Leicestershire Maps

43x48cm cm

A | MAP | OF | LEICESTERSHIRE | from the Best | AUTHORITIES | Published by John Stockdale Piccadilly 26^th. March 1805. | Engrav'd by J. Cary. | E. Noble delin^t.
Copper engraving by John Cary.  The maps were first issued in parts by T. Payne & Son, and G.G.J. & J. Robinson for Richard Gough's translation of William Camden's Britannia, the completed work being published in 1789. Following the death of Payne, the Robinson family sold the plates and publication rights to John Stockdale. Richard Gough was reportedly annoyed with the new arrangements and refused to work on the new edition and Stockdale completed the editorial work himself, expanding the work to four folio volumes and publishing them in 1806. Stockdale also used the plates in his New British Atlas from 1805 to 1809.
This  example of the county of Leicestershire is from the Stockdale edition of 1805. T
Small side margins with bottom right edge just clipping the printed margin both re-margined to help with framing several folds and some offsetting but still a good looking, detailed and well engraved map in good hand colour.