London. Gill (MacDonald), Pictorial Map of Central London, 1932

London. Gill (Leslie MacDonald), Pictorial Map of Central London, Waterlow and Sons Ltd. 1932, large chromolithographic map with lines of verse to the borders, the vertical margins decorated with the arms of London boroughs, laid on linen, toned overall, several marginal closed tears and some fraying and slight loss, some creasing and cracking, old folds, occasional short closed tears, presented on later turned batons, 915 x 1240 mm (Quantity: 1) One of MacDonald Gill’s rarer publications sometimes referred to as the Clash of Arms map because of the laudatory poem surrounding the map: Though clash of arms gives way to peace, and League of Nations calls the halt, and warring Martians bow to Jove, our London constant was as is, constant though all her many trials, of rise and fall within her gates, of mercenaries and merchantmen, or civic functionaries displaced she stands, stands still unmoved and ever dear, to tens of thousands round the world, the centre of a vast domain, o domine dirige nos.