William Tunnicliff (fl.1784-96) was a land surveyor and cartographer. In 1787 he began publishing a series of ‘Topographical Surveys’ of individual counties. In that year he was also advertising for employment and it seems that the series was a stop gap to further employment. His earliest maps are of Lancashire, Staffordshire and Cheshire, all smaller in size. Tunnicliff included much industrial information and focused on canals, a feature which was dramatically changing the landscape at the time. Later maps were focused more on the counties to the south and west as here. Indeed the year of this publication 1791 marked the last and included in one volume the counties of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. Offered here is the first part of the volume on Hampshire which includes the main title page and a general map of the south western circuit along with that of Hampshire. Two canals are depicted, that from Basingstoke to the River Wey and Andover to Southampton. Provenance: Old Hall Bookshop. Fordham ‘Roads’ p. 41; Smith ‘The Maps of William Tunnicliff, Reluctant County Map-Maker’, in IMCoS Journal 39 pp. 19-27; Upcott I p. xxvii.