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Creator:
Chapman, John, active 1772–1777
Title(s):
A map of the county of Essex : from an actual survey taken in MDCCLXXII:LXXIII & MDCCLXXIV / by John Chapman & Peter André.
Published/Created:
Colchester : Printed, publish'd & sold by W. Keymer ..., June, 1785.
Physical Description:
1 map on 25 sheets ; sheets 54 x 72 cm + index map
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Maps/Atlases 1862 Essex-1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2024 32
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale approximately 1:31,680 -- (W 0°03ʹ00ʺ--E 1°17ʹ00ʺ/N 52°06ʹ00ʺ--N 51°26ʹ00ʺ)
Notes:
Shows selected seats of the nobility and gentry.
Relief shown by hachures.
With a "List of subscribers" on sheet XX and the title on sheet XXV.
Insets: A Plan of Colchester; Harwich Harbour.
The title leaf also includes the imprint of the 1777 edition published by Chapman and André.
Scale approximated from horizontal bar scale given in statute miles.
BAC Maps/Atlases 1862 Essex-1: From the collection of Ernest Augustus Cumberland.
BAC Folio B 2024 32: Sheets are bound in one volume, in contemporary marbled boards. Hand-colored. Armorial bookplate: Ralph Charlton Palmer. Autograph: Lt. Colonel Palmer, Nazeing Park.
Subject Terms:
Colchester (England) -- Maps.
Essex (England) -- Maps.
Harwich (England) -- Maps.
Palmer, G. (George), 1799–1883 -- Autograph.
Palmer, Ralph Charlton, 1839–1923 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Maps.
Contributors:
André, Peter, cartographer.
Keymer, W. (William), 1731–1813, publisher, printer, bookseller.
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