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H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORD SHIRE MAPS. 
This work is unpaged, and there is a page of letterpress facing 
each map. The maps are dated variously from 1787 up to 1791. 
(Beprinted in 1792, with an altered title.) 
1792.. Universal Magazine of Knowledge and 
Pleasure. 8£ x 7-g-. Scale, 5 miles = 1 inch. Engraved by 
B. Baker. 
Shows rivers, principal roads (with distances from London of chief 
towns indicated in miles), and many cross roads, with towns, and 
a few villages, parks, woods, and commons. The margin is plain- 
ruled, with the latitude and longitude marked in degrees and 
minutes. In border, at foot, on left: “ Longitude West from 
London,” and, on right: “ Longitude East from London.” In the 
left-hand top corner, in a long, slightly oval-shaped hand, shaded 
vertically : “ Hertfordshire,” and below, following the curve of the 
hand: “Engraved by B. Baker, Islington.” Again lower, a scale 
of 10 miles. The design is not carried beyond the county boundary, 
except in one or two cases. 
Illustrates ‘ An Account of Hertfordshire: With a neat and 
accurate Map of that County,’ in vol. xci (1792, September part) 
of 1 The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure.’ It is : 
“ London : Published under His Majesty’s Boyal Licence, By 
W. Bent, at the King’s Arms, Pater-noster Bow, mdccxch.” 8vo. 
This magazine, originally published by John Hinton, ran from 
1747 to 1814, or 1815, and in 1792 was in the hands of Bent. 
A description and map of Herts occur also in 1751. 
(The above map of Herts was reprinted from the same plate 
with additions and amendments in an atlas of county maps issued 
in 1807 by Laurie & Whittle.) 
1792. Cary, John. 3x6 X 4|. Scale, 10 miles = 1 inch. 
The smallest of Cary’s maps of Hertfordshire, reduced from the 
one in the quarto atlas of 1787, and engraved with the north to 
the right-hand side of the plate. At the points at which the 
principal roads leave the county particulars are given of their 
directions, and letters (a, b, c, etc.) are inserted to show their 
connections with the roads in the adjoining counties. The map 
has a fine, double-lined border. At the top, projecting from the 
line of margin of the map about inch, is a narrow panel, with 
the title: “Hertfordshire” in slightly ornamented capitals on 
a ground of vertical shading, and on either side: “By J. Cary” 
. . . “ Engraver ”. Above this-title is a half star with indications 
of S., W., and N. only. In the left-hand bottom corner is a “ Scale 
of (10) Statute Miles”. At the foot of the map, within the border, 
but separated from the design by a thin line, are particulars of 
distances from London, commencing: “London to Bishops Stortford 
29 M. Standon 27 Hoddesdon 17 ” extending for two and a half 
lines, and below the border: “London Published Sep r . 1. 1792 by 
J. Cary Engraver Ho. 181 Strand”. 
Erom ‘ Cary’s Traveller’s Companion, or, A Delineation of the 
Turnpike Boads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate 
