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Sometime around 1804 the firm of Darton and Harvey acquired the plates to the series of county maps owned by William Bent and previously published in the ‘Universal Magazine’ between 1791 and 1798. The work was intended for the children’s market which might explain why the atlas is extremely rare. Only the one example is recorded at auction which we acquired. COPAC only records the one example at Cambridge University Library. To this we can add the British Geological Survey: Conybeare. We have also sold one other example over the years to a private collector. The atlas appears in two versions. An early variant issue of the title page records Suffolk twice. In the second included in this example it was corrected to Sussex. The upper board also records the price of 12 Shillings for the atlas in the affixed paper title. Provenance: With the bookplates of Alfred Tomlinson and R. H. Johnstone. Carroll (1996) 53; not in Chubb; Kingsley (1982) 56; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
Maps of the Several Counties and Shires in England
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