Morden's Map of Surrey British Isles sheet 2579

sheet 2579

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This intricate anthropomorphic map (the artist also produced a zoomorphic companion piece) was issued soon after the outbreak of the First World War

b/w folding map

a pocket road book derived from Ogilby’s innovative atlas of strip maps first published in 1675

Morden's Map of Surrey British Isles sheet 2579Robert Morden's county maps, like this one of Surrey, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of Camdens work with maps by Kip and Hole was published in 1607, but by the late seventeenth century it had become scarce and expensive. Gibson completely revised the text and commissioned new maps from Morden,