Rocque’s Environs of Wembley from ‘London… & The Country Near Ten Miles Round’ Publisher(s)_Johann Baptist Vrients Fidissima descrip…

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In the context of this map

Two English printers dipped a toe in the vernacular atlas market at approximately the same time with pocket editions of the Ortelius atlas: ‘These two little books were the earliest world atlases to be published in England and the earliest world atlases with English text’

the German Treu und Fest)

including the Archontologia Cosmica and Theatrum Europaeum

Rocque’s Environs of Wembley from ‘London… & The Country Near Ten Miles Round’ Publisher(s)_Johann Baptist Vrients Fidissima descrip…Environs of Wembley from Rocques An Exact Survey of the Citys of London, Westminster, ye Borough of Southwark and the Country Near Ten Miles Round John Rocque (c. 1704 62) was a Huguenot, probably born in Geneva and brought to London as a child. His brother Bartholomew worked as a 'dessinateur des jardins' and Rocque's earliest plans are of parks, gardens and estates. He is credited with completely revitalising English cartography, particularly large