WINCHESTER POOLE SOUTHAMPTON OWEN BOWEN ROAD MAP C1720 FROM BRITANNIA DEPICTA

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WINCHESTER POOLE SOUTHAMPTON OWEN BOWEN ROAD MAP C1720 FROM BRITANNIA DEPICTA:
$24.88

ANTIQUE ROAD MAP BY EMMANUEL BOWEN AND JOHN OWEN, FROM THE BOOK BRITANNIA DEPICTA OR OGILBY IMPROVED, PUBLISHED C1720.

THIS MAP IS OF THE ROUTE STARTING ATALRESFORD, TRAVELLING THROUGH WINCHESTER, CANTERBURY,BUCKLAND AND ENDING AT RINGWOOD, WITH NOTES ON ROMSEY (RUMSEY),MALNOOD CASTLE, RINGWOODANDLYMINGTON IN MARGIN. HAND COLOURED AT A LATER DATE, INCLUDING THE ARMS OF LYMINGTON. PAGE NUMBER 263.

ON THE REVESE ARE DETAILS OF THE ROAD FROMRINGWOOD, PASSING THROUGH KNASTON, POOLE, CHISTCHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON AND ENDING ATWINCHESTER. PAGE IS UNCOLOURED. PAGE NUMBER 264.

MAP IS A GOOD QUALITY IMAGE.

Copperplate engraving measuring approx 7\" by 4\" for image size, with the total page size at approx 8\" by 5 1/2\"

These are genuine old maps and not a reproduction!

Biography: Emanuel Bowen (fl. 1714 - 67)

An 18th century map and print seller, who worked in London from about 1714, producing some of the best and attractive maps of the century. A recurring feature of Bowen\'s work, evident even on the early road maps, was his habit of filling every corner and space of the map with jottings and footnotes, both historical and topographical.

One of his earliest engraved worksBritannia Depicta,published in 1720 contained over two hundred road maps together with a miniature county map of each of the counties of England and Wales. It was an unusual feature of the atlas that the maps were engraved on both sides of each page, and this resulted in a handier sized book.

He also issued with John Owen a book of road maps based, as was usual at the time, on Ogilby but again incorporating his own style of historical and heraldic detail.

Inspite of his royal appointments and apparent prosperity he died in poverty and his son, who carried on the business was no more fortunate and died in a Clerkenwell workhouse in 1790.