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Research Notes
Map Group BOWES 1590
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Bowes 1590
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Map, on a playing card, ?Hampshire, by William Bowes, probably engraved by
Augustine Ryther, issued 1590.
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Published on one of 4 sheets for the whole pack of cards, 'W. B.
invent. 1590.' |
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The map is copied from the general map of England and Wales in Saxton's atlas;
it shows the county boundary, principal towns, rivers, hills, and woods. The
towns etc are marked by their initial letter plus a mark for their type - a
cross above for a bishopric or city, a dot above for a princely palace,alone for
a castle, a following decimal point (above the line) for a market town, a
following stop for other principal places. |
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Only 3 sets of these cards are known, Schreiber Collection, BM, Royal
Geographical Society, and in a private collection (Skelton 1970). |
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A further version of the card was issued about 1605, with much more educational
material to be memorised. (This exists in proof state in the BM). |
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reference:- |
O'Donoghue, F M: 1901: Catalogue of the Collection of Playing-cards Bequeathed
to the British Museum by Lady Charlotte Schreiber: (London) |
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Heawood, E: 1932: English County Maps in the Collection of the Royal
Geographical Society: (London) |
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Hind, A M: 1938=1939: Elizabethan Pack of Playing-Cards: BM Quarterly: 13 |
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Beresiner, Yasha: 1983: British County Maps |
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