This is one of the most attractive early eighteenth century maps of England and Wales published. It is here offered in remarkably good condition as it so often suffers at the double fold. Along with other two-sheet maps published by Herman Moll at the time the maps for this atlas were all first separately published. Indeed early issues of the atlas lack any title at all. It would come to be called ‘The World Described’. The earliest collection appears to date from 1710 and resides in the Royal Geographical Society, London. The map bears alphabetical tables of the towns on either side. All of the major post roads and high roads are depicted along with a number of minor roads not found in Ogilby’s ‘Britannia’ which is proudly claimed by Moll on the map. This clean example bears the imprints of Moll, John Bowles, Thomas Bowles, and Philip Overton. Shirley Moll 6 state 4; Shirley ‘Atlases in the British Library’ T.Moll 4a no. 11; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).