Speed’s Map of Westmorland Date of Publication_1645 Lithographed in red and black

Lithographed in red and black on two sheets

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while others contain the same Hullmandel frontispiece as this one

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Speed’s Map of Westmorland Date of Publication_1645 Lithographed in red and blackThe 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