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H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
slightly indicated. At the top, outside the border, “ Engrav’d 
for the Universal Magazine,” and at the bottom, “ Printed for 
J. Hinton at the Kings Anns in St Pauls Church Yard.” In the 
left-hand top corner, in scrolled escutcheon, “ Hertford Shire Drawn 
from an Actual Survey,” and to the right an “Explanation,” with 
list of the principal indications and signs employed on the map. On 
the left-hand side, towards the bottom of the map, a small circular 
indicator of the points of the compass showing the H. and E. At 
the bottom of the map, in the middle, a scale of miles, and in the 
right-hand bottom corner, in an ornamental escutcheon, a hart 
lying down to left, and beneath it “ The Arms of Hertford.” 
In ‘ An Account of the County of Hertford, commonly called 
Hertfordshire. With a new and accurate Map, drawn from the best 
Authorities and latest Surveys,’ in vol. viii (January part) of ‘ The 
Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure,’ a monthly publi¬ 
cation, which ran from June, 1747, to December, 1803 (113 vols.), 
and was continued in a new series from 1804 to 1814 (21 vols.), 
and as ‘ The Hew Universal Magazine ’ for two more volumes ; the 
whole, London, 8vo. In 1792 another description and Map of the 
County of Hertford occur. 
1751. Bickham, George. X 9. 
Pird’s-Eye Yiew Map of Hertfordshire of this date. This is 
an idealized view of Hertfordshire looking north, as if seen from 
a considerable eminence on the borders of Middlesex, with a tree, 
an ass ladened with firewood, and two figures in the foreground. 
Along the top of the plate, “A Map of Hertford Shire north from 
London. Humbly Inscrib’d to the ID Hon ble the Earl of Essex 
Lord Lieutenant of this County.” At foot a statement of the 
distances between some of the principal towns, and below, 
“ According to Act of Parliament by G. Bickham, 1751.” 
This impression of the map differs from that published in 1796 
by the absence of the words “Part of” which appear in the latter 
plate above the word “ Middlesex ” between the two figures in the 
foreground, as well as by alterations in the title, and in the text 
and date, etc., at foot. It is one of a series of engraved views 
of the counties dated on the plates variously from 1750 to 1754. 
They were incorporated in ‘ The British Monarchy: Or, a Hew 
Chorographical Description of all the Dominions subject to the 
King of Great Britain . . . ,’ which consisted, in its earlier 
editions, of engraved sheets of descriptions in written character 
only. The earliest title-page I have seen is one dated October 1st., 
1743, but this is bound up with one of October 2nd., 1747, and in 
the same copy is also a title-page dated March 29th., 1750. Other 
early copies of this work in the British Museum have title-pages 
dated October 1st., 1748, and December 2nd., 1749. 
It seems probable that these descriptions in sheets (which are 
continuously paged, and are printed on one side of the paper only, 
and appear to have been attempted in the first instance as examples 
of fine penmanship, Bickham being a writing master and engraver, 
