20 
H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
a skeleton map of the county, with lines indicating the points of 
the compass radiating from its borders. The principal towns are 
indicated on the map by capital letters, and the river Lea, with 
some of its tributaries, is shown. At the top of the map 
“ Cambridgshire North,” on the left “Bedfo: and Buckin: W.,” 
on the right “ Essex East,” and at foot “ Middelsex South”; in 
the right-hand bottom corner, open compasses standing on a scale 
of (10) miles. In the centre of the bottom marginal line of the 
plate the number 17. This is reproduced in facsimile (Plate YI). 
Erom a small quarto book of 42 engraved plates, all, except the 
frontispiece, 4 inches square, consisting of a title -page, frontispiece, 
two plates of instructions, and 38 tables of distances and maps of 
the English counties. The frontispiece is a little circular map of 
England and Wales, 3^ inches in diameter, nearly. It has the 
following inscription running round the margin : “ Anglicc Bescriptio 
in Qua Comitatuum et Prcecipuarum civitatum Locus et Paroeciarum 
numerus oculis inspiciendus Exhibetur ,” and on the face of the 
map itself u PC. W. Exc. W. Kip sculP It is reproduced as the 
frontispiece to this Catalogue (Plate I). 
The engraved title to the work runs as follows:—“A Direction 
for the English Traviller. By which he Shal be inabled to Coast 
about all England and Wales. And also to know how farre any 
Market or noteable Towne in any Shire lyeth one from an other, 
and Whether the same be East, West, North, or South from y e 
Shire Towne. As also the distance betweene London and any other 
Shire or great towne : with the scituation thereof East, West, 
North, or South from London. By the help also of this worke one 
may know (in what Parish, Tillage, or Mansion house soever he 
be in) What Shires he is to passe thorough and which way he is 
to travell till he come to his Journies End. Infaelix cuius nulli 
Sapientia prodest. Are to be Sold by Mathew Simons at the golden 
Lion in Ducke laine, A 0 1635. Jacob van Langeren sculp.” 
The Tables of Distances are copied from those in John Norden’s 
‘Intended Guyde, For English Travailers.’ London, 1625. 4to. 
The only copy of this edition which I have seen is one in the 
British Museum. 
(Beprinted 1636.) 
* 1636. Simons, Mathew. Thumb-nail map in corner 
of plate, about 1£ inches square. Scale, about 40 miles = 1 inch. 
Engraved by Jacob van Langeren. 
This is another impression of the edition of 1635, but dated 1636. 
There is a copy in the British Museum and one in the Bodleian 
Library. The British Museum copy contains a plate of Yorkshire 
8 inches square, in addition to the plates in the copy of 1635. 
* 1637. Norden, John. 9-h x 7-B. Scale, about 
4 miles = 1 inch. Engraved by William Kip. 
I have not been able to find any copy of this edition. The only 
trace is a mutilated title-page dated 1637, which appears to belong 
