Barbadoes

Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771

Mayo, William

[1775?]

surveyed by William Mayo ; engraved and improved by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to the King.

Scale [ca. 1:64,400]

English

Newberry Library

Edward E. Ayer Collection

• Landowners--Barbados--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
• Barbados--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Barbados--Administrative and political divisions--Maps
• Bridgetown (Barbados)--Maps--Early works to 1800

• Barbados
• North and Central America

1 ms. map ; 606 x 463 mm.

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• Apparently a manuscript fair copy made in preparation for a printed edition of the map. The printed map was included in several atlases, beginning with Jefferys' The West India atlas (London : Sayer and Bennett, 1775). The Newberry Library holds the 1780 edition of this atlas, with the Barbados map dated 1775 (Ayer *135 .J46 1780, plate X). This printed map lacks the inset of Bridgetown. For a bibliography of printed editions of the map, cf. T. Campbell, "The Printed maps of Barbados" in The Map Collectors' Circle no. 21 (1965) entry no. 38 and plate XVII.
• Inset in upper right (144 x 235 mm.): Plan of Bridgetown.
• Relief shown by hachures.
• Prime meridians: Greenwich and Ferro.
• Pen-and-ink.
• Possibly detached from a binding; multiple fold lines present; drawn on 2 overlapping sheets (583 x 489 mm. and 41 x 488 mm.); subsequently mounted flat onto cloth.