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The maps from Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin’s beautiful ‘Large English Atlas’ were first sold separately and early issues of the work can be found with varying contents. The project began at the hands of the publisher John Hinton before he ran into financial difficulties. They are superb clear and concise engravings. In the history of English county atlases it is hard to think of one with finer quality. Wardington praised the book saying that ‘the size of the plate presented the publishers, the engravers and the printers with as formidable a task as any posed by the finest productions of Louis XIV or XV, the best of the Dutch engravings fifty years earlier, or the Ordnance Survey sheets fifty years later’. Hodson 221 provides a thorough account of the complex history of this atlas, which was finally completed and issued with a title-page in c.1762. This example of the map of Warwickshire is in its fifth state of six. Not in Chubb; Harvey & Thorpe 38; Hodson 223, p. 127 & p. 136 state c.
BOWEN, Emanuel & KITCHIN, Thomas

An New and Accurate Map of Warwickshire, Drawn from the best Surveys and Intelligence Divided into its Hundreds ...

London, c.1762
700 x 525 mm., early outline colour, parallel fold to the centrefold otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 5725

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