Evelyn’s Plan for Rebuilding London after the Great Fire Date of Publication_c.1745

Evelyn’s Plan for Rebuilding London after the Great Fire Date of Publication_c.1745London Restored or Sir John Evelyns Plan for Rebuilding the Antient Metropolis after the Fire in 1666 Evelyn, Wren and Hooke were among the architects and draughtsmen who submitted masterplans for a wholesale rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, proposing variations on a grid plan, with broad streets, squares and piazzas. In the event, due largely to robust property laws and lack of money, London rose from the ashes along more or less its old

printed area 19 x 53

and went on to produce striking posters for the Empire Marketing Board

but the examples we have located were published in the 1950s and 1960s

A first edition was published in 1870

but in any case our example seems to have been sold some years later

including ‘blood and guts’ Patton

Koeman Lan 11A

): Poetae Latini Minores […] Curavit Io

one of which is jabbing Britain (this time an Englishman in a pillbox hat) in the guts

suggesting that the text was regularly revised

blank verso with contemporary [ownership

"elegantly engraved by the most eminent artists" was published posthumously