Speed's Map Featuring London
"Midle-Sex Described with the Most Famous Cities of London and Westminster", Speed, John
Subject: Southeastern England, London
Period: 1713 (circa)
Publication: England Fully Described in a Compleat Sett of Mapps
Color: Black & White
Size:
19.6 x 14.9 inches
49.8 x 37.8 cm
This superb map of Middlesex extends to include portions of Berkshire, Hartford, Surrey, Kent and Essex with the Thames River prominently depicted. Flanking the main map are insets of London and Westminster at top and engravings of St. Peter's and St. Paul's Cathedrals at bottom. Decorated by an elegant distance scale in English Miles and partial compass rose. Considered one of the most decorative maps of the region. Imprint at bottom reads "Described by John Norden, Agumented by J. Speed, Sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate London." Jodocus Hondius is identified as the engraver just above the bottom neat line. Blank verso.
References: Shirley (BL Atlases) T.SPE-1l.
Condition: B+
A nice impression on a sheet with a Strasbourg bend & lily watermark with a few faint spots and archivally repaired centerfold separations at top and bottom.
