John Stow (ca. 1525 – 6 April 1605)

The work for which Stow is best known is his Survey of London, published in 1598.
A second edition appeared in his lifetime in 1603, a third with additions by Anthony Munday in 1618, a fourth by Munday and Dyson in 1633, a fifth with interpolated amendments by John Strype in 1720 and a sixth by the same editor in 1754.