Glamorganshire

27x19 cm

GLAMORGANSHIRE
Engraved by J. Roper. | to accompany the Beauties of England & Wales.
London, Published for the Proprietors by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Poultry, Jan.^y 1. 1809.
Engraved by John Roper (1771-1810), a London engraver and copperplate printer trading from New Street Square from 1797 until his death in 1810. His widow, Mary Roper, continued the business at the same address until at least 1846. The cartographer has not been credited on this map but most in the series were drawn by George Cole with a number of the Welsh maps being drawn by Thompson and one by J. R. Britton. They were intended to accompany The Beauties of England and Wales but were not actually published with this work and were first issued in parts as a separate series between 1804 and 1810, first appearing in atlas form in The British Atlas published by Vernor Hood & Sharpe (& nine other publishers) in 1810. The maps were re-issued in several publications including Dugdale's Curiosities of Great Britain until 1843. Their final appearance was by lithographic transfer in Collins' railway and pedestrian atlas…Darton and Co. 1858.

Fine example in original hand colour from the first issue pubished 1810. Imprint dated Jan. 1st 1809.