The Principality of Wales exactly described : in a compleat sett of maps of all its county's wherein are express'd the cheif [sic] roads and distances in each county with the names and limits of every hundred; being very useful for gentlemen and travellers;.
Taylor, Thomas,active 1670-1721.
Iolo Morganwg,1747-1826 ,former owner.vStEdNL
Williams, Taliesin,1787-1847,former owner.StEdNL
[London] : Printed and sold by Tho: Taylor map and printseller ...,
[1718].
Relief shown pictorially.
Each map bears Thomas Taylor's imprint and the date 1718.
The volume was issued both separately and also with a collection of county maps of England by Taylor, although still with its own title page.
Map of Pembroke dedicated to Sir John Phillips - the only dedicatory note in the volume.
Maps measure 24 x 19 cm. and are folded in four lengthways and mounted on guards.
Manuscript annotations on each map regarding size of county, number elected to parliament etc. in Jolo Morganwg's hand ; further notes about current bishops, dated 1724, in Taliesin Morganwg's hand.
[Title page with decorative foliate border] -- Pembroke shire with its hundreds -- A new mapp of Carmarthen shire with its hundreds -- A new mapp of Glamorgan shire with its hundreds -- Brecknock shire with its hundreds ; Radnor shire with its hundreds -- Cardigan shire described with its hundreds -- A new mapp of Montgomery shire with its hundreds -- A new mapp of Merioneth shire described with its hundreds -- Denbigh shire ; Flint shire -- A new mapp of Caernarvon shire -- A new mapp of the isle of Anglesey with its hundreds.
Hodson, County atlases,
Chubb
Most of the back of the map is inscribed with various notes in an unidentified hand, dated 1725. The titlepage is inscribed twice in two different hands. The first inscription reads, "Jolo Morganwg" which is also repeated inside the back cover. The second inscription is, "leu fab Taliesin ap Jolo" implying Taliesin inherited the book from his father Jolo and added his own inscription onto that of his father.
Atlases
Wales.