BOWEN (EMANUEL) AND THOMAS KITCHIN


The Large English Atlas: Or, A New Set of Maps of All the Counties in England and Wales, Drawn from the Several Surveys which have been hitherto Published, title-page in red and black incorporating list of maps, 47 engraved double-page maps hand-coloured in outline, with cartouches, vignettes, inset plans etc., all mounted on guards, occasional light browning and offsetting, map of Kent with split at foot of central fold (England & Wales, Suffolk, Oxfordshire and Surrey with shorter splits), contemporary calf, red morocco spine label, extremities worn with some tears, joints split and upper cover near detached [Chubb CXCVII; cf. Hodson 223 etc.], large folio (575 x 385mm.), T[homas] Bowles, John Bowles and Robert Sayer, [1763]
|A good clean copy of this "splendid collection of maps" (Chubb), described by Hodson as "by far the most important eighteenth-century English atlas to be published before the appearance of John Cary's New English Atlas in 1787". The highly-detailed and large scale folio maps, with inset views or plans of major cities, including prospects of Ely, York, Leeds, Cardiff and Chichester, were engraved by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin at the instigation of John Hinton. First collected together and issued by John Tinney, Thomas Bowles and Robert Sayer in 1760, the maps in the present edition bear the imprints of John Bowles, Carington Bowles and Sayer (some having a gap where Tinney's name has been removed), with the map of Berkshire dated 1756.