Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 343
England & Wales. Hollar (Wenceslaus), The Kingdome of England & Principality of Wales, exactly describe with every Sheere & the small Townes in every one of them, in Six Mappes, Portable for every Mans Pocket, published John Garrett, circa 1688, folding title, six (complete) uncoloured engraved folding maps, old folds strengthened on verso, occasional closed tears and splits along old folds, some dust soiling, near contemporary manuscript title on verso of each map, later marbled endpapers, library label to front endpaper, early 19th century blind and gilt decorated calf with relief panels, blind embossed armorial depicting a Talbot's head crest (for the Travers family) to upper board, upper hinge cracked, contrasting morocco label to spine, worn at head and foot of spine with a little wear at extremities, binding size 220 x 95 mm R.W.Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, no.537. Often called 'The Quartermaster's Map', Sheets 1, 2, 4 & 5 are from 1676 and sheets 3 & 6 from the1688 state.The map aquired its moniker owing to its usefulness to 'all Commanders for Quarteringe of Souldiers, & all sorts of Persons, that would be informed, Where the Armies be; never so Commodiously drawne before this.' It was used widely during the English Civil War particularly by the Parliamentarians with whom the publisher Thomas Jenner's sympathies lay. Jenner was a print and map seller who set up in business at the White Bear in Cornhill about 1618. Until the impending Civil War Jenner was not known for cartographic material. Then in 1643 he published a revised edition of the 'Direction for the English Traviller' whose plates he had acquired from his printer Matthew Simmons. Jenner had timed his move perfectly. The demand for maps to help the large numbers of people moving about the country at the time of the Civil War was on the increase. The market for the little atlas clearly proved so great that he was attracted to do more. He engaged the services of the noted engraver Wenceslaus Hollar to etch a reduction of Christopher Saxton's great wall map of 1583, therby enabling his customers to have a more detailed and yet still portable map of England and Wales. Its sucess can be measured by how often it was re-printed; however its portability probably resulted in the destruction of most examples and complete copies such as this example are rare. (1)
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