This impressively detailed steel engraved map of Suffolk is the work of the Greenwood brothers, Christopher and John. Beginning in 1817, the Greenwoods embarked on an ambitious project to survey the counties of England and Wales, with the aim of producing a series of maps of the region at a one-inch scale. Although their outsized goals were tempered by competition from the likes of the Ordnance Survey and fellow surveyor Andrew Bryant, they nonetheless produced numerous large-scale maps of the counties. Their Atlas of the Counties of England, published in 1834, collected their maps, each decorated with a vignette displaying a notable building in the area.

The Greenwoods' map of Suffolk divides the county into 72 Hundreds and shows market towns, parishes, villages, turnpike roads, churches, castles, canals, railways, woods, parks, hills, wind and water mills, rivers, and more. The listing of Hundreds is located at bottom left. At bottom right is a lovely illustration of Chichester Cathedral. Engraved with brilliant attention to detail by H. Frost.

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Condition: B+

Contemporary color on a sturdy sheet with "J Whatman 1836" watermark. There is light toning and archivally repaired centerfold separations at top and bottom, the latter of which extends 1.5" into the image.