Staffordshire Maps

12x18 cm

FROM "OWEN & BOWEN" ROAD BOOK BRITANNIA DEPICTA

A MAP OF  STAFFORD SHIRE

Map set below a decorative cartouche containing the title and details of the road from London to Carlisle.
Road map of the final part of the route from Stilton to Boston and Lincoln verso.
Engraved text descriptions alonside 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.

Small top margin but still a good example in fine hand colour both sides.

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