Buy this book on-line BOWEN, Emanuel & KITCHIN, Thomas : An Accurate Map of Northamptonshire Divided into its Hundreds
J. Bowles, R. Sayer & C. Bowles, London, c.1764
700 x 530 mm., in early outline colour, with mild paper crease, a good strong impression
The maps from Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin’s beautiful 'Large English Atlas' were first sold separately and early issues of the work can be found with varying contents. The project began at the hands of the publisher John Hinton before he ran into financial difficulties. They are superb clear and concise engravings. In the history of English county atlases it is hard to think of one with finer quality. Wardington praised the book saying that ‘the size of the plate presented the publishers, the engravers and the printers with as formidable a task as any posed by the finest productions of Louis XIV or XV, the best of the Dutch engravings fifty years earlier, or the Ordnance Survey sheets fifty years later’. Hodson 221 provides a thorough account of the complex history of this atlas, which was finally completed and issued with a title-page in c.1762. This example of the map of Northamptonshire is in its seventh state of nine. Not in Chubb; Hodson 223, p. 127 & p. 133 state f.
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