Morden's Map of Surrey British Isles The insets

The insets

the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic

This map of the environs of Edinburgh was published a decade before Ainslie’s landmark nine sheet map of Scotland

This intricate anthropomorphic map (the artist also produced a zoomorphic companion piece) was issued soon after the outbreak of the First World War

Morden's Map of Surrey British Isles The insetsRobert Morden's county maps, like this one of Surrey, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of Camdens work with maps by Kip and Hole was published in 1607, but by the late seventeenth century it had become scarce and expensive. Gibson completely revised the text and commissioned new maps from Morden,