The Main Print Collection of the former Guildhall Library Prints and Maps Section contains a vast collection of prints, maps and drawings of London, built up over two centuries through gift and purchase.

The collection of nearly 15,000 images is a visual record London's buildings, streets and everyday life from the fifteenth century to the present day. Although much of the material dates from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - the golden age of topographical printmaking and watercolour painting. The geographical scope of the collection is the whole of Greater London and indeed the Home Counties, but it is especially rich in views of the City and the heart of the metropolis. The descriptions of further material which has not been digitised can be seen on LMA’s Collections Catalogue.