done by John Speed. Relief shown pictorially. Index: The table to find the maps as appeareth by folio. Leather binding. Last 4 pages blank (included in page description). Engraved, hand colored title page; head-pieces throughout. Statistical information: A catalogue of all the shires, citties, bishoprickes, market townes, castles, parishes, rivers, bridges, chases, forrests, and parkes, conteyned in every particuler shire of the Kingdom of England. Introductory text; descriptive text throughout. Decorative cartouches, compass roses. Maps show topography, vegetation, waterways, ports. Maps numbered in lower right. Maps 1 and 38 are foldouts. Map 20 is upside-down. Maps 23 and 25 are switched in placement. Maps 43, 44, 45, and 46 appear on one plate, numbered 43. Some titles differ between map and descriptive text; alternatives noted in sqaure brackets.
Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629, Keere, Pieter van den, 1571-approximately 1646, and Humble, George, -1640
Publisher:
and are to bee sould by Georg Humble, at ye Whithorse, in popeshead Alley,
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