English county maps (1 Ergebnisse)

Twenty one loose maps with tissue guards, printed on sheets 49.5 x 63.5 cm in the original folio title-wrappers, the maps with some edge wear and toning but on the whole in very good condition, the wrappers browned and stained, torn, with minor loss, at the foot of the title wrapper, small closed edge tears, now re-enforced with archival material and sound. Lacking the introductory notes by Edward Heawood. The complete suite of maps: an impressive production. The first map is a general map of England and Ireland, by an unknown author, 1594; nineteen county maps; and a final sheet of miniature county maps printed as a deck of playing-cards. The county maps proper vary in date from Saxton's ?Southamtonia? of 1575 to John Speed's version of Norden's map of Sussex, dated 1610. A contemporary reviewer dubbed it " a rich cartographical feast" allowing easy access to rare and valuable maps and comparison of maps by different cartographers for the same county. The county maps reproduced include five by Christopher Saxton, three by John Norden, Philip Symonson's map of Eastern Kent, published in 1596, a series of seven maps, dating from the early years of the seventeenth century, two maps prepared for Camden and two published by John Speed.…