Warwickshire Maps

26x31 cm

A MAP OF WARWICKSHIRE, WITH ITS HUNDREDS, BY RIC: BLOME BY HIS MA.^TYS COMAND.

Produced and published by Richard Blome (1635-1705) bookseller, mapseller and publisher, printer to King William III, and cosmographer to Queen Anne, in Britannia: or, A Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland...London, Printed by Tho. Rycroft for the undertaker, Richard Blome. 1673.
This series of maps were produced quickly, following an announcement in the press by John Ogilby of his intention to produce a new work of county maps, road maps and town plans entitled Britannia. Richard Blome shamelessly used the same title announced by John Ogilby for his work, and commenced publication in 1673. Blomes maps are crudely engraved, typical of journeyman work, and mostly copied from those of John Speed, containing no new information. The printing, however, was of the highest standard, being carried out by Thomas Roycroft, printer to King Charles II.
The publication was probably on sale for four years. There was a re-issue of 1677 made up by John Wright from remaindered sheets.
Toning to paper edges and centrefold but with good margins, the map is largely unaffected and is a good impression in fine hand colour.