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H. G. FORDHAM—HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
*1754 (c). Bickham, George. 5f- x 9. 
Bird’s-Eye Yiew Map of Hertfordshire. An impression of the 
view described nnder the date 1751 (ante, p. 196). 
From ‘ The British Monarchy: Or, a Hew Chorographical 
Description of all the Dominions subject to the King of Great 
Britain. . . . And enlarging more particularly on the respective 
Counties of England and Wales.’ “ Engrav’d by George Bickham,” 
London, sm. folio. 
The British Museum copies of this publication are ascribed to 
1743, 1748, and 1749 respectively, hut for the reasons stated at 
pp. 196, 197 (1751, Bickham, G.) it seems probable that the com¬ 
plete work (including the maps) was issued about or after 1754. 
There are various title-pages, variously dated from 1743 to 1750, 
hut at the end of the engraved text, at the foot of p. 188, we find 
“Finis. G. B. Fecit, 1749.” This suggests that this part of the 
work was completed at the date mentioned. The first of the 
maps, that of the British Dominions, appears to he of 1749. The 
county maps are in a few cases undated, hut the rest are dated in 
a series of six or eight in each year from 1750 to 1754 (inclusive).. 
They are, mostly, engraved by George Bickham, senior, hut six 
are signed by George Bickham, junior.* While the Map of Herts 
is amongst those dated 1751, and may probably have appeared 
separately at that time, the work as a whole cannot, consistently 
with the dates on the latest of the maps, have been issued earlier 
than 1754. 
* 1759. Owen, John. 4H X 4J-. Scale, 10 miles = 
1 inch. Engraved by Emanuel Bowen. 
Also from the ‘Britannia Bepicta ,’ a further example of the 
fourth edition, from the original plates, identical in all respects 
with the issue of 1736, except for the alteration in the date. 
London, 1759, 8vo. 
1760(c). Kitchin, Thomas. 25f x 20£. Scale, about 
1% miles = 1 inch. 
Shows the hundreds, rivers, principal roads (with junctions of 
cross-roads, and distances between towns in miles), towns, villages, 
hamlets, houses and parks (with the names of owners or occupiers), 
churches (marked B. and Y. to indicate whether the living is 
a Bectory or Yicarage, and with particulars of the ownership of 
the advowson in some cases), woods, wind- and water-mills, post¬ 
stages, charity schools, religious houses, and other details. There 
are a good many short historical notes on the map itself.f The 
border is double-ruled, with degrees and minutes of longitude and 
* George Bickham the elder flourished 1709 to 1767, and died in 1769. He 
was a writing-master and engraver. His son, George Bickham the younger, was 
an engraver and political caricaturist. He is said to have died in 1758. See 
Strutt’s ‘Biographical Dictionary of Engravers,’ London, 1785, 4to, and the 
‘ Dictionary of National Biography,’ vol. v, London, 1886, 8vo. 
t One of these, that relating to Hitchin, is printed in the Introduction to this 
Catalogue, p. 7 ante. 
