Old Map of Glamorgan, Wales in 1611 by John Speed - Cardiff, Swansea, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Barry Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED and his workshop's re-engraving preserved

and his workshop's re-engraving preserved Saxton's geography while giving it a visual polish that English printers of the time rarely matched

This edition suits readers interested in Kent's Georgian and Victorian social history

and artistic expressions

this fascinating map looks back nearly two thousand years to chart Britain as it stood before and during the Roman conquest

Old Map of Glamorgan, Wales in 1611 by John Speed - Cardiff, Swansea, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Barry Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED and his workshop's re-engraving preservedJohn Speed was a tailor by trade before he turned to cartography, and by 1611 his atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine had made him the best known English mapmaker of his generation. His map of Glamorgan, engraved for that atlas and first published in 1611, follows the format Speed used across his English and Welsh counties: an inset town plan, a decorative cartouche naming the county's lords, and small figures in local dress decorating