Badeslade, Thomas & Toms, William Henry

A surveyor and an engraver produced this compact early Georgian atlas of England and Wales, published as Chorographia Britan...

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A surveyor and an engraver produced this compact early Georgian atlas of England and Wales, published as Chorographia Britanniae in 1742. Thomas Badeslade, a surveyor and engineer, prepared the maps, and William Henry Toms engraved and sold them; each shows a county's outline, settlements and rivers on a small sheet, keeping Middlesex, Cumberland, Westmorland, Huntingdonshire and the rest within their eighteenth-century bounds. The orientation follows each county's shape, so north is not always at the top, and notes on market days and parliamentary representation served contemporary travellers and local administration. Several early issues are represented.

A surveyor and an engraver produced this compact early Georgian atlas of England and Wales, published as Chorographia Britanniae in 1742. Thomas Badeslade, a surveyor and engineer, prepared the maps, and William Henry Toms engraved and sold them; each shows a county's outline, settlements and rivers on a small sheet, keeping Middlesex, Cumberland, Westmorland, Huntingdonshire and the rest within their eighteenth-century bounds. The orientation follows each county's shape, so north is not always at the top, and notes on market days and parliamentary representation served contemporary travellers and local administration. Several early issues are represented.

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