South Wales

42x36 cm

SOUTH WALES 
By Rob^t.Morden.

Copper engraving produced by Robert Morden (fl.1669-1703) for publication in Edmund Gibson's translation of William Camden's Britannia first published by Abel Swalle and Awnsham & John Churchill in 1695. Engravers Sutton Nichols and John Sturt have signed some of the maps but probably other engravers were also employed.

This is the first series of maps to mark longitude in minutes of time (top border) as well as in degrees (bottom border). For most counties longitude is based on the meridian of St. Paul's, London. They were  also the first folio sized series of county maps to show roads, Morden using the survey and strip road maps of John Ogilby published in his road book, also entitled Britannia, in 1675. Morden generally used three fairly arbitrary scales of 'Great', 'Middle' and 'Small' miles on his county maps but here he uses two scales defined simply as 'English Miles'.

Small left and right margins but a good clean example from the first edition in neat later hand colour.