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The Travellers Guide being the best Mapp of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales. (England & Wales wall map sections). |
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Description
Engraved map on 12 sheets (of 15): ten larger sheets approximately 285 x 425 mm, two smaller sheets approximately 285 x 200 mm. Overall size if combined: 1425 height x 1050 mm width.
Half compass rose, table of longitude and latitude of principal towns, some fraying to map strip margins, is lacking two smaller portions (East coast of Norfolk & Suffolk and South West Cornwall).
Christopher Saxton published his twenty sheet wall map in 1583. It was re-issued by Cade & Morgan in 1678. Philip Lea acquired the copper plates in about 1685 and re-published the map on a smaller scale designed to be used as a traveling map.
He reduced the map to ten full sheets and four half sheets and removed a great deal of the sea, thus making the map relevant to land-based travelers.
It appears that three of these half sheets are lacking from this example.
Philip Lea re-engraved the plates at least five times during his period of ownership. This example is his 5th and final state and therefore state 7 of a total of nine states.
Philip Lea moved from Poultry to Cheapside in 1687 and remained there until 1700. Following Lea's death, Anne, his widow, re-engraved and re-issued the map with Richard Glynne in 1720, and Thomas & John Bowles & Son repeated this in 1758. Scarce.
Complete title: 'The Travellers Guide being the best Mapp of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales Wherein are Delineated 3000 Towns & Villages more than in any Mapp yet Extent besides ye Notations of Bridges & Rivers &c. To which is added ye Direct and cross Roads according to Mr. Ogilby's late Survey. Described by C. Saxton And now carefully Corrected with New Additions by Phillip Lea'.
Examples of Saxton’s map, in any form, rarely come to market.
Reference: R.W.SHirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, no.137, state 5.
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