ELMES, James and Thomas SHEPHERD. Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century. London: Jones & Co., 1827-1829. Two parts in one volume, folio (265 x 203mm.) Engraved decorative title to second part, 1 engraved plan, 160 engraved plates on 80 leaves. (Small tear to decorative title without loss, 2 plates torn without loss, light browning, spotting to plates, occasionally heavy.) Contemporary blue calf tooled in gilt and blind (extremities bumped and scuffed, backstrip coming away at head of spine, joints splitting). - And six volumes bound as three, 'Old and New London' (4).