Old Map of Dorset in 1611 by John Speed - Bridport, Lyme Regis, Shaftesbury Shepherds Bush featuring lighthouses

featuring lighthouses

focusing on the area north and south of High Holborn and the most central parts of what is now the borough of Camden

this Blaeu sheet captures the county as it stood in the mid-1600s

and Newbury on the Kennet to the west

a Father's Day present for a history-loving dad

Old Map of Dorset in 1611 by John Speed - Bridport, Lyme Regis, Shaftesbury Shepherds Bush featuring lighthousesThis reproduction reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Dorset, or Dorsetshire as it was then known, taken from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first county by county survey of England and Wales. Unlike many of Speed's more familiar hand coloured county maps, this plate survives as an exceedingly rare monochrome copperplate impression, engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, whose fine linework gives the map its