Research Notes Map Group SIMPSON 1746
Simpson 1746
	Map, Hamp Shire ie Hampshire, scale about 7.5 miles to 1 inch, 'after Herman Moll', published by Samuel Simpson, London, 1746.
	The maps are plain on the reverse, they have no pagination; the Hampshire map is copied from Moll.
	PUBLISHING HISTORY
	REFERENCES
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PUBLISHING	HISTORY
	Published in 'The Agreeable Historian, Or the Compleat English Traveller: Giving A Geographical Description of every County in that Part of Great-Britain, call'd England. Together with The Antiquities of the same. With a Full and particular Account of all the Cities, Market Towns, Villages, Royal Palaces, and Gentlemen's Seats; of the Sea Ports and Fortifications, the Course of the Rivers, and the Inland Navigation; of all the Fairs, and Market Days; and of the Trade, Commerce, and Product; With a Map of every Country prefix'd to each, from the best and latest Observations, after the Designs of Herman Moll, and others ... Compiled from Camden, Leland, Dugdale, Ogilby, Morgan, and other Authors, By Samuel Simpson Gent. London: Printed by R. Walker, in Fleet Lane; and Sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1746.'
	The common practice of listing roads at the end of each county section was abandoned - 'I shall not take up the Reader's Time in giving an Account at the End of each County, of the Roads ... as I shall, at the End of the Work, add a new and compleat Book of the Roads ... and ... a Table for the ready finding of any Road, City, Market Town &c.' This appears in vol.3.
	The text is so close to that of Read 1746 that coincidence can be discounted; it is not clear who copied whom, or, more likely, that a common compiler was used.
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REFERENCES
	Simpson, Samuel: 1746: Agreeable Historian & English Traveller: (London)
also see:-
	related map group -- Moll 1724
ITEMS	in HMCMS Map Collection   (scanned item in bold)
	HMCMS:FA1999.66 -- map
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