Lancashire Maps

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£45 Benjamin Baker 1793 Ref: 4163wm
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19x24 cm

LANCASHIRE | Engraved by B. Baker, Islington

Copper engraving by Benjamin Baker for The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure..., the maps appearing between 1791-1797, published by W. Bent. This was the second series of county maps issued in the magazine, the first series by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin was published between 1747-1766 by John Hinton. Baker's maps were based on the 'quarto' maps of John Cary published from 1787. This series is the first known work by Benjamin Baker who is also noted for his engraving work on the earliest maps for the Ordnance Survey until his retirement c.1824.

The maps also appeared unchanged in Maps of the Several Counties and Shires in England… published by Darton and Harvey in 1804. Laurie & Whittle published them with a number of revisions to the plate, including a compass rose and Laurie & Whittle's imprint, in Laurie & Whittle's New and Improved English Atlas… 1807 & 1816.
Good hand coloured example of the map of Lancashire from the magazine issue. Archival tape repairs to short splits at folds verso, one extending into map border. Some off-setting from printed text in the magazine to top section to first fold.

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