Oxford Shire

Method Copper engraved
Artist Seller, John and Grose, Francis
Published [London, c. 1787]
Dimensions 118 x 156 mm
Notes A small scale county map of Oxfordshire, oriented with west to top and with a list of the Hundreds and mile scale to bottom right. The plates for this series were originally printed for Seller's Anglia Contracta, c. 1697. Francis Grose (1730-1791) later acquired the plates, had them slightly reworked, and reprinted them, as here, in his Antiquities of England and Wales, published between 1773 and 1787.

John Seller (1632-1697), hydrographer to Charles II, James II and William II, cartographer and instrument maker, published an attractive series of county maps Anglis Contracta in 1694. The maps were re-printed in The History of England and Camden's Britannia Abridg'd. Over 80 years later the plates were used for Francis Grose's The Antiquities of England and Wales.

Condition: Strong clean impression. Descriptive text below plate and on verso.
Framing unmounted
Price £80.00
Stock ID 49862

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