Copperplate

London Environs. This map was, as the title suggests, was based on actual survey work by Andrew Dury, and jointly published by Dury and Carington Bowles in 1771. It was then titled as "Bowles and Dury's Environs of London…", but for the second edition of 1775 Dury must have sold his rights in the venture as his name was dropped from the title and publisher's imprint. There was a third and final edition of the map in c1785. The scale is half an inch to the mile, and the extent of its coverage includes Luton, Canvey Island, Bletchingley and Marlow, some 30 miles out from central London. This example is the second edition of 1775, and is dissected into 32 , linen-backed segments, folding into a (slightly tatty) slip case. The colouring is original. The map is listed as no. 154 in Darlington & Howgego's "Printed Maps of London".