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£15 John Roper 1809 Ref: 6028.26
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20x25 cm

ENGLAND AND WALES
WITH THE CANALS, NAVIGABLE RIVERS, RAILROADS &c.
Engraved by J. Roper. | to accompany the Beauties of England and Wales.
London. Published for the Proprietors, by Vernor & Hood Poultry Septr. 1.1809.

Engraved by John Roper (1771-1810), a London engraver and copperplate printer trading from New Street Square from 1797 until his death in 1810. His widow, Mary Roper, continued the business at the same address until at least 1846. The draughtsman for this map is not given but most in the series were drawn by G[eorge?] Cole.They were intended to accompany The Beauties of England and Wales but were not actually published with this work and were first issued in parts as a separate series between 1804 and 1810, first appearing in atlas form in The British Atlas published by Vernor Hood & Sharpe (& nine other publishers) in 1810. The maps were re-issued in several publications including Dugdale's Curiosities of Great Britain until 1843. Their final appearance was by lithographic transfer in Collins' railway and pedestrian atlas… published by Darton and Co. in 1858.
This example of the map of England and Wales is the first printed state.
Good clean example in original hand colour but with later red marking presumably indicating a previous owner's route across England and Wales.

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