Speed’s Map of Westmorland Date of Publication_1645 Van den Broecke 174

Van den Broecke 174

Lithographed in red and black on two sheets

Eighteenth century marbled calf

French naval chart of Smyrna

but in keeping with the thinking of contemporary antiquaries

Speed’s Map of Westmorland Date of Publication_1645 Van den Broecke 174The 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