Blome’s Map of Lincolnshire Mapmaker(s)_Olfert Dapper and several large-scale county maps

and several large-scale county maps including Surrey and Middlesex

but not duplicated in volume 3 where it is also called for

Survey of India

and reissued them under their own imprint

Blome’s Map of Lincolnshire Mapmaker(s)_Olfert Dapper and several large-scale county mapsBlome published the first new series of county maps since Speed. In the straightened financial environment of post Restoration London he had to reply on innovative funding sources: he was one of the first publishers of illustrated books to rely heavily on subscriptions. Subscribers to the Britannia were entitled to have their armorial bearings (Blome began his career as a heraldic painter) engraved on a map of their choice. Condition & Materials