Kent Maps

49x44 cm

A | NEW MAP | of the COUNTY of | KENT | Divided into Lathes &c. | LONDON: | Printed for C.SMITH, No. 172 Strand. | January 6^th. 1801.
Engraved by the firm of Jones and Smith, this series of large county maps were produced for Smith's New English Atlas being a complete set of County Maps, Divided into Hundreds...first published by C. Smith, London 1804. The maps were also issued separately from 1801. Charles Smith, was a stationer and map seller working from The Strand from 1800 to 1852. He was probably not related to the engraving firm of Smith and Jones. The publication of this work predated the publication of Cary's New English Atlas, a work of striking similarity, by 5 years. This was the first series of county maps to show longitude measured from the Greenwich meridian.
Very good example of the map of Kent in original hand colour with the first dated imprint of 1801 published in 1804.