London and Middlesex, or, An historical, commercial, & descriptive survey of the metropolis of Great-Britain : including sketches of its environs, and a topographical account of the most remarkable places in the above county : illustrated with engravings : in two volumes
London and Middlesex is a two-volume topographical survey of the metropolis and its surrounding county, compiled by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer and others and published in London in 1810 for a group of booksellers. The engraved plates here are rotated on the page and show country houses and estates in the environs. For a designer, they offer a record of early nineteenth-century English architecture set in landscape, with trees, carriage roads and figures on paths giving a sense of scale and period dress.
