Janssonius’ Map of Staffordshire & Shropshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 32 cm first and foremost

first and foremost

20 x 27 cm

With the author's presentation inscription to a Monsieur Bléton: 'offert en témoignage / de ma sincère affection…'

but in keeping with the thinking of contemporary antiquaries

Janssonius’ Map of Staffordshire & Shropshire Printed Area Measurement_25.5 x 32 cm first and foremostThese maps of Staffordshire and Shropshire are presented on one sheet. Unlike Kip and Hole, Speed and Blaeu who all devoted an entire map sheet to each county Janssonius occasionally depicted adjacent counties together. He may have been influenced in this by the example set by the father of English county cartography, Christopher Saxton. Joannes Janssonius II (1588 1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised