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H. Gr. FORDHAM-HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 
though the engravings from these drawings are not dated until many 
years afterwards (1772, 1773, and even 1787). There are many 
sketches made as late as 1787, so that it seems that Grose was busy 
accumulating pictorial materials for twenty-eight years (1760-1787). 
The work of engraving commenced in 1772, and was completed 
in 1787, thus itself extending over no less than sixteen years. 
We know nothing of Grose’s reasons for using Seller’s plates for 
his maps, which he does throughout both issues. They do not 
appear to have been re-used between 1701 (Camden’s ‘ Britannia 
Abridg’d ’) and this date, and were, of course, quite obsolete. 
1788. Political Magazine. 12f x 10£. Scale, 4 miles 
= 1£ inch. Engraved by John Lodge. 
Shows rivers, principal roads, towns, villages, hamlets, parks, 
woods, and hills. Plain-ruled margin, with degrees and minutes of 
latitude and longitude. Meridians of 52° N. latitude and 0° longitude 
of London ruled across map. In left-hand top corner: “ A Map of 
Hartfordshire, from the latest Authorities.” In the right-hand top 
corner, a small circular indicator of the north, and in the right-hand 
bottom corner: “Bnmarks,” and, below, scale of (10) “British 
Statute Miles 69 to a Degree.” On bottom border, within map, on 
left, is : “ Longitude West from London,” and on right, “ Longitude 
East from London,” and in margin, “ Meridian 0 of London.” 
At the right-hand top corner, outside border: “Political Mag. 
Oct r 88,” and, below, in middle, “London Published as the Act 
directs, Oct 1 ' 31st 1788 by J. Murray, No. 32 Fleet Street.” 
From ‘ The Political Magazine, and Parliamentary, Naval, 
Military, and Literary Journal,’ 21 vols., London, 1780-91, 8vo. 
The map of Herts illustrates vol. xv (June-December, 1788). 
Other county maps in the series have at foot “ J. Lodge sc.” 
(The maps are reprinted in an atlas, without title or date, about 1795.) 
1789. Camden, William. 19| x 15f. Scale, about 
2 miles = l inch. Engraved by John Cary. 
Map with a plain, ruled border, divided into degrees and minutes 
of latitude and longitude. In bottom margin, on left, “ Longitude 
West from St. Pauls, London,” and on right, “ Longitude East 
from St. Pauls, London.” Meridian 0° ruled across map, and 
passing about a mile west of Hertford. Shows hundreds, main 
and cross roads, rivers, towns, villages, hamlets, houses, mills, 
parks, many woods, and hills. The distances are marked in miles 
from London on the principal roads. In the left-hand top corner, 
‘ ‘ A Map of Hartfordshire from the best Authorities,” and, ‘ ‘ Engraved 
by J. Cary.” In the right-hand bottom corner, a star-indicator 
of the points of the compass, and a “ Scale of Miles 69^- to a Degree 
of Latitude.” 
From the ‘ Britannia ,’ translated from Camden’s edition of 1607 
by Bichard Gough, the first edition, 3 vols., London, 1789, fol. 
The map of Herts is found in vol. i, facing p. 335. (Beprinted 
in the 2nd edition, 1806.) 
(To he continued.') 
