Yorkshire North Riding

35x20 cm

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST INDIVIDUAL MAP OF THE RIDING.

EBORACENSIS Comitatus pars Septentrionalis vulgo NORTH RIDING
Christophorus Saxton desrip: Guilielmus Hole sculpsit

Based on the Elizabethan surveys of Christopher Saxton and John Norden, these maps were the first series of county maps engraved on separate plates for each county of England and Wales. The engraving work was shared between William Kip (fl.1698-1618) and William Hole (fl.1601-1624). First published in the 6th edition of William Camden's Britannia 1607 by George Bishop and John Norton, the plates were re-issued in the 7th and 8th editions of Britannia 1610, the first publication of Britannia with text translated from the Latin into English (by Philemon Holland), with one further issue in 1637.  With a few exceptions, maps were unchanged in all editions but maps from the 1607 edition were printed with Latin typeset text on the reverse and a plate number was added in the second issue of 1610 which remained on the final 1637 edition.


Latin text verso shows through a little in the blank areas of the right half of the map but a good dark impression from the uncommon 1607 edition in fine hand colour with generous margins.

Ref. Whitaker Printed Maps of Yorkshire (10).