Bedfordshire Maps

11x18 cm

FIRST ISSUE ORIGINAL HAND COLOUR.

BEDFORDSHIRE
Published Jan.^y 1, 1808, by R.Philips Bridge Street Blackfriars London
Cooper, del.^t et sculp.^t

Copper engraving by Henry Cooper first published in A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom... accompanied by forty-six maps, drawn purposely for this work, on an original plan. By Benjamin Pitts Capper...London, Richard Phillips, 1808. There were several later publications of the same work by various publishers until 1839.

Some overall toning to the paper and discolouration verso from the green pigments in the original wash colouring, otherwise a good example from the first issue of 1808. 

Ref. Printed Maps and Town Plans of Bedfordshire Betty Chambers  62(i)