Davies’s Map of the Environs of London. Published by Davies, London 1855. On folding linen in 32 sections, size 110 by 80 cm. Scale one inch to the mile. Includes a key to railways finished, railways in progress, distances from London, cemeteries and parks. Uncoloured. Heights indicated by hachuring. Covers an area from Chesham to Chipping Ongar in the north and from Woking to Wrotham in the south. The map captures the growth of London and its railways in the mid-nineteenth century in great detail. Folds into new cloth covered boards with the title gold-stamped to the front. New endpapers. VG condition.