England

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 ...

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 road map includes London, Islington, and Highgate, and extends as far as Towcester. It was published as sheet 21 in the 1698 folio edition of ...

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 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 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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Comitatus Dorcestria vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked...

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 ...

Northumbria, Cumberlandia et Dunelmensis Episcopatus This map of northern England is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractaru...

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

This map of Middlesex was first published in 1746 to accompany Thomas Read’s English Traveller. The the plates were acquired by John Rocque and re-...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15.5 x 15.5 cm, modern hand-colour, blank verso; a map of Middlesex engraved by Toms for Thomas Badesla...

This map of Middlesex was published in Geographia Magnae Britanniae, or, Correct Maps of all the Counties in England, Scotland and Wales. It was pr...

Lincolniae Comitatus ubi olim insederunt Coritani This map of Lincolnshire is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s...

Hertfordiae Comitatus This map of Hertfordshire is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s Britannia into English, th...

This map of Herefordshire is by Moule, a bookseller, writer on heraldry and publisher who commissioned what is generally considered to be the last ...

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

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 36 x 42 cm, recent hand-colour, spotting top left, blank verso. A map of Essex engraved to accompany Gi...

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

This map of Cumberland is by Moule, a bookseller, writer on heraldry and publisher who commissioned what is generally considered to be the last rea...

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

This map of Buckinghamshire is from the so-called miniature Speed. This miniature atlas used maps by van den Keere to illustrate a pocket edition o...

This map of Shropshire was engraved to accompany Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, first published in 1695. Condition & Materials Copper ...

This map of Lincolnshire was engraved to accompany Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, first published in 1695. Condition & Materials Coppe...

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

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