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This is a stunning map of London from 1572, created by Georg Braun, one of the most celebrated cartographers of the Renaissance. This hand-coloured city plan captures London during the...

This 1830 vintage map of London is a beautiful representation of the city’s urban design during the Victorian era. It intricately captures the streets, squares, neighborhoods, and landmarks that defined...

This is a rare and exceptional map of London from 1690, created by the Dutch cartographer Joannes de Ram. By this date, London had risen from the ashes of the...

Witness London on the cusp of the 19th century with this 1806 Map, capturing a metropolis abuzz with commercial bustle and aristocratic taste. The Thames winds between key quarters, from...

Traverse the storied streets of the early Victorian era with this 1830 London City Map, an exquisite reflection of a metropolis on the cusp of transformative growth. Cobblestone lanes, grand...

By 1822, London was expanding faster than any city in Europe, swallowing villages and market gardens on every side of the old City and Westminster. It was this restless growth...

Leslie George Bullock made his name in the early twentieth century as a designer of decorative historical maps, working for the Edinburgh firm of John Bartholomew & Son as well...

Step into a cosmopolitan capital at the height of the Victorian age with this 1894 London Map, charting bustling thoroughfares, blossoming suburbs, and monumental edifices that towered over the Thames....

Step into the rich theatrical history of London with this stunning vintage Theatre District map! This beautifully restored print captures the heart of London’s performing arts scene, featuring legendary playhouses,...

George Woolworth Colton ran one of the most successful American map-publishing houses of the nineteenth century, and his firm's general atlases were a staple of libraries, schools, and businesses across...

By the 1740s the fields north of Soho were fast disappearing under new streets and squares, and sheet B1 of Rocque's survey is where that transformation shows most clearly. Positioned...

This is the 1928 edition of Macdonald 'Max' Gill's famous Wonderground Map of London, originally created in 1914 and commissioned by Frank Pick of the Underground Electric Railways Company. At...

This 1830 vintage map of London is a beautiful representation of the city’s urban design during the Victorian era. It intricately captures the streets, squares, neighborhoods, and landmarks that defined...

Charles Booth is best remembered today for the poverty maps that colour-coded London street by street between 1889 and 1903, but his enormous survey of the capital, published as Life...

Experience the golden age of British public transport with this 1930s London Underground Poster, a graphic marvel that captures the network’s expanding rail lines. Bold colors delineate each route, weaving...

John Rocque's great survey of London ran to twenty-four separate sheets, together forming one of the largest and most detailed city plans produced anywhere in the eighteenth century, and Sheet...

This sheet forms part of the celebrated twenty-four sheet survey of London produced by surveyor John Rocque and engraved by John Pine, published in 1746 and long regarded as the...

This magnificent folding wall map of London was published by George Washington Bacon in 1890, at the height of Victorian England's power. Designed for visitors and explorers of the capital,...

Sheet E2 of Rocque's great survey sits directly over the ancient crossing point of the Thames, where London Bridge had carried traffic between the City and Southwark for six centuries...

North of the old City wall, where Moor Fields once lay open and marshy before draining and building over the site, sheet E1 of John Rocque's 1746 survey of London...

This print reproduces William Faden's 1790 map of London and its environs, a striking large-format survey that extended some twenty-five miles out from the capital in every direction. At its...

Between 1741 and 1745, the surveyor John Rocque and the engraver John Pine carried out one of the most ambitious mapping projects of the eighteenth century: a plan of London,...

Few sheets in Rocque's twenty-four-part survey capture a single trade as clearly as sheet F1, drawn across the Huguenot weaving district that grew up around Spitalfields in the decades before...

This sheet is part of what is widely regarded as the greatest large-scale map of London ever produced: the twenty-four sheet survey put together by surveyor and cartographer John Rocque...

Sheet D2 of John Rocque's 1746 survey of London sits along the working edge of the City, where the built-up streets north of the Thames give way to wharves, stairs...

When John Tallis issued his plan of London in 1851, he timed it to the exact moment the world was watching the city: the Great Exhibition had just opened its...

Step into the late Victorian era with this 1880 London Map, framing a metropolis of grand boulevards, emerging railways, and global influence at the height of the British Empire. The...

Unlike the grand decorative atlases of the Victorian era, this map of east-central London from around 1900 belongs to a much more workaday tradition: the commercially produced street plan, the...

This plan of the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields was published in 1720, when John Strype issued his greatly expanded edition of John Stow's Survey of the Cities of London and...

This decorative map shows the Underground railways of London as they ran in 1928, with each line drawn in its own colour across a hand-lettered plan of the capital. A...

This sheet forms part of the celebrated twenty-four sheet survey of London produced by surveyor John Rocque and engraved by John Pine, published in 1746 and long regarded as the...

Where the Thames narrows past the Tower of London, John Rocque's 1746 survey turns to record one of the busiest working stretches of river in England. This sheet, F2 in...

"Greater London" meant something different in 1922 than it does today, referring not to a unit of local government but to the wider statistical area that the Registrar General had...

This is sheet A2 of the celebrated twenty-four sheet survey of London produced by surveyor and cartographer John Rocque, engraved by John Pine and published in 1746. It was the...

This print reproduces Christopher Saxton's landmark map of England and Wales, first published in 1579 and widely regarded as the earliest printed survey to lay out the two countries together...

Bacon & Co., a London map publisher known for large-scale suburban mapping at the turn of the twentieth century, issued this sheet in 1900 as part of their New Large...

Charles Price, a London bookseller and publisher who belonged to both the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin, produced this chart of the English Channel in...

This striking map, drawn by Leslie Macdonald 'Max' Gill in 1915, was commissioned by Frank Pick of the London Underground Electric Railway Company specifically to lure a wartime public back...

This sheet belongs to the same series of large-scale London district maps that Edward Stanford's Charing Cross firm was producing throughout the 1860s, each one covering a different slice of...

This detailed map of west London was published in 1862 by Edward Stanford, whose library map of the capital was hailed by the Royal Geographical Society as "the most perfect...

Hailed by the Royal Geographical Society as "the most perfect map of London that has ever been issued" when it was first published in 1862, Edward Stanford's library map of...

This map reproduces Sheet 9 of G.W. Bacon & Co.'s New Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs, first issued in 1900. Bacon's firm, based in the Strand, built its...

The mid-1960s were an odd moment to map Great Britain and Ireland, caught between an older county geography and the motorway age that was only just beginning. By 1967 the...

John Tallis published this railway map of Great Britain in 1850, engraved by John Rapkin under the full title Tallis's Railway Map of Great Britain Showing the Railways Completed, and...

This charming reproduction reproduces a richly illustrated pictorial map of the British Isles first published in 1939 by the American artist Ernest Dudley Chase. Chase trained as a graphic artist...

Edward Stanford was the leading London map publisher of the Victorian era, running the celebrated map shop that still trades today from Covent Garden and producing detailed district-by-district surveys of...

Edward Stanford built his reputation as the pre-eminent map publisher of Victorian London, and this sheet comes from his ambitious Library Map of London, issued in 1862 across twenty-four sheets...

Samuel Lewis published this hand-coloured map of England and Wales, divided into counties, in 1844 as part of the atlas that accompanied his Topographical Dictionary of England, a reference work...

Published in Letts's popular Victorian atlas and dated 1884, this map is as much a statistical chart as it is a work of cartography, tracing the rapidly expanding railway network...

By 1862 the district covered by this Stanford sheet had become one of the most visited corners of London, thanks entirely to a single building: the Crystal Palace, dismantled after...