SEPARATELY PUBLISHED FIRST STATE. 710 x 540 mm., early outline colour, with very wide margins, some margin tears, repaired and light brown tone across the bottom, otherwise in good condition. The first state, separately published, of Bowen and Kitchin's map of the county of Staffordshire. The maps from Emanuel Bowen (1693?-1767) and Thomas Kitchin's (1719-84) beautiful 'Large English Atlas' were first issued separately. The project began at the hands of the publisher John Hinton in 1748 before he ran into financial difficulties. They are superb, clear and concise engravings. In the history of English county atlases it is hard to think of one with finer quality. Wardington praised the book saying that 'the size of the plate presented the publishers, the engravers and the printers with as formidable a task as any posed by the finest productions of Louis XIV or XV, the best of the Dutch engravings fifty years earlier, or the Ordnance Survey sheets fifty years later'. Demand for folio maps of the English Counties in the early eighteenth century was mostly met by the old maps of Christopher Saxton, John Speed, and various other seventeenth century maps. Individual large-scale surveys were beginning to be published providing a ready source for more accurate information. In the case of Staffordshire it was no doubt based on the very rare large-scale map by Samuel Parsons from Newcastle-under-Lyme published in 1747. Hinton clearly saw a market for a fresh set of folio maps. In about 1748 Hinton employed the engravers Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin to produce the copper plates. Hinton had already employed Bowen for the maps in the 'Universal Magazine' from 1747. In May 1749 Hinton announced the publication of the map of Sussex and stated that the balance would be published at the rate of one a month. By 1752 or 1753 he sold his interest and the twenty-eight maps produced to date, to the printseller John Tinney. By May 1756 he too felt the financial strains of the project and brought in the most successful printseller's of the time, Thomas Bowles, John Bowles and Son, and Robert Sayer. Hodson 221 provides a thorough account of the complex history of this atlas, which was finally completed and issued with a title-page in c.1762. Because of the long publication history of the atlas the maps all appear with several different imprints. That of Staffordshire is found in seven states. This example is in Hodson's state H, the first state. Provenance: Clive A. Burden Ltd. (2008). Hodson (1984-97) II 221 & p. 135; King 'Staffordshire' no. 30; Shirley 'Atlases in the BL' T-Bow 3a; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).

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Title

An Improved Map of the County of Stafford Divided into its Hundreds

Publisher

John Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Churchyard, London

Publication Date

1749

Binding

No binding

Condition

Fair

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Founded by the late Clive A. Burden in 1966, the company is one of the longest established dealers in antique maps, atlases, books and rare decorative prints. All items offered are fine original examples. Areas of particular focus are the British Isles and North America. Our stock dates from incunabula (pre-1500) to the late 1800s. We also carry decorative prints including botanical, bird, other natural history, architecture, in addition to Vanity Fair caricatures. Books include atlases, illustrated, and colour plate works. Philip D. Burden joined his father in the business in 1979. His interests included the British Isles and North America. He wrote and published in 1996 and 2007 the definitive two volume treatise entitled ?The Mapping of North America?. This was the first work to list all known printed maps relating to North America up to the year 1700. Each fully described and illustrated. Clive A. Burden Ltd. is a member of the following organisations: the ABA (Antiquarian Bookdealers Association), ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), and IMCoS (International Map Collector?s Society).

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