Northamptonshire Maps

23x18 cm

QUARTO MAP BY COLE & ROPER.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Drawn and Engraved under the direction of E.W.Brayley.
Engraved by J. Roper, from a Drawing, by G. Cole | to accompany the Beauties of England & Wales.
London; Published for the Proprietors, by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Poultry, Sept.^r 1.1807.

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. This series of maps, most drawn by G[eorge?] Cole, were intended to accompany 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 and 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.

Good example in original hand colour in the first state of the plate published from 1807 to 1816. Good margins, clean and undamaged. Stitch holes to top edge suggesting early parts issue. Light diagonal crease outside printed area bottom right.

Ref. Whitaker Printed Maps of Northamptonshire 310.