THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND

£295

An attractive 17th Century map of the county by Robert Morden. Originally produced for the 1695 edition of William Camden's 'Britannia', when they were first published these county maps were advertised as being 'much the fairest and most correct of any that have yet appear'd'.

Includes towns, roads, mountains, rivers, churches, lakes and a host of other details.

Decorative title cartouche and scale bars.

Excellent hand colour

Very good condition

code : M3708

Cartographer : Robert Morden

Date : 1695 London

Size : 42*35 cms

availability : Available

Price : £295

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Considering the popularity and success of Camden’s “Britannia”, first issued with maps in 1607, it is surprising that it was not until the end of the seventeenth century that a new edition was prepared. Robert Morden (d.1703) was commissioned to engrave a set of county maps for this new edition by Edmund Gibson. However, the first series he prepared were rejected as being too small, and these were later published in Morden’s “New Description and State of England”, first issued in 1701, and subsequently re-issued in Cox’s “Magna Britannia”, in the 1720s.

Morden finally produced a new set of maps on a larger scale which were used in Gibson’s editions published in 1695, 1722, circa 1730, 1753 and 1772. The maps were based on the most up-to-date surveys where available, although some drew on Saxton and Speed, and were engraved by Sutton Nicholls and John Sturt.