Lithograph with original hand-stencilled colour, by G.W. Bacon, 127 Strand, for Bacon’s New Ordnance Survey Atlas of London and Suburbs, circa 1880.

Image size: 24” x 18 1/2” approx., plus borders. Scale: 9.3/8” to the mile, divided into half mile squares.

Generally good condition with little or no staining; central fold, as issued.

Shows in good clear detail Greenwich along with Blackheath to the south.

George Washington Bacon (1830-1922) was a London based book and map publisher throughout the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century when the firm was amalgamated into the Scottish house of W. & A.K. Johnston.

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