Horse-drawn omnibuses, hansom cabs, and a dense throng of Edwardian Londoners pack New Oxford Street in this extraordinary bird's-eye photographic view — the street a river of commerce and motion, Bovril and OXO advertisements plastered across shopfronts, awnings stretching in military ranks toward the vanishing point. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons in their prestigious "Town and City" Series 2001 and printed by the phototype process in Holland, this unused card was issued under the Royal Warrant as Art Publishers to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra — making it almost certainly pre-1910, the year the King died. The detail is remarkable: individual pedestrians, a man selling something from a cart, the OXO corner billboard, and at least two types of horse-drawn transit are all crisp and legible under magnification. An essential document of Edwardian London street life, never posted.