Speed's Map of Cardiganshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 34 cm stapled rather than sewn with

stapled rather than sewn with some rust to staples

Third edition ‘completing twenty-five thousand’

to verso of the map and to slipcase label

in the London Library (no maps)

and at Cambridge (no maps)

Speed's Map of Cardiganshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 34 cm stapled rather than sewn withCardigan Shyre described with the due forme of the Shiretown as it was surveyed by JS. Anno 1610 John Speed (1552 1629) is unquestionably the most significant English map maker of the seventeenth century. A brief note, from Granger's Bibliographical History of England (1779) contains most of the information we have about Speed's life: "John Speed, who was bred a Tailor, was by the generosity of Sir Fulk Grevil, his patron, set free from a manual