Leicestershire Maps

25x20 cm

A | Modern MAP of  | LEICESTER- | SHIRE, | Drawn from the | latest Surveys; | Corrected & Improved | by the best Authorities. | J. Ellis Sculp^t.
Printed for Rob^t. Sayer in Fleet Street & Carington Bowles in S^t. Pauls Churchyard.

Copper engraving by Joseph Ellis 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. Its popularity was due to it's cartographical clarity while being of pocket size making it useful for the traveller as well as everyday use in academies and the home. 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 commercial success.
A small dent in the paper at left and right margins just inside the printed border before th 'W' of Warwickshire and at the edge of the title cartouche but still a good example in fine later hand colour of the map of Leicestershire is from the 1773 edition of Ellis's English Atlas.