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GREENWOOD, Christopher (1786-1855) and John (1791-1867). Map of London, from an Actual Survey made in the years 1824, 1825 & 1826 . London: Greenwood, Pringle and Co., 1827. 1270 x 1870mm. Large-scale hand-coloured engraved map of London, engraved by James and Joshua Neele after Greenwood, folding, mounted on linen, extending from Kensington to River Lea, from Kentish Town to Battersea, showing various city and parish boundaries, public buildings, parks, fields, canals, reservoirs etc, engraved dedication to George IV, vignettes of Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral at lower corners, key and scale-bar, the whole within foliate border, glazed green paper covers. Original green straight-grained morocco book-style box, tooled in gilt and blind, the spine in 6 compartments, lettered in the second, the rest with floral tools, gilded paper edges (a few small abrasions). FIRST EDITION of this early 19th-century map of London, highly detailed and 'beautifully engraved' (Howgego). Christopher Greenwood, a mapmaker, surveyor and publisher from Yorkshire, known for a series of large-scale county maps, was joined in partnership in London by his brother John in 1822. Their map of London displays the new levels of accuracy attained by commercial mapmakers in the early years of the 19th century, following the foundation of the Trigonometrical Survey in 1791, and the production of 1-inch Ordnance maps (1805-22). Produced from an 'Actual Survey' lasting three years, the Greenwoods' map shows their understanding of the importance of accurate triangulation. It also exceeds the achievements of the ordnance survey maps, being on a much larger scale, of over seven inches to the mile, and showing parish boundaries, lacking in the former. The map also serves as a record of the rapid growth of London since the end of the 18th century, marking canals, the extension of the West and East India docks (completed 1806) and the recently-opened Vauxhall, Waterloo and Southwark bridges. Darlington and Howgego, 309 (1).