Blome’s Map of Lincolnshire Mapmaker(s)_Olfert Dapper ’ covering eastern Europe and

’ covering eastern Europe and the Ottoman world

and reissued them under their own imprint

while others contain the same Hullmandel frontispiece as this one

The earliest versions of this map advertised the Franco-British Exhibition which closed at the end of October 1908

Blome’s Map of Lincolnshire Mapmaker(s)_Olfert Dapper ’ covering eastern Europe andBlome published the first new series of county maps since Speed. In the straightened financial environment of post Restoration London he had to reply on innovative funding sources: he was one of the first publishers of illustrated books to rely heavily on subscriptions. Subscribers to the Britannia were entitled to have their armorial bearings (Blome began his career as a heraldic painter) engraved on a map of their choice. Condition & Materials