A Survey of London

''Stow''s Survey'' is a historical work readily identified by this familiar name alone. John Stow (c.15241605) was a Londoner a member of the Merchant Taylors'' Company but spent most of his life accumulating manuscripts and other historical records. His great work A Survey of London was published in 1603 and is reissued here in the two-volume version edited by C. L. Kingsford (18621926) and published in 1908. Kingsford a government education official was also a writer for the Dictionary of National Biography to which he contributed over 300 entries. His Chronicles of London (also reissued in this series) was published in 1905. Volume 2 continues the ward-by-ward account and goes on to describe Westminster the city''s churches and hospitals its government mayor and sheriffs and the guilds. Kingsford provides notes a glossary and comprehensive indexes offering an accessible and accurate version of this vital source for the city''s history.