Town Plans

24x19 cm

OXFORD
Drawn and Engraved under the direction of E.W.Brayley. 
Engraved by J. Roper from a Drawing by G. Cole, | to accompany the Beauties of England & Wales.
London; Published for the Proprietors by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Poultry, Feb.^y 1.1808. 

Engraved plan of Oxford by John Roper (1771-1810) from a drawing by by George Cole. This series of plans were intended to accompany The Beauties of England and Wales but were not actually published with this work. First issued in parts as a separate series between 1804 and 1810. The British Atlas was published by Vernor Hood & Sharpe & nine other publishers in 1810 and included county maps, most drawn by Cole and engraved by Roper. 
The county maps were re-issued in several publications including Dugdale's Curiosities of Great Britain until 1843 with their final appearance in 1858 by lithographic transfer in Collins' railway and pedestrian atlas… but the town plans were published only in the parts issues from 1804 and The British Atlas in 1810. 

Very good example, in neat later hand colour, of the plan of Oxford with vignette Oxford from the London Road by Henley engraved by James Sargant Storer (1771-1853).