A New and Correct Map of England and Ireland

by [WILLDEY, George] and R[ichard] W[illiam] SEALE

$6,757 · Offered by Biblio

London,: T. Jefferys, Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the corner of St Martin's Lane Charing Cross, and by W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge,, [1750-58].. 1210 by 1520mm (47.75 by 59.75 inches).. Engraved map on six sheets, dissected and mounted on linen, original full wash colour, evenly age-toned, inset map of Scotland upper right, elaborate title cartouche lower left, and advertisement upper left. On 3 February 1732, George Willdey placed an advertisement in the Daily Post for "...a large new Map of Great Britain and Ireland, together with a very curious Set of Heads of all the Kings of England from William the Conqueror to King George the Second, to place roundit, and is esteemed the handsomest Map ever done, it is six Feet square, the Map alone is four Feet deep by five Feet long". The only surviving example of the first state survives in the Mann Atlas at Eton College. The present map bears the imprint of Thomas Jefferys, who, following Willdey's death, had purchased a large quantity of his stock from his son in 1737. An advertisement to upper left of the map echoes the Willdey's 1732 advert: 'This Map with or without of ye Heads of ye Kings of England round it. Also a large beautiful & Correct Map of the World with or without 20 large sheet maps of ye chief dominions in Europe, and Coelestial Hemispheres round it may be fitted upon screens, or be hang'd against a wall and made to fit different places & sizes, being every way hands

• Publisher: T. Jefferys, Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the corner of St Martin's Lane Charing Cross, and by W. H
• Year: 1750
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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