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very like that on Seller’s map, in which, amongst other things, it is 
stated that ‘ ‘ On the East Side of the Map is placed the Meridian Line 
and is divided into Minutes, and each Minute into 15 ths of Seconds, 
Commencing from the Latitude of London 51 s 32 m , y e scale of 
Miles goes round y e Map.” A large ornamental star with 32 points 
of the compass is engraved in the right-hand top corner of the map, 
and in the right-hand bottom corner is a large panel surrounded 
by heavy scrolls, which, in the copies of the map I have seen, 
is blank, and has below it “ This Map is humbly Dedicated and 
Presented By John Oliver.” No doubt there are impressions of 
the map in which the coat of arms of a patron is inserted, hut 
1 have not seen any. 
This map does not, so far as I am aware, appear in any collection 
or atlas, and I do not know that Oliver engraved maps of any other 
counties than Herts. 
1695. Camden, William. 17| x 14£. Scale, about 
2 miles = 1 inch. Drawn by Bobert Morden. 
A rather delicately engraved and thinly covered map, showing 
the hundreds, roads, rivers (with bridges), towns, villages, hamlets, 
houses, parks, woods, hills, and beacons. The design runs into 
the margin in several places. The margin is of two plain lines, 
with degrees and minutes marked. In the top border of the map 
is “ Minuit of Time,” and “ Longitude East from London in 
Minuits of Time,” and at the bottom ‘‘Longitude West from 
London in Degrees and Minuits.” In the left-hand top corner, 
in coarsely ornamented, scrolled panel, ‘ ‘ Hertford Shire By RobL 
Morden.” In the right-hand bottom corner is, “ Sold by Abel 
Swale Awnsham and John Churchil,” and below, “A Scale of 
Miles,” with, again below, three different scales of (5) miles. The 
map is on thin yellowish paper. 
This map is from the first edition, in one volume, of Camden’s 
‘ Britannia ,’ by Edmund Gibson, of Queen’s College, Oxford, 
afterwards, successively, Bishop of Lincoln and London. London, 
1695, folio. The subsequent editions of this work are in two 
volumes folio, 2nd ed. 1722, 3rd ed. 1753, 4th ed. 1772, and 
contain impressions of the same map of Herts. It is probable that 
the set of county maps by Morden which illustrates Gibson’s Camden, 
and in which the above-mentioned map of Herts occurs, was first 
printed in Gibson’s work, although it is possible that it may 
have appeared earlier in atlas form. An atlas of these maps in 
the British Museum, without title or date, is ascribed to 1680 (?), 
but it seems more probable that it was issued after the first edition 
of Gibson, and I have catalogued it under date 1700 c. (q.v. post), 
though it may very well have been later still. In the printed 
‘ Catalogue of the Books, relating to British Topography, .... 
bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, in the year mdccxcix, by 
Richard Gough,’ Oxford, 1814, 4to, there is a note on p. 1 
referring to this atlas, and stating that the maps were “ drawn 
originally for the English ‘ Britannia ’ ” ; and Gibson himself, in his 
