Staffordshire Maps

75x53 cm

UNCOMMON. REDUCED FROM HIS LARGE SCALE SIX-SHEET MAP.

THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD, Reduced from the Improved Map in Six Sheets Surveyed by W: YATES; Planned by a Scale of Two Miles to an Inch. 
LONDON Pubished by W. Faden Geographer to his Majesty, and to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, -Charing Cross.- Aug^t. 10^th. 1798.
Engraved by Thomas Foot, Western Place, St. Pancras.

Published in Rev. Stebbing Shaw's History and Antiquities of Staffordshire... London. 1798, this finely engraved map by Thomas Foot, is a reduction of the original survey and map by William Yates printed on six sheets, published in 1775 by William Faden.

Thomas Foot (fl.1790-1825) became principal engraver to the Board of Ordnance at the Tower in 1801 at a wage of three guineas and a half per week but was imprisoned for debt in the King's Bench in 1804.

Folds as issued. Some offsetting. Archival re-inforcement to fold interestions verso. Full bright wash hand colour. Heavy paper. Strong impression. Good margins. An uncommon map.