Morden's Map of Surrey British Isles [ii] 581 + engraved portrait

[ii] 581 + engraved portrait frontispiece

sheet 2579

A recent biographer (Jonathan David Gross

b/w folding map

The insets

Morden's Map of Surrey British Isles [ii] 581 + engraved portraitRobert Morden's county maps, like this one of Surrey, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of Camdens work with maps by Kip and Hole was published in 1607, but by the late seventeenth century it had become scarce and expensive. Gibson completely revised the text and commissioned new maps from Morden,