Plan shewing Public Improvements suggested in connection with building a Public Record Office on the Rolls Estate by James Pennethorne, lithographed by Standidge and published by Hansard for the House of Commons, January 1847. A large street plan of part of London bordered by Oxford Street and Leicester Square in the west and Smithfield, St. Pauls and Blackfriars Bridge in the east. On paper size 95 by 44 cm. Scale approximately 150 feet to the inch. Some hand colouring. The planned new road developments and the building of the Public Record Office have been superimposed on the existing street map. Has been folded. Cropped outside the left margin of the map. VG condition