Leopold’s View of London poetry ESTC T112686

ESTC T112686

Adams O-200

The latter invites himself on the writer's journey

Distinctive features of English county cartography (such as the enclosures) were retained

Leopold’s View of London poetry ESTC T112686This is a view showing London before the Great Fire, from the South Bank of the Thames, including London Bridge and old St Pauls. Principal buildings are numbered, corresponding to a key on banners carried by putti in the upper corners of the image, on either side of a central banderole. It is not a view of London which would have been familiar to contemporary Londoners. Leopold was active in the first two decades of the 18th century, the figures in