PHILLIPS, Richard. Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis, London: for Richard Phillips, 1805, 4°, double-page engraved view, folding map and 52 plates, 31 hand-coloured (a few plates browned, occasional spotting), contemporary calf (worn). [Bernard Adams 89] -- John Thomas SMITH. Antiquities of London and its Environs, London: J. Sewell (and others), 1791, 2°, engraved title and 97 plates (a few spotted), contemporary half morocco (rubbed). [Bernard Adams 70; Upcott 886]. With 3 other topographical books, 2 by Thomas Faulkner. (5)

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PHILLIPS, Richard. Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis, London: for Richard Phillips, 1805, 4°, double-page engraved view, folding map and 52 plates, 31 hand-coloured (a few plates browned, occasional spotting), contemporary calf (worn). [Bernard Adams 89] -- John Thomas SMITH. Antiquities of London and its Environs, London: J. Sewell (and others), 1791, 2°, engraved title and 97 plates (a few spotted), contemporary half morocco (rubbed). [Bernard Adams 70; Upcott 886]. With 3 other topographical books, 2 by Thomas Faulkner. (5)

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The coloured plates of the first named work represent "itinerant traders of London in their ordinary costume."

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