Northamptonshire Maps

12x18 cm

FROM "OWEN & BOWEN'S" ROAD BOOK. NORTH TO THE RIGHT.

A MAP OF NORTHAMPTON SHIRE

Map set below a decorative cartouche containing the title and details of the road from London to Buckingham.
Road map of the first of the route from London to Buckingham verso.
Engraved text descriptions below the county map and alongside and below the road map verso.
Engraved by Emanuel Bowen (1693?-1767) and published in the pocket road book Britannia Depicta by Thomas Bowles from 1720 to 1764. The county maps were based on Robert Morden's small series published in The New Description and State of England... from 1701. Northamptonshire is engraved with North to the right.
A good impressinon on strong paper in fine hand colour both sides. 

Ref. Whitaker Printed Maps of Northamptonshire 169.

(For full description of the road, go to category: Maps > British Isles > RoadMaps > Owen & Bowen.)