British Counties from Bryars and Bryars

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 32 x 47.5 cm, modern hand colour, a couple of trivial spots, blank verso; published as sheet 52 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between Bagshot in Surrey and the port of Southampton, with the two right-hand panels covering the route between Southampton and… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 45 cm, modern hand colour, a couple of small marginal repairs, blank verso; published as sheet 45 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between High Barnett and Oakham, the county town of Rutland. The decorative cartouche features a hunting scene. Thousands of… Read more about this item

London, George Humble, 1623. Copper engraving, image 38 x 50.5 cm, sheet size 41.5 x 53 cm, fine original hand colour, blank verso. An unusual example: the map was coloured, trimmed to the edge of the printed image and mounted on thick paper in the 17th century, perhaps as part of a special commission from a wealthy patron. Typically,… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 32.5 x 43 cm, modern hand colour, blank verso; published as sheet 92 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. Decorative cartouche featuring a shepherd and shepherdess and their flock. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for the project, smaller towns appeared in detail for the first time, and… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1648. Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cm, original hand colour, Latin text on verso, generous margins. Blaeu’s county map of Norfolk. Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and early 1640s, to add to their expanding world atlases. The work of… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 44 cm, modern hand colour, a couple of trivial spots, blank verso; published as sheet 96 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. The roads between the Cumbrian towns of Kendal and Cockermouth, and Egremont and Carlisle. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for the project, smaller… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 35 x 44 cm, modern hand colour, a couple of trivial spots, blank verso; published as sheet 88 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. The decorative cartouche shows finely dressed local gentry. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for the project, smaller towns appeared in detail for the… Read more about this item

London,, c. 1695. Copper engraving, 36 x 42.5 cm, modern hand-colour, light waterstaining in lower margin, blank verso. Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722, 1753 and 1772. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition… Read more about this item

London,, c. 1695. Copper engraving, 42 x 36.5 cm, modern hand-colour, blank verso. Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722, 1753 and 1772. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of his work with maps… Read more about this item

London,, c. 1695. Copper engraving, 36.5 x 43 cm, modern hand-colour, blank verso. Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722, 1753 and 1772. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of his work with maps… Read more about this item

London,, c. 1695. Copper engraving, 36.5 x 42.5 cm, modern hand-colour, blank verso. Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722, 1753 and 1772. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of his work with maps… Read more about this item

[s.l., s.n.], c. 1950. Pictorial map by an anonymous draughtsman for the principal bus operator in south Devon, 35.5 x 43.5 cms, printed in colours, blank verso. The map makes playful references to local history (Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe; a convict breaking rocks on Dartmoor) and numerous references to leisure pursuits, including shooting, fishing, golfing and sea… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 34 x 47 cm, modern hand colour, closed marginal tear, left hand margin cut close, blank verso; published as sheet 10 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This first leg of the journey to Bristol begins in London and follows the road west through Knightsbidge and Kensington (with Hyde… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 33 x 41.5 cm, modern hand colour, a couple of trivial spots, blank verso; published as sheet 20 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. The journey to Hythe begins in London and follows the road through East Peckham and Eltham, reaching Hythe via Maidstone. Thousands of miles of roads… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 42 cm, modern hand colour, a couple of light marginal spots and stains, blank verso; published as sheet 80 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. The road between the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge, via Bedford. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for the project,… Read more about this item

London, 1698. Copper engraving, 33 x 45.5 cm, modern hand colour, a couple of trivial spots, blank verso; published as sheet 28 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. The journey to Dover begins in London and follows the road through Deptford, Blackheath, Shooter’s Hill, and Dartford, reaching Dover via Rochester and Canterbury. Thousands… Read more about this item

London, Jacob Tonson and John Watts, 1718. Copper engraving, approx 18 x 27.5 cm, black and white, upper corners torn, with no loss to printed area, blank verso. Scroll-style road map published in the scarce early road-book “A Pocket Guide to the English Traveller”. Numbered sheet 98, it covers two routes: Shrewsbury to Holywell via Wrexham, and Chester to… Read more about this item

London, Jacob Tonson and John Watts, 1718. Copper engraving, approx 18 x 27.5 cm, black and white, blank verso. Scroll-style road map published in the scarce early road-book “A Pocket Guide to the English Traveller”. Numbered sheet 44, this is the final stretch of this particular route, covering Broad Campden and Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, Evesham, Worcester and… Read more about this item

London, Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles, 1768. Copper engraving, 20 x 26.5 cm, modern hand colour, blank verso. The symbols convey a wealth of detailed information: borough towns are shown with stars identifying the number of Members returned to Parliament, and "Places where Fairs are kept have a Line under the Name". Ellis (d.1796) was a prolific English engraver… Read more about this item

London, c. 1838-1840. Steel engraving, 24 x 37 cm, original hand colour, blank verso. Middlesex with a vignette view of St.Pauls Cathedral. James Pigot started his career as an engraver for "Dean's Manchester Directory", but later set up his own business publishing the "London And Provincial New Commercial Directory". For the third edition of 1827, a number of maps… Read more about this item