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The later pages are dated 1821; many pages are not dated, the earlests seems to be 1795. Very many are not inscribed though an old MS list (A.T.Bolton ?) identifies street and often client.
It seems that these are copies to a reduced scale of work carried out in the office. And made as an exercise for pupils and also as a quick general source of information on London houses. The general lack of names and addresses (except for the earliest etries) was was perhaps a question of discretion.
Locations include Cavendish Street, Piccadilly,Lincolns Inn Fields, Albemarle Street, Hanove Square, Cavendish Square, Gower Street, Mortimer Street, Curzon Steet and so on.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).