A Survey of London by John Stow, C. L. Kingsford - 9781108082433

A Survey of LondonReprinted from the Text of 1603, with Introduction and Notes\nAuthor(s): John Stow, C. L. Kingsford\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108082433, 978-1108082433\nSynopsis\n'Stow's Survey' is a historical work readily identified by this familiar name alone. John Stow (c.[tel] was a Londoner, a member of the Merchant Taylors' Company, but spent most of his life accumulating manuscripts and other historical records. His great work, A Survey of London, was published in 1603, and is reissued here in the two-volume version edited by C. L. Kingsford [tel] and published in 1908. Kingsford, a government education official, was also a writer for the Dictionary of National Biography, to which he contributed over 300 entries. His Chronicles of London (also reissued in this series) was published in 1905. In Volume 1, Kingsford's preface explains his editorial practice; he also provides an i.