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Map, uncoloured engraving, Northumberland, scale about 4.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, Awnsham, and John Churchill, London, 1695.
Included in Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English, by Edmund Gibson, Queens College, Oxford, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
   Morden 1695
map feature:- scroll cartouche & up is N & scale lines & lat and long scales & rivers & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
NORTHUMBERLAND. / by / Robt. Morden
inscription:- printed lower right
Sold by / Abel Swale / Awnsham & / John Churchil.
inscription:- printed with 3 scale lines
A Scale of Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 64.9 mm
scale line:- 10 miles = 56.7 mm
scale line:- 10 miles = 48.3 mm
scale:- 1 to 280000 ? (1 to 284169 average from scale lines, wrongly assuming a statute mile)
wxh, sheet:- 45.5X52cm
wxh, map:- 356X422mm