An Improved Map of the County of SOMERSET.....

Original outline hand-coloured copper engraved double page map, slight fold splits. Scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, The largest of the county map to date and incorporating many new details, but also introducing some curious errors. The degrees of longitude (West of London) are about 2 degrees out and the main body of the counties are too wide from east to west. They show towns with their market days, villages (with indications to show whether rectory or vicarage), religious houses, charity schools, castles, hundreds, hills, parks, forests, sands, meres, rivers, brooks, post roads with measured distances between the towns, and several other roads now shown for the first time. Numerous descriptive notes are scattered around the map. A circular compass indicator. The title with the imprint below, scale, -Explanation- (of the symbols on the map), and the dedication. The titles have a pictorial surround; Thomas Kitchin was an engraver and publisher at The Star opposite Ely Gate, Holborn, and London from 1738 to 1776. He was a prolific producer of maps, plans and charts, and was by appointment Hydrographer to the King - George III. His output included sheet maps, series of maps for the Universal Magazine and the London Magazine, and atlases. He worked with Thomas Jefferys and particularly with Emanuel Bowen. To see more images go to:- [View Bookseller's Homepage]