Buckinghamshire Maps

16x20 cm

BUCKINGHAM | SHIRE | by Rob.^t Morden
I.Harris Sculp.
Robert Morden's series of smaller maps thought to have been engraved in about 1693 for Edmund Gibson's translation of Camden's Britannia published in 1695 but rejected for being too small. Morden published them a few years later in 1701 in his New Description and state of England . The work was re-issued twice more after his death in 1703 by Ralph Smith and others in 1704. The maps were reworked (this state can be identified by the addition of a compass rose) and published in several works (most notably Cox's Magna Britannia, often with spurious dates on the title page) from 1708 until the end of the 18th century.
Fine dark impression in the second state with compass rose. Hand coloured.