Lancashire Maps

12x18 cm

LANCA | SHIRE
Map set below a decorative cartouche containing the title and details of the road from York to Lancaster.
Road map of the second part of the route from Welshpool to Caernarfon verso.
Engraved text descriptions below the county map and the road map verso.
Engraved by Emanuel Bowen (1693?-1767) and published in the pocket road book Britannia Depicta by Thomas Bowles from 1720 to 1764. The county maps were based on Robert Morden's small series published in The New Description and State of England... from 1701.
Good example in fine hand colour both sides.
(For full description of the road, go to category: Maps > British Isles > RoadMaps > Owen & Bowen.)