Old Map of Bedfordshire in 1611 by John Speed - Bedford, Luton, Dunstable, St Neots, Leighton Buzzard Size:50x70 cm - UNFRAMED Painstakingly reproduced from vintage sources

Painstakingly reproduced from vintage sources

It would look fantastic in a library

or mid-century British travel

this map makes a fitting housewarming

sparking feelings of serenity and awe

Old Map of Bedfordshire in 1611 by John Speed - Bedford, Luton, Dunstable, St Neots, Leighton Buzzard Size:50x70 cm - UNFRAMED Painstakingly reproduced from vintage sourcesJohn Speed's map of Bedfordshire first appeared in 1611 as part of The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the atlas that established him as England's foremost county cartographer of the Jacobean age. Engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius from Speed's drawings, the plate combined careful topographical survey with the kind of decorative flourish that made Speed's work as much a status object as a working map, and it remained the standard