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Large scale English county maps and plans not printed in atlases [Hampshire]
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- Published 1 August 1989
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By Elizabeth M. Rodger
R. V. Tooley must be one of the best known names to all map collectors, whether academic or private, so I am particularly pleased to have been asked by the Editor to continue the series he started on large scale county maps. This is in fact not the first time I have followed in his footsteps because the basis of my Large Scale County Maps of the British Isles 2nd ed. (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 7972) was the list of such maps given in his Maps and Mapmakers 7th ed. (London: Batsford, 7987). Building upon the holdings of the Bodleian and other libraries I was able to expand his list as well as giving brief information and locations in a systematised form. By keeping the amount of information about each map to a minimum (excluding transcriptions of titles etc.). I was able to list some 800 maps of all parts of the British Isles. The next logical step was to flesh out my minimal entries with more information and in some cases illustrations. This Tooley has done in manageable sections, county by county, in The Map Collector. Between 7978 and 7987 he had covered 73 counties alphabetically up to and including Gloucestershire (the numbering only went up to 72 as 9 was used for both Devonshire and Dorset).
In my earlier list the limitations I set were to include only printed county maps issued separately up to 1850 on a scale between half an inch and three inches to one mile, together with maps of significant parts of counties. Atlas maps were only included where they were also issued separately before being included in an atlas. Maps of a smaller scale than three quarters of an inch to a mile were not included after 1800. All road, railway and canal maps were excluded, likewise charts of rivers and coasts. No attempt was made to document editions of Ordnance Survey maps, other than to give the date of survey and publication of the one-inch map for purposes of comparison.
Tooley expanded this to include maps published up to 7899 together with separately published maps of the principal cities. He also included much more detail of Ordnance Survey maps of various scales.
I shall now largely follow Tooley's practice, including maps of the whole or substantial parts (about 20 miles across) of the county on scales between four inches and one third of an inch to a mile. But I shall exclude all reproductions and all reference to Ordnance Survey maps as they are so well covered in other publications, such as the introduction by J. B. Harley and Yolande O'Donoghue in vol 3 of Harry Margary's multi-volume reproduction of the one inch maps The Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales (Lympne Castle, 1981). As before all road, railway, canal maps and charts are excluded, also boundary commission maps.
The description of each map includes transcribed titles, imprints, scales (both as given on the map and as an approximate representative fraction), measurements etc., estimated dates for undated maps, and one location, usually in one of the major collections. A number of editions and variants are often also described.
Thanks are due to Tony Campbell and the staff of the Map Library of the British Library (BL), Betty Fathers and the staff of the Map Room of the Bodleian Library, Francis Herbert of the Map Room of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), Mrs S. L. Woolgar of the Southampton City Archives, Miss G. L. Beech of the Public Record Office (PRO), and the staff of the Hampshire Record Office.
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R. V. Tooley must be one of the best known names to all map collectors, whether academic or private, so I am particularly pleased to have been asked by the Editor to continue the series he started on large scale county maps. This is in fact not the first time I have followed in his footsteps because the basis of my Large Scale County Maps of the British Isles 2nd ed. (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 7972) was the list of such maps given in his Maps and Mapmakers 7th ed. (London: Batsford, 7987). Building upon the holdings of the Bodleian and other libraries I was able to expand his list as well as giving brief information and locations in a systematised form. By keeping the amount of information about each map to a minimum (excluding transcriptions of titles etc.). I was able to list some 800 maps of all parts of the British Isles. The next logical step was to flesh out my minimal entries with more information and in some cases illustrations. This Tooley has done in manageable sections, county by county, in The Map Collector. Between 7978 and 7987 he had covered 73 counties alphabetically up to and including Gloucestershire (the numbering only went up to 72 as 9 was used for both Devonshire and Dorset).
In my earlier list the limitations I set were to include only printed county maps issued separately up to 1850 on a scale between half an inch and three inches to one mile, together with maps of significant parts of counties. Atlas maps were only included where they were also issued separately before being included in an atlas. Maps of a smaller scale than three quarters of an inch to a mile were not included after 1800. All road, railway and canal maps were excluded, likewise charts of rivers and coasts. No attempt was made to document editions of Ordnance Survey maps, other than to give the date of survey and publication of the one-inch map for purposes of comparison.
Tooley expanded this to include maps published up to 7899 together with separately published maps of the principal cities. He also included much more detail of Ordnance Survey maps of various scales.
I shall now largely follow Tooley's practice, including maps of the whole or substantial parts (about 20 miles across) of the county on scales between four inches and one third of an inch to a mile. But I shall exclude all reproductions and all reference to Ordnance Survey maps as they are so well covered in other publications, such as the introduction by J. B. Harley and Yolande O'Donoghue in vol 3 of Harry Margary's multi-volume reproduction of the one inch maps The Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales (Lympne Castle, 1981). As before all road, railway, canal maps and charts are excluded, also boundary commission maps.
The description of each map includes transcribed titles, imprints, scales (both as given on the map and as an approximate representative fraction), measurements etc., estimated dates for undated maps, and one location, usually in one of the major collections. A number of editions and variants are often also described.
Thanks are due to Tony Campbell and the staff of the Map Library of the British Library (BL), Betty Fathers and the staff of the Map Room of the Bodleian Library, Francis Herbert of the Map Room of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), Mrs S. L. Woolgar of the Southampton City Archives, Miss G. L. Beech of the Public Record Office (PRO), and the staff of the Hampshire Record Office.
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