The Map

Full Title:	A Plan Of The City's Of London, Westminster And Borough Of Southwark; With The New Additional Buildings. Anno, 1720.
Map-Maker:	S. Parker delin et sculpt. Revised by John Senex
Publisher:	Cassell & Company Limited, La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.
Date:	c1880
Size:	53cm x 71cm (21" x 28")
Scale:	5½" : 1 statute mile / Scale bar c. 2½" : 1 statute mile
Extent:	New River Head - Whitechapel - Lambeth - Buckingham House
Description:	Title across top of map. References across bottom of map. Dedication title in cartouche with City arms and insignia, pennons, cornucopiae, etc., at top left. Compass rose and scale at bottom centre. Dedicated to Sir Peter Delme, Knight and Alderman.

This facsimilie of Senex's 1720 London plan was published c1880 by Cassell, Petter & Calpin with Part 68 of Old & New London, E.Weller litho. Catalogued in Howgego as No. 65 (i).

The original plan was published in A New General Atlas Containing A Geographical And Historical Account Of The World. Printed for Daniel Brown without Temple-Bar, Thomas Taylor, over against Serjeants-Inn in Fleet-Street, John Darby in Bartholomew Close, John Senex in Salisbury-Court, William Taylor in Pater-noster-Row, Joseph Smith in Exeter-Change, Andrew Johnston Engraver in Round-Court, William Bray next the Fountain Tavern in the Strand, Edward Symond in Cornhill. MDCCXXI.

The main images of the Senex plan are equally divided, using the fold lines of the plan as an approximate guide. The reference sections at the bottom of the map have been divided unevenly for ease of viewing.

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