Hertfordshire Maps

49X39 cm

An Accurate Map of  HARTFORD SHIRE Divided into HUNDREDS; Drawn from Surveys and Illustrated with Historical Extracts relative to its Natural Produce, Trade and Manufactures; Describing also the Church Livings, Charity Schools, &c. with other Improvements by Eman: Bowen Geog^r,, to his late Majesty.
London, Printed for Rob.^t Sayer & John Bennet, N.^o 53, Fleet Street. John Bowles, N.^o 69, S.^t Pauls Church Yard, as the Act directs. 1.st of June 1777.


This series of maps, produced for The Royal English Atlas, were a reduction by two thirds of the maps from The Large English Atlas and were first published in 1763 only three years after the first complete issue of the Large English Atlas. There were a number of re-issues in the 1770's and 1780's with the final publication in 1828 by R. Martin but the publications were small and the work was not a commercial success, the maps are scarce today.
This Hertfordshire map is the second edition with the dated imprint of 1777 published between 1779 and 1828. Close examination reveals a repair adjacent to the bottom centrefold otherwise a very good, clean example in original outline hand colour. 
Hodson Printed maps of Hertfordshire ref. 42 (ii)