Author: MOLL
Title: A New Map of London
Description: London, Moll. 1700. Book, A New Map of London Containing the Towns Gentlemens Houses Villages and Other Remarks Round London as from London to Windsor Ware Chelmsford the Hope Tunbridge Guildford etc. by H Moll published by Moll London circa 1700 . On paper size 30 by 28 cm. Some hand-colouring. A key gives information on parish churches villages and hamlets gentlemen's houses roads woods and watermills. Title and Moll's details are in two small decorative cartouches. The map is divided into a series of squares each containing two square miles. Heights are shown in a stylised pictorial manner. The area covered runs from Barkhampsted (sic) across to Chelmsford in the north and from Guildford to Tunbridge in the south. VG condition. The map probably originated in an atlas published about 1700 and the plate was used for more engravings after this.Images available.

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