A leaf of Saxton's 'Traveller's Guide' of England and Wales

SAXTON, Christopher.

The Isle of Man Part of Anglesey Cumberland Lancashire and Westmorland.
London: Philip Lea, c.1700. Coloured. Printed border 285 x 435mm.

Trimmed to printed border lower right by binder, margin replaced; repairs to binding folds.

A rare sheet from Lea's reissue of Christopher Saxton's ''Britannia Insularum In Oceanio Maximo'', a 20-sheet wall map of England and Wales first published in 1583, of which there are only two examples known. This example was folded into Lea's ''Travellers Guide''.
In the century of its existance the plate has several revisions, for example the title in the top border, the correcting of the shape of the Isle of Man and the addition of Ogilby's Roads on the mainland.

See Shirley 137 for the first issue and recorded reissues
Stock ID : 24050