Reynold’s Map of London, with Visitors’ Guide and Street Directory (Reynold’s Distance Map of London with Recent Improvements)

Folding map of London on paper backed onto linen. The plan shows the extents Paddington Cemetery and the Edgeware Road, to New Cross Road/Broadway and the old Foreign Cattle Market on the Thames. Original hand-coloured panels. Map folded between red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles, also with a 64pp lightly illustrated guide to London, indicative cab fares and street directory appearing before the map The map is dated 1887, although it is possible actual publication of guide is a little later (it must be before 1901 as there is a reference in the guide to Queen Victoria living in Buckingham Palace). The boards are rubbed and heavily marked with what appears to be old water stains, the binding is cracked along endpapers, with the endpapers themselves damaged at edges and front free endpaper partially detached, and the Guide and Street Directory is detached with a little toning around page edges, but cleanly inserted – the Guide has a previous owner’s name inscribed at the top of the first page. The linen backing panels t to the map have some rusting but the map itself is neat, bright and clean other than a couple of browning spots along title, where the paper has been exposed. Volume when map folded in is 5.75 inches by 4 inches.