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XX. 
HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
MAPS OF THE COUNTY, 15.79 to 1900. 
Py Herbert George Fordham. 
Part II : 1673-1794. 
Bead at St. Albans , 2nd December, 1902. 
1676 (c). Seller, John. 20 x 16f. Scale, about 2 miles = 
1 inch. 
The boundaries on this map are extremely vague. It gives the 
hundreds, roads, and rivers, with the towns, villages, parks, hills, 
and many trees, and also a great many hamlets, houses and small 
places, windmills, churches, and beacons. The principal roads are 
shown by double lines (dotted in the open country), with indica¬ 
tions of the junctions of the cross-ways with these roads. The 
map is divided into rectangular spaces, lettered on the left-hand side 
downwards, A to L, and numbered on the top from left to right, 
1 to 14. In the bottom margin “ Longitude west . . . ,” 
and “Longitude east .... from y e meridian of London.” 
In the left-hand top corner is a large scrolled panel, with title, 
“ Hertford Shire Actually Surveyed and Delineated by John Seller 
Hydrographer to y e King, Cum Privilegio Regis P In the bottom 
corner, on the same side, is an escutcheon with drapery, and 
a sheaf of corn, sickles, and two cherubs at the top, containing 
“ The Explanation of the Map,” followed by a list of the hundreds 
and other particulars. In the right-hand top corner is a large 
indicator of the points of the compass, and in the right-hand bottom 
corner is an eight-sided, plain panel, which in some impressions of 
the map is blank, and in others contains : “ Sold by Geo. Wildey 
at the Great Toy Spectacle China Ware and Print Shop the 
Corner of Ludgate Street near St. Pauls London.” This map is, 
apparently, from an earlier plate than that of the similar map of 
Herts next noted. It is the first map of the county drawn on the 
meridian of London. 
In the Preface to 1 Camden’s Britannia Abridg’d,’ 2 vols., 
London, 1701, 8vo, is the following reference to Seller:—“What 
his Skill and Abilities were in these Matters, is very well known to 
the present Age : King Charles and King James II. chose him to 
Survey the several Counties, being perfectly assured of his Fitness 
for such a Province, and his Integrity to perform it; . . .” 
1676. Seller, John. 20£ x 16f. Scale, about 2 miles = 
1 inch. 
A re-engraved copy of the map last catalogued, giving the same 
details, and being nearly of the same dimensions and generally 
similar. It is, however, better drawn, the hills and trees are 
more artistic, and the writing throughout is more upright and 
clearer. There are both differences and additions in the marginal 
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