Map of Monastic Britain ( North Sheet ) & Map of Monastic Britain ( South Sheet ). 2 Volume Set.
Chessington, Surrey: Ordnance Survey, 1950.
First Edition. Paperback.
Two Volume Set – North Sheet and South Sheet. These National Period Maps trace the geographic distribution and detailed character of the monastic houses of Great Britain between the period of the Norman Conquest and the Dissolution. The division between the North and South sheets falls along a line passing through the northern end of the Isle of Man and through Lake Windermere to cut the Yorkshire coast a little north of Scarborough. Thus the northern part of England, including the whole of the dioceses of Durham and Carlisle, goes with Scotland on the North Sheet, and to avoid inconveniences which may arise from this cause, a combined gazetteer to both sheets is printed with each.
The Major-General, Director General of the Ordnance Survey comments in his foreword that the monastic houses in Great Britain had many vicissitudes long before the Dissolution, and the task of reducing this information to cartographic terms was difficult. Ideally it would have been preferable to present a series of maps showing the changes century by century, but this was not practicable. The whole of the information covering some 500 years, was applied to single maps and much care was taken to prevent the map from becoming overcrowded and incomprehensible.
Item #9012186 x 8-3/8”, 27pp, 31pp, foreword, text, and combined index to each volume, cloth-backed folding maps each volume in 28 sections measuring approximately 32 x 40” unfolded (scale 1/625,000).
Each map has been carefully detached from where it was once glued to the inside of the rear wrapper, as intended. Both maps have been mounted to a wall for viewing and each has tiny tack holes around its perimeter. Some general edge-wear and toning to wrappers, tiny previous owner’s ink stamp (of architectural historian Marion Ross) upper corner front wrapper, maps appear crisp and unworn, a very good set overall.
Price: $75.00