Essex Maps

24x19 cm

UNCOMMON. FINE HAND COLOUR.

ESSEX.
Neele sc. Strand.

London, Pubd. as the Act directs, Decr. 1.st 1803, by J.Wilkes.

Engraved by Samuel Neele, this series of county maps were published in Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or, a universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature…Embellished by a most magnificent set of copper-plate engravings…Compiled, digested, and arranged, by John Wilkes… a twenty four volume work published betwwen 1801 and 1829. The maps were based on John Cary’s 1787 quarto series published in his New and Correct English Atlas. Variously dated 1801 to 1828, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridge did not appear. The maps were not re-issued in this or any other publication.

Good example of the map of Essex dated 1803. In fine later hand colour. Uncommon.