Gloucestershire Maps

18x23 cm

First state in original hand colour with the imprint of the publishers Vernor Hood & Sharpe and the note that it was drawn and engraved under the direction of E W Brayley and to accompany his publication The Beauties of England and Wales. The maps were not actually published with this work but first issued in parts as a separate series between 1804 and 1810, first appearing in atlas form in The British Atlas dated 1806.
Repaired tear (archival tape) top right margin just short of printed edge. Slightly grubby at margins.