Gloucestershire. Original antique map by Robert Morden. Published in 1711 in Atlas Geographus.

Original antique copper engraved map by Robert Morden. Printed by E. & R. Nutt and appearing in for Atlas Geographus, 1711

Robert Morden was an English bookseller, publisher, and mapmaker, globemaker and engraver. He was among the first successful commercial map makers.

Between about 1675 and his death in 1703, he was based under the sign of the Atlas at premises inCornhilland NewCheapside,London. Hiscartographicaloutput was large and varied. His best-known maps are those of South Wales, North Wales and the English Counties first published in a new edition ofCamden’s”Britannia”in 1695, and subsequently reissued in 1722, 1753 and 1772. These maps were based on new information from gentlemen of each county, and were newly engraved. Morden also produced in 1701 a series of smaller county maps often known as Miniature Mordens of which this is an example.