2. Table of Publication of individual Parts Issue.

The following table, extracted from Hodson (1984) shows the “not earlier than” dates for each county. Hence, the Devonshire section could have been bound separately as early as 1716 but Yorkshire would not have been available until the series was completed in 1731. Thomas Cox had started selling counties with title pages in 1730 as Compleat History of … (advert in Issue 82). However, there was nothing to stop a collector or subscriber making their own arrangements to bind “their” county. The number of individual bindings labelled “Cox´s [county]” probably points to this happening quite frequently.

Ward and Chandler bought 36 sets of the 6 volumes as well as between 108 (No. 46) and 1085 (No. 23) copies of the separate Issues at auction and by printing 100 copies of Issue 1, which had run out, could have sold almost 150 complete 6-volume sets. Hodson believes many county booklets stem from this time and except for rare exceptions lack title pages. All counties except those with less than c.150 copies of the relevant Issues were offered for sale. 


Issue No.1 of Magna Britannia published in 92 parts. Illustration courtesy of Dominic Winter.

County

Issues

Years

 

Bedfordshire

3-4

1714

Volume I

Berkshire

4-5

1715

Volume I

Buckinghamshire

5

1715

Volume I

Cambridgeshire

5-6

1715

Volume I

Cheshire

6-7

1716

Volume I

Cornwall

7-8

1716

Volume I

Cumberland

8-9

1716

Volume I

Isle of Man

9

1716

Volume I

Derbyshire

9-11

1716

Volume I

Devonshire

11-12

1716

Volume I

Dorsetshire

12-13

1716

Volume I

County Durham

13-15

1717

Volume I

Essex

15-16

1717

Volume I

Gloucestershire

16-18

1717

Volume II

Hampshire

18-19

1718

Volume II

Herefordshire

19-20

1718

Volume II

Hertfordshire

20-21

1718

Volume II

Huntingdonshire

21-22

1718

Volume II

Kent

22-26

1719

Volume II

Lancashire

26-27

1719

Volume II

Leicestershire

27-28

1719

Volume II

Lincolnshire

28-30

1720

Volume II

Middlesex

31-32

1721

Volume III

London

32-35

1722

Volume III

Norfolk

35-39

1723

Volume III

Northamptonshire

39-42

1723

Volume III

Northumberland

42-44

1724

Volume III

Nottinghamshire

45-48

1724

Volume IV

Oxfordshire

49-54

1725

Volume IV

Rutland

54-56

1726

Volume IV

Shropshire

56-58

1726

Volume IV

Somerset

58-61

1727

Volume IV

Staffordshire

62-65

1728

Volume V

Suffolk

65-68

1728

Volume V

Surrey

68-71

1728

Volume V

Sussex

71-73

1729

Volume V

Warwickshire

73-79

1739

Volume V

Westmorland

80

1730

Volume VI

Wiltshire

81-83

1730

Volume VI

Worcestershire

84-85

1730

Volume VI

Yorkshire

87-92

1731

Volume VI







Part 3. Individual Counties before 1745 detailing variations in county volumes up to the sale of all stock by Ward and Chandler.

Part 4. Individual Counties after c.1790 detailing variations in county volumes which appeared circa 1797 to 1820.

Appendix I: Changes made to smaller Morden map by Hermann Moll 1708.

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