Morden, Robert - The North Riding of Yorkshire 1st edition 1695

Code: 53474

Date: 1695. 1st edition

1st.Edition. Copper engraving; later hand colouring. Title cartouche, scale of miles. Overall size : 42.6cm.x 38.8cm. Image size : 414mm.x 360mm. Centre fold as issued. Grey mark bottom left between scale of miles and Coverhead, small archival repair top and bottom of centrefold on verso and two brown marks in bottom left blank area .

Robert Morden died in 1703, so this is the only edition of his most famous maps that were published in his lifetime.  These maps are the first county maps to show roads ( based on Ogilby’s road maps ) and show three scales representing great, middle and small miles as different scales were used in different parts of the country.    The extremely rare John Bill maps of the 1620’s were the first to carry latitude and longitude  which Morden shows here too : longitude (measured from the meridian of St. Paul’s Cathedral) given in the form of time in minutes at the top of the map , usually in Roman numerals, and at the bottom in degrees.