile."--scale bar is 7.5 cm long., Library Company copy is folded and tipped in facing p. 521 of Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with Collinson's MS. date: 1762.
Date
[1762?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.12
Letters CXC and CXCI only, removed from the whole work, describing London in a cold and snowy winter., Library Company copy is tipped at p. 683 of Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); followed by a leaf of Collinson's MS. notes.
Creator
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674
Date
1664
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.13
Pages 243-246 only, with running title: Westminster., Library Company copy is tipped at p. 742 of Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with two clippings from unknown sources pasted to p. 246.
Creator
Cox, Thomas, d. 1734
Date
1738
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.14
A hand-colored view of London, numbered in the upper right corner: 1a., John Bowles was at this address from 1740? to 1775; his son Carington Bowles was at this address from 1764 to 1793., Plate mark measures 18.5 x 27.4 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Date
[between 1764 and 1768?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.1
Plate signed: Dowbiggin invt 1756., At head of plate: Drawn and engraved for the London magazine 1756., Lancelot Dowbiggin's design for the Blackfriars Bridge was rejected in favor of a design by Robert Mylne, but the plate was published in the London magazine in April 1756., Printed area measures 16.5 x 32.3 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Creator
Dowbiggin, Lancelot, 1685-1759
Date
[1756]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.2
Signed at foot: Thos. Bowles sculp., John Bowles was at this address from 1740? to 1775, from 1754 to about 1764 as John Bowles & Son., Printed area measures 36.6 x 55.9 cm., Includes also: The south prospect of London as it appear'd when it lay in ruins after that dreadfull fire in 1666., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Date
[between 1740 and 1754?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.3
At top of plate: To face p: 139 Lond: Mag: for March 1748., At foot: A larger plan of this dreadful fire with the names of ye sufferers engraved on the place of their respective habitations may be had of M. Payne at the White Hart in Pater Noster Row., "Yards 18 to an inch.", Printed area measures 17.4 x 23.0 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Date
[1748]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.4
John Norden's map of London, 1593., Printed area measures 17.5 x 24.5 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Creator
Norden, John, 1548-1625?
Date
[between 1640 and 1667?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.5
Caption title., At head of text is an engraved illustration with the title: An exact view of London Bridge since the conflagration., Printed area measures 40.3 x 37.0 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in, at p. 32, to Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); trimmed at foot, removing printseller's name; imprint from ESTC
Date
[1758]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.7
Caption title., The list of names appears in three columns divided by printers' ornaments., Library Company copy is tipped in, at p. 382, to Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); dated in Peter Collinson's hand: December 20, 1757; with his MS. notes.
Date
[1757]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.8
Library Company copy is tipped in, at p. 444, to Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with his MS. notes.
Date
Novr. 16, 1765
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.9
At head of engraving: Gent. Mag. Feb. 1766., This is not the Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill on Grace Church Street just off Leadenhall Street. The ruins here depicted were found under Mr. Hardy's house at the corner of Leadenhall and Bishopsgate Streets after the Bishopsgate fire of Nov. 1765., Plate mark measures 18.5 x 27.4 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in, at p. 445, to Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with his MS. note.
Date
[1766]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.10
