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Not really an atlas but listed here for convenience. In November 1940, in the aftermath of the damage done by the Blitz, a forward thinking Corporation asked its Committee for Improvements and Town Planning to consider the task of reconstruction in the City of London when the war ended. The result was this report, submitted in July 1944, which makes most interesting reading, both for the schemes proposed and enacted and those rejected. The report is illustrated with some 18 large fold-out maps and plans, and a number of other photographs and drawings, and was published by B.T. Batsford in this folio volume. A fascinating document for anyone interested in the history of London.