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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