Bowen & Owen’s Map of Gloucestershire
SKU: 7892
£100.00
Title:
Bowen & Owen’s Map of Gloucestershire
Date of publication:
c.1720
Printed Measurement:
18 x 12 cm
Colour:
modern
Mapmaker(s):
Engraver(s):
Emanuel Bowen
Gloucestershire.
Copper engraving, 18 x 12 cm, recent hand-colour, b/w strip-maps on verso. A map of Gloucestershire 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.