Harrison's History of London

Wren's City churches, the Civil War defences of 1642 and John Evelyn's plan to rebuild London after the Great Fire all appea...

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Wren's City churches, the Civil War defences of 1642 and John Evelyn's plan to rebuild London after the Great Fire all appear in these prints from Harrison's History of London, Walter Harrison's history printed for J. Cooke in London in 1775 and 1776. The church elevations include St Benet Gracechurch, St Magnus the Martyr, St Mary Woolnoth and St Stephen Walbrook, and the bridges at Westminster and Blackfriars cross the Thames. A plan of the plague burials at Holywell Mount in 1665 is among the maps, and other plates show historic costume, St James's Palace, Buckingham House and the parish churches of Southwark, Islington and Hackney.

Wren's City churches, the Civil War defences of 1642 and John Evelyn's plan to rebuild London after the Great Fire all appear in these prints from Harrison's History of London, Walter Harrison's history printed for J. Cooke in London in 1775 and 1776. The church elevations include St Benet Gracechurch, St Magnus the Martyr, St Mary Woolnoth and St Stephen Walbrook, and the bridges at Westminster and Blackfriars cross the Thames. A plan of the plague burials at Holywell Mount in 1665 is among the maps, and other plates show historic costume, St James's Palace, Buckingham House and the parish churches of Southwark, Islington and Hackney.

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