Town Plans

24x18 cm

COLCHESTER
Drawn and Engraved under the direction of J. Britton.
Engraved by J. Roper from a drawing by G. Cole: | to accompany the Beauties of England and Wales.
London; Published for the Proprietors, by Vernor & Hood, Poultry. Oct.^r 1.^st 1805.
This series of maps, mostly drawn by George Cole and engraved by John Roper, were intended to accompany The Beauties of England and Wales. The maps were not actually published with this work but first issued in parts as a separate series between 1804 and 1810 and first appearing in atlas form in The British Atlas published by Vernor Hood & Sharpe (& nine other publishers) in 1810. 

Small margins but a fine hand coloured town plan of Colchester with the arms of Colchester and a vignette of The Entrance Gateway to St. John's Abbey.