London
Wimbledon, Balham and Tooting.
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: 17” x 24.1/2”, plus borders. Scale: 4” to the mile, divided into half mile squares.
Generally good condition with only minor staining; central fold, as issued.
Shows in good clear detail the areas of Richmond, Roehampton, Putney, Wandsworth, Clapham, Tooting and Streatham.
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.
£POA unmounted, unframed.