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item:- private collection
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image:- ©
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Kingdome of Great Britaine
and Ireland, scale about 36 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed,
about 1610-11, published by Thomas Bassett, Fleet Street and
Richard Chiswell, St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1676?
The map has been coloured at a late date, very badly,
probably using the wrong sort of paints with heavy pigments
and too clumsy a brush and hand.
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Speed 1611
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map feature:-
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strapwork cartouche & vignettes (London and Edinburgh)
& coat of arms, royal (Stuart period, 1603-85) &
beasts & inset map (Orkney) & compass rose & up
is N & labelled borders & lat and long scales &
lat and long grid & scale line & sea plain &
swash lettering & coast shaded & sea monsters &
galleons & relief & rivers & bridges & woods
& forests & trees & country & county &
settlements
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche
THE KINGDOME OF GREAT / BRITAINE AND IRELAND / by I.
Speed.
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inscription:-
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printed lower right
Are to be sold by Tho : Bassett / in Fleet street and Ric
: Chiswell / in St. Pauls Churchyard.
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inscription:-
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printed lower left above scale line
Common : Mill.
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scale line:-
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80 miles = 57.1 mm
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wxh, sheet:-
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56x44cm
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wxh, plate:-
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517x388mm
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wxh, map:-
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512x383mm
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scale:-
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1 to 2300000 ? (1 to 2254773 from scale line wrongly
assuming modern mile)
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notes
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