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Code: 50423
Author: Owen, John & Bowen, Emanuel
Publisher: Britannia Depicta
Date published: 1720circa
County Map. Copper engraving with later hand colouring. Overall size in hinged off white fully conservation mount and back (so floating freely apart from two pieces of archival tape) : 26.8cms x 34.3cms. Engraved size : 113mm x 183mm. Description of county below map..about 5660 Houses and : The Air is Sharp and Cold by reason of its high situtaion on, the Valleys are very fertile, bredding very good Horses and plenty of Goats. The Soil is stony mountainous and rocky, intermix'd with pleasant Bottoms. Its Cheif Comod(otties) are Flesh, Fish, Fowl and all manner of Grain for the use of Man etc The verso (uncoloured) has the road from Gloucester to Hereford (no 180). Very good condition apart from faint show through from verso in blank areas. Emanuel Bowen, in collaboration with John Owen, engraved the maps for the half-scale reduction of Ogilby's road maps of 1675. The need for a smaller version to take on coach travel was supplied by their Britannia Depicta and was first published in 1720 : The Whole for its Compendious Variety & Exactness, preferable to all other Books of Roads hitherto Published or Proposed ; And calculated not only for the direction of the Traveller (as they are) but the general use of the Gentleman and Tradesman. This set of maps was very popular and had many re-issues and was probably the most successful of the pocket road maps combining as it did individual county maps followed by a set of strip road maps.