New Map of the County of Monmouth divided into Hundreds by Ordnance Survey

Code: 53545

Date: 1808

2nd edition.   Copper engraving with original full wash hand colouring. Below the title, top left, is a compass indicator and the explanation Jones and Smith sculp 14 Beaufort Buildings, Strand; above the compass : January 6th 1804,   Smith and Jones (Jones being the engraver) became the unacknowledged basis for many later maps of Monmouthshire.  There is a key or ‘explanation’ bottom left showing that the map marks turnpike roads, churches and chapels and parks .  Unmounted.  Overall size : 54cms  x 63.6 cms. Image size: 450 x 500mm.  Central crease as published.   One slight separation at the edge of centrefold on right side and three faint green marks in the Bristol Channel else very good condition.