Speed (John)

county map of Radnorshire in east central Wales, bordering with Shropshire and Herefordshire in England, the map with strapwork cartouches and ornament to each corner, comprising a town plan of Radnor, upper left, the royal arms upper right, scale cartouche surmounted by a large compass rose lower right, and the title cartouche lower left,

engraved map by Jodocus Hondius, 390 x 510 mm. (15 1/4 x 20 in), English text on verso with woodcut initial by John Legatt for William Humble, slight splitting at foot of central vertical fold, a presumably contemporary, perfectly matching, printed horizontal strip of the map overlaid across the lower right corner from the engraved border west to include the first K in ‘Breknoke’, and extending vertically from the lower three quarters of the compass rose down to include ‘The Scale of Miles’ in the panel below, slight browning and faint pale offsetting,