Bacon's Large Scale Plan of the City of London

G. W. Bacon & Co, 1946. Pocket map, color lithograph folding into original brown printed card wrapper with Underground map printed on verso, 16 pp. Date written on cover, small label pasted inside cover and some light wear to map edges, otherwise in very good condition. Index booklet to inner cover.

Striking post war, large scale folding map of London, highlighting 'Blitzed City Areas". Area covered includes Farringdon, Southwark, Aldgate and Aldwych in the West end. George Washington Bacon (1830 - 1922) was a London-based book and map publisher. His firm, G.W. Bacon and Co., published several important atlases, including The New Ordnance (truncated) Atlas of the British Isles. This map is a fine example of Bacon's publishing work. (Inventory #: 328551)