Christopher Saxton

The first map of the county of Cornwall, here published one and a half centuries after its original publication.

• Christopher Saxton (English).
• Cornwall described by C. Saxton, corrected and many additions as the roads & c. by P. Lea.
• London: George Willdey, circa 1732.
• Old color.

Over the years, a number of changes had been made to the plate: the original title was replaced by the view of Launceston c. 1665; the arms of Elizabeth I were replaced by those of Charles I, then Charles II; the panel of armorials were added c. 1665 by an unknown publisher; Lea added his name and Ogilby's roads in 1689 and changed the title for the second time in 1694; and Willdey added his address c. 1732. Willdey seems to have been a jack-of-all-trades: his address reads "the Great Toy, Spectacle, China Ware, and Print Shop, the corner of Ludgate Street near St Paul's London." Still, this was not the end of the Saxton plates; they were issued again by Thomas Jefferys and Cluer Dicey into the 1770s.