H. G. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
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This is the earliest of Cary’s atlases. It is dedicated to Lord 
Weymouth, and contains a general map of England and Wales, 
40 maps of the English Counties, 3 of the Ridings of Yorkshire, 
and one each, of JSTorth and South Wales—46 in all. The maps are 
printed each, on one leaf with a page of descriptive text to face. 
They are all dated September 1st, 1787. 
(Reprinted in 1793, and again without date, hut “corrected to 
1818,” with the maps undated.) 
* 1787 [1774]. Grose, Francis. 5H x 4|. Scale, 
8 miles = 1 inch. Engraved by John Seller [1695 ?]. 
An impression of Seller’s small map of Herts of 1695 (?) and 
1701, with the title altered, and the names of two of the towns 
near the old title erased. 
This map occupies slightly more than the upper half of a small 
folio (or large octavo) page, with below, a descriptive text headed 
“Hertfordshire,” continued on the hack, and ending nearly at 
the bottom of this page with a list of “ Antiquities in this County 
worthy notice.” From vol. ii (1774) of ‘The Antiquities of 
England and Wales,’ by Francis Grose, Esq., F.A.S., in four 
volumes, 1773-76, with a supplement in two volumes, 1777-87, 
all London, sm. folio. This work, though published between 
1773 and 1787, according to the dates on the frontispieces and 
title-pages, contains in each volume engravings of later dates up 
to 1787. It seems as if an original title-page had been prepared 
and dated for each volume—vol. i, 1773; vol. ii, 1774; vol. iii, 
1775; vol. iv, 1776; supplement, vol. i, 1777; vol. ii, 1787; 
and that, subsequently, all the volumes had been made up as the 
plates accumulated, so that the volumes were none of them hound 
up before .1787. The map of Herts in vol. ii is associated with 
engravings of St. Albans Abbey and other local antiquities, 
engraved in and dated 1787. 
There is another edition of this work in eight volumes, 1783-1787 
(including a supplement of one volume), 4to. In this edition the 
map of Herts is also in vol. ii, which is not dated, hut may he 
referred nominally to 1784, as it contains engravings of Hertford 
Castle and the Rye House hearing that date. The first volume 
contains plates dated as late as 1787, but on the first title-page 
the work is described as a “Hew Edition,” and dated 1783. 
Then, on a second title-page (dated 1784), it is called “ The Second 
Edition, Corrected and enlarged.” 
It seems impossible to bring into any harmony the various dates 
found in these two complete series of Grose’s great work. The 
issues must have been made up and published to a large extent 
contemporaneously, and, of course, out of the same materials. 
Grose was extremely particular in dating every plate he published, 
and he even issued an accompanying list of plates, showing in each 
case the date on which the sketch was made from which the 
corresponding plate was engraved. Thus we know that his work 
of collecting materials for the ‘ Antiquities ’ began as far back as 
1760 and 1761, the dates of several of the Bedfordshire sketches, 
