Large and attractive map of Shropshire with a detailed and decorative vignette view of Shrewbury lower left. During the eighteenth century each county map was a separate project sponsored by the local gentry. By 1800 nearly all English counties had been surveyed. In the early nineteenth century ...

Dimensions (W x H): 73.5 x 63 / 29 x 25

Attractive map of Shropshire, divided into its hundreds. Title in decorative cartouche at top right. Morden’s maps for Camden’s Britannia were a landmark in British mapmaking. In response to public demand, the smaller Morden atlas, The Magna Britannia was published in 1702. These small Morden maps ...

Dimensions (W x H): 16.5 x 22 / 6½ x 8½

Beautiful map of Shropshire, coloured by the hundreds of the county.

Dimensions (W x H): 43 x 36 / 17 x 14

Border coats of arms and vignettes in black and white

Dimensions (W x H): 20.5 x 26 / 8 x 10

Ornamental cartouche,shows the forests and the hills, the hundreds of the county are in outline colour

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 36 / 16½ x 14

This is from a later edition of the Walker Brothers famous beautifully engraved The British Atlas of 1837. ‘An interesting feature is that the maps were usually issued with all railways built marked in red by hand. Often these red railways are more extensive than lines actually engraved on the maps ...

Dimensions (W x H): 32.2 x 39.3 / 12½ x 15½

A beautiful little map from this early nineteenth-century traveller’s companion, that gave accurate and detailed road information - routes, distances, turnpikes - on all major routes out of London.

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 29 / 10 x 11½