COUNTIES OF BRITAIN - Hardcover

John Speed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851451315 ISBN 13: 9781851451319

Publisher: Pavilion, 1992

Synopsis

London, Pavilion Books, 1988, 4to (cm. 31 x 21) legatura tutta tela con fregi e titoli dorati al dorso e sovraccopertina illustrata a colori, pp. 288 completamente illustrato da carte a colori a pagina doppia.

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Synopsis:

This is a new edition of an atlas published in Britain in 1611 under the title "The Theatre of Great Britaine". The cartographer John Speed had been preparing the individual maps since 1596 and they were issued individually before being collected to form "The Theatre" which was intended as the topographical section of Speed's "The History of Great Britaine". When this was completed, it became the earliest published atlas of the British Isles. It was the first to show all the counties of Britain as well as towns, villages and boundaries as they were at the end of the reign of Elizabeth I and contains the first known maps of many English towns and is embellished with a wealth of heraldic decoration, illustrations of battles, antiquities and royal portraits. In his introduction, Nigel Nicolson presents a biography of Speed, outlines the craft of Tudor map-making and puts Speed's atlas into context. Alasdair Hawkyard, Archivist at Harrow School, provides captions to the individual maps, describing topographical and other aspects and enabling the reader to identify how the landscape of Britain has undergone dramatic changes during the past four centuries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pavilion
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1851451315
• ISBN 13: 9781851451319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288