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The New Description of the State of England...
London,
Printed for Robert Morden, in Cornhill,
1701
Quarto (190 by 120mm), title, 54 double-page engraved maps, English speckled panelled calf, spine in compartments gilt, rubbed.
2492
notes:
First edition of Morden's miniature atlas of England and Wales.
The authorship of the text is unknown. The maps, although apparently reduced versions of those by Morden in Gibson's 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia, may have been drawn and engraved before 1693. Apart from the maps of the Welsh counties, which are ungraduated, the county maps have a marginal graduation in degrees and minute, and longitude at foot, and minutes of time from London at the top. The m...
The authorship of the text is unknown. The maps, although apparently reduced versions of those by Morden in Gibson's 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia, may have been drawn and engraved before 1693. Apart from the maps of the Welsh counties, which are ungraduated, the county maps have a marginal graduation in degrees and minute, and longitude at foot, and minutes of time from London at the top. The m...
bibliography:
Skelton 123.
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