Blome’s Map of Surrey Publisher(s)_Sampson Low

Blome’s Map of Surrey Publisher(s)_Sampson LowBlome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speeds Theatre. In the straightened financial environment of post Restoration London, Blome was forced to rely on innovative funding sources: he was one of the first publishers of illustrated books to rely heavily on subscriptions. Subscribers to the Britannia were entitled to have their coats of arms (Blome began his career as a heraldic painter)

It appears to be a well-intentioned pirate edition

Later editions of the map

printed card wraps

occasional marginal spotting

He seems to have regarded himself

the artist may have been on the staff

implying that Britain bankrolls others to fight

Quad royal station wall map

and (probably) died in 1853

Walker: MacDonald Gill – charting a life

Pedley does not specify a second state

with original hand-colour