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Research Notes
Map Group GENT MAG 1765
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Gent Mag 1765
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Road strip maps with segments in Hampshire, probably by Emanuel Bowen,
engraved by Thomas Bowen, London, published in the Gentleman's Magazine,
1765-75.
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The maps mostly have no mention of map maker or engraver. The
map for the supplement 1774 has:-
Thos. Bowen sculpt. Fleet street
And this occurs on maps for February, August and September
1775. Thomas was the son of Emanuel Bowen. The maps are pretty
consistent in style - though this could be from the instructions
given by the editor or from copying - and might all be ascribed
to a Bowen, perhaps Emanuel.
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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE |
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STRIP MAPS for Hampshire |
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REFERENCES |
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ITEMS in the Collection |
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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE |
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The 'new Sett of Maps' in the Gentleman's Magazine started in the monthly issue January 1765 and continued irregularly for the
next 10 years; maps are tipped in and are generally page height but wider,
folded into the magazine; the magazine page size is about 13x21cm.
The monthly issues could be bound into a volume for the year, the strip
maps folded and bound in. The maps studied here are from the bound volumes in the Museum Library Collection, items HMCMS:B1999.518.1765.7.1, HMCMS:B1999.518.1765.13.1, HMCMS:B1999.518.1775.7.1, and HMCMS:FA1999.124
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Issues of The Gentleman's Magazine in the mid-late 18th
century were searched for maps, in particular looking for a known
strip road map with a section in Hampshire. The issues are bound
volumes in the Library Collection of Hampshire CC Museum Service;
regarded as 'wall paper' - I quote the librarian. Bound volumes
include cover pages at the front and a supplement at the back of
each annual volume.
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MONTHLY TITLE PAGE (1765)
The title page of a monthly issue introduces the map in the following style -
The Gentleman's Magazine / ... / For January 1765. / CONTAINING /
More in Quantity and greater Variety than any other Book of the
Kind and price. / ... / With a very accurate Map of the Road from
London to Chester, Measured from the Royal / Exchange, in which
the exact Distance from Town to Town is set down; the post and /
cross Roads pointed out; the Market Towns and Cities
distinguished, and the principal / Villages adjoining the Road
properly marked. / By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. / LONDON: Printed by
D Henry, at St JOHN'S GATE.
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Generally, each issue with a tipped-in map has a similar
statement. July 1765 has:-
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With a new and accurate Map of the Roads from London to
Portsmouth, to Chichester, to / Southampton, and to Pool, and of
the Road from Southampton to Winchester; in which the / exact
Distance from Town is set down; the post and cross Roads pointed
out; the Cities / and market Towns distinguished; and the
principal Seats, Parks, and Villages adjoining the to / Road
properly expressed.
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The 1765 supplement makes it clear that 1765 is the start of
this series of maps:-
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WITH ... a large and accurate Map of the Road from / London to
the Land's-End, in Cornwall; passing through Salisbury, Exeter,
Plymouth, &c. / Comprising, likewsie, the Road from Exeter to
Truro. -N.B. This is a part of a new / Sett of Maps, of the
Roads, which will be continued till compleated.
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VOLUME TITLE PAGE (1765)
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THE / Gentleman's Magazine, / AND / Historical Chronicle / VOLUME
XXXV. / For the YEAR M.DCC.LXV. / PRODESSE & DELECTARE / E
PLURIBUS UNUM. / By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. / LONDON: / Printed for
D. HENRY and R. CAVE, at ST JOHN'S GATE.
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This title is pretty constant through the volumes seen. About
1770 the printer was R. Baldwin, 47 Paternoster Row, but this
reverts to Henry and Cave in 1771.
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| STRIP MAPS |
for Hampshire
The magazine was searched for strip maps relevant to Hampshire; the following
issues had maps - July 1765, Supplement 1765, July 1775
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July 1765; '... the Roads from London to Portsmouth, to Chichester, to
Southampton, and to Pool, and of the Road from Southampton to Winchester';
London, through Kingston on Thames, Guildford, Godalming, Surrey; across a
corner of Hampshire; then West Sussex; through Petersfield, Horndean, Cosham to
Portsmouth, Hampshire; from Guildford via Godalming, Surrey; then Midhurst to
Chichester, West Sussex; London, via Staines, Middlesex; through Bagshot,
Surrey; across a corner of Hampshire; then Farnham, Surrey; via Alton, New
Alresford, Twyford, to Southampton, Hampshire; from New Alresford via
Winchester, Romsey, Ringwood, Hampshire; to Poole, Dorset; from Southampton to
Winchester, Hampshire
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Supplement 1765, bound into the volume after the twelve monthly issues; '... the
Road from London to the Land's-End in Cornwall ... the Road from Exeter to
Truro. N.B. This is a part of a new sett of Maps of the Roads, which will be
continued till compleated.'; London via Staines, Middlesex; then Bagshot,
Surrey; via Basingstoke, Whitchurch, Andover, then Middle wallop, hampshire;
through Salisbury, Wiltshire; then Shaftesbury, Dorset; Yeovil, Somerset;
Axminster, Honiton, and Exeter, Ashburton, Plymouth, Devon; then Looe, Penzance,
to Lands End, Cornwall; from Exeter, via Tavistock, devon; then Liskard to
Truro, Cornwall.
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July 1775; London to Barnstable etc; from Andover, Hampshire; via Amesbury,
Shrewton, Warminster, Wiltshire; then Bruton, Bridgewtaer, Somerset; via South
Moulton to Barnstable, Devon; from Barnstable, Devon; via Launceston, Padstow,
to Truro, Cornwall.
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| REFERENCES |
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Klein, Christopher M: 1989: Maps in Eighteenth Century British Magazines:
Newberry Library (Chicago, Illinois, United States):: ISBN 0 911028 41 2 |
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Urban, Sylvanus (ed): 1765=1775: Gentleman's Magazine: (London) |
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ITEMS |
in HMCMS Map Collection (scanned item in bold)
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HMCMS:B1999.518.1765.7.1 -- strip map
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HMCMS:B1999.518.1765.13.1 -- strip map
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HMCMS:B1999.518.1775.7.1 -- strip map
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HMCMS:FA1999.124 -- strip map
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