Speed's Map of Cardiganshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 34 cm His brother Bartholomew worked as

His brother Bartholomew worked as a 'dessinateur des jardins' and Rocque's earliest plans are of parks

and at Cambridge (no maps)

notably the west coast of north America and the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia

our example was revised in January 1914

Speed's Map of Cardiganshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 34 cm His brother Bartholomew worked asCardigan Shyre described with the due forme of the Shiretown as it was surveyed by JS. Anno 1610 John Speed (1552 1629) is unquestionably the most significant English map maker of the seventeenth century. A brief note, from Granger's Bibliographical History of England (1779) contains most of the information we have about Speed's life: "John Speed, who was bred a Tailor, was by the generosity of Sir Fulk Grevil, his patron, set free from a manual