Staffordshire Maps

17x20 cm

STAFFORD SHIRE.
Closely based on Herman Moll's maps of 1724, Thomas Read, the printer, published the maps in parts issued at weekly intervals from 26 November 1743 to 1 September 1744. The speed of production would have necessitated the employment of several engravers but none have been identified. Staffordshire appeared in the issue for 14th July 1744.
The three volume topographical work containing all the maps, The English Traveller…, was first issued in 1746. 
On the death or retirement of Thomas Read, the maps passed into the hands of Huguenot John Roque who published them with a further 19 maps (probably prepared by Read), with revisions to most of the maps, in The Small British Atlas… from 1753 to 1764 and in England Displayed… from 1769 to 1770.
 
This map of Staffordshire is from a Rocque edition c. 1769. Later colour. Trimmed close to plate edge.