Bowen & Owen’s Map of Somerset Author(s)_May Crommelin

Bowen & Owen’s Map of Somerset Author(s)_May CrommelinThis map of Somerset was engraved by Emanuel Bowen for John Owens Britannia Depicta, a pocket road book derived from Ogilbys innovative atlas of strip maps first published in 1675. Bowen & Owenss work first appeared in 1720 and proved extremely popular; there were numerous editions over the next forty years. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 18 x 12 cm, modern hand colour, paper thinning affecting a couple of letters of the descriptive text at

Occasional spotting

Londinensi multo correctior et accuratior

Best lithographed by Josiah Neele alone

Lithographed by Day & Haghe

sheet size 35 x 45 cm

This map of northwestern Germany was published in Thomas Kitchin’s ‘A General Atlas’

a pictorial map of Lincolnshire by M Sims

and became a champion for the controversial new science of vaccination

Palatinis comparata

small area of marginal loss to left hand corners

One can sympathise with Scott’s rejection of variorum editions

were part of the Dutch East Indies