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Bowen & Owen’s Oxfordshire

Bowen & Owen’s Map of Oxfordshire

SKU: 7919
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Title:
Bowen & Owen’s Map of Oxfordshire

Date of publication:

  • c.1720

    • Printed Measurement:

  • 18 x 12 cm

    • Colour:

  • modern

    • Mapmaker:

  • John Owen

    • Engraver:

  • Emanuel Bowen

    • This map of Oxfordshire was engraved by Emanuel Bowen for John Owen’s Britannia Depicta, a pocket road book derived from Ogilby’s innovative atlas of strip maps first published in 1675.

    Bowen & Owens’s work first appeared in 1720 and proved extremely popular; there were numerous editions over the next forty years.
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    Condition & Materials

    Copper engraving, 18 x 12 cm, modern hand-colour, light staining to lower margin and top right conrner, black and white strip-maps on verso. Read less