British Isles & Islands

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...

Do you prefer your flatfish with eyes to the right, or to the left? This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and ...

The fish with a face only a mother could love This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a ...

Meunière your skate wings, or get someone else to do it for you This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and Geor...

Why is it proverbially assumed to be very easy to run a whelk stall? They look like hard work to me This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atla...

For a rainy day supper, put crab in your macaroni cheese. Trust me, you’ll love it This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Se...

They’re bonnie fish and halesome farin’ This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series...

Try Scotch Woodock, per The Ritz London Book of Afternoon Tea. For a pared-down version, simply spread hot buttered toast with Gentleman’s Relish a...

Waiter, bring me shad roe... This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50 lavi...

Pilchards are either sardines, herring, or neither. I think it depends where you (and they) are from. This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial At...

The Piscatorial Atlas was the product of a decade or more of reports and correspondence with British fishermen This map was published in the ‘Pisca...

This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50 lavishly chromolithographed chart...

See the east coast Fishwife with her creel This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a ser...

O Oysters, come and walk with us! This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50...

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...

A New and Correct Map of North Wales Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first publish...

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...

This map of Liddesdale, in the Scottish borders, is from Golden Age Dutch cartographer Blaeu’s Scottish atlas. First published in 1654, the atlas w...

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...

This map of Edinburgh is one of the town plans in Tallis’ hugely popular ‘Illustrated Atlas’ which was published serially from the mid 1840s onward...

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...

Map of the Great Western Railway and Connections This map illustrates how the Great Western Railway connected resources such as coal fields, china ...

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

Plot, Robert: The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England. By R.P. LL.D. Oxford: Printed at the Theat...

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 ...

Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in various 1...

This map of Middlesex was engraved by Toms for Thomas Badeslade’s ‘Chorographia Britanniae’, an attractive pocket atlas which according to Badeslad...

This chart of Dublin bay shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief and settlements (including eastern Dublin), and inset coastal profiles...

Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised edition of the Mercator-Hondius a...

La VIII Table d’Angleterre/Anglesey, Wight, Vectis olim, Garnsey, Iarsay Islands around the British coast were often grouped, in various combinatio...

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...

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...

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...

Map of the County of Middlesex from an Actual Survey The Greenwood brothers were land-surveyors from Yorkshire who compiled one of the last indepen...

Map of the County of Surrey from an Actual Survey The Greenwood brothers were land-surveyors from Yorkshire who compiled one of the last independen...

This map of Gloucester was engraved by Johannes Kip for 'The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire'. It is one of the earliest views of the cit...