Isle of Man

20x25 cm

DECORATIVE PASTORAL TITLE CARTOUCHE

A Modern MAP of  the ISLE of MAN, Drawn from the latest Surveys: Corrected & Improved |by the best Authorities. 
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church yard.

First published in The New English Atlas… in 1765, the atlas became a considerable success with many editions, under the title Ellis's English Atlas, being published over a period of thirty years from the offices of Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles. Most of the maps were copied from those by Thomas Kitchin in a rival publication of similar pocket size by Robert Dodsley England Illustrated first published in 1763 but which did not achieve the same success.
Good clean hand coloured example from the 1773 edition of Ellis's English Atlas.