Ashbee (C. R., editor)

The Survey of London, 50 vol., including the first vol. in both the ‘Monograph’ and ‘Main’ series’ (‘Trinity Hospital, Mile End’ and ‘Bromley-by-Bow’), numerous maps and illustrations, some duplicates, original paper wrappers or cloth with dust jackets, mixed condition with some tattered, 1896-1970s; with 20 others similar on London or county history, including 12 volumes of Royal Commision on Historical Monuments inventories, 1911-37 (70)

*** The series, which is ongoing, is motivated by a desire to record and preserve London's ancient monuments. It borrows its title from John Stow's A Survay of London (1598).