Buy this book on-line ROCQUE, John : The Small British Atlas: Being a New Set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales: To which is added, A General Map …
John Rocque [but Mary Ann Rocque], Chorographer to his Majesty, near Old Round Court in the Strand, London, 1764
Oblong quarto (210 x 260 mm.), full recent cloth binding, gilt embossed title to upper board. With the foreign maps from Salmon 20 (of 21), lacking England and Wales torn away; engraved title page in English and French and 53 (of 54) maps including 1 folding ‘Parliamentary Map of England and Wales’, a further general map of the counties, 49 maps of the counties and Ridings of England and Wales and 3 maps of the Islands, lacking Cheshire, soiling throughout, Suffolk with margin repair, final map of the islands in poor condition.
The plates for this atlas were first issued in Thomas Read's very rare English Traveller published in 1746 in only three volumes, the work was never completed. Jean Rocque (c.1704-62), to use his native name, was a Huguenot émigré who at an early age settled in England. By 1734 he was a surveyor, engraver and publisher. His work is renowned for its beauty as well as its accuracy and several important large scale maps were produced by him. Although undated there is plenty of evidence to place the first edition of John Rocque’s Small British Atlas in 1753. Three issues of The Small British Atlas were published at this time, two of which are extremely rare. The next edition was dated 1762 and re-used the earlier engraved title page rather than a typographic one. According to Hodson this 1764 edition should retain the plate numbers but in some cases they have been erased. The final issue of these plates is in this state which was the work of P. Russell and Owen Price entitled England Displayed in 1769. This therefore may represent a late issue of the 1764. It is bound with the maps from Thomas Salmon's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar engraved by Thomas Jefferys. The Rocque atlas is advertised on the title priced at 7s. 6d. for uncoloured copies, coloured were offered for 10s. 6d. Chubb (1927) 209; not in ESTC; Hodson (1984-97) 202; not in BL refer Shirley (2004) T.Rocq 1a, G.Salm 3a (foreign atlas); Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
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