[An atlas of the counties of England and Wales [cartographic material]
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Type of record: Book
Title: [An atlas of the counties of England and Wales [cartographic material]
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 1 fol
Creator(s): Saxton, Christopher (1542-)
Publisher: s.n
Publication city: [s.l]
Date(s): [1579]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 atlas (35 coloured maps)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/mj91tpkf
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/300086
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004135679705181
Description
Consists of 45 coloured maps, variously dated from 1574 to 1579, which represent the earliest survey of England and Wales. There is one general map of England and Wales; 24 are maps of single counties; 6 are of pairs of counties, viz: Warwick with Leicester, Lincoln and Notts., Westmorland and Cumberland, Montgomery and Merioneth, Denbigh and Flint, and Anglesey and Carnarvon; 1 of three counties, Oxford, Berkshire and Buckingham; 2 containing four counties each, Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Middlesex, and Radnor, Brecknock, Cardigan and Caermarthen; and 1 of five counties, Northampton, Cambridge, Bedford, Huntingfon and Rutland.
Maps are drawn by Christopher Saxton and engr. by Augusting Ryther, Remigius Hogenberg, Leonard Terwoort, Nicholas Reynolds, Cornelius Hogius and Francis Scatter.
Indexed in: Chubb I.
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