Ellis' Map of Middlesex Date of Publication_1789 The pleasure-seeking Venetian Giacomo Casanova

The pleasure-seeking Venetian Giacomo Casanova was born in 1725

‘with the author’s compliments’

our example still has the original pictorial dustwrapper

This map shows the ‘Germanic’ regions of Europe

The maps themselves were closely based on Kitchin's maps from Dodsley's England Illustrated'

Ellis' Map of Middlesex Date of Publication_1789 The pleasure-seeking Venetian Giacomo CasanovaEllis' map of Middlesex conveys a wealth of detailed information: borough towns are shown with stars identifying the number of Members returned to Parliament, and "Places where Fairs are kept have a Line under the Name". Ellis (d. 1796) was a prolific English engraver of the late eighteenth century who joined with William Palmer to produce a set of English county maps, published as Ellis' 'New English Atlas', in 1765. The maps were later used in