A Map of Little and Lesnes, and the Hundred of Dartford and Wilmington. Original antique map, 1788. Published for Edward Halsted’s History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 1788

Edward Hasted (1732 –1812) was an English antiquarian and pioneering historian of his ancestral home county ofKent.As such, he was the author of a major county history,“The Historical and topographical Survey of the County of Kent,published in fourfolio volumes between 1778 and 1799.

A second edition appeared in 12volumes between 1797 and 1801. It incorporated much new material, but also omitted many details from the first edition: it had been greatly revised by either one or two unidentified editors, and the extent to which it drew on materials collected by Hasted, or to which he was able to influence the work, remains unclear. A modern reprint of the second edition was published in 1972.

Hasted also published a separate “History of the Antient and Metropolitical City ofCanterbury Civil and Ecclesiastical” (1799).