Berkshire Maps

25x20 cm

NEATLY ENGRAVED MAP WITH PASTORAL TITLE CARTOUCHE

A Modern MAP of BERK-SHIRE, Drawn from the latest Surveys; Corrected & Improved by the best Authorities. J.Ellis Sculp^t.

Printed for Rob^t. Sayer in Fleet Street, & Carington Bowles in S^t. Pauls Church yard.

First published in The New English Atlas… in 1765, the atlas became a considerable success with many editions under the title Ellis's English Atlas, being published over a period of thirty years from the offices of Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles. Most of the maps were copied from those by Thomas Kitchin in a rival publication of similar pocket size by Robert Dodsley England Illustrated first published in 1763 but which not achieve the same commercial success.

Waterstain to top margin but remains a very good example in fine later hand colour from the 1773 edition of Ellis's English Atlas.