A suruay of London
Subtitle: Contayning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that citie, written in the yeare 1598
By: by Iohn Stow citizen of London. Also an apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Imprinted by [John Windet for] Iohn Wolfe, printer to the honorable citie of London: and are to be sold at his shop within the Popes head Alley in Lombard street
Published: 1598
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: History; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Survey of London; Survay of London.; Descriptio nobilissimæ civitatis Londiniæ. Selections. English.
Notes: The work by Fitzstephen is an excerpt of: Descriptio nobilissimæ civitatis Londiniæ.

Actual printer's name from STC.

Outer sheet of quire 2H in two settings: (1) without errata on 2H10v, and 2H1r line 2 ending "whome"; or (2) with errata on 2H10v, and 2H1r line 2 ending "whom".

A variant of the edition dated 1599.

STC (2nd ed.) 23341.

Engraved portrait of Stow prefixed.

Presentation copy of the 1st edition. With the arms of the city of London in gilt on the covers and "Ex dono Iohannis Stow" inscribed in gilt on front cover.

In case, 23 cm.