The Countie of Radnor Described, and the Shyretownes Sittuatione

Name: The Countie of Radnor Described, and the Shyretownes Sittuatione
Author: Speed (John)

Book Description

engraved map by Jodocus Hondius, 390 x 510 mm. (15 1/4 x 20 in), English text on verso with woodcut initial by John Legatt for William Humble, slight splitting at foot of central vertical fold, a presumably contemporary, perfectly matching, printed horizontal strip of the map overlaid across the lower right corner from the engraved border west to include the first K in ‘Breknoke’, and extending vertically from the lower three quarters of the compass rose down to include ‘The Scale of Miles’ in the panel below, slight browning and faint pale offsetting

Dealer Notes

county map of Radnorshire in east central Wales, bordering with Shropshire and Herefordshire in England, the map with strapwork cartouches and ornament to each corner, comprising a town plan of Radnor, upper left, the royal arms upper right, scale cartouche surmounted by a large compass rose lower right, and the title cartouche lower left

Author Speed (John)

Date [1646]

Publisher imprint of John Subdbury and George Humble [but William Humble]

Price: £225.00

Offered by Robert Hall Pictures

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