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175 x 210 mm., with accompanying text, slight stain lower left margin, otherwise in good condition.
Robert Morden was by 1701 a successful publisher on the London scene. His most notable cartographic contribution to date were arguably the county maps for Gibson's edition of Camden's 'Britannia' in 1695. A smaller more manageable atlas seemed to be called for and in 1701 he teemed up with Thomas Cockeril and Ralph Smith to produce 'The New Description and State of England'. Morden contributed 54 small maps known as miniature Morden's. The work was issued in differing formats in the same year, and both were re-published in 1704. In 1708 they appeared under the title of 'Fifty Six New and Accurate Maps' which was in fact 57! There final publication 1720-31 was printed by Elizabeth Nutt, and sold by Thos Cox in a six volume work entitled 'Magna Britannia', this was re-issued finally in 1739. Throughout the plates remained unaltered. This map is accompanied by the descriptive text and comes from the octavo edition of either 1701, 1704 or 1708. Hodson 125; Skelton 123.
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60 x 95 mm., in good condition.
FIRST STATE. A nice example of a very rare cartographic playing card. Robert Morden's cards usually come in two states, this is an example of the first before the addition of neighbouring counties. It was first advertised in the ‘Term Catalogues’ for Easter Term 1676 as ‘The 52 Countries [sic] of England and Wales, described in a Pack of Cards … Sold by Robert Morden at the Atlas in Cornhill, Will. Berry at the Globe in the Strand, Robert Green in Budge Row, and George Minikin at the King’s Head in S. Martin’s.’ The second state was advertised in the ‘Term Catalogues’ for October of the same year, 1676.Following the Restoration of King Charles II there was much renewed interest in the pleasures of life in England after the puritan values of the Cromwell era. Amongst these was a keen desire for gaming, including the use of packs of cards. Geographical cards had been issued before this date but they usually constituted descriptive text with or without a small illustration of some kind; for example, those of H. Winstanley in 1665. The mid-1670s saw a rush of cards bearing maps. Arber (1903-06) I. 263; Mann & Kingsley (1972) p. 26; Skelton (1970) no. 94; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
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