Hertfordshire Maps

32x21 cm

BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE ENGRAVED ON THE SAME PLATE

A New Map of  BEDFORD SHIRE, Drawn from the Latest Authorities
A New Map of  HARTFORD SHIRE, Drawn from the Lates^t. Authorities.Published by ALEX^R. HOGG at the Kings Arms, No.16 PATERNOSTER ROW. 

Copper engraving by Thomas Conder (c.1750-1831) son of John Conder (1741-1781) Teacher and Independant minister at Cambridge and brother to James Conder (1761-1823) businessman and Numismatist who’s name is given to a category of token coins known as Conder tokens. Thomas was apprenticed to stationer Cornelius Berry and then turned over to engraver and mapseller, Thomas Bowen Kitchin (fl.1766-1781), son of Thomas Kitchin and grandson of Emanuel Bowen. Thomas Conder was an active Noncormist, engraver, cartographer, bookseller and printseller, with London premises in Aldersgate, followed by Upper Thames Street, then Bucklersbury. He retired in 1811 and his son, editor, author, Congregationalist and abolitionist, Josiah Conder (1789-1855), continued the bookselling business until 1819.
 
The maps were produced for The New and Complete British Traveller …published under the immediate inspection of George Augustus Walpoole, Esq…  Alexander Hogg, London, 1784. The publication was a topographical work accompanied by maps engraved one, two, three or four counties to plate by Thomas Conder. Hogg’s publications were plagiarised works exploiting the growing fashion for travel. George Augustus Walpoole and three other contributors named in the over-long title to the work were probably spurious names invented to impart authority to the work.
 
This pair of maps, engraved on the same plate, is the second state with the title Walpoole's New and Complete British Traveller erased from the top of the plate and was published in The new British Traveller between 1784 and 1794.
 
Good condition and in good later hand colour.

ref. Hodson Printed Maps of Hertfordshire 48 (ii)
Chambers  Printed Maps of Bedfordshire 45 (ii)