Suffolk Maps

23x35 cm

NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. DECORATIVE BORDER.

Engraved for WALPOOLE’S New & Complete BRITISH TRAVELLER
A New Map of  NORFOLK Drawn from the Latest & Best AUTHORITIES.
A New Map of  SUFFOLK Drawn from the Latest Authorities.
Published by ALEX^R. HOGG at the Kings Arms, No.16 PATERNOSTER ROW. 

Copper engraving by Thomas Conder produced for The New and Complete British Traveller …published under the immediate inspection of George Augustus Walpoole, Esq…  Alexander Hogg, London, 1784. The publication was a topographical work accompanied by maps engraved one, two, three or four to plate by Thomas Conder. Hogg’s publications were plagiarised works exploiting the growing fashion for travel. George Augustus Walpoole and three other contributors named in the over-long title to the work were probably spurious names invented to impart authority to the work.

This pair of maps, engraved on the same plate, are the first state with the title Walpoole's New and Complete British Traveller at the top of the plate and with a decorative foliate border, published in the first edition of The new British Traveller in 1784.

Very good condition and in good later hand colour.

Ref. Raymond Frostick The Printed Maps of Norfolk [51.1]