Sussex Maps

11x13 cm

SUSSEX
Copper engraving first published in parts county by county 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”.
This fine example in original wash hand colour, with plate number 39 outside top border top right, was issued from 1824 in Gray’s New Book of the Roads…, or the later issues of A topographical and statistical description of the county or Sussex …G.A.Cooke Esq.,.. London 1826 & 1831.
Kingsley Printed Maps of Sussex ref. 69(ii)