Bedfordshire Maps

19x29 cm

An ACCURATE MAP of BEDFORDSHIRE, Divided into its HUNDREDS, from an Actual Survey

Although given above as a map by George Rollos (1731-1796), the engraver is not certain. The map is very similar to the map by Rollos published in The British Magazine or Monthly Repository in September 1762 and both are based on the map by Emanuel Bowen in The Large English Atlas...1749. This map includes the hundreds given in a separate key and Hodson ( County Atlases of the British Isles ) suggests that because the Rollos map includes the names of the Hundreds on the map as on the Bowen map, it is likely that this map is copied from Rollos.

George Rollos was apprenticed to engraver, cartographer and publisher, Thomas Kitchin (1719-1784) who worked with Emanuel Bowen on The Large English Atlas. He seems to have remained a close friend and associate of Thomas Kitchin, following Kitchin's move to St. Albans in 1780 and witnessing his will in that year. 

Smallish left margin but a fine example of an uncommon map in neat later hand colour. 

Ref: Chambers Printed Maps of Bedfordshire 43 (ii). ( given as George Rollos.)