Plan of St James’s Parish at the end of the 17th century

A fine example of the first printed map to focus on St James's Parish, engraved by Richard Blome c.1695 but not published until 1720, with his name removed from the title. The map covers from St James's Palace lower left, St James's Street and Square; Haymarket, Piccadilly, Stratton Street, Bond Street. Golden Square, Wardour Street, Swallow Street (redeveloped as Regent Street) and 'Tiborn Road' (Oxford Street). In 1695 William III granted Blome a privilege to publish 'A Survey or description of the citties of London and Westminstr'. Although an example of this map exists in the British Library with Blome's name, it was not published until John's Strype's 'A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster', a continuation of 'Stow's Survey'. This example comes from the first edition, with no apparent attempt to update Blome's mapping.