Morden's Map of Cornwall Binding_publisher's boards half a century earlier

half a century earlier

including Santa Monica

Printed in colours

slight dustiness to upper and right hand margins

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Morden's Map of Cornwall Binding_publisher's boards half a century earlierRobert Morden's county maps, like this one of Cornwall, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of Camdens work with maps by Kip and Hole was published in 1607, but by the late seventeenth century it had become scarce and expensive. Gibson completely revised the text and commissioned new maps from Morden,