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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 e...

Robert Morden's county maps, like this one of Cornwall, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an ...

Robert Morden's country maps, like this one of Suffolk, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an ...

Robert Morden's county maps, like this one of Surrey, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an El...

Robert Morden's county maps, like this one of Lancashire (the county palatine of Lancaster), were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of Willi...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. The decorative cartouche on this map of the roa...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet shows the roads between the Cumbrian...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between High Barnet ...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between Bagshot in S...

This pictorial route map of the Devon General by an anonymous draughtsman for the principal bus operator in south Devon makes playful references to...

Cary’s new map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland. On which are carefully laid down All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads the Course of...

Our journey to Hythe begins in London and follows the road through East Peckham and Eltham, reaching Hythe via Maidstone. Thousands of miles of roa...

Our journey to Dover begins in London and follows the road through Deptford, Blackheath, Shooter’s Hill, and Dartford, reaching Dover via Rochester...

Our journey takes us along the road between the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge, via Bedford. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed fo...

Our journey begins in London and follows the road west through Knightsbridge and Kensington (with Hyde Park to one side), Hammersmith and Turnham G...

This attractive, detailed map of the county of Middlesex is unsigned; as yet, we have been unable to identify the engraver. Do feel free to write t...

Ellis' map of Middlesex conveys a wealth of detailed information: borough towns are shown with stars identifying the number of Members returned to ...

This map of Middlesex included a vignette of St. Paul's Cathedral. It was published in James Bell’s 'New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and...

This finely engraved map of Middlesex, with a vignette view of St.Pauls Cathedral, was printed from a steel plate and apparently among the first co...

This map of Middlesex was published in Reuben Ramble's ‘Travels through the Counties of England’, an uncommon county atlas for children. Reuben Ram...

This map of Middlesex was engraved by Giuliano Zuliano after Giovanni Pitteri and published in Antonia Zatta's  ‘Atlante Novissimo’. This was his ...

The Railway Clearing House allocated revenue on occasions where one company’s train ran over another’s track, and promoted standardisation (of ever...

This map of the Heptarchy, or seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, was engraved by William Hole for the first illustrated edition of William Camden's Britan...

This plan of the Manchester Shipping Canal was published as a supplement to ‘The Illustrated London News’, February 3rd 1883. Construction began in...

New Road Map of England & Wales... shewing all the lines of railway, canals &c., describing the picturesque scenery and forming a complete ...

This pictorial plan of central Oxford was printed for the recently nationalised British Railways (Western Region). The arms of the University and t...

This map of Suffolk is from a series of maps engraved between 1787-1791 by Edward Sudlow after John Haywood. It was subsequently published in atlas...

This map of Middlesex is illustrated with vignettes of Buckingham Palace (before its early 20th century re-modelling) and the ‘new’ Houses of Parli...

This characteristically clear and elegant map of Herefordshire is by John Cary, one of the leading cartographic engravers, publishers and globe-mak...

Suthsexia, vernacule Sussex Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50.5 cm, modern hand-colour, closed centrefold split with some margi...

This map of Canterbury is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's count...

This map of Rochester is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's county...

This map of Lancaster is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's county...

This map of Gloucester is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's count...

John Thomson's maps, like this one of the Channel, are characteristic of the Edinburgh school of cartography. It flourished at the beginning of the...

Map of the Grand Junction Railway and its Adjacent Country. [Copied by permission from the Company’s official map.] Shewing all the the stations on...

A new gradually encreasing Compass-Map of part of the Sea Coasts of England, in which is contained the Coasts of Sussex, extending from Eastwards o...

A New Geographical Pastime: Walker’s Tour through England and Wales Most games of this nature were educational, and in this case players learn as t...

G. Bradshaw’s Map of Canals, Navigable Rivers, Rail Roads etc. in the Southern Counties of England. From actual survey shewing heights of the ponds...

This pictorial map of Liverpool is folded into a souvenir record-sleeve style pack which comprises: ‘Nothing to get hung up about’, a 30 page shor...

A New Geographical Pastime The elder John Wallis (c. 1745-1818) recovered from bankruptcy to become one of the major publishers of children’s games...

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 e...

Carte de Royaume d’Angleterre dressé par Hérisson, elêve du Sr. Bonne, ancien Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine Eustache Hérisson (1759-1816) was ...

This pictorial map grouping the three counties northeast of London was published by British Railways (Eastern Region) to promote leisure travel jus...

Eboracensis Comitatus […] pars Orientalis, vulgo East Riding. This map of the East Riding is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translat...

Wesmorlandia e comitatis. This map of Westmorland is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s Britannia into English, ...

This map of Sussex was first issued in The London Magazine, which between 1747 and 1754 published a complete set of English county maps by Thomas K...

This map of Somerset was engraved by Emanuel Bowen for John Owen’s Britannia Depicta, a pocket road book derived from Ogilby’s innovative atlas of ...