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8. Map of Hendon for the Freeholders and Copyholders

8. Title: The Manor And Parish Of Hendon In The County Of Middlesex. in wreath of oak leaves, upper right. 
Date: 1796.
Size: 900 x 555 mm. Scale of Poles 10 + 200 = 85 mm.
Imprint(s): Pubd Septr 1st 1796 By W. Faden, Geographer to the King & H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales, Charing Cross, W. Walker, Bond Street & J. Harris Sweetings Alley Royal Exchange.
Signature(s): Drawn and Engraved by John Cooke Of Hendon. in title wreath.
Location(s): BL, LBB.

Comments: The map price (it cost one guinea) is included in the title wreath but a note after the publishers´ imprint states Where may be had the Book of Reference to this Map. Price 5s. This refers to An Index, or, Book of References to the Map of the whole manor and parish of Hendon.  The map is divided by faint lines into 16 sections, and would probably have been folded almost exactly along these to form 16 pages and numbers 1 – 13 (which covers the habitable area) are explained in this index.
The BL copy has the Book of References: Presented by the Author.[1]
 
Printed to accompany :
An Index, or, Book of References to the Map of the whole manor and parish of Hendon.
London. Faden, Harris and Walker. 1796.





[1] BL copies are Maps 4196.(1.) and Maps K. Top. 29.20.a. A facsimile of the Gough copy of the Book of References was published by Gale ECCO, Printed Editions (6 Aug. 2010); this could be the Oxford copy - Bod. Gough Middl. 30(18).



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