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the right-hand hottom corner is a list of the hundreds, and below, 
a scale of British statute miles. Below the margin of the map is 
“ Engrav’d for the General Magazine of Arts and Sciences ; for 
W. Owen at Temple Bar, 1759.” 
The map was printed in 1763 only, in the second of the two 
volumes entitled ‘ The Natural History of England,’ London, 
1759 and 1763, 8vo, which formed a section of the ‘General 
Magazine of Arts and Sciences,’ London, 1755-1765, 8vo. 
* 1763 (c). Kitchin, Thomas. 25f x 20f. Scale, 
about 1^ miles = 1 inch. 
A reprint of the map of Herts in ‘ The Large English Atlas ’ 
of Bowen & Kitchin, first issued about 1760. London, n.d., 
imp. folio. 
A copy in the British Museum Library is catalogued as of 1763, 
which is the date given by Gough in the ‘ Anecdotes ’ and ‘ British 
Topography ’ for the only copy of this Atlas which he mentions. 
There are 47 maps, including Scotland and Ireland, in the British 
Museum copy. 
1764. England Illustrated. 9H x 71. Scale, about 
5 miles = 1 inch. Engraved by Thomas Kitchin. 
Gives the roads, towns, villages, houses, parks, with woods and 
hills. In left-hand top corner, in panel with ornamental border: 
“A New Map of Hertfordshire Drawn from the best Authorities: 
By Tho s Kitchin Geographer Engraver to H.B.H. the Duke of 
York,” and to the right a star indicator of the points of the compass, 
within a circle. In the right-hand bottom corner : “ Bemarks :— 
Borough Towns with the N° of Memb rs they send to Parham 1 by 
stars—Market Towns—Bectories and Yicarages — Parks—Places 
where Pairs are kept have a Line under the name thus,” and, below, 
a scale of “ British Statute Miles 69 to a Degree.” In the hottom 
border: “ Longitude West ” and “ East from London.” A broken 
line is ruled vertically across the map on the meridian of London. 
Prom ‘ England Illustrated, or, a Compendium of the Natural 
History, Geography, Topography, and Antiquities Ecclesiastical 
and Civil of England and Wales.’ Printed for B. & J. Dodsley, 
2 vols., London, 1764, 4to. The Hertfordshire map is in vol. i, 
at p. 303. 
* 1764. Owen, John. 4H x 4£. Scale, 10 miles = 
1 inch. Engraved by Emanuel Bowen. 
The last impression of the map of 1720, according to Gough’s 
‘ Anecdotes,’ in which he states that the last edition of the ‘ Britannia 
Depict a ’ was of this date. Prom the ‘ Britannia Depicta ’ of Owen, 
London, 1764, 8vo. 
* 1764 (?). Rocque, John.* 7f x 6. Scale, 5 miles = 
1 inch. 
* Rocque died before this date, as, in the title of ‘ A Collection of Plans of the 
Principal Cities of Great Britain and Ireland,’ published by Dury in 1764, 
amongst the surveys from which the plans, etc., are drawn, “ those taken by the 
late Mr. J. Bocque, Topographer to His Majesty,” are mentioned. 
