!["Plan of the Parishes of Finchley and Friern Barnet in the County of Middlesex made at the time of the Inclosure in the year 1814." [London: first quarter 19th-century]. 2° (452 x 275mm). Manuscript map in pen, ink and watercolour by Thomas Bainbridge, Thomas Chapman and John Claridge on 4 double-page linen-backed sheets, with an affidavit by the 3 commissioners and awards of land allotments in a separate document on 33 leaves [apparently watermarked 1879] inserted at the end (maps evenly browned). Contemporary purple roan gilt titled in gilt on upper cover "Finchley Paris. Award and Map" (heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: some pencil annotation to map.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CSK/2006_CSK_04073_0249_000(124956).jpg?w=1)
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"Plan of the Parishes of Finchley and Friern Barnet in the County of Middlesex made at the time of the Inclosure in the year 1814." [London: first quarter 19th-century]. 2° (452 x 275mm). Manuscript map in pen, ink and watercolour by Thomas Bainbridge, Thomas Chapman and John Claridge on 4 double-page linen-backed sheets, with an affidavit by the 3 commissioners and awards of land allotments in a separate document on 33 leaves [apparently watermarked 1879] inserted at the end (maps evenly browned). Contemporary purple roan gilt titled in gilt on upper cover "Finchley Paris. Award and Map" (heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: some pencil annotation to map.
A REMARKABLY DETAILED AND ATTRACTIVE MANUSCRIPT MAP OF FINCHLEY AND FRIERN BARNET IN THE EARLY PART OF THE 19TH-CENTURY. Buildings - of which there are remarkably few in this now heavily-urbanised area - are marked in red, the more important houses titled with their owner's names. Every field, plot or allotment is meticulously delineated and numbered, as are areas of commonland. The districts of St John Whetstone and the Chapelry of the Holy Trinity are denoted by a red and blue dotted line respectively. Thomas Bainbridge (1783-1818), Thomas Chapman (?1799-?1850) and John Claridge (1791-?1829) are all recorded, at some length, in Peter Eden's Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Cartographers of Great Britain and Ireland 1550-1850. The document inserted at the end, which claims to have been written "in the fifty first year of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third" [ie. 1811] is probably a later transcript of the original, although the style of the copperplate hand is characteristically late-Georgian.
A REMARKABLY DETAILED AND ATTRACTIVE MANUSCRIPT MAP OF FINCHLEY AND FRIERN BARNET IN THE EARLY PART OF THE 19TH-CENTURY. Buildings - of which there are remarkably few in this now heavily-urbanised area - are marked in red, the more important houses titled with their owner's names. Every field, plot or allotment is meticulously delineated and numbered, as are areas of commonland. The districts of St John Whetstone and the Chapelry of the Holy Trinity are denoted by a red and blue dotted line respectively. Thomas Bainbridge (1783-1818), Thomas Chapman (?1799-?1850) and John Claridge (1791-?1829) are all recorded, at some length, in Peter Eden's Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Cartographers of Great Britain and Ireland 1550-1850. The document inserted at the end, which claims to have been written "in the fifty first year of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third" [ie. 1811] is probably a later transcript of the original, although the style of the copperplate hand is characteristically late-Georgian.
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