Kent Maps

25x20 cm

HIGHLY DECORATIVE STEEL ENGRAVING OF THANET

ISLE OF THANET 
Insula rotunda Tanatos. quam circuit unda. Fertilis et munda. nulli est in orbe secunda.

This series of decorative steel-plate engraved maps are commonly known by the author of the work in which they first appeared; Moule's English Counties Delineated. First issued from May 1830 in a series of parts, the first complete edition was published by George Virtue in 1837. Several editions followed until 1839 and the plates were then used by George Virtue and his son James Sprent Virtue in A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language by the Rev. James Barclay until 1857. The engraving of the plates was shared between James Bingley, William Schmollinger and John Dower. The plates underwent a number of changes, including the unexplained interchanging of engraver's names in the early issues, and were frequently updated to reflect the rapidly developing railway network.
Includes vignettes of Ramsgate Harbour and North Foreland Light House and coats of arms for The Cinque Ports and Trinity House.

Small mark adjacent to the arms of The Cinque Ports, otherwise a very good clean example in fine hand colour.

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