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Middlesex-London-1610

CBTM:
18423
Map Date:
1610
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
London
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ326811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'London'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Midle-sex described with the most famous cities of London and Westminster''. Descriptive note below map includes remark that becauses of space he reserves the 'trew plott' for 'a further leasure & larger scale'. As with Speed's Westminster [Exeter 18422] there is a lack of text on the map. Scale measured as 1 inch to 440 paces, 1:26,400: comparative measurement indicates 1:15,840.
Scale:
1:15,840*
Map-maker:
John Speed [author], Jodocus Hondius [eng], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
19.2 x 12.3 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Drum-like buildings in Southwark [unnamed] may be the theatres.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Known copies of map:
CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, Bishopsgate Institute, GL [DH7(1)]; BLML Maps C.7.e.6, CUL ?, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH7(2)]; BOL Gough Maps Middlesex 11 [pb Rea]; BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol BS 275, Gough Maps Middlesex 7, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.IV, part II, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G1/C17.2/2, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16=G24/C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Geo Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Gough Maps Bl.14.Jur [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; CUL Maps.bb.30.02 [1676/1923-5: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL (E)C17:42(38) [1676/1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, M.Res 1/43 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Middlesex 23 [1743: Overton].
Gardens:
shown: Orchard-like.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Relief:
'molehills'
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Shipping in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1868-1876
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1894-7
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1848-51
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
Skeleton survey
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