J. van Langeren T. Jenner A Book of the Names of all Parishes, Market Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Smallest Places in England and Wales 1688-80 (1643)
The history of this road book begins in 1635 when Jacob van Langeren engraved the plates for the first edition published by Matthew Simmons under the title A Direction for the English Traviller. Distance tables dominated each county page, with only tiny thumbnail maps. In 1643 Thomas Jenner published a new edition for which the plates were re-engraved with much larger maps replacing the thumbnails. There were several later editions, some under the changed title A Booke of the Names of all Parishes, Market Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Smallest Places in England and Wales. Maps published under this title have the addition of text below the map, listing places in the county. The work was last published around 1680. Despite the many editions maps from it are not common. This copy dates from an edition of the work between 1668 and 1680.
R. Blome England Exactly Described 1731 (1681)
Blome's smaller series of county maps have a puzzling history. They seem to have been initiated before his larger maps for Britannia, but were not published until 1681 when they appeared under the title Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd. Blome re-issued them twice before his death in 1705, under new titles and sometimes with changed dedications (as was the case with the Surrey map). The plates were subsequently acquired by Thomas Taylor who brought out a new edition in 1715 titled England Exactly Described. The final issue of the work was by Thomas Bakewell in 1731. The presence of plate numbers and roads, and presence of his signature dates this example to the 1731 Bakewell edition of the work. Supplied ready-mounted.
H. Moll A New Description of England and Wales 1724
The absence of a plate number on this map suggests in emanates from the first publication of Moll's county maps together with text as A New Description of England and Wales. It was also shortly afterwards issued in atlas format, for which plate numbers were added. There were several later editions in both formats. The addition of the view of London Bridge to the Surrey map, is an interesting variation of the Roman antiquities which usually decorate the borders. Light foxing, but still an attractive copy, and priced accordingly. Mounted.
The Agreeable Historian was a weekly partwork, intended to be bound into 3 volumes when completed. It was issued in 109 parts beween December 1743 and December 1745, with the final title page being dated 1746. The work was a topographical review of the counties of England, being published by R. Walker, with Samuel Simpson cited as the author.
J. Ellis Ellis's English Atlas 1766 (1765)
Joseph Ellis's English Atlas was an entry into the market for small county atlases by its publishers Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles. The county maps were closely based upon those drawn by Thomas Kitchin for the 1763 topographical work England Illustrated, the major difference being the attractive vignettes which replaced Kitchin's rococco cartouches. The atlas was first published in 1765, and soon became a commercial success, running to many later editions. It was promoted as a travelling atlas, and made available in various formats. These included a version with the maps printed back to back on each page, as with this example from a 1766 edition which has a map of Sussex on the reverse.
The New British Traveller was originally issued as a weekly partwork by the publisher Alexander Hogg, commencing in 1783. Once the series of 60 parts was completed in 1784 title pages were provided for the pages to be bound in a single volume. The work is a topographical review of Great Britain, containing numerous prints and a set of county and general maps. The maps are of varying sizes, being typically arranged 2,3 or 4 to a single page, with adjoining borders. When separated this means individual maps will be trimmed to the border on one or two sides and are often re-margined for mounting and framing. The map of Surrey is re-margined on two sides and sold ready-mounted. The text pages for the county may be available on request at no extra charge.
John Aikin (or Aiken) wrote this topographical work for children in order "to make my young countrymen better acquainted than they are usually found to be with their native land". The first edition of 1788 did not include county maps, but these were added for the second edition of 1790, from which this example comes. The work was published by Joseph Johnson, but the maps are unsigned. There were four later editions of the book with the maps, and one without. The Surrey map is fairly simple, befitting the needs of its target audience, and the text may be available at no extra charge.
B. Capper Topographical Dictionary of the UK 1808
Benjamin Pitts Capper was the author of this topographical directory, first published by R. Phillips in 1808. The maps were engraved, and possibly drawn by H. Cooper. Later editions of the work carry the imprint of G.and W.B. Whittaker who re-published the book from 1825-34. This example is from the first edition of 1808, with the hundreds shown in original, full wash colour.
C. Smith New English Atlas (reduced maps) 1828/1833 (1822)
In 1822 Charles Smith issued a county atlas with maps based on his larger county maps which had been in circulation for over 20 years. The new maps were smaller in scale, but the atlas bore the same title as that in which his larger maps appeared. They are clearly drawn and engraved, but although there were several editions of the atlas, they are today amongst the rarer of the 18th century county maps. This example is from the edition of 1828 or 1833, in which the maps have no date in the imprint, but before railways were added for the edition of 1844. Original outline colour.
T. Dix W. Darton Sold individually in card covers titled simply "Surrey" c1835 (1822)
Thomas Dix initiated this atlas project some time around 1816, but after his death it was carried on to completion by the publisher William Darton. The finished atlas (titled A Complete Atlas of the English Counties) was issued in 1822, though first editions of individual maps bear various dates between 1816 and 1821. The atlas was re-published in 1835 under a new title and with a number of changes to the maps. Around this time the maps were also offered for sale individually, dissected and linen-backed, and folding into card covers, as with this example. They are very attractive, with topographical vignettes and in original full wash colour, and are relatively scarce.
The Greenwoods surveyed all the counties from 1817-33 for their beautifully engraved county atlas finally published in 1834. Maps were also sold singly as produced. The Surrey map is corrected to 1829, and this example's centrefold suggests it was sold in atlas format. Original full wash colour. The maps has a number repairs - mostly to marginal tears, but also to one longer tear entering the left-hand border by 14cms. These have been professionally done, and strengthened by the whole map being laid down onto another matching sheet of paper. The map would still mount up and frame well, with most of these repairs then not being seen. Priced accordingly.
T. Murray An Atlas of the English Counties 1830
The title page of Murray's county atlas states that the maps were "Projected on the basis of the Trigonometrical Survey by order of the hon.ble The Board of Ordnance, under the superindendance of T.L. Murray". This might seem to imply the project had at least the official blessing, if not the active involvement of the Ordnance Survey, but is more likely to be a marketing puff. D. Hodson has suggested that the maps were copied from those of William Ebden published from 1825-8, both sets also being engraved by the same firm of Hoare & Reeves. Murray's Atlas was first published in 1830, with second and third editions in 1831 and 1832, the latter with the adddition of electoral data. by 1838 the plates had been acquired by W. Robson & Co. who published and sold the maps individually, and also used them in their commercial directories. This example is from the first edition of 1830. Original colour. Two repaired tears, just entering border, a printer's crease, and restoration to top-right corner margin. Priced accordingly.
Between 1832 and 1834 Joshua Archer engraved a set of maps for the serialised partwork Pinnock's Guide to Knowledge. The maps were unusual in being relief printed from wooden blocks to give a "white on black" presentation. In 1847 amended versions of the maps were re-issued in Thomas Johnson's county atlas. Various changes were made to the wood blocks (including a new "piano key" border, and the addition of railways), and printing was by lithographic transfer to give a more conventional and easier to read "black on white" presentation. The amended maps from Johnson's atlas are today something of a rarity. This example is in original wash colour and in nice condition.
Benjamin Rees Davies first drew this map for the Weekly Dispatch newspaper as part of a series published between 1857 and 1863. The maps were then re-issued in a complete work as The Dispatch Atlas in 1863, before the plates were acquired by the firm of Cassell, Petter and Galpin. They re-issued them as Cassell's Complete Atlas in 1863 and again in 1865, with the addition of statistical information, in Cassell's British Atlas, and in Cassell's Topographical Guides to individual counties. Old folds to this example suggest it is from the guide to Surrey. All editions of the maps were by lithographic transfer. Repaired tear impinging c5.5cms inside the right-hand border, and other minor repairs to marginal nicks not impinging the printed area.
E. Bowen Large English Atlas 1750-60 (1750)
A detailed and most interesting map. This new series of maps was begun in 1749, with maps being sold singly until the last counties were completed and the full series issued in 1760 as the Large English Atlas. Surrey was first issued in 1750. The publishers' names on the imprint are John Tinney, Robert Sayer, John Bowles and Thomas Bowles, which dates this example to c1755 - 1760. The remains of the guard on the verso suggests the first atlas edition of 1760 as the most likely date. Recently coloured - a new image can be sent on request. A repair to bottom centrefold and a few small nibble to the outer margins. Slight age toning to the paper.
J. Lodge Untitled Atlas of the English Counties c1795
This was one of a set of county maps engraved by John Lodge and issued between 1787 and 1790 in The Political Magazine, and Parliamentary, Naval, Military and Literary Journal, published initially by John Murray, and later by R. Butters. The maps were subsequently collected together and re-issued as an atlas (without title page) around 1795. For this atlas edition the imprint with the publication date and engraver's and publisher's signatures was removed from the maps. This example is from the atlas edition. The maps are well engraved in the plainer style then coming into vogue. They are uncommon, and sought by collectors.
This detailed and well engraved map was one of a set first published around 1812-14 by Robert Rowe, who was probably also their draftsman and engraver. The maps were initially sold singly in folding format until their collective issue in 1816 as The English Atlas. The plates were later acquired by Henry Teesdale, who amended titles and imprints and re-issued the work as the New British Atlas in 1829, with several re-issues up to 1842. The plates were later acquired and used by H.G. Collins and then by G. Philip and Son, who both used them as the base for lithographic transfers for a variety of works up to c1860. This example is from the 1830 second edition of Teesdale's atlas. Original wash colour.
This work was published by Samuel Lewis to show the new electoral changes wrought by the 1832 Reform Act. The cartographer was R. Creighton and the maps were engraved by J. and C. Walker. Original colour
C. Walker Letts Popular County Atlas 1884 (1837)
This map was engraved by J. & C. Walker, and first appeared in their British Atlas of 1837. Lithographic transfers were later taken for Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas, and in 1884 for Letts Popular County Atlas. Two repaired tears at or near lower centrefold inpinging c2 cms within the border.
J. Seller Camden's Britannia Abridg'd 1701 (c1695)
First published in Anglia Contracta in c1695, John Seller's maps were subsequently reissued in A History of England in 1696, and in Camden's Britannia Abridg'd in 1701. They were later re-used in the 1780's in Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales, for which titles and scale-bars were changed, the maps also being set in a page of text. The Seller/Grose maps are common, the originals by Seller much less so. This example of the Surrey map is from Camden's Britannia Abridg'd published in 1701. Modern hand colour.
W. Mackenzie The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1894
Weller's map was printed by lithographic transfer for this gazetteer edited by J. Brabner and published by Mackenzie in it's first and only edition in c1894. Original printed colour.
J. Virtue The National Gazetteer 1873 or 1875 (1868)
William Hughes provided the maps, reproduced by lithographic transfer, for this Gazetter which was first published by Virtue in 1868. This example is from the 1873 (third) or 1875 (4th) editions to which coloured overprints were added to show county divisions. Minor repairs to lower centrefold, and to another marginal tear not impinging the printed area.
J. Edwards A Companion from London to Brighthelmston 1793
This work by James Edwards was begun in 1787 and took around 20 years to complete, being issued in parts over that period, and as a complete work in c1797-9. The maps were based on original survey work by Edwards himself, who also acted as engraver and publisher. The 9 maps covering the route, are at the large scale of 2 inches to the mile, allowing scope for good detail, and are sectional rather than strip road maps. The work also contained town plans of Steyning, New Shoreham and Lewes. It was re-published, again in parts from 1817 to 1820 under the title Edwards's Topographical Surveys Through Surrey, Sussex and Kent, for which the maps were updated. This is sheet TP1V, dated 1793, covering the route from Effingham to Guildford via the Horsleys and East Clandon, but also showing the country up to 3 miles either side of the route including villages such as Send, Little Bookham, Shalford, Albury, Shere and Abinger Hammer. A couple of repairs to marginal tears. A rare item.
James Wallis's New British Atlas was first published in 1813 by S.A. Oddy. There was a second edition in 1816. This example is from the first edition and is dated 1812 on the imprint. It is in attractive, original, full wash colour, and in good condition.
Benjamin Rees Davies first drew this map for the Weekly Dispatch newspaper as part of a series published between 1857 and 1863. The subsequent history of the maps includes re-issues in The Dispatch Atlas in 1863, Cassell's Complete Atlas in 1863, Cassell's British Atlas in 1865, Bacon's County Atlas in 1869, and Bacon's New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas from 1883. This example is dated from railway evidence to one of the editions of the last-named between 1884 and 1887. All editions of the maps were by lithographic transfer. Original printed colour
Antonio Zatta was a Venetian publisher and his world atlas, the Atlante Novissimo (New Atlas) was his greatest claim to fame. It was issued in 4 volumes between the years 1779 and 1785, each volume bearing a different date. The work contained maps of just 4 English counties - Surry, Kent, Essex and Middlesex - which all appeared in Volume I, issued in 1779. They were drawn by G. Petteri and engraved by G. Zuliani, and are generally found, as here, with sparse original colour. Uncommon.
Cowley's Surrey map was one of a set of 52 maps of the English and Welsh counties issued in a topographical work, The Geography of England. The book was published by R. Dodsley, and its title page is dated 1744, though other evidence suggests an actual publication date of November 1743. The 52 maps were re-issued in 1745 and 1748 as a county atlas without text under the title A New Sett of Pocket Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales. The maps are uncommon. Slight overall toning.
T. Kitchin The Antiquities of England and Wales c1789 (1750)
This map was first published in the March 1750 edition of the London Magazine, which between 1747 and 1754 issued a complete set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin. The maps were later re-published by Alexander Hogg in Boswell's Antiquities of England & Wales, initially in partwork from c 1787-9, and then in several complete editions of the work up to 1798. This example of the Surrey map is from the first complete edition of Boswell's Antiquities dating from c1789.
Kitchin's Pocket Atlas was based on the novel concept of drawing all the county maps to a common scale. Whilst this provided a better illustation of counties' relative sizes, it meant that the overall sizes of the maps varied considerably. Smaller maps shared pages where this was practical within an alphabetical county arrangement, Surrey appearing on the same page as the map of the Scilly Isles. The atlas was not commercially successful and Kitchin issued no further editions, although the plates were later acquired by Carington Bowles who re-issued the work as Bowles's Pocket Atlas around 1778. The maps are today quite rare.
A. Fullarton Bell's New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1824
These maps were first published in partwork by Fullarton and Co. in 1833-34 in James Bell's New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales. The complete work was subsequently re-issued three times in 1834, 1836 and 1837. They were later re-published (again by Fullarton) in 1840 in The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales, with several further re-issues up to 1849. The maps were engraved on steel and sometimes bear the name of the engraver and sometimes not. This example is from the 1834 edition of Bell's Gazetteer and bears the signature of R. Scott as engraver. Modern colour.
J. Edwards A Companion from London to Brighthelmston 1787
This work by James Edwards was begun in 1787 and took around 20 years to complete, being issued in parts over that period, and as a complete work in c1797-9. The maps were based on original survey work by Edwards himself, who also acted as engraver and publisher. The 9 maps covering the route, are at the large scale of 2 inches to the mile, allowing scope for good detail, and are sectional rather than strip road maps. The work also contained town plans of Steyning, New Shoreham and Lewes. It was re-published, again in parts from 1817 to 1820 under the title Edwards's Topographical Surveys Through Surrey, Sussex and Kent, for which the maps were updated. This sheet, dated 1787, is not one of the main route maps, but an ancilliary sheet covering two ancient hill forts just off the main route, and the road from Abinger to Ockham Glebe and beyond, on which Homeborough Camp lies. An unobtrusive ex-library blind stamp to the bottom left corner and a small repaired hole just above the mileage scale. A rare item.
The Small English Atlas was initially published, from November 1748, as a weekly partwork, by a consortium of 8 partners.The project was, however, soon taken over by Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys, who first issued the atlas as a complete work in 1749. The individual maps generally appear in two or three states, with plate numbers being added some time during the life of the 1751 edition. Before 1775 the printing plates became the property of Robert Sayer, John Bennet, and John and Carington Bowles, and several further editions of the work were sold by them and their successors until around 1825. Despite this, the maps are far from commonplace on today's market. This copy of the Surrey map is in its first state, and dates from the editions of 1749 or 1751, before plate numbers weree added to later issues. Original outline colour.
This map first appeared in 1767 in the Atlas Anglicanus, published by Thomas Kitchin with maps engraved by Emanuel and Thomas Bowen. The maps copied the Large English Atlas in style, with rococo cartouches, and topographical notes surrounding the maps. The maps for the Atlas Anglicanus were first issued in monthly partworks between 1767 and 1768 before the complete atlas followed in 1768. Emanuel Bowen's name alone appears on some maps, but his son Thomas is also credited as co-author on 33 maps. Emanuel died in early 1767.. There was a second edition of the atlas in c1777, before the plates passed to Carington Bowles and were updated and re-issued as Bowles' New Medium English Atlas in 1785. On Bowles' death the plates passed to his business successors, trading as Bowles and Carver, who re-issued the atlas sometime after 1793 with their own imprint as proprietors on individual maps. The Atlas Anglicanus was not a commercial success and maps from it are not commonly found. This example bears the signature of Bowles & Carver, and is the final state issued some time post 1793. Original wash colour. The verso shows signs of old paste, suggesting it was possibly once laid down, but the image is unaffected. Uncommon.
E. Bowen The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences/The Natural History of England 1756
This map first appeared in the April 1756 number of Benjamin Martin's General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, a monthly partwork which between 1755 and 1762 included a series of county maps. The magazine's format was novel, each issue covering 5 (later 6) subject areas. The intention was that all those parts relating to any one subject could later be rebound into subject volumes, for which individual title pages would be issued. In 1763 title pages for a two volume set were issued for those parts relating to natural history. Subscribers could then, if so desired, rebind their original partworks, and new purchasers could purchase the completed work under the title, The Natural History of England. There were no later re-issues and the maps are today not common.
This distance chart, showing the mileages between the main towns of Surrey, was part of the county entry which first appeared in the November 1728 number of this serialised topographical partwork . John Morphew was the publisher of the work, but the engraver of the distance chart is unknown. The chart also includes the coats of arms of the six county boroughs. Modern colour. Supplied mounted.