England Exactly Described Or a Guide to Travellers In a Compleat Sett of Maps of All the Counties of England; being a Map for each County, Wherein every Towne and Village is Particularly Express'd with the Names and Limits of every Hundred, and the Roads and Distances in Measured Miles according to Mr Ogilby's Survey. Very Usefull for Gentlemen & Travellers being made fit for the Pockett

BLOME, Richard & TAYLOR, Thomas

Edité par Thomas Taylor at ye Golden Lyon in Fleetstreet, London, 1717

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Oblong quarto (210 x 290 mm.), modern half calf, green cloth boards, gilt ruled, spine with gilt ruled raised and ornate gilt feature to compartments, red calf gilt title label. With engraved title page and 42 maps numbered to 41, Scotland and Ireland unnumbered and here unusually bound at the end, Cumberland and Westmoreland combined '8 & 9'. The England map is in Hodson's state c, Scotland state b and Ireland state a, with all county maps in their expected state bearing roads. Manuscript notation lower right of the title. All leaves backed on linen as they were originally folded twice for the pocket, with loss at the folds to some, notably the title page, Chester, Devon, Durham, Gloucestershire, Monmouth, Suffolk and Wiltshire. Otherwise in good condition. The plates used in this atlas were first published by Richard Blome as 'Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd' in 1681. A further edition followed in 1685 and a 'Cosmography and Geography' in 1693. The whereabouts of the Blome plates after 1693 is unknown. Blome had died in 1705 but it is unlikely that Thomas Taylor (c.1670-1730) acquired them at this date as no issue is known before 1715. The earliest we hear of Taylor in business is 1711. The 'England Exactly Described' was first advertised in the 'Daily Courant' 24 September 1715. The earliest versions of the atlas did not contain a map of Scotland but reacting to news of the Jacobite Rebellion earlier in the month he quickly rectified this advertising the fact by the first week in November. This edition is dated from an advert placed in the 'Daily Courant' 1 March 1716/17. It bears a re-worded title and four new leaves describing the roads. It was described as being 'with the Post Roads and Measured Miles from Town to Town, according to Mr. Ogilby's Survey of the Roads . with a New Table of the Roads .' To each map, Taylor has added roads and distances in small circles. A general map of Ireland dated 1716 has been added to the work giving a total of 42 maps. This atlas is closest to 'O' in Hodson's listing. The Gardner copy of the Bakewell edition now in the British Library was similarly issued in a twice folded format. Provenance: acquired from the David Kingsley collection in August 1989; Burden collection. ESTC T166162; Hodson (1984-97) 140; Shirley (2004) T.Blom 3f; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).

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• Titre: England Exactly Described Or a Guide to Travellers In a Compleat Sett of Maps of All the Counties of England; being a Map for each County, Wherein every Towne and Village is Particularly Express'd with the Names and Limits of every Hundred, and the Roads and Distances in Measured Miles according to Mr Ogilby's Survey. Very Usefull for Gentlemen & Travellers being made fit for the Pockett
• Éditeur: Thomas Taylor at ye Golden Lyon in Fleetstreet, London
• Date de parution: 1717
• Reliure: No binding
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • British County Atlas