Bacon’s New Map of Central London
BACON, G.W.
Divided into Half Mile Squares and Circles. Scale: Four Inches to the Mile.
A RARE SURVIVAL
Published: Bacon, [c.1890]
Stock code: 28097
Price: £160.00
Folding engraved map printed on fine ivory linen, size: 21 x 28 ins (approx. 53.0 x 71.0 cms) folding in 36 panels to 6 x 3 ins (approx. 15.o x 7.5 cms), printed surface very lightly browned (rather more heavily so along central fold), a few locations marked with red ink ; original green cloth slip-case framed in blind and lettered in black 'Flexible Map of London' with deckled thumb-hole, a very good, bright copy.
Covers the area from Islington (north) to Oval (south); Notting Hill (west) to Stepney (east). IN THIS CONDITION A RARE SURVIVAL. Hyde, 'Printed Maps of Victorian London', no. 201.