This attractive rare view of Exeter was published in Daniel Meisner’s ‘Thesaurus Philo-Politicus’. Published in 1623-30 it ranks among the classic collections of city views alongside those of Sebastian Munster, Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg and Matthaus Merian. Text is supplied by J. L. Gottfried and the plates by Matthaus Merian, Sebastian Furck, and Georg Keller. Each scene displays a foreground message embodying a moral explained below in Latin and German verse. Here the translation is “Evil harms itself”. Meisner (1585-1625) was born in Chomutov in what is now the Czech Republic but little is known of his life. The introduction to this work cites him as a ‘Poeta Laureatus’. An example of the second state as published c.1640. Landwehr no. 426; Tooley’s Dictionary (1999-2004).