Bowen & Owen’s Berkshire
SKU: 7875
£80.00
Title:
Bowen & Owen’s Berkshire
Date of publication:
c.1720
Printed Measurement:
18 x 12 cm
Colour:
modern
Mapmaker(s):
Engraver(s):
Emanuel Bowen
Berkshire
Copper engraving, 18 x 12 cm, recent hand-colour, black and white strip-maps on verso. 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.