Map Collection

Taylor 1759
KD1996.6:- 
Reproduction map, Map of Hampshire, with the Isle of Wight, 6 sheets, by Isaac Taylor, 1759, scale about 1 mile to 1 inch, but published at about 3/4 size by Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, 1933.
Unfortunately this smaller size makes the lettering hard to read.
map feature:-  slip case & title cartouche & dedication & table of symbols & subscribers & compass rose & vignettes & winds & lat and long scales & (rectangular) & coast form lines & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & woods & forests & parks & county & hundreds & settlements & roads & canals & antiquities & mills & water mills & windmills & ships
inscription:-  -on- With submission, / TO ... / in grateful remembrance of the kind Assistance in this Work / and the many particular Favours they have honoured me with / this Map of Hampshire / Including the ISLE of WIGHT / is most Humbly Dedicated / by their most obliged Humble Servant / Isaac Taylor / Augst. 20th. 1759. / Estates are accurately Survey'd and / maps of them drawn at the / Customary Prices
inscription:-  -on- R Benning Sculp
dimension:-  wxh = 50.3x62.1cm
scale = 1 to 84000 ? (nominally 1 to 84480)

  Map Group -- Taylor 1759 -- with Research Notes

MN: 15.10.2001