MAP #: 176S5
CARTOGRAPHER : SPEED, JOHN [PUBLISHER]
DATE: 1676
SHORT TITLE : A MAP OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND.
REMAINING TITLE & ID : SOLD BY THOMAS BASSET IN FLEETSTREET, AND RICHARD CHISWELL IN St. PAULS CHURCH YARD. (CARTOUCHE, UPPER RIGHT CORNER). SCALE BAR SURMOUNTED BY ARMS OF ENGLAND (UPPER LEFT CORNER). "F. LAMB, SCULP." (LOWER LEFT CORNER). COMPASS ROSE (LOWER LEFT CORNER). ON THE REVERSE SIDE ARE PAGES 43 AND 44, WHICH CONTAIN RESPECTIVELY "THE DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA" AND "THE DESCRIPTION OF MARY-LAND", EACH IN 2 FULL LENGTH COLUMNS. LONGITUDE (NOT SHOWN). LATITUDE (TOP AND BOTTOM BORDERS).
VERNER STATES THAT "IT APPEARS THAT SPEED HAD THE PLATE IN PROCESS WITH THE MAJOR LAND AREAS DELINEATED AND ENGRAVED BEFORE HE HAD ACCESS TO THE HERRMAN MAP. RATHER THAN DISCARD THE WORK THAT HAD BEEN COMPLETED, HE KEPT HIS ORIGINAL CUTTING OF THE AREA AND ADOPTED THE HERRMAN NAMES TO IT."
THE ATLAS WAS ANNOUNCED IN THE CATALOGUE FOR HILLARY TERM 15 FEB 1675 BY BASSET & CHISWELL AND IN HILLARY TERM 1676 AS FOLLOWS: "THE WHOLE IMPRESSION IS DONE UPON ROYAL PAPER; SOME OF THEM UPON DUTCH ROYAL, FOR SUCH AS ARE CURIOUS." THE PRICE LISTED WAS 6d. THE MAP WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE 1676 POSTHUMOUS EDITION OF JOHN SPEED'S THE THEATRE OF THE EMPIRE IN GREAT BRITAIN IN AN ADDENDUM ENTITLED A PROSPECT OF THE MOST FAMOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD. CONDENSED VERSIONS OF OGILBY'S DESCRIPTIONS OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA ARE PRINTED ON THE BACK.
DATA IS FROM VERNER'S NOTES AND MCS # 45 AND FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA NOTES ON THE SPEED MAP.
EDITION & STATE INFO : ALL COPIES OF THIS MAP ARE FROM A SINGLE PLATE, WITH MINOR IMPRINT VARIATIONS, WHICH YIELDED THREE STATES. THE PLATE WAS USED FROM 1676 TO CA. 1685.
STATE 1- (1676) - THIS IS THE COPY DESCRIBED HEREIN.
STATE 2- (CA 1680)-THE BASSET AND CHISWELL IMPRINT HAS BEEN DELETED.
STATE 3- (CA 1685)-IN PLACE OF THE BASSET AND CHISWELL IMPRINT, THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN SUBSTITUTED: "PRINTED & SOLD BY CHRISTOPHER BROWNE AT THE GLOBE NEAR THE WEST END OF S. PAULS CHURCH LONDON." (SEE MAP # 185B6).
THE MAP IS ONE OF THE MOST DECORATIVE OF THE 17TH CENTURY MAPS OF MARYLAND AND IS USUALLY BUT NOT ALWLAYS FOUND IN COLOR. THE WATERMARK IS A SMALL FLEUR-DE-LYS. ON THE REVERSE SIDE IS "THE DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA", TWO COLUMN ENGLISH TEXT ON PAGE 43 AND "THE DESCRIPTION OF MARY-LAND", TWO COLUMN ENGLISH TEXT ON PAGE 44.
HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : HFC'S COPY IS BEAUTIFULLY COLORED AND IT HAS THE WATERMARK AND TEXT NOTED. IT IS A STATE 1 IMPRESSION.
BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : VERNER, COOLIE, MCS # 45, LONDON, 1968, P. 38,PL. 14; MATHEWS,E.B., BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY OF MARYLAND, MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, VOL.I,PART IV, BALTIMORE, JULY, 1897, P. 338; PHILLIPS, P. LEE, VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY, DC, 1896, P. 42; THE MCGREGOR LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, NOTES ON THE SPEED MAP, CHARLOTTSVILLE, VA., 1962; PHILLIPS, MAPS P. 391;PHILLIPS, ATLASES, I, NO. 488; PAPENFUSE AND COALE, ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS OF MARYLAND 1608-1908, FIGS. 15A,15B, PP. 16-18; BAER, E., SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MARYLAND: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, #85, PP. 85-86, #86, PP. 86-88; WINDSOR, J., NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY, III, P. 467; SWEM # 93; SABIN #89228; LOWERY 106; VERNER, COOLIE, UNPUBLISHED NOTES ON THE MAPS OF VIRGINIA.
April 13, 1988
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