Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 joints renewed

joints renewed

Beneath Anne Damer’s bookplate on the front pastedown is an 1824 inscription by Coldicott presenting the book to his son

one of which is in King George III’s Topographical Collection

printed in black and red

with some restoration to folds

Blaeu’s Map of Berkshire Date of Publication_1892 joints renewedBlaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and early 1640s, to add to their expanding world atlases. The work of the two firms represents Dutch map making of the highest quality at a time when the Low Countries were at the forefront of the international market. Both worked from Elizabethan and Jacobean surveys by Saxton, Speed and others, and based the