H. G. FORDHAM—HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
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Smith and Cary appear to have been rivals in the production of 
large county maps and atlases from 1801 onwards, the earliest of 
Cary’s large maps being dated 1801, though they were not collected 
into an atlas till 1809. Their maps are very like one another in 
both style and matter. 
1806. Wilkes, J. 9^ X 7£. Scale, 4£ miles = 1 inch. 
Engraved by S. Neele. 
A plainly-drawn map of Hertfordshire, in a double-ruled border, 
with the degrees and minutes of latitude and longitude marked (the 
latter from London), and showing the rivers, roads (with the 
distances from London in miles of the principal places on the main 
roads), towns, villages, and parks, with the woods and commons, 
but no hills; nor is the Grand Junction Canal inserted. The 
margin is partly broken by the design of the map in the north at 
Ashwell, on the east side from Bishop’s Stortford to Sawbridge worth, 
and in two places at the bottom (Barnet and Totteridge, and from 
Bushey Heath to liickmansworth). In the left-hand top corner is 
a finely engraved star-indicator of the points of the compass, and 
below it a scale of 6 “ British Miles.” Below the map, in the 
centre, in slightly ornamented capitals: “Hertfordshire.” On the 
left: “ S. Neele Sculpt. 352 Strand,” and, on the right: “London 
Published as the Act directs May 21st 1806. by J. Wilkes.” 
1806(c). Cooke, George Alexander. 4f x 41. Scale, 
10 miles = 1 inch. 
Map of Herts, following Cary’s small map of 1792 in details, but 
drawn on the meridian of Greenwich, and set north to the right 
hand, in a ruled border showing the degrees and minutes of 
latitude and longitude. It gives the hundreds, indicated by 
numbers referring to a list in the margin, the principal and a few 
cross roads, rivers and canals, towns, and a few villages and parks. 
In the top margin the title “Hertfordshire,” in capital letters, is 
set in the border in a shaded and projecting panel. In the top 
right-hand corner is a circular indicator of the north (turned to the 
right hand), and, below, a list of the hundreds. In the left-hand 
bottom corner is a scale of ten miles. The distances from London 
of the principal places, and notes of the directions of the roads 
where they leave the county, are inserted. At foot, below the 
margin : “ The County Town is denoted by red, and the respective 
Hundreds of the County by different Colours; which distinctions 
are peculiar to the Superior Edition.” 
Erom ‘A Topographical and Statistical Description of the County 
of Hertford.’ London, no date, 12mo. It forms vol. viii of ‘ The 
Modern British Traveller; or, Tourist’s Pocket Directory,’ published 
by Cooke in 47 volumes between 1802 (?) and 1810 (?). This 
volume contains the descriptions and maps of Herefordshire, Hert¬ 
fordshire, and Huntingdonshire, but separately paged. There is 
a water-mark on the paper of the frontispiece map in vol. i of this 
series in the British Museum copy, 1801, and one of 1806 on a page 
in vol. viii. 
