Surrey: Moule, c.1844

Title: Surrey Author: Henry Moule Date: c.1844 Condition: Age-related toning; 7/8" expertly repaired tear extending into the title; paper loss at top right corner Inches: 10 3/8 x 7 3/4 [Image] Centimeters: 26.35 x 19.68 [Image] Product ID: 308428 A highly decorative and intricately detailed 19th-century map of Surrey by Thomas Moule, featuring charming vignette views of Dulwich College and Richmond Bridge. Originally published in Barclay’s Complete & Universal English Dictionary (London: G. Virtue, 1840s). Maps by Thomas Moule are probably, with those by Speed, the best known of all series of English county maps. The maps combine a clarity of cartographic style with immense detail, by way of vignette views, scenes and portraits relating to the county shown, often set within a gothic architectural or floral surround, into which armorial devices and so on are worked. As the editions of the maps were published, first in "The English Counties Delineated" and later in "Bar