An early plan of the town of Newport in the Isle of Wight. It is from the first printed book of town plans of the British Isles. Rutger Hermannides was a Professor of History at the University of Harderwijk in Holland. The ‘Britannia Magna’ published in 1661, was a text drawn largely from William Camden’s ‘Britannia’ and like that work first issued in Latin. This is divided by country and then individual counties. To illustrate the work, he chose a fine series of town plans which are almost entirely derived from the insets on John Speed’s county maps, here bearing the town’s coat-of-arms. Not in Chubb (1927); Fordham (1965) p. 9; Shirley (1988); Shirley (2004) T.Her 1a; not in Skelton (1970).