Author: Hughson, David [Pseudonym Edward Pugh].
Title: LONDON: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and its Neighbourhood, to Thirty Miles Extent, From an actual Perambulation.
Description: London: Printed and Published by Joseph Robins 57 Tooley Street ..., N.d. c.[1820]. 6 vols. 140 engraved plates, 5 folding maps and plans (with some repairs), numerous text ills. Some browning and foxing, ex.-libris Fiona Williams, marbled e.ps., contemporary gilt fillet edged diced calf boards, minor marking and wear, several corners with minor loss, joints rubbed with crack along tail of upper joint of vol. 5., upper boards detached to volumes 3, 4 and 5, rebacked with original gilt tooled spines laid down, gilt lettered title labels to spine, central stain to spine of vol. 1. ¶ David Hughson (c. 1760s – 1820s), the pen name of Edward Pugh, was a writer on the topography and history of London. Best known for the above work which he prepared from an actual perambulation (a real walk) of the city. The work was first published between 1805 and 1809 by James Stratford of Holborn in 149 parts of about 24 pages each for binding into six volumes. After Stratford, it was also published by Joseph Robins of Tooley Street and parts by J. Robins of Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. The engravings are mostly by Ambrose Warren from works by Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie and Edward Gyfford. Other engravers who contributed were William Woolnoth, John Roffe and J. S. Storer

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; ENGLAND


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