The Survey of London

Name: The Survey of London
Author: John Stow

by John Stow

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2013-06-16

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

London (England) -- Description and travel London (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Sources London (England) -- Surveys

About the author

John Stow

d. 1605

Best known for turning London itself into a subject of history, this 16th-century chronicler left one of the city's most vivid early portraits. His work still matters because it preserves streets, customs, and stories that might otherwise have disappeared.

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