Shropshire Maps

20x25 cm

A Modern MAP of SHROPSHIRE, Drawn from the latest Surveys; Corrected & Improved by the best Authorities - J Ellis Sculp.^t
Printed for Rob.^t Sayer in Fleet Street & Carington Bowler in S.^t 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. Its popularity was due to the commercial skills of the publishers and the map's cartographical clarity with it's 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.
 
This very good example in fine later hand colour of the map of Shropshire is from the 1773 edition of Ellis's English Atlas.