T. Laurie Murray was a surveyor, publisher and founder member of the Royal Geographical Society. His major cartographic work was this English county atlas entitled ‘An Atlas of the English Counties’ first published in 1830. It contained forty-four maps engraved by Hoare and Reeves and identifying Murray as publisher. A second edition the following year involved the imprint dates being altered to each plate. This third edition appeared in 1832 in which the county map imprints alone were updated to 1832. The further history of the plates is murky, particularly after they left Murray’s possession. They appear in the hands of William Robson and were separately published although a couple of examples are known bound together without title. Provenance: acquired 1977 for the Donald Hodson collection (1933-2016), carto-bibliographer. Beresiner (1983) pp. 164-5; Carroll (1996) 89; not in Chubb (1927) 419; Smith (1982) pp. 178-9; Tooley’s Dictionary (1999-2004); Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).