1789 "LONDON and WESTMINSTER in the Reign of QUEEN ELIZABETH Anno Dom.1563". 

Extensive, retrospective, 18th century map of London in Elizabethan times by John Wallis. A reduced version of one of the earliest plans of London ever produced, tentatively attributed to Agas. The style is much the same as Braun & Hogenberg, with buildings shown in profile but, as St Paul's Cathedral is depicted without the spire that had been destroyed by lightning in 1561, this plan must be later. London Bridge has buildings on it and the Globe and the Bull-Baiting Ring can be seen on the south side of the Thames.

John Wallis (d. 1818) was a London game, book, map and print maker and seller, operating from 1775, when his business was called the Map Warehouse. In 1805, he opened the Instructive Toy Warehouse. He published music imprints, maps by John Cary, and children’s material, co-operating with the Newberys and various provincial retailers. With his son Edward, who joined the business in 1813, he also operated Wallis’s, a circulating library and reading room. Together they published under the imprint Wallis and Son or John & Edward Wallis. Edward succeeded his father and published under his own name until about 1847, at which time the Wallis stock was taken over by J. Passmore. John Wallis’ son, John Jr. (b. 1780) was also involved in publishing. After an apprenticeship to his father, he worked for the London Stationers’ Company and briefly operated his own London firm. He then relocated to the coastal resort of Sidmouth, where he established his own circulating library and reading room, the Marine Library, and published aquatints, lithographs and illustrated books, many focusing on the Devon region.

Overall size approximately 104cm x 42cm including margins.

Condition is generally very fine.

There has been some historical repairs to some tears including at the lower centre right and a few areas in the border and has also been backed with archival rice paper for preservation. Later hand colour.