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H. G. FORDflAM — HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
From ‘ The Picture of England, Illustrated with correct colour’d 
Maps of the several Counties.’ By William Green, A.B. 2 vols. 
London, 1804, 8vo. The description and map of Hertfordshire 
are in Yol. I. A peculiarity of this little work is that the map of 
England and those of many of the counties are printed upside 
down. Others of the county maps are set with the north to the 
right or left hand of the page. 
1804. Young*, Arthur. I2i x 10A-. Scale, about 
3 miles = 1 inch. Engraved by S. J. Heele. 
A map coloured to show the various soils of the county of Hert¬ 
ford, and divided into areas of chalk, clay, loam, rich loam, and 
poor gravel. It has little other detail, but gives a few roads, and 
the rivers, with the towns, some villages, and houses, and along 
the Chalk outcrop, here and there, ranges of hills. The border is 
divided into degrees and minutes of latitude and longitude (meridian 
of London). In the left-hand top corner, in oval panel: “Map of 
the Soil of Hertfordshire.” Outside the margin of the map at the 
same corner: “ To face p. 3,” and below right-hand bottom corner: 
“ S. J. Heele Sc Strand.” 
From the ‘ General Yiew of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire; 
drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture, and 
Internal Improvement. By the Secretary to the Board.’ London, 
1804, 8vo. This is one of the numerous works on Agriculture of 
the celebrated Arthur Young (1741-1820).*' The survey upon 
which it is based was made in 1801, and the notes were revised in 
October of that year. 
The Board of Agriculture was established in 1793, with Sir John 
Sinclair as president, and Young as secretary. 
* 1804. Smith, Charles. 20-pv X 17!-. Scale, 2 miles = 
If inch. Engraved by Jones & Smith, Pentonville. 
A re-issue of Smith’s large map of Herts of 1801 differently 
coloured, but unaltered from the impression of that year, of which 
it still bears the date. 
From 4 Smith’s Hew English Atlas Being a Complete Set of 
County Maps, Divided into Hundreds.’ It is “Printed for 
C. Smith, Mapseller, Ho. 172 (Corner of Surrey Street), Strand.” 
London, 1804, imperial folio. It contains, besides a general map 
of England and Wales, 39 maps of the English counties, 4 of 
Yorkshire, and Wales in two sheets, with an Index Villaris, and 
a list of subscribers. There appears to have been a re issue of this 
edition of the atlas in which all the maps, except as to the imprint 
on two of the Yorkshire sheets, are re-dated 1804 (‘‘January 6th 
1804 ”). I have a copy in my collection, some of the sheets of 
which have a water-mark date as late as 1805. It should be the- 
first edition of the atlas, that of 1808 being described on the title- 
page as the second. 
* See ‘ The Autobiography of Arthur Young, with selections from his 
Correspondence.’ By M. Betham-Edwards. London, 1898, 8vo. 
