Fairburn (John)

London, John Fairburn, 1803.
detailed plan of London, first issued in 1795, extending from Pentonville to Walworth, and from Hyde Park to Bow Creek at the mouth of the River Lea, as, significantly, this example has the extension to include the whole of the Isle of Dogs, the new West India Docks, and the proposed Commercial Road to link with Aldgate High Street and the City. There is now a small key panel, lower centre, to the London Wet Docks, in place of the earlier inset proposed plan of the same, which had previously featured since the 1796 edition. The remaining inset plan, ‘An Enlarged Plan of the Rules of the Fleet Prison’, is in the upper left corner, which first appeared in the 1797 edition. The title in the upper right, before the extension, overlays a large vignette scene depicting the reclining figure of Father Thames, and the lower margin contains ‘An Alphabetical List of 300 Principal Streets with Letters of Reference to their Situation’,.
445 by 805mm (17½ by 31¾ inches).