212 Maps of Wiltshire. 



Looking backward to the infancy of the art of cartography, the 

 first place is taken by the *' Peutinger Table," made, probably, in 

 the 12th century. This is the earliest existing map showing any 

 part of Great Britain, but it only represents the South-East Coast 

 of England, which portion was reproduced in Gouglis British 

 Topography, 1780. 



In the 13th century, Richard of Cirencester made a map of 

 Britain ; and, in a manuscript of Matthew of Paris' History, written 

 about the middle of the 13th century, is a map bearing the title: 

 "Britannia, nunc dicta Anglia, qu?e complectitur Scociam, Gale- 

 weiam & Walliam." This also was reproduced in GoiigKs British 

 Toipography. 



The earliest engraved map of the British Isles, as a whole, is 

 one by George Lilly, son of the grammarian, which was published 

 in 1546, at Eome, where Lilly had lived some years with Cardinal 

 Pole. 



The first engraved map of England and Wales is one by 

 Humphrey Lloyd, published in Abraham Ortelius' Additamentum 

 Theatri Orhis Terrarum, 1573 ; but the first survey of the Enghsh 

 Counties was made by Christopher Sax ton, whose work was pub- 

 lished in 1579; and the next important atlas was that issued by 

 John Speed in 1611. 



Early map makers based their productions upon those of Saxtoii 

 and Speed down to 1773, when their work gave place to that of 

 Andrews and Dury, until the publication of tlie one-inch Ordnance 

 Survey in 1817. 



Eeturning to the subject of this catalogue, it should be explained 

 that the arrangement pursued is chronological, according to the 

 dates of the maps themselves — not the dates of the works in which 

 they appeared. When, however, the map is undated, the date 

 followed is that of the work in which it occurs. Eeprints and 

 later editions are given under the year in which they were issued, 

 and take precedence of the new maps of that year. 



Except where otherwise indicated, each map has been examined! 

 and systematically described. The title, the names of the author 

 and engraver, the scale, and the imprint, are given exactly as on 



