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H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
and on the maps, and slight alterations in the title itself. They 
were probably published in 1763 and 1785 respectively. 
1760 (c). Gibson, John. 4- i 2 g- X 2£. Scale, 16 miles = 
1 inch. 
An outline map of Herts giving the rivers and roads and a few 
towns and villages only. In the right-hand top corner, “Hert¬ 
fordshire,” in a small scrolled panel. The left-hand top corner 
and margin are filled with description, and in the left-hand bottom 
corner is a scale of (10) “English Miles.” In the right-hand 
bottom corner is a slight indicator showing the north and east— 
the north by a vertical line with ornamental arrow-head, and the 
east by a transverse line terminated by two small cross-bars. The 
longitude is E. and W. from London. 
From an atlas entitled * Hew and Accurate Maps of the Counties 
of England and Wales.’ It is “ Drawn from the latest surveys 
By J. Gibson, London. Printed for J. Hewbery at the Bible and Sun 
in St. Paul’s Churchyard.” Ho date, 24mo. The date of issue is 
problematic. The only copy I have seen of this little atlas is one 
in the Gough Collection in the Bodleian Library. 
Gibson engraved the map of England in Bocque’s “ Small British 
Atlas” (1753), also a set of pocket maps called the ‘Atlas 
Minimus ,’ which was improved by Bowen, and published (or 
republished) by the latter in 1758. This was again issued in 
1792. Gibson’s name also occurs on maps in Dury’s small atlas 
issued about 1764. 
The above atlas was perhaps earlier than 1760, but it is impossible 
to fix anything with accuracy in default of further information. 
* 1762. Rocque, John. 7£ X 6-Jg-. Scale, 5 miles = 
1 inch. 
A reprint of the map of Herts of 1753. This edition has the 
number 15 in the right-hand top corner, j ust above the border-line 
of the map. It is otherwise unaltered. 
Erom an edition of ‘ The Small British Atlas,’ a copy of which 
is in my collection, bearing the date 1762. The imprint is “ London 
Published according to Act of Parliamb By John Bocque, Choro- 
grapher to his Majesty, near Old Bound Court in the Strand, 1762.” 
8vo. It has also a duplicate title in French. 
1763. Martin, Benjamin. 8-& x 6£. Scale, 5 miles = 
1 inch. Engraved by Emanuel Bowen, for W. Owen [1759]. 
Gives the hundreds (indicated by letters), the rivers and roads, 
with the distances between towns marked on the latter, the towns 
and a few villages, and hills and trees. 
The meridian is marked in the margin. In the left-hand top 
corner, in a nearly oval escutcheon, slightly ornamented, “ Hertford 
Shire Divided into its Hundreds: Containing the Borough and 
Market Towns, with the Bivers, Boads, distances, etc. By Eman: 
Bowen Geog r . to His Majesty,” and below an “Explanation” of 
the signs on the map. On the right-hand side is a circular 
indicator of the points of the compass, showing the H. and E. In 
