Bowen & Owen’s Map of Norfolk
SKU: 6064
£80.00
Title:
Bowen & Owen’s Map of Norfolk
Date of publication:
c.1720
Printed Measurement:
18 x 12 cm
Colour:
modern
Mapmaker(s):
Engraver(s):
Emanuel Bowen
A Map of Norfolk.
Copper engraving, 18 x 12 cm, recent hand-colour, black and white strip-maps on verso. Map of Norfolk 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.