








LONDON - EAST END, 1703 GASCOYNE (JOEL) An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney... Engraven by John Harris, Joel Gascoyne, 1703
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LONDON - EAST END, 1703
Footnotes
RARE MAP OF THE EAST END OF LONDON, ON 8 SEPARATE SHEETS. Drawn up by the surveyor Joel Gascoyne (1650-705), the map extends from Spitalfields to the River Lea, and Bethnal Green to the Isle of Dogs, encompassing the parishes of Limehouse, Poplar, Mile End Old and New Towns, Ratcliff, Wapping, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Bromley and Bow. The irregular size of the sheets, in addition to the East End being at this time an unfashionable working area with much of it yet to be built upon (the Isle of Dogs is all but empty), are perhaps reasons the map is scarce. Each sheet of this set has the platemark and full margins, and appears never to have been stitched or bound.