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Map Notes
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Gardner 1719
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NOTES from GARDNER'S ROADS MAPS in HAMPSHIRE, 1719
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FA1999.123.1
FA1999.123.2
FA1999.123.3
FA1999.135
FA2000.37
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These notes are taken from road strip maps with segments in
Hampshire, by Thomas Gardner in The Pocket Guide to the English
Traveller, published by J Tonson and J Watts, London, 1719. The
maps studied are in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museum
service, items HMCMS:FA1999.123.1, FA1999.123.2 and FA1999.123.3.
Notes are also made from the title page and introductory text of
the road book, item HMCMS:FA1999.135. The collection also
includes a late binding of the road book, item
HMCMS:FA2000.47.
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map type: HantsMap & Gardner 1719
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Although the road book concerns the whole of England,
including Wales, these notes are mostly restricted to
Hampshire.
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The map size is, from plate 51 in the collection; wxh, sheet =
28.5x18.5cm, wxh, map = 267x162mm
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Preface
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The preface comments on John Ogilby's road strip maps:-
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As the original Plates are in large Sheets, the general Use of
them has been hitherto lost, and the Book rather an Entertainment
for a Traveller within Doors, than a Guide to him upon the Road:
That a Work of so much Use might be therefore a constant
Companion to those that want it in the most useful way, viz. as a
GUIDE to the TRAVELLER; this Method of rendring it such has been
attempted, and on Experience 'tis not doubted will be found to
answer all the Ends of the original Design, and the utmost
Expectations of those that shall make Use of it.
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The book was one of four versions of John Ogilby's road book,
published 1675, which were planned in the 1710s. Thomas Gardner's
is the second scheme, and the first to be completed. (Herman Moll
1718 failed; John Senex 1719-20 and Emanuel Bowen 1720,
succeeded.) Perhaps this version by Thomas Gardner was rushed to
be first; the engraving is not of the best, copying was not
always careful ...
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map type Gardner 1719 -- menu of resources |
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title etc -- GDN1PGE.txt
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map features -- GDN1FTR.txt
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source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.123.1 -- strip map (pl.32) |
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source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.123.2 -- strip map (pl.51) |
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source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.123.3 -- strip map (pl.53) |
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source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.135 -- book binding |
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source item -- HMCMS:FA2000.37 -- title page |
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list of map notes |
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HantsMap Notes -- GARDNER1.txt
MN: 31.10.2001
last edit: 5.5.2003
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