Oxfordshire
Printed for Robert Morden, 1701.
First miniature edition, with "Ferris Hill" misspelt. 223mm x 170mm. Copperplate engraved map with later hand-colouring. Detailed map of Oxfordshire with scale of miles to bottom left. A very good map with a little restoration to the corners.
Morden was employed to replace Saxton's outdated maps for the 1695 edition of William Camden's Britannia, and based his maps on manuscript sources, as well as the surveys of Ogilby and Morgan, Seller, Palmer and the coastal charts of Captain Greenville Collins.
These maps were the first to show the roads based on Ogilby's earlier work of 1675, and include three scales to cover the various ones used in different parts of the country, including minutes of time (top border) and degrees (bottom border). For most countries at this time, longitude was based on the meridian of St Paul's Cathedral in London. Bishop Gibson described the maps from this series as "much the fairest and most correct of any that have yet appeared".
Morden reissued his maps in a smaller format in a separate work, The New Description and State of England, Containing the Maps of the Counties of England and Wales, in 1701.
Stock ID: 45523
