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Map, hand coloured engraving, Hampshire, with the Isle of Wight, 6 sheets,
scale about 1 mile to 1 inch, by Isaac Taylor, 1759.
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The 6 sheets are folded and pasted into a hard back guard book, marbled paper
covers with leather spine. In the volume the sheets are numbered 1,2,4,3,6,5
from the bottom right. The volume originally also held maps of Cornwall, Dorset
and the Isle of Wight, and some 'general' maps.
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The colouring is very bright; it has been protected from fading by the maps
being in a book. It could have been done anywhen during the maps' history, at a
guess, perhaps early 19th century?
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map feature:-
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title cartouche & scroll cartouche & dedication & table of symbols
& subscribers & vignettes & compass rose & winds & lat and
long scales (rectangular) & lat and long grid & coast form lines &
rivers & relief & hill hachuring & woods & forests & parks
& county & hundreds & settlements & roads & canals &
antiquities & mills & water mills & windmills & ships |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- lower right, sheet 1
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 neatly drawn at the /
Customary Prices.
-- scroll cartouche with decoration and scene |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- bottom right, sheet 1
R Benning Sculp
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inscription:- |
embossed -on- spine
CORNWALL / DORSET & / HAMPSHIRE
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inscription:- |
ms -on- title page
REFERENCES / General Map of Cornwall / Ditto in 9 Sheets / General Map of
Dorsetshire / Ditto in 6 sheets / General Map of Hampshire / Ditto in 6 Sheets /
Isle of Wight in 4 Sheets
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scale line:-
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4 miles = 99.4 mm |
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dimension:- |
wxh, book = 41x55cm |
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wxh, sheet = 73x54.5cm |
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wxh, sheet = 73x56cm |
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scale = 1 to 65000 ? (1 to 64762 from scale line assuming modern statute
mile) |
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Map Group -- Taylor 1759 -- with Research Notes
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