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Kendal Library : Map 98

Map, engraving, Westmorlandiae Comitatus, the County of Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, 1576, engraved by William Kip, London, 1607; published by George Bishop and John Norton, London, 1610.
The map probably comes from the first English translation of Britannia by William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland, 1610.
The plate has no text on the reverse, and no plate number.
   Camden 1607 map
map feature:- swash lettering & strapwork cartouche & labelled borders & scale line & sea stippled & coast shaded & rivers & bridges & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper right
WESTMORLANDIAE / Comitatus qui olim / Spectauit ad / BRIGANTES
inscription:- printed with scale line, lower right
Scala / Miliarium. / Christophorus Saxton scripsit / William Kip sculpsit
scale line:- 8 miles = 55.8 mm
wxh, sheet:- 39.5x32cm
wxh, map:- 312x262mm
scale:- 1 to 230000 ? (1 to 230730 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)