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Isle of Wight – John Albin’s fine and detailed map of the Isle of Wight
To the Right Honourable Lord Bolton Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hants & Governor of the Isle of Wight
This Map of the Island is inscribed as a public Testimony of Respect by his very obliged humble Servant John Albin.
Newport, Isle of Wight,
John Albin,
Aug. 12th, 1802.
Engraved map, original hand-colour in outline, dissected and mounted on linen, edged in green silk, inset of Newport, key and reference to parishes.
1353
The map gives information on parishes, churches, gentlemen's seats, farms and cottages, buoys on the water, wind mills, water mills, signal posts, cliffs, rivers, roads, sandbanks, rocks. John Albin was a publisher and cartographer living and working in Newport. He is best known for 'A new, correct, and much improved-history of the Isle of Wight' (1795).
Scale: 1 inch to 1 statute mile.
Scale: 1 inch to 1 statute mile.
