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A rare full colour map of Wales by John Speed, 1610
John Speed (1551/2–1629), an English historian and renowned cartographer, published his ‘Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain’ in 1611.
The second of this work’s four volumes covered Wales and included this map of Wales (dated 1610) along with individual maps of the 13 Welsh counties. Speed’s ‘Theatre’ was extremely successful, and its maps became the basis for folio atlases produced up to the mid-18th century.
YEAR: 1610
CARTOGRAPHER: John Speed
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