Lot 147

LONDON, PLANNED AND UNBUILT - Arthur CAWSTON (1857-94). A Comprehensive Scheme for Street Improvements in London, London, 1893, 4to, plates and maps, 4 folding maps in a pocket at the end, modern buckram. With 6 other books of related interest. (7)

Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer price: £190
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

LONDON, PLANNED AND UNBUILT - Arthur CAWSTON (1857-94).  A Comprehensive Scheme for Street Improvements in London. London: Edward Stanford, 1893, 4to (275 x 215mm). Plates and maps, some folding, 4 folding maps in a pocket at the end, illustrations. Modern buckram. With 5 other works of related interest in 6 vols., namely, Thomas Shepherd & James Elmes's Metropolitan Improvements; or, London in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1827, 2 volumes, engraved plates, black morocco-backed cloth boards), T. W. Barber's The Port of London and the Thames Barrage. A Series of Expert Studies and Reports (London, 1907, 4to, plates and maps, original cloth-backed boards), Arthur Keen's Charing Cross Bridge (London, 1930, 4to, original cloth), Harold Clunn's London Rebuilt 1897-1927 ... With Some Suggestions for the Further Improvement of the Metropolis (London, 1927, large 8vo, plates, later half morocco) and The Thames from Putney to Staines. A Survey of the River, with Suggestions for the Preservation of its Amenities ... by Adams, Thompson and Fry, Town Planning Consultants (Ditchling, St. Dominic's Press, 1930, 4to, plates, folding coloured map in a pocket at the end, original cloth-backed boards, stained at upper fore-edge). The lot sold not subject to return. (7)

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