Title Page for Blaeu’s Atlas Novus, vol. IV (British Isles) Date of Publication_c.1753 Dwarfing the other modern types

Dwarfing the other modern types is the mighty Hood

36 x 44 cm

sporadic light foxing

apud Samuelem Luchtmans

Title Page for Blaeu’s Atlas Novus, vol. IV (British Isles) Date of Publication_c.1753 Dwarfing the other modern types[Title page: Atlas Novus, volume IV] This is an architectural title page, engraved for the fourth volume of Blaeus Atlas Novus. The central panel is blank: a label in the appropriate language would normally have been pasted down. This is the British volume, and an ancient Briton presides over a Roman, a Saxon, a Dane and a Norman representing different epochs in British history. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 42 x 25 cm, original hand colour