Sussex Maps

SMALL MAP WITH NORTH TO THE LEFT

SUSSEX

Copper engraving first published in parts  in A Topographical and statistical description of the county of…by George Alexander Cooke…Illustrated with a map of the county. London, C. Cooke 1806.

Further publications by Cooke followed under titles; The Modern British Traveller… & Topography of Great Britain… in 1810 & 1822. The maps were next issued, with plate numbers added, in Gray’s New Book of the Roads…by George Carrington Gray London, Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1824. Their final appearance  was a republication of the first issue, London, Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, “printed by assignment from the executors of the late C. Cooke”.

Remargined at bottom edge where close trimmed to the reference to the colours used on the Superior Edition. Neat hand colour, without plate number, issued from 1810 to 1822.

Ref. Kingsley Printed Maps of Sussex 69(i)

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