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WE have received from the Hampshire Field Club and Archological Society a copy of the reproduction, on a slightly reduced scale, of the map of Hampshire by Isaac Taylor, 1759, which has recently been published by the Society (Winchester: price to non-members 6s. net). The scale of the original map is one inch to the mile, the reproduction being three-quarters of an inch to the mile. The map is a beautiful production in characteristic eighteenth century style, with engravings of buildings such as Porchester Castle and “Carresbrook Castle” as well as a plan of Silchester, lists of “Gentlemen's Names”, etc. It is interesting to note that exaggerated emphasis is given to relief. Very little appears to be known of Isaac Taylor. He was a native of Ross in Herefordshire. His first-known map is a Plan of Oxfordshire, issued in 1750 and his last a map of the county of Gloucester, which appeared in 1777. He was both an engraver and a surveyor, and on the map of Hampshire there is a note “Estates are surveyed and mapped”. His more important maps, in addition to those named, are Wolverhampton, 1750, County of Hereford, 1754, Hereford City, 1757, Dorset, 1765, County of Worcester, 1772.
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Eighteenth Century Map of Hampshire. Nature 132, 438–439 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132438d0
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