The suruay of London : containing the originall, antiquitie, encrease, and more moderne estate of the sayd famous citie : as also the rule and gouernment thereof (both ecclesiasticall and temporall) from time to time : with a briefe relation of all the memorable monuments and other especiall obseruations both in and about the same citie / written in the yeere 1598 by John Stow ... ; since then continued, corrected and much enlarged with many rare and worthy notes, both of venerable antiquity and later memorie, such as were neuer published before this present yeere 1618.

Author/Creator:

Stow, John, 1525?-1605.

Other Title:

Svrvay of London
Survey of London

Publication:

London : Printed by George Purslowe ..., 1618.

Format/Description:

Book
[12], 20, [4], 21-980, [4] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)

Subjects:

London (England) -- Description and travel.

Place of Publication:

England London.

Notes:

"Editor's dedication signed: A.M., i.e. Anthony Munday."--ESTC.
Signatures: [sec.]⁴ A² B⁸ C⁸(C2+*²) D-3Q⁸ 3R⁴.
"Half-sheet *, bound between pages 20 and 21, was printed as A2.3."--ESTC.
Numerous errors in pagination.
Last line of title reads "this present yeere 1618". Variant: last line of title reads "this present yeere 1617". Cf. ESTC.
Woodcuts: title vignette (printer's device, McK. no. 311), illustration, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Printed marginalia.
Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 1396:7 on UMI microfilm.

Local notes:

Penn Libraries RBC and Furness copies are variant in which last line of of title reads "this present yeere 1618".
Penn Libraries Furness copy imperfect: leaf 3R4 wanting; leaf 2N5 mutilated at bottom outer corner with some loss of text and side-notes; some leaves closely cropped at top and fore-edge margins with occasional damage to running title and side-notes.
Penn Libraries Furness copy has ms. shelf mark in blue pencil on front pastedown; some ms. marginal marks in blue pencil; one ms. leaf of notes in pencil tipped in before leaf M4.
Imperfect: p. 553-4 slightly mutilated ; p. [983] wanting.
Copy 2, Imperfect: 5th & 6th prelim. leaves wanting.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree) (Furness copy)
Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor) (Furness copy)
Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Furness copy)
Bolles, Edwin C. (donor) (RBC copy)

Penn Chronology:

1618

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 23344
ESTC S117891

Contributor:

Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.
Purslowe, George, d. 1632, printer.
STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

57626051

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