"Shrop Shire", Morden, Robert

Morden’s map of Shropshire is an early county map with roads delineated. It includes interesting detail including the locations of towns, buildings, forests, rivers and parks that are noted by fenced areas. There is a decorative cartouche and two different distance scales. Sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham & John Churchil.

Morden was one of the first English cartographers to show longitudes measured from the meridian of St. Paul's Cathedral (shown in degrees at the bottom of the map) and time in minutes measure locally from the sun (shown at the top). The roads on his maps are based on Ogilby's earlier survey. The Britannia was first published by historian William Camden (1551-1623) in 1586. After the publication of the final edition of Britannia in 1637, the work was not published again until 1695 when Gibson revised and translated the text from the original Latin and included fifty maps, mostly of the English counties, prepared by Robert Morden, replacing the outdated maps of Christopher Saxton. This map is from the subsequent edition of 1722.

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Condition: B+

There is some light offsetting and centerfold toning with a few small ink smudges in the image. Watermarked paper.