Description
First published edition of John Speed’s map of the county of Denbighshire, Wales with English text on verso and with ‘Sold by John Sudbury and George Humble’, lower left, identified by ‘sold…..by John Sudbury and Georg Humble, and dated 1610’, at lower right.
Distinctive and and famous decorative map by John Speed with an inset of Carmarthen (the oldest town in Wales) and engraved by the important Dutch mapmaker Jodocus Hondius. from the first full edition (Shirley) of Speed’s atlas. There is an earlier proof edition of Speed’s Atlas issued between 1605-1610 without text on the verso and of which there are only five sets known.
From John Speed’s ‘The Theatre Of The Empire Of Great Britaine‘ / ‘The Second Booke Containing the Principalities of Wales
Collections:
Yale Centre for British Art: Rare Books and Manuscripts (Folio A) Atlas 34
References:
Chubb, T. The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland ..1579-1870. Folkestone 1977 p.29 -34.
Tyacke, S. English Map-Making 1500-1650. British Library. London 1983 37, 38.
Shirley, R. Maps in the Atlases of The British Library. London 2004 T.SPE-1b, Vol1, p.963.
Skelton, R.A. County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1703.London 1970: 7, pp.30-44, 119/120
