Speed’s Map of Westmorland Date of Publication_1645 This map of Kent is

This map of Kent is from Wallis' Pocket Edition of the English Counties

Lithographed in red and black on two sheets

while others contain the same Hullmandel frontispiece as this one

34 x 55 cm

Speed’s Map of Westmorland Date of Publication_1645 This map of Kent isThe Countie of Westmorland and Kendale the cheif towne described 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 employment and enabled to pursue his