Evelyn’s Plan for Rebuilding London after the Great Fire Date of Publication_c.1745 printed area 19 x 53

printed area 19 x 53

suggesting that the text was regularly revised

blank verso with contemporary [ownership

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

): Poetae Latini Minores […] Curavit Io

Evelyn’s Plan for Rebuilding London after the Great Fire Date of Publication_c.1745 printed area 19 x 53London 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