Copper engraved map, finely hand-coloured. 15 x 11 inches. Title, upper central panel. Numbered key to hundreds, dated 1605, upper right panel. Scale of miles. Johannes Norden deliniauit above, William Kip, Sculpsit, below. Compass rose lower right, in Britannici Maris pars. [Pl no.] 11 appears lower left. Backed on to two sheets of paper. Small tear to upper left corner (Parte of Middlesex) and lower centre left (Sussex), before backing. Early fold line in centre, otherwise fine condition. The so-called 'Saxton-Kip' maps appeared in editions of Camden's Britannia from 1607 and were based on Christopher Saxton's great county atlas of 1579. This map of Kent, drawn in 1605, was based on a survey by John Norden (c.1547-1625), the surveyor and cartographer and engraved by William Kip (fl.1585-1618). The engraving is typical of the early seventeenth century with a fine compass rose in the English Channel and scroll work cartouches around the title and list of hundreds. The 1607 Britannia (which included six of Norden's county maps and thirty-four Norden and Saxton maps engraved by Kip) was the sixth and last Latin edition (first, 1586). The last to be published in Camden's lifetime, it has been described as the first true English county atlas. The plate no. 11 indicates that this map was prepared for insertion in the 1610 edition of Camden, the first in English, the plate numbers being added before 1622, although the 1610 text continued to be used unaltered until the 1637 edition, which included the same maps. This map includes some interesting details in the Romney Marsh area, commenting on Denge Marshe, 'Holme or hollye growing to great trees on the mayn beach.' It also indicates the 'Vindelis Insula Old Winchelsey whose ruynes lurk unseen under the sea waues' (Sussex). An attractive copy of this early map of Kent. KENT MAPS KENT MAPS- 17TH CENTURY KENT Skelton, 6. O'Shea Gallery, Kent and the Channel, 15. Burden, Catalogue V (2010), 17. Burgess, Printed Maps of Kent, 8/ii. Seller Inventory # 20615

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Title: CANTIUM QUOD NUNC KENT.

Publisher: [George Bishop, John Norton, London].

Publication Date: 1610

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Founded by Patrick Marrin's father George in 1946, Marrin's Bookshop has been based in its current Folkestone location since 1963. Patrick has worked in bookselling since 1970. As well as rare antiquarian books, maps and prints, the stock includes a wide range of literature, library sets, travel, history and illustrated books in all fields. We also offer a bookbinding and restoration service. Visitors to the shop are welcome and we exhibit at UK book fairs. A large proportion of our stock can be searched on this website, or at http://www.marrinbook.co.uk.

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