An Atlas Of Tudor England And Wales
£15.00
Publisher
Penguin Books.
Place
London
Date
1951
Synopsis
Forty plates from john speed's pocket atlas of 1627 introduced and described by e. g. r. taylor. (king penguin. 61).
Item Description
Small 8vo. 7.5 x 5 inches. 31 + [1] pp. In pictorial stiff card boards, in matching unclipped dust wrapper which has minor edge wear. Small dent at tail of spine and a little foxing largely confined to edges; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 40 pages of coloured map plates. Decorated by title page vignette. King Penguin edition of the the county maps of England (and one of The Kingdom of England and one of Wales and Monmouthshire). From the 1627 pocket edition of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, described and abridged, by the cartographer and historian, John Speed (1552?-1629). Edited by Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1879-1966), geographer and historian of science, who was professor of geography at the University of London, 1930-44.
[Stock No. 28725]
