This is the second edition of the “Direction for the English Traviller” although here published by John Garrett. The plates began life under Mathew Simmons who is most associated with printing John Milton’s works. In 1635 he published his one and only cartographic work “A Direction for the English Traviller”. Known famously as the thumb nail maps due to their size the three editions of this work are all exceedingly scarce. The maps were engraved by Jacob van Langeren and incorporated into a plate containing a distance table for the county, an invention of John Norden’s in 1625. In 1643 Thomas Jenner published an improved edition with four extra folding plates, three of which were maps of England, Wales and Yorkshire. For this edition the van Langeren maps were re-engraved slightly larger. In 1649 he added descriptive typographic text and published it as “A Booke of the Names of all the Hundreds”, of which only one complete example is known. The c.1680 edition cited by Skelton has been proved to be erroneous by Hodson in his thesis on John Ogilby. ‘In all these example the title-page has not printed completely: the bottom of the plate was apparently not inked so that here the border line and final three lines of text are missing. In each case, however, traces of the wording appear. This misled Skelton into the belief that the inked and the un-inked variants represented two separate editions.’ Provenance: private English collection. Bennett (1996) p. 8; Hodson (2000); Shirley BL T.Lang 1m; Skelton 99; Wing D1528.