Maitland's Ward Plan of Westminster Place of Publication_Nuremberg There is a cartographic component

There is a cartographic component to some of these

This was sufficient to encourage the Dutch to send their first formal embassy to China

A new edition enlarged

but with effective use of diagonals which helped return the map closer to geographical reality than Beck’s later rectilinear designs

Maitland's Ward Plan of Westminster Place of Publication_Nuremberg There is a cartographic componentA New and Accurate Map of the City of Westminster, the Dutchy of Lancaster and Places Adjacent This ward plan of Westminster was engraved by Benjamin Cole and published in the greatly expanded second edition of Maitlands History of London. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, printed area measures 37. 5 x 24 cm. Black and white, light toning, blank verso.