H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
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date exists in the Gough Collection in the Bodleian Library, which 
may probably have been issued about the same time. 
1720. Owen, John. 4p£ X 4f. Scale, 10 miles = 1 inch. 
Engraved by Emanuel Bowen. 
A small and rather confused map, showing the hundreds, roads, 
rivers, borough and market towns, villages, and a few hamlets, 
with here and there trees and hills. The details are not carried, in 
general, beyond the boundaries of the county. 
The border is a narrow scrolled pattern between two ruled lines 
on each side. Against the top margin to the left of its centre, 
a plain panel with “ Hertford Shire,” and in the left-hand top 
corner a list of the hundreds, numbered 1 to 8. In the left-hand 
bottom comer a scale of (10) “ English Miles.” Below, within the 
border, and separated from the design of the map by a thin line, 
six lines of letterpress descriptive of the county. Above the map, 
within the same engraved plate, is an ornamental panel, with 
particulars of “ the Boad from London to Wells, etc.” The plate 
is numbered 131. On the back are maps of the road in three 
strips, particulars of Newmarket, the arms of Brandon, and various 
marginal notes. 
Erom ‘ Britannia JDepicta , or Ogilby Improv’d ; Being a Correct 
Coppv of Mr. Ogilby’s Actual Survey of all y e Direct and Principal 
Cross Boads in England and Wales “By In 0 . Owen 
of the Midd: Temple Gent,” and the maps “By Eman: Bowen 
Engraver.” This is no doubt the first edition of this work. The 
title is set out in full in Bawlinson’s ‘ English Topographer,’ which 
is also of 1720, and the earliest copy in the British Museum is of 
this date. It is engraved throughout (except six pages of tables or 
indexes at the commencement) on both sides of the leaves, and is 
paged up to 273. The work is made up of reductions of Ogilby’s 
copper sculps, or strips showing the roads, with their marginal 
notes (from his 1 Britannia ,’ London, 1675, folio), with the addition 
of a set of small county maps. 
It was printed for and sold by Thomas Bowles and E. Bowen, 
London, 1720, 8vo. 
(Beprinted in 1724, 1731, 1736, 1759, and 1764, and probably 
at some intermediate dates, which I have not been able to trace.) 
* 1722. Camden, William, 17f x 14£. Scale, about 
2 miles = 1 inch. Drawn by Bobert Morden. 
A reprint of the map of Herts in the first edition of Gibson’s 
Camden (1695), with the one single alteration of the name 
“ Eurneux Pelham,” the two words of which in the previous 
impression were written at some distance apart as if they were the 
names of two separate villages. In this and subsequent copies of 
the map “ Pelham” is written-in close to “Eurneux,” and where 
it originally occurred it has been erased. 
Erom the second edition of the ( Britannia ,’ by Gibson, 2 vols., 
London, 1722, folio. In the Preface to this edition Gibson says 
of the maps that they “have been revised by knowing and skilful 
