THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



MULTORUM MANIBUS GllANDR LEVATUR ONUS." — Ovld. 



December 1911 



A IJESCKIPTIYE CATALOGUE OF THE FEINTED MAFS 

 OF WILTSHIEE FKOM 1576 TO THE FUBLICATION 

 OF THE 25in. OKDNANCE SUFVEY, 1885. 



By T. Chubb, of the Map Room, British Museum, 



F KEF ACE. 



Thirty years' experience in the Map Eooni of the British Museum 



has shown nie the great need of county hihliographies of maps. 



A good start in this direction was made by Sir Herbert George 



Fofdham with his " Hertfordshire Maps," published in the Tran- 



rf.ions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Cluh, 



1901 — 7, and issued as a complete work in 1908. This was 



followed by his " Cambridgeshire Maps," which, after appearing 



in the Covimnnications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society^ was 



•\ho separately publislied in 1908. In the meantime, Mr. William 



Uarrison [)roduced his useful "Early Maps of Lancashire and tlieir 



' Makers,'^ which appeared, in 1907, in voL 25 of the 'Transactions 



! i^ the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. As far as I 



' am aware, no other serious attempt has been made to grapple with 



tlic subject. 



I have, therefore, attempted to supply the want in the case of 

 Wiltshire, the county of my birth; and I am hopeful of l)eingabK' 



• deal with the rest of tlie counties as opportunities arise. 

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