Speed, John:: The Countie of Leinster with the Citie of Dublin described [...]

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Speed, John: : The Countie of Leinster with the Citie of Dublin described [...]

Copper engraving, 51.5 x 39 cms, inset view of Dublin, recent hand-colour, restoration to centrefold, English text on verso.

Speed’s inset town plans, some surveyed by himself, taken together in his “Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain” comprise the first collection of town plans of the British Isles. His plan of Dublin is the earliest printed map of the city and was copied by Braun & Hogenberg (among others), who included it in the sixth volume of their monumental “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” published in 1617.

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