H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MATS. 
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to Improve in the Knowledge of their Country. From the latest 
Surveys of the Several Counties; Engraved by, and under the 
Direction of, J. Ellis.’ 
This appears to he the first edition of the Atlas, London, 1766, 
long 4to. It is the only one mentioned in Gough’s ‘ Anecdotes.’ 
It is,“Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter-House, in 
St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and Robert Sayer, at the Golden Buck, 
near Serjeants Inn, in Fleet-Street. Price 10s. Qd. in Red Leather 
for the Pocket, mdcclxvi.” 
The only copy I have seen is one in the possession of Mr. Joseph 
Wilson, of Wakeley, Buntingford, Herts. 
1766* (c). Dury, Andrew, and John Andrews. 
28| X 20|- Scale, 1£ miles = 1 inch. This is the Index-map to 
the map next described. 
It is divided into the hundreds, and shows the principal and cross 
roads, the rivers and streams, with towns and villages, and the 
hills and ranges of hills by shading, with the woods and principal 
seats. It is also divided by vertical and horizontal lines into nine 
sections corresponding to the sheets of the large map, and these 
are numbered as to the top and central sections 1 to 6 in the 
right-hand top corner of each section, and as to the bottom sections 
7, 8, and 9 in the right-hand bottom corner. The margin is plain- 
ruled. In the left-hand top corner: “A Topographical Map of 
Hartford-Shire, Taken from an Actual Survey, As an Index to 
the Large One.” In the left-hand bottom corner is a scale of 
seven miles. 
Bound up in a large folio volume with the nine sheets of the 
large map, and plans of Hertford and St. Albans, the two latter 
dated 1766. (Reprinted in 1777 and 1782.) 
1766* (c). Dury, Andrew, and John Andrews. 
6 ft. 11J ins. X 5 ft. 1 in. Scale, £ mile = 1 inch. 
A map in nine sheets in a plain-ruled border with degrees and 
minutes of latitude and longitude, hound in a large folio volume 
with Index-map and plans of Hertford and St. Albans. These 
two plans are by Andrews and M. Wren, and are dated 1766. 
The map is also found mounted in one sheet to fold into case. 
It gives the parish boundaries (laid down in many cases very 
erroneously), and is elaborately engraved throughout, showing 
the arable fields, meadows, unenclosed lands, woods, commons, 
parks, and gardens, with houses and their ornamental surroundings, 
as well as the roads, rivers and streams, towns, villages, hamlets, 
hills, woods, churches, parsonages, turnpikes, wind- and water¬ 
mills, and other details. The names of the owners or occupiers 
of the principal seats are set out, as are also the distances on some 
of the main roads. The design is, here and there, hut not in 
* This is the date given for the maps in Gough’s ‘Anecdotes’ (1768), 
‘ Additions and Corrections,’ atp. 713 ; and in his ‘ British Topography ’ (1780), 
vol. i, at p. 433. 
