Speed (John)

London, William Humble, 1646.
county map of Durham with an inset plan of the city, upper right, royal coat-of-arms, upper left, and the title banderole, upper centre. In the lower left corner is a large compass rose, and in the lower right corner a vignette scene of the Battle of Neville’s Cross, fought in 1346, with a strapwork text panel describing the capture of David Bruce, King of the Scots. This is from the first of two mid-17th century edition of the ‘Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine’ to be issued by William Humble, son of George Humble, who was Speed’s first publisher, in 1612, in partnership with John Sudbury,.