Thornton, William

William Thornton is believed to be a pseudonym for Alexander Hogg, the publisher of Thornton's History of London (1784), of which we carry a stock of the maps and prints. These include a number of decorative Ward maps of the City of London, and handsome plans of London as a whole. This was one of several surveys of London published in the late 18th century which tended to have a number of similar plates in common. Some of the plates in Thornton's History are derived from Harrison's earlier New and Universal History of London, and others from Cooke's Modern Universal British Traveller and Noorthouck's New History of London, while some of the plates were later reissued in Walpoole's New British Traveller.

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Thornton, William

A New & Correct Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster… THORNTON 1784 map

Evelyn's City of London rebuilding plan after the 1666 fire. THORNTON 1784 map

Aldgate Lime Street Queenhithe Vintry Wards. City of London. THORNTON 1784 map

Billingsgate Bridge Within Farringdon W/out Wards. City/London THORNTON 1784 map

Bishopsgate Aldersgate Bread St Cordwainer Wards. City/London. THORNTON 1784 map

Broad Street Cornhill Walbrook Dowgate Wards. City of London. THORNTON 1784 map

Langbourn Candlewick Farringdon Castle Baynard Wards. London. THORNTON 1784 map

Coleman St Basshishaw Portsoken Cripplegate Wards. City/London THORNTON 1784 map

Cheap & Tower Street Wards. City of London. THORNTON 1784 old antique map

A new and correct map of the countries… 20 miles round London. THORNTON 1784

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