Original Engraved Antique Map of Dorsetshire. Map of Dorset on one side and road map from Gloucester to Worcester on reverse.

BOWEN, E.:

Verlag: ca 1720.

Beschreibung

Unframed and unmounted. Engraved surface: 18 x 11.5 cm. Overall size: 19 x 13.5 cm. (7.5 x 5 inches.) In good condition. Nice neat colouring. Some minor handling marks around edges. Verso a little marked. Some off setting, else good strong impression. Hand coloured on main map side. Strip road map verso-side is uncoloured. Small scale map of Dorset with directions for journey from Bristol to Weymouth, by way of Glastonbury, Martock, Crewkerne. Reverse has road map from Gloucester to Worcester with history and description of Tewkesbury. Pages 154 & 153 from ?Brittania Depicta? - ?Emanuel Bowen was one of the most skilled and prolific engravers of 18th. century. It was an unusual feature of his ?Britannia Depicta? atlas that the maps were engraved on both sides of each page. The maps can be double glazed, thus the customer has a choice of two maps. The publisher of the Atlas was a John Owen, hence the term ?Owen and Bowen? to describe maps from the work. The appreciation rate of this series of maps over the past 20 years has been remarkable? (J.Booth: Looking at old maps). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 93744

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Titel: Original Engraved Antique Map of Dorsetshire...

Verlag: ca 1720.