Item details: Nottinghamshire
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ENGLAND, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE: Bowen & Owen:
Nottinghamshire
Imprint: London:, c. 1720
Copper engraving, 18 x 12 cms, recent hand-colour, b/w strip-maps on verso.
Engraved by Emanuel Bowen for John Owen’s “Britannia Depicta”, a pocket road book derived from Ogilby’s innovative atlas of strip maps first published in 1675. Bowen & Owens’s work first appeared in 1720 and proved extremely popular; there were numerous editions over the next forty years.
Stock number:6035.
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