'CORNWALL'

'CORNWALL'

AN ENGRAVED MAP BY JOHN SPEED (1552-1629)

a hand-coloured engraved map with an inset view of Launceston, inscribed 'Are to be sold by Thomas Bassett in Fleet Street and Richard Chiswell in St. Paul's Churchyard', dated '1610' but probably later, c.1676, English text to verso, in a later glazed oak frame

39.5 x 52cm

Provenance

From the collection of Edward Croft-Murray CBE (1907-1980).