Original antique map. Engraved From An Actual Survey Made By John Rocque.
Published by the proprietors of the original survey John Pine, John Tinney and Thomas Bowles, 1755.
Richard Searle was an 18th century engraver and cartographer, engraved maps in the rococo style of Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin for the Universal Magazine. He produced sea and river charts as well as town and harbour plans as well as the Middlesex county map in the Large English Atlas.
He produced some copies of Moll's county maps, and engraved ward plans for Stowe's Survey of London.
His other atlases include:Maps of the Continents c.1744-47.Mr. Tindal's Continuation of Rapkin's History of England c.1745
John Stowe’s Elizabethan classic, A Survey of London, was first published in 1598, with a second edition following in 1603. Stow (c. 1525-1605) was a chronicler and antiquary who transcribed manuscripts and inscriptions relating to English history, literature and archaelogy, but his Survey is perhaps his most famous work, with its evocative ‘perambulation’ of the streets of the Tudor capital, which forms the main framework of the book.
Following his death, the publication was republished several times. This edition was by John Strype in 1755. The latest revision was in 1908 and various forms of the orginal survey are still published today.
