Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.

Engraved bookplate on front paste-down of Franz James Mankiewicz, illustrating a view of Charing Cross towards Northumberland Avenue in London and incorporating images of several books on London, signed "Inv. W.P.B. 1907" (Mankiewicz is the English rice broker who lived from 1858-1917; the artist is William Phillips Barrett); engraved armorial bookplate of Harold A. Wernher on recto of front free end-paper, signed "W.P.B. 1917" (Wernher is the British military officer and brother-in-law of Franz James Mankiewicz; the artist is again William Phillips Barrett).

MSU: Lacking engraved frontispiece; replaced with a very similar folded engraved view ("The cities of London & Westminster, accurately copied from the table of the camera obscura in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich"), signed "Tomlinson sc." (likely John Tomlinson) and bearing at foot, "Published March 1, 1809, by Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, no. 20, Paternoster Row".

MSU: Lacking a final blank leaf?

MSU: Folded map of London laid down on linen.

MSU: Engraved plates of "itinerant traders" are hand-colored.

In twentieth-century half morocco with red cloth over paste-boards; boards and spine tooled in gilt; boards and spine stamped in blind; spine stamped in gilt; gilt lettered to spine; yellow edges; grey/blue end-papers.