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WALES – JOHN SPEED, 1610

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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

NORTH WALES 1787

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Map of North Wales by John Cary, year 1787. Old Plan Chart.

The map is part of “Cary’s New Correct English Atlas”. Published by John Cary, London

SOUTH WALES 1787

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Map of South Wales. It is an 18th-century finely engraved and accurate map, which appeared in John Cary’s New & Correct English Atlas (London: J. Cary, 1787/1788).

CARTOGRAPHER: John Cary

YEAR: 1787

ENGLAND AND WALES 1851

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An attractive and decorative map of England and Wales, 1851.

Illustrated with vignette engravings of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland Bridge, Oxford, Doncaster Racecourse, London, Portsmouth Harbour, and a fox hunting scene.

Published by John Tallis. Drawn & engraved by John Rapkin, for the General Atlas 1850-1851.

John Tallis (1815 – 1876) English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Co was based in London and later expanded to Edinburgh, Dublin, and New York. His most famous work was An Illustrated Atlas of the World.

CARTOGRAPHER: JOHN TALLIS

YEAR: 1851