10 
H. G. FORDHAM—HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
dimensions of the original in every case having been exactly 
followed, except where otherwise stated. 
The small general map of England forming the frontispiece is 
a fine and delicately engraved work by William Kip, printed in 
1635 and again in 1636, in the ‘Direction for the English 
Traviller,’ London, 4to. It represents the best art of the early 
period from an engraver’s and cartographic point of view. Norden’s 
map of 1598, from the ‘ Speculi Britannia Pars ,’ and Peter Keer’s 
little map engraved in 1599 and first published in 1617, are good 
typical specimens of the first maps of the county. Robert Morden’s 
small map (1704), with its roads and other details, marks the 
advance made in a century, and may he compared both with the 
early maps and those of a later date, and, finally, a plan of 
Hertford, from the 6-inch Ordnance Survey Map of 1884, represents 
the most modern and perfect phase of map delineation. A careful 
comparison of the maps of these epochs, as here represented, and 
better still in a large collection, will give a clearer idea of the 
whole subject than many pages of descriptive letterpress. The 
Table of Distances, with the Thumb-nail map of Herts engraved 
by Yan Langeren, and printed in 1635 and 1636, is reproduced 
d titre de curiosite. The copies in the British Museum, except for 
one in the Bodleian Library, are, so far as I know, unique. This 
is probably the smallest map of the county in existence. The 
plan of Hertford taken from the map of Herts engraved by 
Jodocus Hondius in 1610, and published in Speed’s ‘Theatre’ of 
1611 and subsequent dates, as well as the view of St. Albans 
from the same map, may also be compared with the Ordnance map 
of Hertford of 1884. A few designs from Hertfordshire maps and 
from historical works on the county are used for the purpose of 
ornament in the letterpress. The date is affixed to each, and they 
are noted in the list of illustrations, to which reference may be made. 
In the Catalogue I have arrived at a very complete description 
of the earlier and necessarily little-known maps, and have appended, 
where it seemed desirable, notes on the works in which they were 
published. Of the later maps, and especially of those published 
in the nineteenth century, much less detail has been necessary. 
They are most of them easily accessible, and present few features 
of particular interest. 
The maps are catalogued under the names of the authors of the 
works which they illustrate, as being a practice more consonant 
with that of the public and other large libraries, than the other 
possible plan of following the names of the engravers or publishers 
of the maps themselves. But individual maps, which did not 
appear in such works, are either indexed by the name of the 
publisher or engraver, or (in a few cases only) by the title upon 
the map or atlas where no publisher’s or engraver’s name appears. 
They are arranged as closely as possible in the order of date of 
publication, each separate edition occurring in its chronological 
sequence. The name of the engraver, and the original date of the 
engraving when it differs from the date of the publication, are 
