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Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: enquiries@caburden.com
This great map in its FIRST AVAILABLE STATE is otherwise known as the Quartermaster’s Map. This is because of the title referring to its usefulness to ‘all Comanders for Quarteringe of Souldiers, & all sorts of Persons, that would be informed, Where the Armies be; never so Commodiously drawne before this. 1644’. It was as stated used widely during the English Civil War particularly by the Parliamentarians with whom the publisher Thomas Jenner’s sympathies lay.
Jenner (fl. c.1618-73, d.1673) was a print and map seller who set up in business at the White Bear in Cornhill about 1618. Until the impending Civil War Jenner was not known for cartographic material. Then in 1643 he published a revised edition of the Direction for the English Traviller whose plates he had acquired from his printer Matthew Simmons. Jenner had timed his move perfectly. Demand for maps and tools to help the large numbers of people moving about the country at the time of the Civil War was on the increase. The market for the little atlas clearly proved so great that he was attracted to do more. He engaged the services of the noted engraver Wenceslaus Hollar to etch a reduction of Christopher Saxton’s great wall map of 1583. This would enable his customers to have a more detailed and yet still portable map of England and Wales.
Hollar (1607-77) is described by Pennington in glowing terms: ‘Of all etchers, Hollar is certainly the most varied in subject, one of the most accomplished in technique, and with a style that is full of a charm, a humour, and a good nature that are evidently the character of the man himself’. He was born in Prague and made his way to England in the party of Lord Arundel arriving in London in late December 1636. By 1644 Hollar had already done some work for Jenner which included working on at least two of the re-engraved plates for the Direction for the English Traviller published in 1643.
The published history of the Quartermaster’s Map is long and complicated extending to 1824. Its earliest form is considered that which bears the date 1644 on the title. This was revised for the second edition in 1671. Of the 1644 edition recent studies have highlighted three issues. The first survives in just the one example and the difference occurs on sheet 6 only. The example offered here matches the second issue which was clearly available very soon after first publication. In this early form none of the sheets bears any imprint but each has its own title. This confirms their availability as individual sheets.
The map was made available in three different forms. Firstly as a made up wall map, secondly bound into a book and thirdly as offered here with each sheet folded and loosely contained within a leather binding. There was an additional seventh engraving which contained three further maps of ‘extensions’. These were maps of the Isle of Man, part of Lincolnshire which were not covered properly on the other sheets and one which included Land’s End. The latter is here pasted to the edge of sheet 5 in its correct place. A very fine example of an historically fascinating item, a rare survivor of one of the most difficult periods in English History. Harley & Skelton (1972); Pennington (1982) 652-7; Shirley (1980) no. 537; Wing H2447.
Jenner (fl. c.1618-73, d.1673) was a print and map seller who set up in business at the White Bear in Cornhill about 1618. Until the impending Civil War Jenner was not known for cartographic material. Then in 1643 he published a revised edition of the Direction for the English Traviller whose plates he had acquired from his printer Matthew Simmons. Jenner had timed his move perfectly. Demand for maps and tools to help the large numbers of people moving about the country at the time of the Civil War was on the increase. The market for the little atlas clearly proved so great that he was attracted to do more. He engaged the services of the noted engraver Wenceslaus Hollar to etch a reduction of Christopher Saxton’s great wall map of 1583. This would enable his customers to have a more detailed and yet still portable map of England and Wales.
Hollar (1607-77) is described by Pennington in glowing terms: ‘Of all etchers, Hollar is certainly the most varied in subject, one of the most accomplished in technique, and with a style that is full of a charm, a humour, and a good nature that are evidently the character of the man himself’. He was born in Prague and made his way to England in the party of Lord Arundel arriving in London in late December 1636. By 1644 Hollar had already done some work for Jenner which included working on at least two of the re-engraved plates for the Direction for the English Traviller published in 1643.
The published history of the Quartermaster’s Map is long and complicated extending to 1824. Its earliest form is considered that which bears the date 1644 on the title. This was revised for the second edition in 1671. Of the 1644 edition recent studies have highlighted three issues. The first survives in just the one example and the difference occurs on sheet 6 only. The example offered here matches the second issue which was clearly available very soon after first publication. In this early form none of the sheets bears any imprint but each has its own title. This confirms their availability as individual sheets.
The map was made available in three different forms. Firstly as a made up wall map, secondly bound into a book and thirdly as offered here with each sheet folded and loosely contained within a leather binding. There was an additional seventh engraving which contained three further maps of ‘extensions’. These were maps of the Isle of Man, part of Lincolnshire which were not covered properly on the other sheets and one which included Land’s End. The latter is here pasted to the edge of sheet 5 in its correct place. A very fine example of an historically fascinating item, a rare survivor of one of the most difficult periods in English History. Harley & Skelton (1972); Pennington (1982) 652-7; Shirley (1980) no. 537; Wing H2447.
JENNER, Thomas
The Kingdome of England, & Principality of Wales, Exactly Described Whi=th every Sheere, & the small townes in every one of them, in Six Mappes, Portable for every Mans Pocket ...
London, 1644
Tall octavo (210 x 80 mm.), full early calf, some wear professionally repaired, with two contemporary clasps, lacking. The engraved title was pasted inside upper board and spine and suffered accordingly with some wear and minor loss as usual, now repaired and loose with the maps. Enclosing like a binding six loose folding maps, as issued. Each varying in height from 275 to 410 mm. and with a width of about 510 mm. Each map very professionally strengthened at the double folds where there is on occasion minimal loss. All in early outline colour.
Stock number: 5016
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