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Isle of Wight – John Albin’s fine and detailed map of the Isle of Wight
To the Right Honourable Lord Bolton Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hants & Governor of the Isle of Wight
This Map of the Island is inscribed as a public Testimony of Respect by his very obliged humble Servant John Albin.
Newport, Isle of Wight,
John Albin,
Aug. 12th, 1802.
Engraved map, original hand-colour in outline, dissected and mounted on linen, edged in green silk, inset of Newport, key and reference to parishes.
600 by 400mm (23.5 by 15.75 inches).
1353
notes:
The map gives information on parishes, churches, gentlemen's seats, farms and cottages, buoys on the water, wind mills, water mills, signal posts, cliffs, rivers, roads, sandbanks, rocks. John Albin was a publisher and cartographer living and working in Newport. He is best known for 'A new, correct, and much improved-history of the Isle of Wight' (1795).
Scale: 1 inch to 1 statute mile. ...
Scale: 1 inch to 1 statute mile. ...
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