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 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.
Condition & Materials
Copper engraving, 18 x 12 cm, modern hand-colour, light staining to lower margin and top right conrner, black and white strip-maps on verso.
