Gloucestershire
Carr reported that he had published three editions of a map of Gloucestershire, but there may be four based on the maps seen and entries in ISBN databases.
(Last updated on 7/12/2020)
MAP-GLO1: First edition
Publisher: J.L. Carr
Year: 1967?
ISBN: none
Limitation: 250 sheets
Size: approx 440 x 490 mm
Signed: Yes
Colophon: sun face with address
Proofs where:
Notes: Only known from copy sold at auction in 2013. This map is labelled a 'first edition' and has a smaller limitation than the next, which is assumed to be the second. If it is the first edition, then it was published between 1966 and 1968.
Image of map (click to enlarge)
Detail of limitation (click to enlarge)
MAP-GLO2: Second edition
Publisher: J.L. Carr
Year: October 1969 (dated on map)
ISBN: none
Limitation: 300 sheets
Size: 515 x 400 mm
Signed: Yes
Colophon: sun face with address and date below
Proofs where: Kettering Public Library (proof)
Notes: The basic map is the same but the shields are different and text has been added to the top and bottom. A few figures have been added and a horse and rider at the top.
Quotation at bottom: 'Which sonne...hath in his owne person pourged oure synnes and is fytten on the right hande of the maiestie an hie and is more excellent then the angels' from Wm Tyndale's translation.
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Detail of limitation (click to enlarge)
MAP-GLO3: Third edition
Publisher: J.L. Carr
Year: 1971
ISBN: 0900847166
Limitation: 503? sheets
Size: xxx x xxx mm
Signed:
Proofs where: Kettering Public Library (proof)
Notes: The entry on this map on Amazon states that it is a 'Revised edition (May 1971)'. Other maps issued in 1971 had a limitation of 503 sheets, such as Essex or 502 sheets such as Northumberland.
Image of map (click to enlarge)
Detail of limitation (click to enlarge)
MAP-GLO4: Fourth edition
Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 1974 or 1975
ISBN: 0900847433
Limitation: 774 sheets
Size: 450 x 469 mm
Paper: white linen-textured paper
Signed: Yes
Proofs where: Kettering Public Library (map), AH
Notes: Quotation at bottom:
Love suffreth longe and is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth now frowadly, swelleth not, dealeth not dishonestly, sekketh not her awne, is not provoked to anger, thynketh not evyll, reioyseth not in inequitie: but reioyseth in the trueth; suffreth all thynges; beleveth all thynges; hopeth all thynges: endureth in all thynges. Wm. Tyndale a Gloucestershire man made his translation in 1525 & was strangled & burned in Antwerp on 6.10.1536.
The entry on this map on Amazon states that it is a 'Revised edition (Sep 1971)' but the limitation of the map indicates that it was published in 1974.
Full map (stained and possibly faded example)
Detail of limitation (click to enlarge)