Blome’s Map of Leicestershire Printed Area Measurement_50 x 62.5 cm minor restorations to lower margin

minor restorations to lower margin

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Bishop also wrote a memoir of her friend Harriet Fortescue

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

Blome’s Map of Leicestershire Printed Area Measurement_50 x 62.5 cm minor restorations to lower marginBlome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speeds Theatre. In the straightened financial environment of post Restoration London, Blome was forced to rely on innovative funding sources: he was one of the first publishers of illustrated books to rely heavily on subscriptions, and subscribers to the Britannia were entitled to have their coats of arms (Blome began his career as a heraldic painter)