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Munster. The Province of Leinster -The Antiquities of England and Wales was first published by Alexander Hogg as a partwork between 1787 and 1789, and subsequently sold as a complete work from c1789. there were 3 later editions, the last in 1798. The work contained a set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin, which had originally been issued in the London Magazine, and several general maps covering Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The maps of North and South Wales, of Ulster and of Northern Scotland with the Orkneys and Shetlands had been used in a previous Hogg publication - The New British Traveller - but the other 3 Scottish maps and 3 Irish Province maps were new. Most were engraved by Thomas Conder, the exception being this map of Munster, engraved by Thomas Conder. It comes from the first complete edition of Boswell's Antiquities... in c1789.